Dr. Iyad Ahmed Mohamed Al-Rantisi was a 53-year-old physician and head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.
He was born in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, into a Palestinian refugee family from the depopulated village of Jibna, in the Gaza district, which was occupied during the Nakba in 1948. en 1948.
He earned his medical degree from Vitebsk State University in Belarus. He specialized in obstetrics and gynecology. He worked at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia. He was married and had four children—two sons and two daughters.
After the genocide began in October 2023, Al-Rantisi continued his work at Kamal Adwan Hospital. He performed emergency surgeries despite constant bombardment and shortages of medicine and equipment.
Following an intense siege of the hospital, with orders from the occupying forces to evacuate, on November 10, 2023, Dr. Rantisi headed south with members of his family, still wearing his doctor’s coat. As he passed through the Netzarim checkpoint on Salah El-Din Street, he was arrested.
The occupying forces transferred him to the “Shikma” facility at Ashkelon Prison, where he was subjected to extremely harsh interrogation until he died as a martyr on November 17, 2023. His family did not learn of this until June 18, 2024, when the Israeli media announced his death. His body was never returned.
Illustrations: Carmen Fernández
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