Earlier this month, another Indian nurse came under the scanner in Kuwait for supporting Israel’s bombing of Gaza’s Al Ahli Baptist Hospital.
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NEW DELHI — An Indian nurse working in Kuwait’s Al-Sabah Hospital has been ordered to be deported because of her support for the Israeli occupation in its Gaza bombing campaign.
“The Ministry of Interior deported an Indian nurse from Kuwait who was working in Al-Sabah Hospital (in the capital), after she supported the occupation in its war against Palestine,” a report in Kuwait’s Al-Rai newspaper said on Monday.
The newspaper noted this is the second case involving “an expatriate holding Indian citizenship and working in the Ministry of Health as she spread her solidarity and support via her WhatsApp status. She described the Palestinians as terrorists, and displayed an Israeli flag.”
The Kuwaiti newspaper quoted informed sources as saying that the nurse “admitted during questioning that she supports the occupation following a complaint submitted by lawyer Bandar Al-Mutairi.”
On 22 October, a complaint was filed before the Kuwaiti Public Prosecution against an Indian nurse working at Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital who “supported the actions of the Israeli occupation forces of killing Palestinian children and bombing the Al Ahli Baptist Hospital and displayed the Israeli flag on her social media accounts.”
The development came days after a senior Indian doctor in Bahrain, Dr. Sunil Rao, was arrested and fired from Royal Hospital for posting “anti-Palestine” comments on social media.
Dr. Rao was arrested by Bahrain’s Anti-Cyber Crimes Directorate of the General Directorate of Anti-Corruption and Economic and Electronic Security for violations of civil peace and social stability that could affect society’s security and safety.
In his complaint against the Indian nurse at Kuwait’s Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital, lawyer Ali Habab Al-Duwaikh emphasised the strong stance of the Kuwaiti government and its people in support of Palestine, particularly in the wake of the tragic bombing of Al Ahli Hospital. He pointed out the Minister of Health’s call for nurses and doctors to protest against the Zionist entity. Al-Duwaikh stated, “Despite this, a nurse at Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital boldly displayed the flag of the Zionist entity in her WhatsApp status, thereby endorsing the criminal act that occurred,” Kuwait’s Arab Times daily said.
