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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Sayyed al-Masri | Nurse | Palestinian Ministry of Health | |||
Mohammed Jamal Nasman | Nurse | Worked as a nurse in the specialised surgeries department at al-Shifa Medical Complex. | Al-Shifa Medical Complex |
: Muhammad Nasman was martyred alongside his wife, daughter, and other members of his family. |
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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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Yousef Mansour | Nurse | Palestinian Ministry of Health | |||
Mohammed Abu Abda | Nurse | Al Aqsa Martyrs hospital | |||
Ahmad Ayman Ahmad | Nurse | Palestinian Ministry of Health | |||
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 | Palestinian Ministry of Health | |||
Bassam Mohammed Omar Shaheen | Nurse | Held a PhD in nursing from the University of Al-Butana in Sudan in 2021. Worked as a vice-dean for graduate studies at al-Azhar University – Gaza. | Palestinian Ministry of Health |
: After surviving two direct strikes where he was staying with his family in Muhandiseen and Salhi towers in Gaza City, during which he sustained moderate injuries, Dr. Bassam was martyred alongside his family in a strike on the third place they had been displaced to. |
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Mustafa Abdel Muneem | Nurse | Non-governmental sector | |||
Ahmad Dardas | Nurse | Non-governmental sector | |||
Nijm Abul Jubein | Nurse | ||||
Kamal al-Jamal | Nurse | Palestinian Ministry of Health |
: 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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Omar Muneer Hasan Masoud | Nurse | Palestinian Ministry of Health | |||
Mahmoud Nasr Haroun | Nurse | Palestinian Ministry of Health | |||
Nihad Barakat | Nurse | Palestinian Ministry of Health |
: 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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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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Nidal Abu Mustafa | Nurse | Palestinian Ministry of Health | |||
Hind al-Nuweri | Nurse | Palestinian Ministry of Health |
: 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 Saber Qashqash | Nurse | Volunteered during the genocide in the northern Gaza Strip hospitals until his martyrdom | Al-Shifa Medical Complex |
: Mohammed Qashqash was martyred as a result of a strike on his home in Beit Lahya in the northern Gaza Strip, alongside dozens of others who had sought refuge there. |
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Abdallah Farajallah | Nurse | Palestinian Ministry of Health | |||
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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Imad Issa | Nurse | متقاعد | Palestinian Ministry of Health | ||
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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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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Mohammed Fawzi Saleem | Nurse | ||||
Mohammed Sameer Musallam | Nurse | Palestinian Ministry of Health | |||
Rawda Ali Naser | Nurse | Non-governmental sector |
: 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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Alaa Nael Awni al-Shawwa | Nurse | Alaa worked as a volunteer nurse with Doctors without Borders at al-Shifa Medical Complex during the genocide. | Non-governmental sector |
: 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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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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Mohammed Sami Abdelfattah Fadel | Nurse | Palestinian Ministry of Health |
: 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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Mohammed Yousef Mohammed al-Azaiza | Nurse | Palestinian Ministry of Health |
: He was martyred alongside his wife and twenty-five 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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Abdallah Abu Maala | Nurse | Palestinian Ministry of Health |
: 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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Khaled Kamal Mohammed Al-Jamal | Nurse | Al Aqsa Martyrs hospital | |||
Yehia Abdeljawad Jouda | Nurse |
He worked as a lecturer in al-Quds Open University in 2003, after earning a Master's in public health from Al-Najah National University. He also worked as an optometrist and director of a private optometry center in the middle of the Gaza Strip after earning a second bachelor's degree from the Islamic University in 2011. |
: Dr. Yehia Jouda was martyred alongside his children, Majd, Mouaz, Yehia, and Mayar as a result of a direct strike on their home. The only survivor was his eldest son Mohammed. |
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Luai Ramzi Mohammed Al-Zuheiri | Nurse | Nursing student |
