{"id":3776,"date":"2025-08-01T22:44:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T22:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/?p=3776"},"modified":"2025-08-01T22:44:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T22:44:49","slug":"nurse-who-helped-no-other-land-activist-deported-by-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/?p=3776","title":{"rendered":"Nurse Who Helped \u201cNo Other Land\u201d Activist Deported by Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Israel detained and<\/span> then deported an American nurse who tried to save the life of Awdah Hathaleen, a Palestinian activist who worked on the Oscar-winning documentary film \u201cNo Other Land.\u201d<\/p>\n

After Israeli settler Yinon Levi allegedly shot and killed<\/a> Hathaleen on Monday in Umm al-Khair, a village in the occupied West Bank, the critical care nurse gave Hathaleen four rounds of CPR. She cradled his head in her hands, checking his pulse and whispering \u201cYou\u2019re OK,\u201d as he bled out, the nurse told The Intercept. The medical worker asked not to be named because they fear for their safety. Hathaleen was then taken away in an ambulance, where he died before reaching the hospital.<\/p>\n

About 20 feet away, and minutes before Hathaleen was shot, another Israeli settler in an excavator tried to destroy the village\u2019s main water pipe<\/a>, according to media reports. A local man named Ahmad, Awdah\u2019s cousin, was struck in the head with the excavator\u2019s arm and nearly knocked unconscious after he tried to stop the driver.<\/p>\n

Turning to Ahmad after Hathaleen was taken away, the nurse administered a neurological exam;\u00a0he was severely concussed with diminished mental function before he too was taken to the hospital in an ambulance.<\/p>\n

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Soon after, on Monday evening, Israeli law enforcement officers detained the American nurse and an Italian citizen on the scene. The authorities took them to a police station, where they were detained for nearly 24 hours. In detention, the nurse said they recognized five Palestinians from the village sitting on the ground, blindfolded and zip-tied. At the same time, the nurse said, Levi was walking around freely and sharing cigarettes with the police officers \u2014 \u201cno handcuffs or anything.\u201d After reporting as ordered to another police outpost, the nurse was deported on Thursday to Jordan.<\/p>\n

The nurse believes it\u2019s because they witnessed the settler incursion and violence, then provided medical care to Hathaleen and his cousin.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThey don\u2019t want people to feel comfortable helping Palestinians,\u201d the nurse said.<\/p>\n

In the attack on the village of Umm al-Khair, several Americans attempted to help the Palestinians, according to interviews with eyewitnesses, and they were detained by Israeli authorities. In one of the cases, the American was stopped by authorities from giving medical aid to a Palestinian. Attempts to block and remove first responders stand as examples of one of the ways Palestinians are denied medical care after being attacked by Israelis.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis fits a longstanding pattern,\u201d said Yousef Munayyer, the head of the Palestine\/Israel Program at the Arab Center Washington DC, who has researched settler violence. \u201cI can\u2019t tell you how many times we\u2019ve seen cases where Palestinians who have been injured, either by settlers or by the military, are denied medical assistance until they\u2019ve bled out.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Israeli Embassy in Washington did not respond to a request for comment. The Israeli military referred questions to the Israeli police, who did not immediately respond.<\/p>\n

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Ahmad, the injured Palestinian, survived, but the nurse was put under scrutiny. According to the nurse, Israeli police said they suspected that the nurse tampered with evidence \u2014 a computer located in a public room for villagers to use. The nurse denied the allegations. They were in the room to return medical supplies, according to their account.<\/p>\n

The nurse\u2019s account was corroborated by two other eyewitnesses interviewed by The Intercept. One of them, <\/strong>Tynan Kavanaugh, an American medical student who has been volunteering with clinics in the West Bank, helped the nurse attend to the two Palestinians.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kavanaugh was in the middle of assessing Ahmad when a uniformed Israeli police officer stopped him from rendering aid, he told The Intercept.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s like, \u2018Get out of here,\u2019\u201d Kavanaugh recalled in an interview. \u201cSo I put my hands up, I walk back through a line of soldiers back into the village, and they corral all the Palestinians and foreigners into this little fenced-off area.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

When Kavanaugh was taken away, along with Palestinian detainees, another man stepped in to render aid alongside the nurse.<\/p>\n

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