One year since the genocide… systematic Israeli targeting of Palestinian minds in Gaza news
During a year of genocide, Israeli targeting was not limited to everything civilized and urban in the Gaza Strip, but rather extended to include the minds and elites of academics, doctors, engineers, and information technology experts.
This continued targeting constitutes a threat to the cultural and academic infrastructure in the besieged sector, which is considered one of the most important foundations of development and progress.
The head of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Observatory, Rami Abdo, considered the targeting of Palestinian academics and elites behavior within a systematic pattern followed by the Israeli occupation army since the beginning of the war of genocide.
Abdo said, “There is a systematic Israeli vision that targets Palestinian minds, not only academics, but also doctors, engineers, and information technology experts.”
He explained that this targeting “comes within the framework of the comprehensive crime of genocide launched by the (Israeli army) against the Gaza Strip since last October 7.”
Abdo believes that “what enhances the possibility of Israel deliberately targeting all aspects of life in the Gaza Strip is the systematic and widespread destruction carried out by the Israeli forces of cultural objects, including historical ones, as they directly destroyed all universities in the Gaza Strip, and some of them were subjected to intentional blowing up and explosions.”
According to the latest statistics of the government media office in the Palestinian sector, the Israeli occupation army has destroyed about 125 schools and universities completely, and 337 partially, since October 7, 2023.
The Government Information Office also documented the names of more than 130 scholars, academics, university professors, and researchers who were killed by Israel in the ongoing war of extermination, which left more than 138,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and deadly famine.
Anatolia monitors the most prominent Palestinian academics and cultural and professional elites who were assassinated by Israel:
First – Academics:
Sufyan Tayeh, President of the Islamic University
A Palestinian physicist and researcher in the fields of physics and applied mathematics, he was born in 1971. He served as president of the Islamic University in Gaza in August 2023. He was martyred along with his family in an Israeli raid that targeted the Al-Faluga area in the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
Adnan Al-Barash, Professor of the Faculty of Medicine at the Islamic University
One of the most famous orthopedic surgeons in Gaza. He obtained the British Fellowship in Complex Fracture Surgery in London after graduating from the University of Jordan in 2009, in addition to obtaining the Jordanian and Arab Boards.
On May 2, the government media office announced the martyrdom of Dr. Al-Bersh inside Israeli prisons, months after he was arrested while working in a hospital in the Gaza Strip.
Nasser Abu Al-Nour, Dean of the Faculty of Nursing at the Islamic University
He holds a master’s degree in nursing administration from Marquette University and a doctorate in health care policy from the University of Akron in the United States.
He was martyred along with his family in an Israeli bombing on February 21 that targeted his house in the Al-Jeneina neighborhood in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
Naeem Baroud, Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the Islamic University
He served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the Islamic University from 2021-2022, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Al-Quds International Foundation. He published a number of academic and scientific books in the field of geography.
He was martyred along with a number of his family members in an Israeli bombing that targeted his home in the Beach Camp, west of Gaza City, on October 25, 2023.
Jihad Al-Masry, Director of Al-Quds Open University in Khan Yunis
He served as head of the Oral History Center at Al-Quds Open University in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, and as academic and administrative assistant to the director of Al-Quds Open University in Rafah from 2003-2022. After that, he held the position of director of Al-Quds Open University in Khan Yunis until the date of his martyrdom on October 29, 2023.
Ahmed Al-Dalu, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Palestine
He was the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Palestine. He was martyred along with 43 members of his family in a direct bombardment that targeted his home in Gaza City on October 19, 2023.
Ahmed Abu Absa, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Palestine
He served as Assistant Professor at the College of Media and Information Technology, University of Palestine, then Dean of the College of Applied Engineering. He was martyred by an Israeli bombing that directly targeted him on December 13.
Ibrahim Al-Astal, Dean of the Faculty of Education at the Islamic University
Professor of curricula and teaching methods of mathematics. He obtained his doctorate degree in 1996. He presented several training courses at Al Ain University and Ajman University of Science and Technology in the UAE.
He was editor-in-chief of the Islamic University Journal for Educational and Psychological Studies, and also published a number of research papers in Arabic and English in local and international journals. He held the Deanship of Education at the Islamic University in 2019 until the date of his martyrdom in an Israeli bombing on October 23, 2023.
