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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Husam Anwar Qoush | Nurse | عمل ممرضاً في قسم القلب في مجمع الشفاء الطبي. | Al-Shifa Medical Complex |
: Husam Qoush was martyred, along with his brother, engineer Ayman Qoush, as a result of their house being directly targeted and collapsing on top of its residents. |
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Wajeeh Shehadeh | Nurse | Al-Ranteesi Al-Naser Paediatric Hospital |
: Wajeeh Shehadeh was martyred, along with his family members, as a result of the targeting of his family home in the Beach Camp, west of Gaza City. |
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Salem Sharab | Nurse | ||||
Mustafa Abdel Muneem | Nurse | ||||
Ahmad Dardas | Nurse | ||||
Kamal al-Jamal | Nurse |
: Kamal Al-Jamal was martyred, accompanied by his son Khaled Al-Jamal, his two daughters, and a number of family members as a result of the targeting of their house in Deir Al-Balah in the Gaza Strip. |
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Ahmad Shehab | Nurse | ||||
Mahmoud Nasr Haroun | Nurse | ||||
Nihad Barakat | Nurse |
: Nihad Barakat was martyred along with his wife, his brother’s wife, and their children in a targeting of the Hamad Residential City in the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip. |
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Firas al-Sheikh | Nurse | Worked in the Northern Region Health Administration and Primary Care in the Palestinian Ministry of Health |
: He was martyred along with his wife, Tasneem Hamdan, their infant son, and a number of family members in the Jabalia camp massacre in the northern Gaza Strip. |
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Tasnim Hamdan | Nurse | She worked as a nurse at Al-Awda Hospital in Tal al-Zaatar, north of the Gaza Strip. | Al Awda Hospital |
: She was martyred along with her husband, Firas Al-Sheikh, her infant son, her mother and her sister in the Jabalia camp massacre, north of the Gaza Strip. |
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Hind al-Nuweri | Nurse |
: Hind Al-Nuwairi was martyred alongside her father, her brother, her two-day-old daughter, her uncle, his three daughters, and a number of her family members as a result of the targeting of her uncle’s house in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip. |
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Mohammed Mahdi | Nurse | ||||
Hiba al-Fir' | Nurse |
: Her home in the city of Rafah was targeted, leading to the martyrdom of her husband, Alaa Al-Subaihi, their children, and a number of their family members. She joined them shortly after, succumbing to her injury. |
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Shahd Jbara | Nurse |
: Shahad Jbara, was martyred, accompanied by her husband, Abdullah al-Maala, and her children, as a result of the targeting of their house in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip. |
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Hadeel Atwa | Nurse | She worked as a nurse at Palestine University. |
: She was martyred with her child, Zain Atwa, as a result of the targeting of their house in the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip. |
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Khaled Jalal Arafat | Nurse | ||||
Mohammed Sameer Musallam | Nurse | ||||
Mohammed Yousef Mohammed al-Azaiza | Nurse |
: He was martyred alongside his wife and twenty-four members of his family, and a number of family members of his relatives from the Al-Halisi and Abu-Tawhina families, after a strike on their home in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. |
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Rawda Ali Naser | Nurse |
: She was martyred after the occupation targeted her home in al-Maghazi camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip, alongside a large number of her family members. |
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Tareq Jamal Abul Ata | Nurse | He worked as a nurse in the Military Medical Services Clinic in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip. |
: Tareq Abul Ata was martyred along with his five children and his wife Mona as a result of the targeting of his house in Deir al-Balah. No one survived the targeting and their seven bodies were recovered in pieces. |
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Mo'men Ibrahim Mansour | Nurse | ||||
Asmaa Abdelkareem Mohammed al-Assar | Nurse | ||||
Rula Jalal Subhi al-Thalatheeni | Nurse | Midwife | |||
Alaa Nael Awni al-Shawwa | Nurse | Alaa worked as a volunteer nurse with Doctors without Borders at al-Shifa Medical Complex during the genocide. |
