Head of the obstetrics department in Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahya in the northern Gaza Strip. He also worked at the obstetrics department in the Patient Friends Hospital. He was arrested alongside Dr. Mohammed Abu Silmiyeh at Netzarim checkpoint during the first siege on al-Shifa hospital. Dr. Iyad al-Rantisi was the second doctor that occupation authorities announced the martyrdom of under detention, following Dr. Adnan al-Bursh.

He was a father to three children. He had been working at al-Shifa Hospital for 40 consecutive days when the siege started and he and his mother were killed by an occupation sniper. He worked alongside plastic surgeon Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah during the Great March of Return protests, the 2021 aggression, and the genocide. Dr. Ghassan remarked: "He spent this war going from Shifa hospital to Al Quds Hospital and when he was free he would join me at Al Ahli. Always dedicated, always wanting to learn. He refused to leave the north and kept sending me photos of his surgeries.