Rouzan al-Najjar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Palestinian nurse and activist
Date of Birth: 13-Sep-1997
Place of Birth: Khan Yunis
Date of Death: 01-Jun-2018
Profession: human rights activist
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
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About Rouzan al-Najjar
- Rouzan Ashraf Abdul Qadir al-Najjar (Arabic: ???? ????? ??? ?????? ??????? Rouzan 'Ashraf 'Abd al-Qadir an-Najjar; 13 September 1997 – 1 June 2018) was a Palestinian nurse/paramedic who was killed by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) while volunteering as a medic during the 2018 Gaza border protests.
- She was fatally hit by a bullet ricochet from a shot on the ground by an Israeli soldier as she tried to help evacuate the wounded near Israel's border fence with Gaza.
- The IDF first denied that she was targeted, while not ruling out that she may have been hit by indirect fire.
- Israeli human rights group B'Tselem said that al-Najjar was shot intentionally.The eldest of six children born to Ashraf al-Najjar, she was a resident of Khuzaa, a village near the border with Israel.The IDF released footage in which she purportedly admitted to participating in the protests as a human shield at the request of Hamas.
- The video was later found to be a clip from an interview with a Lebanese television station that had been edited by the IDF to take al-Najjar's comments out of context.
- In the unedited video, she didn't mention Hamas and called herself a "rescuing human shield to protect and save the wounded at the front lines", with everything following "human shield" trimmed out of the Israeli clip.
- The IDF was widely criticized for tampering with the video in order to chip away at her image.According to witness testimony, al-Najjar was shot after she and other medics, walking with their hands up and wearing white vests, approached the border fence in order to treat a wounded protester.
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