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.