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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| 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 |
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| 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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| Alia Ramzi Ahmad al-Hinawi (Sharaf) | Laboratory technician |
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| Natheer Shawqi Ahmad Shaban | Laboratory technician |
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| Mohammed Ata Mohammed Ahed Ata Abu Karsh | Laboratory technician | ||||
| Asma' Hamad Suleiman Hijazi | Laboratory technician |
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| Mohammed Majed Hammoudeh Ahel | Laboratory technician |
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| Rawan Yaseen | Laboratory technician | ||||
| Mariam Kababja | Laboratory technician | ||||
| Nahed Abdellatif | Laboratory technician |
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| Mohammed Shaban | Laboratory technician | ||||
| Riham Al-Kahlout | Laboratory technician |
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| Ismail Sharaf | Laboratory technician |
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| Taysir al-Ghouti | Laboratory technician |
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| Mohammed Al-Ghoula | Laboratory technician | ||||
| Khalil Salah | Laboratory technician | ||||
| Duaa Jadallah Mousa Jadallah | Laboratory technician |
: Duaa Jadallah was martyred alongside her entire family in a strike on their home in Sheikh Radwan neighborhood. |
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| عيد أبو سمعان | فني أشعة | ||||
| Muhannad al-Saqqa | Radiographer |
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| Sami Khalaf | Radiographer | ||||
| Ibrahim Labad | Radiographer | ||||
| نافذ النجار | طبيب أسنان |
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| Areej Eid | Dentist | Dr. Areej Eid earned her dentistry degree from al-Azhar university in Gaza, then undertook her internship in al-Azhar University faculty of dentail medicine for women in Cairo. |
: Dr. Areej Eid was martyred in the Bureij camp massacre in which a whole residential block was destroyed |
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| Alaa Al-Hoor | Psychologist |
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| Mustafa Fayyad | Psychologist | Volunteer in the Palestine Red Crescent Society mental health program. |
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| Shaheer Yaghi | Psychologist |
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| 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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| Ahmad Abu Araja | Optometrist |
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| Osama Abu Araja | Optometrist |
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| Sami Qasem | Optometrist | ||||
| Abdelrahman Al-Farra | Optometrist |
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| Alaa Abu Zoor | Optometrist | ||||
| Areej Tawlan | Physiotherapist | ||||
| 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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| Shehrazad Majdi Suleiman al-Akhras | Physiotherapist |
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| Ahmad Mahmoud Suleiman al-Masri | Physiotherapist |
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| Ahmad Samih Yousef Abu Harbeed | Physiotherapist | ||||
| Shayma Sbeih | Physiotherapist |
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| Mayar Sultan Abdel Nabih al-Waheedi | 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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| 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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| Sajida Sbeih | Physiotherapist | ||||
| Bayan Aweida | Physiotherapist | ||||
| Amani al-Absi | Physiotherapist | ||||
| Waseem Yehia | Physiotherapist |
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| Reem al-Quqa | Physiotherapist | ||||
| Jameel Hamdan | Physiotherapist |
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| Hiba al-Jourani | Physiotherapist |
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| Amira Haroun | Physiotherapist | ||||
| Mira al-Masri | Physiotherapist | ||||
| Maha al-Hams | Physiotherapist | ||||
| Issa Fayez Issa | Physiotherapist |
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| Mohammed Darwish | Physiotherapist |
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| Noor Abu Lehya | Physiotherapist |
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| Ihab Abu Musameh | 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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| Abdelrahman al-Sha'al | Physiotherapist |
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| Noor Abu Shaqra | Physiotherapist |
: She was martyred alongside her family in an airstrike on her home |
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| Noor Abu Labada | Physiotherapist | ||||
| Mohammed Mahmoud Amin Shaheen | Physiotherapist |
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| Mia Khalil | Physiotherapist | ||||
| Mohammed Abu Harbeed | Physiotherapist | ||||
| Ahmad Farajallah | Physiotherapist | ||||
| Saleh al-Qahwaji | 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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| 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 | ||||
| Ameer Hassan Al-Ghafeer | Administrator | ||||
| Omar Ismail Ashour | Administrator | ||||
| Mohammed Ashour | Administrator | ||||
| Muath Abu Hasanen | Administrator | ||||
| Mohammed Adel Ibrahim Jazar | Administrator | ||||
| Hedaia Hamad | Administrator | ||||
| Mohammed Abu Duqqa | Administrator |
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| Yaser Ibrahim Mohammed Al-Shami | Administrator | ||||
| Dima Abdellatif Al-Haj | Administrator |
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| Samar Fathi Suleiman Abu Mustafa | Administrator | ||||
| Mohammed Riyad Mohammed Al-Reefi | Administrator | ||||
| Raed Mousa Ramadan Al-Banna | Administrator | ||||
| Ziad Mahmoud Saleem Al-Azeeb | Administrator | ||||
| Ashraf Mohammed Salem Salameh Hammoudeh | Administrator | ||||
| Hisham Ahmad Mohammed Abul Sabah | Administrator | ||||
| Abdel Mohsen Abul Rous | Administrator |