SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Rouzan al-Najjar

1997 - 2018

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Rouzan Ashraf Abdul Qadir al-Najjar (Arabic: روزان أشراف عبد القادر النجار Rouzān 'Ashrāf 'Abd al-Qādir an-Najjār; 13 September 1997 – 1 June 2018) was a Palestinian paramedic who was killed by the Israeli military while volunteering as a medic during the 2018 Gaza border protests. She was killed by a ricochet fragment of a bullet shot into the ground near her by an Israeli soldier as she tried to help evacuate wounded Palestinian protestors near Israel's border fence with Gaza. Najjar was born in Khan Younis in the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip in 1997. The eldest of six children born to Ashraf al-Najjar, she was a resident of Khuzaa, a village near the border with Israel. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2024). Rouzan al-Najjar is the 785th most popular social activist (up from 800th in 2024). (up from 5,220th in 2019)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Rouzan al-Najjar ranks 785 out of 840. Before her are Lillian Ngoyi, Máxima Acuña, Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, Inez Milholland, Hector Pieterson, and Lina Ben Mhenni. After her are Kumi Naidoo, Sarah Hegazi, Ayanda Denge, Suraya Pakzad, Aqeela Asifi, and Adam Bodnar.

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Among people born in 1997, Rouzan al-Najjar ranks 227. Before her are Mingyu, Benjamin Ingrosso, Fodé Ballo-Touré, Alba Baptista, Luiz Felipe, and Amine Harit. After her are Yungblud, Takuya Koyama, Matty Cash, Pedro, Mathías Olivera, and Nicole Maines. Among people deceased in 2018, Rouzan al-Najjar ranks 614. Before her are Adrian Lamo, Audrey Wells, Cyrille Regis, Kevin Beattie, Michele Monti, and John Allen Chau. After her are Richard A. Searfoss, Ken Dodd, Vlatko Ilievski, Peter Thomson, Jung Jae-sung, and Ralph Santolla.

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