Izzeldin abuelaish biography of alberta

Canadian-Palestinian medical doctor

Izzeldin Abuelaish (Arabic: 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.

Izzeldin abuelaish biography of alberta

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.^[1]

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.

Life and career

Abuelaish was born and raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. He