Tayseer Ibrahim, Dean of the Faculty of Sharia and Law at the Islamic University
He obtained a doctorate in jurisprudence and its principles from the International Islamic University in Malaysia in 2012. He held several academic positions at the Islamic University, reaching the deanship of the Faculty of Sharia and Law in 2021 until the date of his martyrdom along with a number of his family members on October 17, 2023.
Saeed Al-Badda, President of the University College of Applied Sciences
He specialized in electrical engineering and served as president of the University College of Applied Sciences until he and a number of his family members were martyred in a bombing that targeted his home on December 31, 2023.
Rifaat Al-Arair, a faculty member in English Literature at the Islamic University
He was martyred last December 8 in an Israeli bombing of an apartment where he and his family were sheltering, weeks after he received death threats online and by phone from Israeli accounts, according to what the Euro-Mediterranean Observatory reported from eyewitnesses and family accounts.
The martyrdom of Al-Arair shocked his students and colleagues, as a large segment of people mourned him on social media, re-publishing his tweets and video clips describing the harsh reality in besieged Gaza.
Second: Doctors
According to the latest statistics from the Government Information Office, about 885 Palestinian medical personnel were martyred during the war of extermination in Gaza, the most prominent of whom were monitored as follows:
Medhat Mohesen, Director of Al-Wafa Hospital for the Elderly
He was martyred in an Israeli bombing that targeted the hospital, which also injured a number of other doctors on November 18, 2023.
In 2020, he served as a member of the Emergency Committee for Gaza City, and Assistant Undersecretary at the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Hossam Hamada, Director of the Pathology Department at Al-Shifa Medical Complex
Director of the Department of Pathology (Pathology) at Al-Shifa Complex. He also worked as a lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar and Islamic Universities.
He died as a result of being hit by an Israeli missile in his residential area near the Ansar roundabout, west of Gaza City, where he was evacuating his family from the area to search for a safer place at the time. His body was found on January 23 of last year.
Muhammad Nimr Qazat, Consultant Pediatric and General Surgery
He received his university and postgraduate education in Egypt and Britain. He is considered one of the founders of the Pediatric Surgery Department at Al-Shifa Medical Complex, and held several positions, including Head of the Pediatric Surgery Department at Al-Shifa Hospital. He was martyred along with his son Youssef, a dentist, in an Israeli raid on the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on May 12.
Iyad Al-Rantisi, gynecologist
He previously served as head of the maternity department at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip. He was martyred under torture on November 17, a week after his arrest during the storming of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip.
Hammam Al-Louh, kidney disease and transplant specialist
He specializes in internal diseases and kidney diseases, and obtained first place in the Jordanian and Arab Boards. He refused to move to the southern Gaza Strip and was killed in an Israeli raid that targeted his home in Gaza City on November 12.
Omar Farwana, gynecologist
He worked as an assistant professor at the College of Human Medicine at the Islamic University, then served as dean of the college. He was martyred along with his wife, children, and grandchildren in an Israeli raid on his home in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza, on October 15, 2023.
Raafat Labad, Director of Al-Batinah Hospital, Al-Shifa Complex
He served as director of Sheikh Hamad Hospital for Rehabilitation and Prosthetics in Gaza, and assumed responsibility for training doctors at the Indonesian Hospital. He was martyred in an Israeli raid on November 18.
Third: Information technology experts
The Euro-Mediterranean Observatory documented the systematic targeting of dozens of programmers, information technology experts, and workers in this vital sector, in addition to the destruction of their company headquarters, in the context of genocide. The most prominent of them were as follows:
Haitham Al-Nabahin, software engineer
One of the most skilled experts in the field of software engineering, he was killed along with his wife in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house to which they had fled on March 14, 2024.
Tariq Thabet, Director of UCAS Technology Incubator Programs
It is an incubator affiliated with the University College of Gaza. Thabet had graduated from the American Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program. He was martyred, along with a number of his family members, in an Israeli bombing of his house on October 31, 2023.
Baraa Al-Saqqa, software engineer
Al-Saqqa is the founder of DITS and specializes in programming websites and smartphone applications. He worked in many companies specialized in the field, including a technical director at CTO. He was active in providing programming courses and workshops. Competent work. He was martyred with his wife, who was pregnant with their first child, in an Israeli bombing on November 21.
A number of other information technology experts were also martyred, including Hamad Al-Otal on October 26, 2023, Hamza Al-Shami on November 2, Obaida Khater on December 20, Anas Al-Sheikh on the 9th of the same month, and Abdul Rahman Hamada in 15 March last.
