Holds the Palestinian board in neurosurgery and specialist in accident and emergency medicine at al-Shifa hospital. Worked for two months during the genocide until the raid on al-Shifa hospital when he was forced to evacuate. In 2009, he was part of the team that carried out the first brain tumor removal in the Gaza Strip.

Member in the legislative council and a previous director general in the ministry of health. He worked as a generalist in Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis. Served as head of the hematology and oncology department at al-Shifa hospital until 1993, laboratory director for the Gaza Strip 1986-1991, director of Nasser hospital 1991-1993, director general for health 1993-1994, and director of the national center for cancer surveillance.