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A nurse was fired by a New York City hospital after she referred to Israel s war in Gaza as a genocide during a speech accepting an award. Labor and delivery nurse Hesen Jabr, who is Palestinian American, was being honored by NYU Langone Health for her compassion in caring for mothers who had lost babies when she drew a link between her work and the suffering of mothers 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, according stanley cups to a video of the May 7 speech that she posted on social media. This award is deeply personal to me for those reasons. Jabr wrote on Instagram that she arrived at stanley cup work on May 22 for her first shift back after receiving the award when she was summoned to a meeting with the hospital s president and vice president of nursing 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 that after working most of her shift she was dragged once again to an office where she was read her termination letter and then escorted out of the building. A spokesperson for NYU Langone, Steve Ritea stanley cup , confirmed that Jabr was fired following her speech and said there had been a previous incident as well. Hesen Jabr was warned in December, following a previous incident, not to bring her views o Muip U.S. admiral says North Korea crisis is at worst point he s ever seen
MIAMI -- Rough surf churned up dangerous conditions from swimmers and complicated rescue efforts along Florida beaches over a holiday weekend in which at least four people went missing in boating and swimming incidents, authorities said.A swimmer was missing Monday off Ormond Beach in Florida, emergency responders said. Also Monday, the Coast Guard searched for a 26-year-old woman missing from a salomon boat returning to suburban Miami from Stiltsville, a cluster of homes built on pilings in South Florida s Biscayne Bay.Elsewh yeezy ere, a search was called off for an 11-year-old boy who disappeared Saturday off Jacksonville. On Sunday, authorities used a personal watercraft to bring a woman to shore in the same area of Little Talbot Island, but a man remained missing in the water. Beachgoers also pulled two men from the water Sunday on Daytona Beach Shores. Officials said one died, and the other remained hospitalized.On the Gulf Coast, a 15-year-old Mississippi teenager was missing Monday after he disappeared during a weekend trip to a barrier island, said Coast Guard spokesman Carlos Vega. Vega said Omar Gonzalez of Petal, Mississippi, and a 17-year-old friend were swept off the west end of Ship Island in the Mississippi Sound after arriving on a passenger ferry Sunday. He said the 17-year-old was found clinging to a buoy in a Gulfport, Mississippi, ship channel late Sunday and was taken to a hospital air force 1 with minor injuries.
A nurse was fired by a New York City hospital after she referred to Israel s war in Gaza as a genocide during a speech accepting an award. Labor and delivery nurse Hesen Jabr, who is Palestinian American, was being honored by NYU Langone Health for her compassion in caring for mothers who had lost babies when she drew a link between her work and the suffering of mothers 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, according stanley cups to a video of the May 7 speech that she posted on social media. This award is deeply personal to me for those reasons. Jabr wrote on Instagram that she arrived at stanley cup work on May 22 for her first shift back after receiving the award when she was summoned to a meeting with the hospital s president and vice president of nursing 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 that after working most of her shift she was dragged once again to an office where she was read her termination letter and then escorted out of the building. A spokesperson for NYU Langone, Steve Ritea stanley cup , confirmed that Jabr was fired following her speech and said there had been a previous incident as well. Hesen Jabr was warned in December, following a previous incident, not to bring her views o Muip U.S. admiral says North Korea crisis is at worst point he s ever seen
MIAMI -- Rough surf churned up dangerous conditions from swimmers and complicated rescue efforts along Florida beaches over a holiday weekend in which at least four people went missing in boating and swimming incidents, authorities said.A swimmer was missing Monday off Ormond Beach in Florida, emergency responders said. Also Monday, the Coast Guard searched for a 26-year-old woman missing from a salomon boat returning to suburban Miami from Stiltsville, a cluster of homes built on pilings in South Florida s Biscayne Bay.Elsewh yeezy ere, a search was called off for an 11-year-old boy who disappeared Saturday off Jacksonville. On Sunday, authorities used a personal watercraft to bring a woman to shore in the same area of Little Talbot Island, but a man remained missing in the water. Beachgoers also pulled two men from the water Sunday on Daytona Beach Shores. Officials said one died, and the other remained hospitalized.On the Gulf Coast, a 15-year-old Mississippi teenager was missing Monday after he disappeared during a weekend trip to a barrier island, said Coast Guard spokesman Carlos Vega. Vega said Omar Gonzalez of Petal, Mississippi, and a 17-year-old friend were swept off the west end of Ship Island in the Mississippi Sound after arriving on a passenger ferry Sunday. He said the 17-year-old was found clinging to a buoy in a Gulfport, Mississippi, ship channel late Sunday and was taken to a hospital air force 1 with minor injuries.