Razan al-Najjar
رزان النجار
Volunteer paramedic
A 21-year-old volunteer paramedic from Khan Younis, shot dead by an Israeli sniper while tending to wounded protesters in Gaza in 2018.
Razan al-Najjar was born in 1996 in Khuza’a, east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, the eldest of six children. Unable to afford medical school, she trained as a paramedic at Nasser Hospital and volunteered with the Palestinian Medical Relief Society. When the Great March of Return protests began along Gaza’s perimeter fence in March 2018, she was among the first women to volunteer as a field medic, working long shifts treating tear-gas inhalation and gunshot wounds.
On 1 June 2018, while approaching the fence with other medics — wearing a white medical vest and, according to witnesses, with her hands raised — she was shot in the chest by an Israeli sniper and died shortly after. She was twenty-one. A New York Times visual investigation later concluded the shooting was reckless at best and possibly a war crime; no one has been held accountable. She is remembered in Gaza as the “angel of mercy.”
Selected contributions
- Volunteer paramedic with the Palestinian Medical Relief Society
- Frontline medic during the Great March of Return (2018)
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- Razan al-Najjarرزان النجار
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- Khan Younisخان يونس
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Razan al-Najjar was born in 1996 in Khuza'a, east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, the eldest of six children.
- The Great March of Return
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: When the Great March of Return protests began along Gaza's perimeter fence in March 2018, she was among the first women to volunteer as a field medic, working long shifts treating tear-gas inhalation and gunshot wounds.
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- The Women of the Movement
Evidence — From a recorded field in this archive: Twenty-one, a volunteer paramedic from Khan Younis, shot dead while treating the wounded at the Gaza fence in 2018. End here.
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“Razan al-Najjar.” Figures, FALASTEEN.AI. Accessed 22 August 2026. https://falasteen.ai/figures/razan-al-najjar.- MLA
“Razan al-Najjar.” Figures, FALASTEEN.AI, 2026, https://falasteen.ai/figures/razan-al-najjar. Accessed 22 August 2026.- BibTeX
@misc{falasteen-razan-al-najjar, title = {Razan al-Najjar}, howpublished = {\url{https://falasteen.ai/figures/razan-al-najjar}}, organization = {FALASTEEN.AI — A Living Archive for Palestine}, year = {2026}, note = {Accessed 2026-08-22} }