ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES SHOT A 21-YEAR-OLD MEDIC, AND THIS
STORY IS GETTING QUITE A BIT OF ATTENTION BECAUSE OF THE FACT
THAT SHE WAS A MEDIC WHO WAS CLEARLY WEARING A VEST THAT
MEDICS WEAR, AND SHE WAS ASSISTING PROTESTERS WHO HAD
BEEN WOUNDED BECAUSE OF THEIR PROTESTS NEAR THE GAZAN BORDER.
HER NAME IS RAZAN AL-NAJJAR, AND THIS STORY IS DIFFICULT TO EVEN
REPORT, WE ARE GOING TO SHOW YOU A VIDEO OF WHO SHE WAS AND WHAT
SHE BELIEVED IN A MOMENT, BUT TO GIVE YOU SOME CONTEXT ABOUT THIS
STORY --
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>>NOW, SHE WAS SHOT BY A SNIPER AND SHE IS THE SECOND MEDIC TO
DIE AS A RESULT OF THESE PROTESTS, AND ISRAELI
FORCES TARGETING THE PROTESTERS --
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>>THAT IS ACCORDING TO A NURSE AND A FRIEND OF RAZAN'S.
HER
MOTHER SPOKE TO THE MEDIA ABOUT THIS, THE QUOTES ARE
HEARTBREAKING.
SHE SAID THE FOLLOWING --
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>>SHE WAS ALSO QUOTED AS SAYING --
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>>IT TURNED OUT NEITHER ONE OF THOSE WERE TRUE.
>>WITH THAT SAID, THE NEXT VIDEO, FOR ME PERSONALLY, WAS
DIFFICULT TO WATCH BUT I WANT TO SHARE WHO RAZAN WAS WITH
OUR AUDIENCE.
>>WHEN WE COME BACK FROM THE VIDEO I WILL TELL YOU HOW THIS
IS NOT AN ACCIDENT AND THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES ARE DOING
IT ON PURPOSE, AND WE HAVE OVERWHELMING PROOF OF THAT.
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>>SO I
HEAR FROM THOSE IN THE RIGHT WING THAT THEY ARE LOOKING
TO LIBERATE WOMEN IN THE MUSLIM WORLD.
WELL, SHE SEEMED
LIBERATED, AND SHE WANTED MORE LIBERATION FOR HER PEOPLE, SHE
WANTED TO BE STRONG, AND DO IT IN THE RIGHT WAY, PEACEFUL
PROTEST, AND HELP THE PEOPLE WHO WERE SUFFERING, AND THAT'S WHY
SHE'S A MEDIC.
SO WHAT IS THE PROOF?
OVER 200 MEDICAL
PROFESSIONALS HAVE BEEN INJURED BY ISRAELI ATTACKS, MAINLY
SNIPER FIRE.
YOU THINK THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES ARE THAT
BAD, THEY ACCIDENTALLY SHOT 200 MEDICS?
NO, THEY SEE THEIR
VESTS, AND THEIR VESTS ARE VERY CLEAR.
THE SECOND MEDIC WHO DIED
ON THE SAME DAY, THERE IS A REALLY POWERFUL INTERVIEW FROM
DEMOCRACY NOW ABOUT IT, AND FACT WE WILL TRY TO FIND IT FOR YOU
AND PUT IT IN THE DESCRIPTION BOX BELOW IF YOU ARE WATCHING ON
YOUTUBE OR FACEBOOK LATER, IF YOU ARE WATCHING LIVE GO LOOK IT
UP -- AMY GOODMAN INTERVIEWS A DOCTOR WHO ALSO GOT SHOT ON THAT
SAME DAY, AND HE'S HEARTBROKEN BECAUSE HE THINKS HE MIGHT HAVE
BEEN ABLE TO SAVE THAT MEDIC IF HE HADN'T BEEN SHOT EARLIER.
AND
IN THAT CASE, THEY ARE HUNDREDS OF YARDS AWAY FROM THE BORDER,
AND HE THOUGHT, I'M A DOCTOR AND I'M SAFE, I'M FROM THE WEST, AND
WE'VE GOT ALL THESE PEOPLE THAT ARE CLEARLY MEDICAL, THEY GO
INTO THE FIELD HOLDING UP THERE MEDICAL ID WITH THEIR MEDICAL
VEST AND THEIR HANDS UP IN THE AIR.
SO THE ISRAELI DEFENSE
FORCES, THE SNIPERS CAN CLEARLY SEE WHO THEY ARE.
AND BY THE
WAY, IT'S SNIPERS SHOOTING THEM.
IF THEY WERE IN REAL DANGER WITH
A HAVE TO HAVE SNIPERS?