: Alaa was martyred in a strike on two vehicles belonging to Doctors without Borders after an unsuccessful attempt to evacuate civilians south of Wadi Gaza. They were turned away despite prior coordination. |
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Ahmad Iyad Adel Mushtaha | Nurse | ||||
Rami Adel Musbah Labad | Nurse | Worked as a nurse in Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip | Kamal Adwan Hospital |
: Nurse Rami Labad was martyred alongside several members of his family in a strike on their neighborhood. |
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Mohammed Rafat Mohammed Jumaa | Nurse | ||||
Badr Mohammed Abu Daqqa | Nurse | Nursing | |||
Shayma Radwan Ali Rayyan | Nurse | Worked as a midwife during the genocide | |||
Maryam Hisham Hasan Abu Thaher | Nurse | ||||
Ibrahim Yousef Suleiman Abu Ishaq | Nurse | ||||
Amjad Majed Mohammed Abu Odeh | Nurse | Practical instructor in the faculty of nursing at al-Aqsa University in the Gaza Strip |
: He was martyred alongside his three children and other members of his family in a strike on Ma'an neighborhood in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip. |
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Ibrahim Abdel Raouf Saleh al-Farra | Nurse | Clinical instructor in the faculty of nursing | Nasser Medical Complex |
: Nurse Ibrahim al-Farra was martyred alongside his entire family in a strike on their home in Nasser neighborhood in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip. |
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Aya Ra'ed Nayef al-Sharafi | Nurse | Al Awda Hospital |
: Nurse Aya al-Sharafi was martyred alongside several members of her family, including her mother, her children, and her unborn child in a strike on their home in Gaza City. |
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Hadeel Ziad Mahmoud Fanaqa | Nurse | ||||
Mohammed Zakaria Hussein al-Muqayyad | Nurse | First responder with the Union of Health Care Committees |
: His home was struck upon his arrival after an on-call shift, killing him, his wife, and their two children |
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Tareq Ziad Ibrahim Abu Obeid | Nurse | Heart disease | Al-Shifa Medical Complex | ||
Aya Awni Ismail Abu Zeid | Nurse | ||||
Awn Nofal Ashour | Nurse | Fourth year nursing student | |||
Abdallah Eid Abu Salman | Nurse | ||||
Kifah Sana'allah al-Huseini | Nurse | ||||
Ra'ed Malaka | Nurse | ||||
Osama Eid Abu Safiya | Nurse | ||||
Yusra Mazen Ghabayen | Nurse |
: Yusra was martyred alongside her family in a strike on their home in Beit Lahya in the northern Gaza Strip. Two of her brothers survived but were injured. |
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Abdallah Sharaf | Nurse | ||||
Tamer Rafeeq Muabbad | Nurse | Worked as a nurse in the burns unit at al-Shifa Medical Complex | Al-Shifa Medical Complex | ||
Haytham Hamdi Hammad al-Muqayyad | Nurse | Kamal Adwan Hospital |
: He was martyred as occupation forces used "fire belts" to damage the roads leading to Kamal Adwan Hospital in Jabaliya Camp in the northern Gaza Strip. |
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Samia Ali Jameel Shabet | Nurse |
: Samia was martyred alongside a large number of her family as a result of aggressive bombardment that trapped several of her family members under the rubble. |
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Abdallah Faraj Abul Hasan | Nurse | ||||
Butheina al-Amoudi | Nurse | ||||
Mohammed Abu Abda | Nurse | Al Aqsa Martyrs hospital | |||
Ahmad Ayman Ahmad | Nurse | ||||
Samah Abu Hammad | Nurse | ||||
Nidal Abu Mustafa | Nurse | ||||
Ahmad Telaat Jumaa Shomar | Nurse | General nursing |
: Nurse Ahmad Shomar was martyred alongside his daughter Joud in a strike on their home in Deir al-Balah. |
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Abdallah Farajallah | Nurse | ||||
Abdallah Abu Maala | Nurse |
: Nurse Abdallah Abu Maala was martyred alongside his wife (also a nurse) Shahd Jbara and their children in a strike on their home in Nuseirat Camp, in the middle of the Gaza Strip. |
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Nayef Abu Atewi | Nurse | Clinical instructor at the faculty of nursing at al-Azhar University – Gaza. |
: Nurse Nayef Abu Atewi was martyred when occupation forces targeted an aid distribution center in Nuseirat Camp |
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As'ad Abdelraouf Sa'eed Barbakh | Nurse |
: His body was pulled from under the rubble more than 90 days after he was martyred (on March 6, 2024). |
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Yehia Mohammed Jameel Baalousheh | Nurse | Worked as a volunteer nurse in Nasser Medical Complex and was martyred at its gate | Nasser Medical Complex |
: Yehia was martyred at the gate of Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, while working. |
