In these pages, we commemorate and honor those who devoted and eventually gave their lives in service of others. During the ongoing genocidal war, over 500 Palestinian health workers have been killed and over 300 have been abducted, each of whom had a distinguished presence and remarkable history.
We relied primarily on the list of martyrs issued regularly by the Palestinian Ministry of Health based on its primary data. This list was corroborated and expanded using the primary data collection conducted and published by "Healthcare Workers Watch", a group of volunteer Palestinian health workers who monitor and publish attacks on health in Palestine. A large part of the personal photographs we use of health workers were also collected and published by Healthcare Workers Watch. For abducted and disappeared health workers, we relied primarily on the lists collected and published by Healthcare Workers Watch, which included the names and professions of these health workers. We gathered further details on health workers' professional history and the circumstances surrounding their targeting from statements and reports by the Ministry of Health and other organizations, as well as news reports, verified social media accounts, and firsthand information from colleagues and relatives of the health workers. Some of these files are still undergoing translation into English.
When the circumstances allow, we will use field research to gather information about victims who we did not find sufficient information about using secondary sources.
Full Name | occupation | Work details | workplace | Cause of martyrdom | |
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هيا محمد محمود العطار | صيدلاني | صيدلي قانوني | وزارة الصحة الفلسطينية | ||
وجدي محمد خليل أبو سالمة | صيدلاني | صيدلي قانوني | |||
ياسر مصطفى محمد العالم | صيدلاني | صيدلي قانوني | |||
عبد الرحيم يونس سالم أبو عيدة | صيدلاني | صيدلي قانوني | وزارة الصحة الفلسطينية | ||
تغريد مجدي حسن ضاهر | صيدلاني | صيدلي قانوني | وزارة الصحة الفلسطينية | ||
خليل أسامة خليل اليعقوبي | صيدلاني | صيدلي قانوني | |||
إيمان حسن خليفة | صيدلاني | صيدلي قانوني | وزارة الصحة الفلسطينية | ||
أحلام نعيم فتحي حجي | صيدلاني | صيدلي قانوني | |||
Khalil Rafeeq Rizeq al-Shareef | First responder | Non-governmental sector | |||
Hatem Subhi Hasan Awad | First responder | Non-governmental sector | |||
Yousef Abdallah Abu Muammar | First responder | Head of the ambulance units at the Palestine Red Crescent Society | Non-governmental sector | ||
Ahmad al-Madhoun | First responder | Non-governmental sector | |||
Yousef Zeino | First responder | Non-governmental sector | |||
Alaa al-Abed Yousef Abu Ghuneima | First responder | ||||
Mohammed Fawzi Mohammed Quteit | First responder | ||||
Ibrahim Imad Abed Matar | First responder | ||||
Jihad Ammar Khamees Abu Taqiya | First responder | ||||
Lubna al-Shaer | First responder | Non-governmental sector | |||
Fayez Muammar | First responder | Non-governmental sector | |||
Mohammed al-Ghaleeth | First responder | ||||
Omar al-Habbash | First responder | ||||
Mohammed al-Muqayyad | First responder | ||||
Ali Hajjaj | First responder | ||||
Naeem al-Jabali | First responder | ||||
Khaled Kullab | First responder | ||||
Ghadeer al-Dawaheedi | First responder | ||||
Mahmoud Salem | First responder | ||||
Mahmoud Atallah | First responder | ||||
Mahmoud al-Sarhi | First responder | ||||
Fadi Fuad al-Maani | First responder | ||||
Mohammed al-Omari | First responder | ||||
Abdelraheem Abu Beid | First responder | ||||
Ahmad Abdelrahman | First responder | ||||
Nafeth Mohammed Saleh al-Natour | First responder | ||||
Osama Mohammed Atieh Tayeh | First responder | Owned and worked in an electric supply store with his brother. Volunteered with the Palestinian Red Crescent during the genocide |
: As they took a rest from saving people's lives as part of the Red Crescent, Osama Tayeh was killed and his colleague Mohammed Abu Rukbeh was injured in a strike on Faluja at dawn on Monday, December 4. |
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Khaled Abu Saleh | First responder | ||||
Adham al-Ghoul | First responder |
