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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Simon Walters

Former minister issues extraordinary apology for trusting Israel over killing of Palestine’s ‘angel of mercy’

Razan al-Najjar was shot dead during a protest in 2018 - (Facebook)

A former Conservative minister has accused Benjamin Netanyahu’s government of “murdering” a young Palestinian nurse – known as the ‘angel of mercy’ – in an extraordinary U-turn, having previously refused to criticise Israel over the death.

Alistair Burt also accused Israel of conducting bogus inquiries into her death and that of other Palestinians involving the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) as a means of “covering up killings”.

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