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Mohammad Jameel Yousef Labad | Nurse | Worked as a nurse in Kamal Adwan Hospital. Held a Master's from the Academy of Management and policy for Graduate Studies | Kamal Adwan Hospital |
: Nurse Mohammed Labad was martyred alongside his father in a strike on their home in the northern Gaza Strip. |
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Mohammed Fawzi Saleem | Nurse | ||||
Imad Issa | Nurse | متقاعد | |||
Amro Masoud | Nurse | ||||
Mahmoud Hourani | Nurse | ||||
Mohammed Sami Abdelfattah Fadel | Nurse |
: Nurse Mohammed Fadel was martyred alongside his colleague Tamer al-Afsh in an occupation strike on Nuseirat market in the middle of the Gaza Strip. |
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Bilal Fuad Abdelkhaleq Al-Farra | Pharmacist | Bilal had a pharmacy in Khan Yunis city center; he worked throughout the genocide to provide medicines to the injured and displaced. |
: Dr. Bilal al-Farra was martyred as a result of a strike on a house in Qarara neighborhood in Western Khan Yunis. He was missing for a few days before his scattered remains were found. |
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Ahmad Amer Mohammed Al-Jarjawi | Pharmacist | He worked in the private sector as a pharmacist, managing the Family Pharmacy that he had established. |
: Ahmed Al-Jarjawi was martyred after the occupation forces targeted his Family Pharmacy in Gaza City while he was working inside. |
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Shireen Kamal Issa Abu Jazar | Pharmacist | She worked as a pharmacist at the Martyr Abu Youssef Al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. | Muhammad Youssef Al-Najjar Hospital |
: Dr. Shireen Abu Jazar, a pharmacist, was martyred along with members of her family due to a direct strike on her home in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. |
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Azeez Mohammed Fakhri Mahdi Al-Farra | Pharmacist |
: Dr. Aziz Al-Farra, a pharmacist, was martyred as a result of a direct strike on his family’s home in the center of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip. |
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Iman Abu al-Jaleel | Pharmacist | She worked as a pharmacist at the Al-Awda Health and Community Association. | Al Awda Hospital |
: Dr. Iman Abu Al-Jalil, a pharmacist, was martyred as a result of a direct strike on her home in the Al-Saftawi neighborhood in northern Gaza City. |
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Nida Hayel Bassem Al-Dahshan | Pharmacist | Nida was a recent graduate, beginning her initial steps towards obtaining a professional license just before the genocidal war on the Gaza Strip. |
: Dr. Nida Al-Dahshan, a pharmacist, was martyred along with her father, Haiel Al-Dahshan, and her mother, Hiba Al-Dahshan (Al-Khodari), due to a direct strike on their home in Gaza City. Nida had returned home after multiple instances of displacement and perseverance in northern Gaza to gather some of the family's necessities. |
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Afnan Ibrahim Hamed Al-Astal | Pharmacist |
: Dr. Afnan Al-Astal, a pharmacist, was martyred along with her father, Professor Ibrahim Hamed Al-Astal, Dean of the College of Education at the Islamic University - Southern Branch, and her mother, Nadia Yassin Al-Astal, as a result of the bombing of their home in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. |
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Safaa Nizar Jameel Hassouneh | Pharmacist | ||||
Ibrahim Mohammed Ibrahim Halouq Miqdad | Pharmacist |
: Martyr Ibrahim Mohammed Ibrahim Halouq Miqdad, a pharmacist from Gaza Governorate was martyred on October 14, 2023, in Gaza as a result of an attack by the occupation forces. |
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Maysa Ibrahim Shukri Khader | Pharmacist |
: The body of martyr Maysa Khader was found on January 24, 2024, on the roof of a neighbor's house, more than a month after the attack on her home in the Al-Jinina neighborhood in Rafah. She joined eleven other martyrs who had fallen as a result of this attack. |
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Nisreen Al-Dimagh | Pharmacist | ||||
Sali Nabeel Al-Aydi | Pharmacist | A student at the Faculty of Pharmacy at Al-Azhar University - Gaza. |
: Dr. Sally Al-Aidi and Family Martyred in the Al-Aidi Family Massacre, with Dozens of Victims in the Direct Attack on Their Home. |
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Mohammed Al-Shunat | Pharmacist | ||||
Lina Sami Youssef Abu Muleiq | Pharmacist | Pharmacist Lina Abu Meilaq, a recent graduate, began her journey toward practicing pharmacy as her first steps in the field. |