: First responder Adham al-Ghoul was martyed as a result of an occupation airstrike on Nuseirat Camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip, while conducting his humanitarian work. |
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Safaa Ahmad Ismail (Hoor) | First responder | Worked as head of pharmacy in the Palestine Red Crescent Society's al-Quds hospital | Al-Quds Hospital |
: She was martyred alongside her daughter Rahaf and her son-in-law in a strike on their home in Gaza City. |
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Hani Jumaa | First responder | ||||
Abdelfattah Abu Meri | First responder | ||||
Islam Abu Rialeh | First responder | ||||
Fuad Abu Khammash | First responder | Volunteer |
: صحفي مصوّر ومتطوع مع الهلال الأحمر، تم استهدافه في سيارة الهلال الأحمر. Fuad was a photojournalist and a volunteer with the Red Crescent Society. He was martyred in a strike on the Red Crescent ambulance he was in. |
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Iyad Salem | First responder | ||||
Naji Jamal Saleh al-Fayoumi | First responder | ||||
Ahmad Omar Ali al-Dahman | First responder | ||||
Tareq Mohammed Mahmoud Ashour | First responder | ||||
Suheil Hassouneh | First responder | Worked as an ambulance officer in the Palestine Red Crescent Society in the Gaza Strip. |
: First responder Suheil Hassouneh was martyred alongside his colleague Haytham Toubasi while they conducted their humanitarian work, in an occupation airstrike on a Palestine Red Crescent Society ambulance vehicle in Tell al-Sultan neighborhood in Rafah City. |
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Basel Shaqoura | First responder | ||||
Mohammed Mousa Ali | First responder | ||||
Yaser al-Naseeri | First responder | ||||
Haytham Toubasi | First responder | Worked as an ambulance officer in the Palestine Red Crescent Society |
: First responder Haytham Toubasi was martyred alongside his colleague Suheil Hassouneh as they performed their humanitarian duties, in a strike on a Palestine Red Crescent Society ambulance vehicle in Tell al-Sultan neighborhood in the city of Rafah. |
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أمير صبحي عبد العزيز ابوعيشة | مسعف | قطاع أهلي | |||
محمد عوض الله محمد موسى | مسعف | ||||
خليل محمود خليل حمدان | مسعف | ||||
خالد زياد فوزي صالح | مسعف | ||||
مجد منار عبد أبو لبدة | مسعف | ||||
محمد صبحي حسن العمري | مسعف | قطاع أهلي | |||
Osama Samih Odeh Abu Safiya | Medical or dentistry student | Medical student |
: Martyr Osama Sameh Odeh Abu Safieh, 22 years old from North Gaza, was martyred on October 30, 2023, in Jabalia Camp, North Gaza, as a result of an Israeli military strike. |
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Amal Sobhi Abdullah Hijazi | Medical or dentistry student | Medical student |
: Amal was martyred along with her family following the targeting of their home in Rafah, southern Gaza. |
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Mohammed Mazen Abu Sheeha | Medical or dentistry student | Medical student |
: Dr. Mohammed Abu Sheeha was martyred along with all members of his family in a massacre targeting the Abu Sheeha family. Their home in the Al-Amoudi area, northern Gaza, was struck, resulting in the death of twenty family members. |
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Ahmad Raed Youssef Mahdi | Medical or dentistry student | Student in the fourth level of the Faculty of Medicine at Al-Azhar University. |
: The son of the martyr Dr. Raed Mahdi, Dr. Ahmad Raed Mahdi, died along with all members of his family in the massacre of the Mahdi family, committed by the occupation forces through the targeting of Mahdi Specialized Fertility Hospital in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip. |
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Abdelrahman Abu Shamaleh | Medical or dentistry student | Dr. Abdul Rahman Abu Shamala was a final-year medical student at the Islamic University. |
: Dr. Abdul Rahman Abu Shammala was martyred alongside his family in a massacre perpetrated by the occupation forces, which targeted their home, leading to the death of twenty members of the Abu Shammala family in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip. |
