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"Princess of Return", Razan Al-Najjar. A name and a story that will be remembered for generations to come as the youngest dedicated Palestinian paramedic whose worry was to save lives. On 1st June 2018 she was targeted by an israeli sniper.

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UPDATE:

Let's say Hamas fired a rocket that killed a young Israeli nurse while she was tending to the wounded from earlier rockets. Is there any doubt that the mainstream media would cover her death extensively, with photos, and interviews with friends and family?But whenToday's New York Times print edition only includes her as an afterthought, in a report by the usually reliable Rick Gladstone about Israel's latest defeat at the United Nations. Gladstone's article notes only that "A 21-year-old Palestinian health worker was killed. . ."By mid-morning in New York, the Times did start to rectify its error. A report went up , datelined KHUZAA, Gaza Strip, that includes basic background about this remarkable young woman, including an interview with her father, Ashram. A photograph shows desperate Gazans trying to carry her body to safety after the Israeli sniper shot her. The report did include a no comment from Israel's military spokesman, Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, who is normally voluble when he is inventing violence by Gazans.The Times's report also has a 2-minute video interview it did with Razan Al-Najjar last month. The interview is powerful, and painful to watch. But it concentrates on whether, as a woman, she has any difficulty doing her job as a health worker. She does get to say that she and the other resisters in Gaza are showing the world that "without weapons we can do anything."TheThe Guardian buried a brief wire service report on its website., somewhat surprisingly, alsoabout Razan Al-Najjar, although it did report that the International Committee of the Red Cross is sending two surgical teams to Gaza to help with the "unprecedented health crisis." Whiletoday allowed an Israeli to ascribe the Gaza killings to Hamas, and fOn the plus side, social media worldwide is telling some of the missing truths about Razan Al-Najjar. As of this morning, 111,000 tweets had already mentioned her name. Notably, Israeli parliamentarian Ayman Odeh tweeted that an "angel's life" was taken and highlighted Israeli claims that every bullet its snipers fired can be accounted for."We know where each ball came from, everything was accurate and measured." Thus the army claimed itself. And yesterday? The shooting of the snipers reached the upper body of the medic Rzan Najar, 21, who treated the wounded from the demonstrations on the Gaza Strip. In previous interviews, she told me how she was proud to serve her country and save people. Today, The Nanny's Angel life was taken.Palestinian accounts are lionizing al-Najjar, saying her name will never be forgotten. From Palestine Live Palestinian media also showed a photograph of her mother clutching her bloodstained medic's coat, and calling al Najjar a "merciful martyr."And this tweet from march organizers mocking Israeli claims that it would investigate the killing:Here, from Haaretz, is a video that seems to show Razan Al-Najjar and other Gazan medics approaching the border with their hands in the air when she was murdered: