He was martyred alongside his father, father-in-law and brother-in-law as a result of a strike of his in-laws' house, where he, his two children and his pregnant wife had fled. The house was bombed shortly after he arrived home after spending several consecutive days in al-Shifa hospital where he was working during the genocide, after refusing to evacuate from the north. He was one of few doctors who stayed in al-Shifa following the evacuate orders.