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Izzeldin Abuelaish was born on 3 February, 1955 in Jabalia Camp, Gaza Strip, is a Canadian-Palestinian medical doctor. Discover Izzeldin Abuelaish's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

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Occupation Doctor, professor, author, non-profit founder
Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 3 February 1955
Birthday 3 February
Birthplace Jabalia Camp, Gaza Strip
Nationality Palestine

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Izzeldin Abuelaish (عزالدين أبو العيش), 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 and has been active in promoting Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation.

1983

After completing medical studies at Cairo University in 1983, he earned a diploma in Obstetrics and Gynaecology from the University of London.

1997

From 1997 to 2002, he completed a residency in OB/Gyn at the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, 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.

Abuelaish was the first Palestinian doctor to receive a staff position at an Israeli hospital, where he treated both Israeli and Palestinian patients.

He worked as a physician in the Gaza Strip and also worked part-time in Israel at Soroka Medical Center and Sheba Medical Center.

2007

After the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip in 2007, he was one of the few Gazans to continue entering Israel regularly.

He lived in a multi-story building in Jabalia that he and his brother had built.

2008

In 2008, his wife died of leukemia, and he was left to raise their eight children.

Immediately before the 2008–2009 Gaza War between Palestinian paramilitary groups and the Israeli military, he was a researcher at the Sheba Hospital in Tel Aviv and already an important figure in Israeli-Palestinian relations.

His daughters had attended a peace camp with Israeli children in the United States.

During the three-week war, he gave reports and interviews to the Israeli media on the situation in Gaza.

2009

During the Gaza War in January 2009, 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 around the world.

The Israeli military initially claimed that Dr. Abuelaish's house was targeted because it was the source of sniper fire.

A day later the Israelis claimed to be targeting militants.

The Israeli military further tried to justify the shelling of the house by claiming that the dead girls' bodies contained shrapnel from Qassam rockets.

On January 16, 2009, a few days before the end of the war, an Israeli tank fired two shells at his home, killing three of his daughters and a niece.

An Israeli military investigation of the incident claimed that fire had been directed at his house after ″figures″ spotted on the roof of the building had been suspected of being observers directing sniper fire against Israeli troops.

The incident occurred as he had been corresponding live with Channel 10 reporter Shlomi Eldar, and his reaction to learning of the deaths of his daughters was broadcast live to Israeli audiences.

The death of his daughters strengthened his resolve to promote reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians.

He founded the Daughters for Life Foundation in memory of his three daughters who were killed.

The organization provides scholarship awards to encourage young women from Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Syria to pursue their studies at universities in Canada, the United States and Belgium.

The foundation aims to invest in the potential for young women's leadership and to foster their success.

2011

He emigrated to Canada and wrote a 2011 memoir entitled I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity.

He now resides in Toronto, Canada, with his remaining children.

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 Egypt.

In 2011 he was Associate Professor of Global Health at the University of Toronto.

He wrote a 2011 memoir entitled I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity.

2013

In February 2013, he attended the Karachi Literature Festival in Pakistan where he narrated the events surrounding the death of his daughters killed in the Israeli airstrike.

According to The Express Tribune, "there was hardly anyone in the audience who did not choke or wipe away a silent tear while listening to Palestinian doctor and author Izzeldin Abuelaish..."

Abuelaish described the event of his daughters' deaths as follows:

2016

"We are standing in the scene of the tragedy, in the place where four lovely girls were sitting, building their dreams and their hopes, and in seconds, these dreams were killed. These flowers were dead. Three of my daughters and one niece were killed in one second on the 16th of January at a quarter to five p.m. Just a few seconds, I left them, and they stayed in the room – two daughters here, one daughter here, one daughter here, and my niece with them.The first shell came from the tank space, which is there, came to shell two daughters who were sitting here on their chairs. And when I heard this shell, I came inside the room to find, to look. I can’t recognize my daughters. Their heads were cut off their bodies. They were separated from their bodies, and I can’t recognize whose body is this. They were drowning in a pool of blood. This is the pool of blood. Even look here. This is their brain.

These are parts of their brain.

Aya was lying on the ground.

Shatha was injured, and her eye is coming out.

Her fingers were torn, just attached by a tag of skin.