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.
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| Abdelrahman Al-Farra | Optometrist |
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| Sami Qasem | Optometrist | Palestinian Ministry of Health | |||
| Omar Mohammed Sa'eed Saqallah (Khorshid) | Optometrist | Omar worked as an optometrist in the Khorshid optometry centers in the Gaza Strip, which the family had established in 1965. |
: Martyred alongside his family members: his brothers and their wives, children and grandchildren, as a result of a strike on the family home at Tel al-Hawa neighborhood in Gaza, after the family refused to evacuate and flee south. |
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| Sa'eed Mohammed Sa'eed Saqallah (Khorshid) | Optometrist | Saed has worked as an optometrist at Khorshid Optics Centers in Gaza, which has been family-founded since 1965. |
: He was martyred alongside his entire family – his brothers and their wives, children, and granchildren, in an attack on the family home in Tell al-Hawa neighborhood in Gaza, after teh family refused to evacuate the house and flee to the south. |
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| Mohammed Mohammed Sa'eed Saqallah (Khorshid) | Optometrist | Mohammed has worked as an optometrist at Khorshid Optics Centers in Gaza, which has been family-founded since 1965. |
: He was martyred along with his entire family, including his brothers, their wives, children, and grandchildren, after their family home in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza was bombed. The family had refused to evacuate and move south. |
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| Ameed Mohammed Sa'eed Saqallah (Khorshid) | Optometrist | Ameed has worked as an optometrist at Khorshid Optics Centers in Gaza, which has been family-founded since 1965. |
: He was martyred along with his entire family, including his brothers, their wives, children, and grandchildren, after their family home in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza was bombed. The family had refused to evacuate and move south. |
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| Osama Abu Araja | Optometrist |
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| Alaa Abu Zoor | Optometrist | ||||
| اماني محسن كامل الهيقى | أخصائي بصريات | ||||
| إيناس ماهر سعيد الدوس | أخصائي بصريات | ||||
| حنين تيسير سليمان القريناوي | أخصائي بصريات | ||||
| شادي حسن خضر حسنين | أخصائي بصريات | قطاع أهلي | |||
| نورهان عماد حمدي الغلاييني (سكيك) | أخصائي بصريات | ||||
| ياسر حسن احمود الهمص | أخصائي بصريات | ||||
| Shehrazad Majdi Suleiman al-Akhras | Physiotherapist | Palestinian Ministry of Health |
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| Ahmad Mahmoud Suleiman al-Masri | Physiotherapist | Palestinian Ministry of Health |
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| Ahmad Samih Yousef Abu Harbeed | Physiotherapist | Palestinian Ministry of Health | |||
| Mayar Sultan Abdel Nabih al-Waheedi | Physiotherapist |
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| Issa Fayez Issa | Physiotherapist | Palestinian Ministry of Health |
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| Mohammed Darwish | Physiotherapist | Palestinian Ministry of Health |
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| Amani al-Absi | Physiotherapist | Palestinian Ministry of Health | |||
| Waseem Yehia | Physiotherapist | Palestinian Ministry of Health |
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| Amira Haroun | Physiotherapist | ||||
| Maha al-Hams | Physiotherapist | ||||
| Ihab Abu Musameh | Physiotherapist | Non-governmental sector |
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| Areej Tawlan | Physiotherapist | ||||
| Abdelrahman al-Sha'al | Physiotherapist | Non-governmental sector |
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| Noor Abu Shaqra | Physiotherapist | Palestinian Ministry of Health |
: She was martyred alongside her family in an airstrike on her home |
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| Mia Khalil | Physiotherapist | ||||
| Saleh al-Qahwaji | Physiotherapist | Palestinian Ministry of Health | |||
| Odeh al-Hou | Physiotherapist | Worked as a specialist physiotherapist for the Palestinian national volleyball team and Jabalia Youth Club, as well as a student instructor at al-Shifa Medical Complex. | Al-Shifa Medical Complex |
: Specialist physiotherapist Odeh al-Hou was martyred in an aisrtrike targeting Jabalia Camp where he and his family were steadfast. He was filling up water for the camp residents when the strike happened. |
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| Reem Abu Labada | Physiotherapist | She worked as a physical therapist with Doctors Without Borders since 2018. |
: She and all her family members were martyred in an airstrike on their home in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip. |
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| Mohammed Ali | Physiotherapist |
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| Shayma Sbeih | Physiotherapist |
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| Ahmad Ahsraf | Physiotherapist | ||||
| Noor Ibrahim | Physiotherapist | ||||
| Ola al-Durra | Physiotherapist | ||||
| Faheema Hammad | Physiotherapist | Speech and language therapy |
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| Sajida Sbeih | Physiotherapist | ||||
| Bayan Aweida | Physiotherapist | ||||
| Reem al-Quqa | Physiotherapist | ||||
| Jameel Hamdan | Physiotherapist |
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| Hiba al-Jourani | Physiotherapist |
