Izzeldin Abuelaish
| Izzeldin Abuelaish | |
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| Born | February 3, 1955 Jabbalia Camp, Gaza |
| Residence | Toronto, ON Canada |
| Nationality |
 Palestine
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| Education |
University of Cairo MD University of London OB/Gyn Harvard School of Public Health MPH |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Title | Michael and Amira Dan Professor in Global Health |
Izzeldin Abuelaish (Arabic: عزالدين أبو العيش), OOnt is a Canadian-Palestinian medical doctor and author. He was born in Gaza, and was the first Palestinian doctor to work in an Israeli hospital. He was active in promoting Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation. His daughters attended a peace camp with Israeli children in the United States. During the Gaza war, his three daughters and a niece were killed by Israeli tank fire directed at his home. He had been calling in reports about the effect of the war by phone to a TV station. In his regularly scheduled report, in tears, he described their killing on-air, in a video that was widely circulated in Israel and the world. The Israeli army first said that his house was targeted because snipers were firing from his house. Then a day later they said they were targeting militants. Then another unproven justification given was that one of the dead girl's bodies contained shrapnel from quassam rockets.
He left Israel/Palestine for Canada, but wrote a book, I Shall Not Hate.
Abuelaish was born and raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. He received his elementary, preparatory and secondary education in the refugee camp schools.
Abuelaish received a scholarship to study medicine in Cairo, Egypt and then a diploma in Obstetrics and Gynaecology from the University of London.
From 1997–2002 completed a residency in OB/Gyn at the Soroka University hospital in Beer Sheva, Israel, followed by a subspecialty in fetal medicine in Italy and Belgium; then a master's degree in Public Health (Health Policy and Management) from Harvard University.
He has written a book named I Shall Not Hate.
He founded the "Daughters for Life Foundation" in memory of three of his daughters, who were killed by Israeli tank fire during the Gaza War. The organisation provides scholarship awards to encourage young women to pursue their studies at universities in Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Syria.
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