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A Palestinian American nurse has been fired from her position at a hospital in New York City following her description of Israel’s actions in Gaza as “genocide”.

Hesen Jabr, who was working at the NYU Langone Health, a major New York hospital system, announced on Instagram that she received an award on May 7, and a termination letter later in the same month.

In her award acceptance speech arranged to recognize her efforts in supporting grieving mothers who experienced pregnancy and childbirth loss, Jabr had drawn her connection with mothers who had experienced the loss of their babies “during the current genocide in Gaza”.

“It pains me to see the women from my country going through unimaginable losses themselves during the current genocide in Gaza,” Jabr said in the video of her speech that she posted online. “This award is deeply personal to me for those reasons.”

“Even though I can’t hold their hands and comfort them as they grieve their unborn children and the children they have lost during this genocide, I hope to keep making them proud as I keep representing them here at NYU,” she added.

Upon returning to office on May 22, Jabr discovered that she had been dismissed from her duties at the hospital, with the hospital authorities claiming that she had “offended people” and “put others at risk” during her online speech.

“As soon as I walked into the unit, I was dragged into an impromptu meeting with the President and Vice President of Nursing at NYU Langone to discuss how I ‘put others at risk’ and ‘ruined the ceremony’ and ‘offended people’ because a small part of my speech was a tribute towards the grieving mothers in my country,” she wrote. ….more........

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