NO, THEY HAVE THE SNIPERS WHO SHOOT THESE
MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS, OFTENTIMES FROM HUNDREDS OF
YARDS AWAY, THAT'S SEVERAL FOOTBALL FIELDS.
THOSE SOLDIERS
ARE NOT IN DANGER FROM THESE MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS.
THEY'RE
SHOOTING THEM, AND SOMETIMES EXECUTING THEM, AND PART OF THE
REASON IS -- NOW THOSE ARE FACTS -- MY GUESS IS TO WHY IS TO
INTIMIDATE THEM.
DON'T GO ANYWHERE NEAR HERE, DON'T EVEN
THINK ABOUT PROTESTING OUR IRON-FISTED RULE AND OCCUPATION
OF YOU.
UNDERSTAND THAT YOU LIVE IN A PRISON AND YOU WILL NEVER
REPRESENT YOURSELF, AND IF YOU TRY TO JUST HELP YOUR FELLOW MAN
WHO HAS BEEN INJURED IN THE PROTEST, WE WILL STILL KILL YOU.
>>ALSO KEEP IN MIND THAT OFTENTIMES WHEN YOU HEAR ABOUT
CASUALTIES ON THE PALESTINIAN SIDE THE ARGUMENT YOU HEAR FROM
THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT IS THAT THEY POSE A RISK, THEY HAVE
WEAPONS, THEY HAVE ARMED KITES THAT THEY FLY ACROSS THE BORDER
THAT COULD INJURE PEOPLE.
>>THEY HAD ONE KITE ON FIRE.
A KITE!
WHAT A JOKE.
>>IN THIS CASE, THOUGH, YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT A MEDIC WHO HAS NO
WEAPON.
SHE IS LITERALLY THERE TO PROVIDE SOME MEDICAL HELP OR
A RESPONSE TO THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN INJURED AS A RESULT OF THE
AGGRESSION ON THE ISRAELI SIDE.
SO SHE SEES PEOPLE WHO ARE
INJURED, SHE WANTS TO HELP THEM, SHE IS ESSENTIALLY A FIRST
RESPONDER IN MANY CASES, AND YOU ARE RIGHT, CENK, THEY DO
APPROACH WITH THEIR MEDIC ID IN HAND TO MAKE IT CLEAR I'M A
MEDIC, I'M NOT HERE TO CAUSE ANY PROBLEMS, I'M HERE TO HELP MY
PEOPLE.
AND ALSO, MEDICAL SUPPLIES AND MEDICAL HELP IN
GAZA, IT'S JUST NOT EASY TO COME BY, RIGHT?
SO SHE'S NOT DOING
THIS FOR MONEY, AS SHE MENTIONED IN THAT VIDEO, SHE'S PUTTING HER
LIFE AT RISK, AND THE THING THAT REALLY STOOD OUT TO ME IN THAT
VIDEO WHERE SHE IS TALKING TO THE MEDIA WAS, YOU KNOW, JUST,
SHE'S YOUNG, AND I'M SURE SHE HAS SEEN BRUTALITY AND HOW CRUEL
HUMANS CAN BE, BUT SHE STILL BELIEVED THAT, HEY, IF I'M A
MEDIC AND I DON'T POSE A RISK NO ONE IS GOING TO TARGET ME, I'M
SAFE.
MY VEST WILL PROTECT ME.
>>THE IRONY OF THAT IS THAT THEY ASSUMED MORE FAITH IN
ISRAEL THAN WAS WARRANTED.
THEY THOUGHT THE ISRAELIS WON'T SHOOT
THE DOCTORS.
WELL, YOU WERE WRONG, THEY DID COME AND THEY
KEEP ON SHOOTING THEM.
THE INTERVIEW I'M REFERRING TO FROM
AMY GOODMAN IS FROM EARLIER.
NOW THIS IS HAPPENING AGAIN,
THIS WEEKEND.
IN FACT, ANOTHER MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL SHOWED UP
TO DEFEND HER IN CRUTCHES.
WHY?
HE WAS ALSO SHOT.
THERE IS MASS
SHOOTING OF MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS BY THE ISRAELI
DEFENSE FORCES.
AND THEN FOX NEWS COMES ON HERE IN AMERICA,
AND HEGSETH SAID ARE THE CHILDREN -- BECAUSE CHILDREN ARE
ALSO KILLED -- HE SAID THE CHILDREN, ARE THEY REALLY
INNOCENT?
LIKE THAT.
BECAUSE THEY DON'T CARE.
LOOK AT THE
PREPOSTEROUS THINGS THEY MAKE UP TO MAKE IT SEEM LIKE IT'S A REAL
THREAT.
KITE IS NOT A CODE TERM, IT'S NOT A DRONE, IT'S NOT A
NEWLY DESIGNED THING, IT'S AN ACTUAL KITE LIKE KIDS FLY.