: Pharmacist Dr. Lina Abu Maileq was martyred along with her parents, Dr. Sami Abu Maileq and Yola Abu Maileq, and several other family members as a result of the targeting of their home in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. |
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Haneen Bassem Mohammed Al-Bisouni | Pharmacist |
: Dr. Haneen Al-Basyouni, a pharmacist, was martyred along with her husband, Dr. Noor Abayan, who was also a pharmacist, while she was eight months pregnant. They were killed as a result of the targeting of their home, leading to their deaths along with several family members. |
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Rawand Khaled Jadallah Al-Banna | Pharmacist |
: Dr. Rawand Al-Banna, a pharmacist, was martyred along with her child, Adnan Mahna, and several family members as a result of the targeted attack on their home in Gaza City. |
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Amal Mohammed Refaat Makki | Pharmacist |
: Dr. Amal Makki, a pharmacist, was martyred following the bombing of her family's home on Omar Al-Mukhtar Street in Gaza City, northern Gaza. She was killed alongside her father, Dr. Mohamed Rafaat Makki, her mother, Aida Shubeir, and her brother, dentist Anis. |
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Abdallah Arafat Ismail Al-Tartouri | Pharmacist | The martyr, pharmacist Abdullah Tartouri, was a fourth-year student at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Azhar University - Gaza. |
: Abdullah, along with all his family members—his father and his brothers Mohammed and Yasser— were martyred as a result of the direct targeting of their home in Rafah, southern Gaza. |
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Asma' Abdelkareem Mohammed Abu Salah | Pharmacist | Asmaa was a fourth-year student at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Al-Azhar University - Gaza. |
: Martyred in a strike on a house belonging to the Abu al-Oula family. |
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Mohammed Ibrahim Mohammed Al-Shami | Pharmacist | He was one of the founders of International Pharmacy, which he established with the pharmacist martyr Dr. Samir Abdel Latif Al-Sheikh in 1999. |
: Martyr Dr. Muhammad Ibrahim Muhammad Al-Shami (65 years old) from Gaza Governorate, was martyred on 2023-11-02 in Gaza as a result of targeting by the occupation forces. |
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Aya Sobhi Abdullah Hijazi | Pharmacist | Dr. Aya Hijazi worked at "Green Farm" Pharmacy. |
: Pharmacist Dr. Aya Hijazi and members of her family martyred due to the targeting of their home in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. |
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Rula Al-Taweel | Pharmacist | Pharmacist Dr. Rola Al-Tawil worked with the Palestinian Ministry of Health since 2000. |
: Pharmacist Dr. Rola Al-Tawil and her husband, Professor of Entrepreneurship Dr. Yasser Al-Alam, were martyred due to the targeting of their shelter in Gaza City. |
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Wisam Adnan Al-Halabi | Pharmacist | ||||
Issam Al-Deen Ismail Abd Rabo | Pharmacist |
: Pharmacist Dr. Issam Abd Rabo was martyred along with his two children, Mohammad (6 years old) and Ismail (9 years old), as a result of the targeting of their home in Rafah, southern Gaza. |
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Sameer Abdellatif Al-Sheikh | Pharmacist | The General Manager and founder of the International Pharmacies Group, which he established with the late pharmacist Dr. Mohammed Al-Shami in 1999. |
: After several months of resilience in northern Gaza, the esteemed pharmacist Dr. Samir Al-Sheikh was martyred by a sniper's bullet in Al-Nasser Street in Gaza City. |
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Amira Ziad Mustafa Dahman | Pharmacist | Dr. Amira Dahman, a recent graduate, was seeking to obtain her professional license before the onset of the genocide war in the Gaza Strip. |
: Amira was martyred along with more than thirty members of her family due to the targeting of the home they had sought refuge in, in Gaza City. |
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Mohammed Ayman Mahmud Al-Sharafi | Pharmacist |
: Dr. Mohammad Al-Sharafi, a pharmacist, was martyred along with all his family members, including his father, Dr. Ayman Al-Sharafi, his mother, Dr. Khatam Diab, his sister, medical student Amina Al-Sharafi, and his brother, Mahmoud Al-Sharafi, as a result of the targeting of their home. |
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Ayman Mahmoud Al-Sharafi | Pharmacist | ||||
Khitam Al-Sharafi | Pharmacist | ||||
Manar Ayyad | Pharmacist | ||||
Ashraf Abu Mahdi | Pharmacist | ||||
Maher Abu Nada | Pharmacist | ||||
Ali Al-Rafati | Pharmacist |