: Martyr Louay Ramzi Mohammed Al-Zuhairi,a nursing student from North Gaza Province was killed on 2023-10-21 in Jabalia Refugee Camp / North Gaza due to targeting by the occupation forces. |
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Mo'men Akram Saber Arab | Nurse | Student in the fourth year of the Nursing College. |
: Martyr Mo'men Arab, a fourth-year student, was martyred on November 4, 2023. |
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Ahmad Hasan Ahmad al-Nueiri | Nurse | ||||
Rana Shalabi | Nurse | Worked in al-Awda Hospital – Nuseirat | Al-Awda Hospital - Nussairat |
: Martyred alongside 15 members of her family on an attack on her relatives' home |
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Reeda Waleed Jihad al-Masri | Nurse | Worked as a midwife in Beit Hanoun al-Shawa clinic in the northern Gaza Strip. Volunteered in Kamal Adwan Hospital during the genocide | Kamal Adwan Hospital |
: Martyred alongside her family in an attack on their home in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip. |
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Suheir Salam Nasr Jbara | Nurse | Nurse in the obstetrics and gynaecology department | Emirates Crescent Hospital |
: Nurse Suheir Jbara was martyred alongside her children Athal, Arwa and Alma, her husband, and her family after leaving a hospital shift and returning home, to the Hashash household to which they had fled. Only for it to be attacked upon her arrival. |
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Mohammed Ahmad Shukri Hammad | Nurse | ||||
Mohammed al-Baz | Nurse | ||||
Suleiman Abu Zour | Nurse | ||||
Walaa Mohammed Adwan | Nurse | Midwife |
: Midwife Walaa Adwan was martyred during an attack on Beit Hanoun north of the Gaza Strip. |
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Samah Rasheed | Nurse | Midwife | |||
Amer Sa'eed Husein al-Rimlawi | Nurse | ||||
Mustafa Fuad Ahmad Abdel Mun'em | Nurse | ||||
Subha al-Sharafi | Nurse | Retired nurse. |
: Subha Al-Sharafi was martyred along with her husband, five sons, their wives, grandchildren, and a large number of her family members in a massacre that claimed the lives of more than forty martyrs when their home in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip was targeted. |
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Zaki Ahmed Zaki Darwish | Nurse | ||||
Abdelfattah Abu Hasna | Nurse | ||||
Ahmad Kamel al-Aweeti | Nurse | ||||
Ahmad Ba'lousheh | Nurse | ||||
Ahmad Salem Abu Shamla | Nurse | General nursing | Al Aqsa Martyrs hospital |
: He was martyred as a result of an artillery attack behind the government clinic in Al-Maghazi camp, where he was working during the genocidal war on the Gaza Strip. |
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Ahmad Shehab | Nurse | ||||
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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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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Khaled Jalal Arafat | Nurse | ||||
Mo'men Ibrahim Mansour | Nurse | ||||
Asmaa Abdelkareem Mohammed al-Assar | Nurse | ||||
Ahmad Iyad Adel Mushtaha | Nurse | ||||
Badr Mohammed Abu Daqqa | Nurse | Nursing | |||
Ibrahim Yousef Suleiman Abu Ishaq | Nurse | ||||
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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Awn Nofal Ashour | Nurse | Fourth year nursing student | |||
Abdallah Eid Abu Salman | Nurse | ||||
Kifah Sana'allah al-Huseini | Nurse | ||||
Osama Eid Abu Safiya | Nurse | ||||
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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Abdallah Faraj Abul Hasan | Nurse | ||||
Butheina al-Amoudi | Nurse | ||||
Samah Abu Hammad | 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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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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Amro Masoud | Nurse | ||||
Mahmoud Hourani | Nurse | ||||
ناصر ابراهيم أحمد ابو النور | ممرض | جامعات | |||
جميل غازي جميل البابا | ممرض | قطاع أهلي | |||
احمد موسي رجب الخطيب | ممرض | ||||
محمود سمير سعدي عسليه | ممرض | حكيم جامعي | |||
احمد محمد حسن بعلوشة | ممرض | حكيم جامعي | وزارة الصحة الفلسطينية | ||
اسماء عبد الكريم محمد العصار | ممرض | وزارة الصحة الفلسطينية | |||
اسماعيل عبد الرحيم حسن ابو ركبه | ممرض | وزارة الصحة الفلسطينية | |||
اشرف فتحى جمعه ابوجلاله | ممرض | ||||
أمل يوسف سالم الزرابي | ممرض | وزارة الصحة الفلسطينية | |||
إياد حمدان محمود طوطح | ممرض | ||||
إبراهيم أحمد توفيق لبد | ممرض | حكيم جامعي | وزارة الصحة الفلسطينية | ||
إسراء علي موسى أبوندى | ممرض | وزارة الصحة الفلسطينية | |||
أنوار زياد محمد ياسين | ممرض | حكيم جامعي | وزارة الصحة الفلسطينية | ||
أحمد أسعد محمود الخطيب | ممرض | حكيم جامعي | وزارة الصحة الفلسطينية | ||
أحمد حماد أحمد خطاب | ممرض | ||||
أحمد سالم أحمد أبو مزيد | ممرض | وزارة الصحة الفلسطينية | |||
أحمد سمير صبحي يونس | ممرض | ||||
أحمد علي سالم الديراوي | ممرض | وزارة الصحة الفلسطينية | |||
أريج عبد الله سليم الشياح | ممرض | حكيم جامعي | وزارة الصحة الفلسطينية | ||
أشرف أنور محمود أبو دغيم | ممرض | وزارة الصحة الفلسطينية |