THEY'VE GOT ALMOST NO WEAPONS ON THE OTHER SIDE.
EVERY ONCE IN A
WHILE THE RIGHT WING BOTH HERE AND IN ISRAEL WILL SAY SOME OF
THEM HAVE ROCKS THAT THEY PUT INTO A SLING LIKE DAVID AGAINST
GOLIATH -- OOPS, I DIDN'T MEAN THAT PART -- AND THEN THEY TRY
TO REACH IT TO OFFENSE THAT'S 700 YARDS AWAY, SO WE HAD TO
HAVE OUR SNIPERS EXECUTE THEM.
BY THE WAY, THE GUYS WITH THE
STONES ARE A TINY MINORITY, MOST OF THEM, 40,000 PROTESTERS
SHOWED UP IN THE EARLIER PROTEST, ALMOST ALL CIVILIANS,
AND THE PEOPLE THAT WERE KILLED AND WOUNDED, ALMOST ALL
CIVILIANS.
YES THERE WERE SOME FEW PEOPLE WHO THREW ROCKS AND
BURNED TIRES, HOW FECKLESS, HOW RIDICULOUS, AND WE SAY ALL THE
TIME THEY SHOULDN'T DO THAT, BECAUSE IT DOESN'T HELP
ANYTHING, IT TAKES AWAY WHATEVER MORAL HIGH GROUND YOU HAVE WHEN
YOU DO ANY ACT OF VIOLENCE, HOWEVER TINY IT IS, RIGHT?
DON'T
GIVE THEM ANY EXCUSES.
BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER, THEY DON'T NEED EXCUSES, BECAUSE
THEY ARE SHOOTING THE DOCTORS.
>>I WANT TO RESPOND TO THAT BECAUSE I COULDN'T UNDERSTAND
WHY THESE PROTESTERS, SOME OF THEM, WOULD PUT THEIR LIVES AT
RISK TO CROSS THE BORDER KNOWING THAT YOU HAVE ISRAELI SNIPERS
WHO MIGHT SHOOT THEM AT ANY MOMENT, AND I HEARD THIS
INTERVIEW WITH A PALESTINIAN PROTESTER SAYING I WAS BORN IN
GAZA, I'VE NEVER LEFT GAZA BECAUSE I'M NOT ABLE TO, I'M
LOCKED IN GAZA.
SO THE IDEA OF CROSSING THE BORDER EVEN FOR A
SECOND IS A SMALL VICTORY.
EVEN IF I LOSE MY LIFE, IT'S A SMALL
VICTORY.
I MEAN, THINK ABOUT WHAT YOUR LIFE MUST BE LIKE IF
YOU ARE WILLING TO DIE JUST TO CROSS A BORDER INTO A DIFFERENT
PART OF THE COUNTRY.
>>IF YOU LIVE IN ISRAEL OR YOU ARE A SUPPORTER OF ISRAEL, DO
YOU REALLY THINK IT HELPS ISRAEL TO SHOOT DOCTORS AND NURSES IN
COLD BLOOD?
TO HAVE YOUR SNIPERS SHOOT THEM?
MY GOD, IF MY
COUNTRY DID THAT I WOULD BE MORTIFIED, AND I WOULD FIGHT
WITH EVERY FIBER OF MY BEING AGAINST THAT.
IN FACT, MY
COUNTRY, AMERICA, DOESN'T SUPPORT THAT, AND I FIGHT
AGAINST IT.
ANY DECENT PERSON WOULD SAY FOR GOD'S SAKE, NOT
ONLY BECAUSE YOU CARE ABOUT THE MORALITY OF THE SITUATION AND
THE HUMANITY OF PALESTINIANS WHO ARE FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS, BUT
BECAUSE YOU CARE ABOUT ISRAEL.
FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD TO SEE
YOU AS THESE PEOPLE WHO SHOOT DOCTORS AND NURSES AT A MASS
SCALE, HOW DOES THAT HELP ISRAEL?
IT'S A TERRIBLE BLIGHT
ON ISRAEL'S RECORD.
IF YOU THINK THE ORIGINAL IDEA OF THE PEOPLE
WHO CAME THERE -- AND PEOPLE GET INTO ENDLESS FIGHTS ABOUT THEIR
ORIGINAL INTENT -- BUT DO YOU REALLY THINK THE ORIGINAL INTENT
AS THEY WERE ESCAPING THE HOLOCAUST WAS TO START AN OPEN
AIR PRISON WHERE THEY WOULD OCCUPY OTHER PEOPLE, MILLIONS OF
THEM, FOR DECADES ON END?
THAT WAS NOT THEIR INTENT, THEIR
INTENT WAS TO BE FREE.
BUT THE OCCUPATION HAS BOTH IMPRISONED
THE PALESTINIANS AND THE
ISRAELIS.