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Noor Al-Huda Abdullah Mustafa Al-Ashqar | Medical or dentistry student | Dr. Nour Al-Ashqar was in her final year at the Faculty of Dentistry at Palestine University. |
: Dr. Nour Al-Ashqar was martyred along with her family members in an attack on their home in northern Gaza Strip. |
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Maysaa Abdel-Aziz Mohammed Thaher | Medical or dentistry student | Maysaa Thaher was in her final year as a dental student at Palestine University. |
: Dr. Maysaa Thaher was martyred along with seven members of her family in the Thaher family massacre in Jabalia Camp after their home was bombed. |
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Yassin Jihad Mahmud Al-Akhras | Medical or dentistry student | Dr. Yassin Al-Akhras was a fourth-level student at the Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University. |
: Yassin was martyred due to the targeting of his family's home in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. |
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Duha Hassan Daghmash | Medical or dentistry student | She was a student at the Faculty of Medicine, Islamic University - Gaza. |
: The occupation committed one of the most horrific and largest massacres against the Daghmash family, targeting several homes of the Daghmash family in the Sabra neighborhood in the northeast of Gaza City. A total of 109 family members, including the aspiring physician Doaa Daghmash, were killed together. |
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Abdullah Aaed Abu Jayab | Medical or dentistry student | Student in the first level in the Faculty of Medicine College of Palestine - Al-Azhar University |
: Abdullah Abu Jiyab was martyred along with his father, Aed Abu Jiyab, and his brother, engineer Khalil Abu Jiyab, in the Maghazi refugee camp massacre carried out by the occupying forces in the central Gaza Strip. |
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Zainab Attallah Ismail Azzam | Medical or dentistry student | General medicine | |||
Mohammed AbdelFattah Abul Jidyan | Medical or dentistry student |
: Mohammed Abu Al-Jidyan was martyred as a result of the occupation's massacre against the "Abu Al-Judian" and "Salem" families. The massacre involved the bombing of a house that was sheltering dozens of family members in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip. |
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Dima Imad al-Sayed al-Masri | Medical or dentistry student | ||||
Raghad Anis Fathi Anis Abdel Nabi | Medical or dentistry student | Student in the faculty of medicine in the Islamic University – Gaza |
: Occupation forces conducted airstrikes on the Abdel Nabi home, killing 16 members of the family, most of whom had been displaced there. |
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Ruaa Hammam Ismail Hanieh | Medical or dentistry student | Fist year student at the faculty of medicine in the Islamic University – Gaza |
: Ruaa was martyred alongside members of her family as a result of a strike on their vehicle in Beach Camp in the northwestern Gaza Strip. |
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Lina Abdelrahman Hussein al-Hawar | Medical or dentistry student | General medicine | |||
Afnan Fathi Ali Radwan | Medical or dentistry student | Second-year student at the faculty of medicine in the Islamic University – Gaza |
: Afnan was martyred alongside members of her family in a massacre committed against the Shamieh household in Gaza City, which killed over 20 people. |
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Nada Obeid | Medical or dentistry student | Nada Obeid was a fifth year student at the faculty of medicine in the Islamic University – Gaza | |||
Omar Fuad Jameel Awadallah | Medical or dentistry student | ||||
Motaz Samir Shabet | Medical or dentistry student | Motaz Shabet was a fifth year student (2019 cohort) in the faculty of medicine at the Islamic University – Gaza |
: Motaz Shabet was martyred alongside members of his family in a strike on thier home in Tuffah neighborhood in the east of Gaza City. |
