Overview

• The Manchester respiratory consultant Dr Asad Khan questioned the motive on a 17,000‑member doctors’ Facebook forum, later echoing the “false flag” claim on Instagram and X.
• Police say attacker Jihad Al‑Shamie was shot dead outside Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation after killing Adrian Daulby and Melvin Cravitz and injuring four others.
• Other NHS medics named in reporting include Dr Shamroz Afghan, who wrote that Zionism must be eradicated, and Dr Oyin Abiki, who described Hamas as a “liberation army.”
• The GMC has received nearly 500 antisemitism complaints linked to 123 doctors, with earlier figures showing 84% closed at triage.
• After a tribunal allowed trainee surgeon Dr Rahmeh Aladwan to keep practising, the GMC has sought further restrictions and Wes Streeting says he will change rules to enable interim limits during probes.