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| Mira al-Masri | Physiotherapist | ||||
| Noor Abu Lehya | Physiotherapist |
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| Kareem Abu Shariya | Physiotherapist | ||||
| Amina Aleiwa | Physiotherapist |
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| Fadi Jihad al-Wadia | Physiotherapist | He worked as a physiotherapist for Doctors Without Borders - MSF since 2018, working in the organization's mobile clinic in Deir al-Balah until he was martyred on his way to the clinic. |
: He was martyred on his way to work at the Doctors Without Borders clinic in the center of the Gaza Strip as a result of his bicycle being directly targeted by an air strike. Five other martyrs rose as a result of the same raid, including children. |
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| Alaa Ismail | Physiotherapist |
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| Noor Abu Labada | Physiotherapist | ||||
| Mohammed Mahmoud Amin Shaheen | Physiotherapist |
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| Mohammed Abu Harbeed | Physiotherapist | ||||
| Ahmad Farajallah | Physiotherapist | ||||
| Imtiaz Haroon | Physiotherapist | ||||
| Abdel Raouf Ammar al-Assar | Physiotherapist |
: The occupation airforce bombed a house belonging to al-Assar family in Khan Yunis, which led to the martyrdom of Abdel Raouf al-Assar alongside his siblings Maysoun, Yasmin, and Qusai, and their relative Sa'eda. |
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| اخلاص ماجد محمد مشعل | علاج طبيعي | قطاع أهلي | |||
| اريج يوسف عبد الحافظ البتي | علاج طبيعي | ||||
| إيهاب خليل وجيه بدرة | علاج طبيعي | ||||
| أحمد محمود محمد أبو شقرة | علاج طبيعي | وكالة غوث وتشغيل اللاجئين الفلسطينيين | |||
| حسن جمال عبد مطر | علاج طبيعي | ||||
| ساجدة خليل سالم مهنا | علاج طبيعي | ||||
| شاهر يوسف عبدالله ياغي | علاج طبيعي | ||||
| عبد الله عرفات عاشور | علاج طبيعي | قطاع أهلي | |||
| علا عاطف محمد نسمان | علاج طبيعي | ||||
| محمد أحمدنصر سليم صلوحة | علاج طبيعي | ||||
| محمد عبد الهادي إسماعيل الداية | علاج طبيعي | ||||
| مي لؤي ربيع الكيلاني المصري | علاج طبيعي | ||||
| هبة سامي محمد الجوراني | علاج طبيعي | قطاع أهلي | |||
| وفاء مهدي محمد ضيفالله | علاج طبيعي | ||||
| مرح موسى مرزيق أبو نصر | علاج طبيعي | ||||
| Mohammed Adel Ibrahim Jazar | Administrator | Palestinian Ministry of Health | |||
| Mohammed Jabr Khalil Abu Beid | Administrator | Palestinian Ministry of Health | |||
| Ziad Mahmoud Saleem Al-Azeeb | Administrator | Palestinian Ministry of Health | |||
| Anwar Mohammed Ali al-Astal | Administrator | Palestinian Ministry of Health | |||
| Raed Mousa Ramadan Al-Banna | Administrator | Palestinian Ministry of Health | |||
| Samar Fathi Suleiman Abu Mustafa | Administrator | Palestinian Ministry of Health | |||
| Yaser Ibrahim Mohammed Al-Shami | Administrator | Palestinian Ministry of Health | |||
| Dima Abdellatif Al-Haj | Administrator | Non-governmental sector |
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| Mohammed Abu Duqqa | Administrator | Palestinian Ministry of Health |
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| Ameen Al-Jadbeh | Administrator | Palestinian Ministry of Health |
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| Ameer Hassan Al-Ghafeer | Administrator | Palestinian Ministry of Health | |||
| Mohammed Ashour | Administrator | Palestinian Ministry of Health | |||
| Marwan Mohammed Mahmoud Abu Reeda | Administrator | Palestinian Ministry of Health |
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| Mahmoud Sameeh Abu Mashayekh | Administrator | Palestinian Ministry of Health |
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| Yusri Ayesh Mahmoud al-Masri | Administrator | Palestinian Ministry of Health |
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| Mahmoud Hussein Othman | Administrator | Non-governmental sector |
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| Mohammed al-Amour | Administrator | Palestinian Ministry of Health |
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| Hani Adnan al-Jafarawi | Administrator | Head of ambulance and emergency in the Ministry of Health – Gaza | Palestinian Ministry of Health |
: Hani al-Jafarawi was martyred as a result of an airstrike targeting al-Daraj clinic in Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip, while he was working. |
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| Khaled Aqel | Administrator | ||||
| Ramez Obeid Musallam Al-Najjar | Administrator | Director of Khuza'a Governmental Clinic | Khozaa' Health Care Center |
: Dr. Ramez al-Najjar and several members of his family were martyred as occupation vehicles invaded the Rmeida neighborhood in Bani Suheila to the east of Khan Yunis. |
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| Intisar Shaheen | Administrator | ||||
| I'timad Abdelhadi | Administrator | ||||
| Omar Ismail Ashour | Administrator | ||||
| Hedaia Hamad | Administrator | ||||
| Mohammed Riyad Mohammed Al-Reefi | Administrator | ||||
| Ashraf Mohammed Salem Salameh Hammoudeh | Administrator | ||||
| Hisham Ahmad Mohammed Abul Sabah | Administrator | ||||
| Abdel Mohsen Abul Rous | Administrator | ||||
| Mohammed Salem Tawfeeq al-Houli | Administrator | ||||
| Bahaa' al-Kilani | Administrator | Head of the Engineers Syndicate in the Central Region of the Gaza Strip and Director of the Engineering and Maintenance Department at al-Shifa Hospital. | Al-Shifa Medical Complex |
: He was found shot dead by the Israeli occupation army inside al-Shifa Medical Complex after they withdrew from it on 4/1/2024. |
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