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Amina Ayman Mahmoud al-Sharafi | Medical or dentistry student | Second year student at the faculty of medicine in the Islamic University – Gaza |
: Amina was martyred alongside her entire family, including her father Ayman, her mother Khitam Diab, and her brother Mohammed, who were all pharmacy doctors, and her brother Mahmoud. |
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Omar Harbi Naim al-Na'san | Medical or dentistry student | Dentistry student |
: He was martyred alongside his brother Dr. Harbi al-Na'san as a result of a strike on their vehicle. |
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Bisan Hasan Shaban Halasa | Medical or dentistry student | Third year medical student |
: She was martyred alongside 12 members of her family, including her mother, siblings, grandmother, and cousins. |
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Abdelrahman al-Batsh | Medical or dentistry student | Dentistry student | |||
Saja Rafat al-Mashi | Medical or dentistry student | Medical student | |||
Maryam Mahmoud Shehab | Medical or dentistry student | Final year medical student at the faculty of medicine at al-Azhar University – Gaza |
: Maryam Shehab was martyred alongside her father and brothers Bilal and Ismail in a strike on their home. |
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Hadeel al-Qarra | Medical or dentistry student | ||||
Salman Abu Mlouh | Medical or dentistry student | ||||
Tareq Ziad Nweij | Medical or dentistry student | ||||
Israa al-Nuweri | Medical or dentistry student | ||||
Yousef al-Dajani | Medical or dentistry student |
: Dr. Yousef al-Dajani was martyred alongside his mother, twin brother Abdelrahman, and his brother Alaa in a strike on their home |
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Mutaz Shbat | Medical or dentistry student | ||||
Abdulrahman Alnajjar | Medical or dentistry student | Volunteered alongside medical teams in the Gaza European Hospital before its evacuation | Gaza European Hospital |
: Al-Mezan Center reported an airstrike by occupation forces on a house belonging to the Abu Daqqa family in the early hours of August 30, in southern greater Absan, in eastern Khan Yunis, which led to the martyrdom of Abdulrahman alongside two of his cousins. |
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Ameed Awni Fawzi Mushtaha | Medical scientists | Head of the laboratories and blood bank department in the Ministry of Health since 2015. | |||
Salah al-Din Mohammed Awad Zanoun | Medical scientists | ||||
Mohammed Shbeir | Medical scientists | ||||
Nasser Ibrahim Abu Al-Nour | Medical scientists | Professor Nasser Abu al-Nour was dean of the faculty of nursing in the Islamic University. He held a Doctorate from the University of Akron, in Ohio, United States. | Al Ahli Arab Hospital |
: Professor Nasser Abu Al-Nour was martyred alongside seven of his family members as a result of a direct strike on their home in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip |
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Fadel Abu Heen | Medical scientists | Psychiatry | |||
Ahmad Salah Rasheed Al-Dalou | Medical scientists | The martyr Prof. Dr. Ahmad Al-Dalu worked as a university professor in Clinical Pharmacology at Al-Ribat National University and Taif University in Saudi Arabia. He later returned to serve as the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Palestine in Gaza (2019 - 2022). |
: Prof. Dr. Ahmad Al-Dalu martyred along with forty-three family members due to a direct attack on their home in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip. |
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Mohammed al-Daya | Medical scientists | ||||
Ahmad al-Mana'ma | Medical scientists | Hereditary research |
: An occupation airstrike in the vicinity of al-Fakhoora School in Jabalia Camp killed 8 Palestinians, including Dr. Ahmad al-Mana'ma. |
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صالح الدين محمد عواد زنون | أكاديميين علوم طبية | مختبرات | جامعات | ||
Duaa Jadallah Mousa Jadallah | Laboratory technician | Palestinian Ministry of Health |
: Duaa Jadallah was martyred alongside her entire family in a strike on their home in Sheikh Radwan neighborhood. |