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Iyad Ahmed Mohammed al-Rantisi was born in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on February 5, 1971, to a Palestinian refugee family from the depopulated village of Yibna in the Gaza district, which was occupied in 1948. He is married and has two sons and two daughters. He received his primary and secondary education in Jabalia schools, graduating with a high school diploma in the sciences. He earned a bachelor's degree in medicine from Vitebsk State Medical University in Belarus, specializing in obstetrics and gynecology in 1998.
He worked as a general practitioner at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, and was appointed director of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department at the same hospital. He also worked at Friends of the Patient Hospital in Gaza City, where he organized scientific seminars for resident physicians and performed hundreds of surgical operations, including difficult and complex operations under the conditions of the siege and the lack of medical resources. He was described in his professional circle as a humble and dedicated doctor who combined scientific management with practical effort.
Rantisi continued his work at Kamal Adwan Hospital after the outbreak of the genocidal war on the Gaza Strip in October 2023. He spent long hours working, sometimes up to 24 hours straight, and performed emergency surgeries despite the continuous bombing and shortage of medicines and equipment. He performed his last delivery at the Friends of the Patient Hospital in Gaza an hour before his arrest.
The Israeli occupation forces detained and arrested Rantisi at the Netzarim checkpoint on Salah al-Din Street, east of Gaza City, on November 10, 2023, after a tight siege of the hospital and orders from the occupation forces to evacuate it and head south. Rantisi was with his family at the time, wearing his medical scrubs. The occupation forces transferred him to the Shikma interrogation center in Ashkelon Prison in southern Palestine, a center belonging to the Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet). He remained there for a full week, during which he was subjected to very harsh interrogation, until he died on November 17, 2023. Human rights and media reports described his death as a result of torture and ill-treatment. Testimonies from released prisoners indicated that he was subjected to electric shocks, severe beatings to the head, sleep and food deprivation, and forced confessions. The Israeli Magistrate's Court in Ashkelon issued a gag order prohibiting publication of his case for six months, including his name and the details of his death, which kept his fate shrouded in mystery. For months, his family did not know about his martyrdom until June 18, 2024, when the Israeli media announced his death in an interrogation center belonging to the occupation.
Rantisi was the second doctor from Gaza to die under torture in Israeli prisons, after Dr. Adnan al-Barsh. Human rights organizations and the United Nations documented his death as part of a broader policy targeting Palestinian medical personnel, and the Israeli authorities have not returned his body to his family.
Dr. Iyad Al-Rantisi left a prominent professional and humanitarian legacy. His name is associated with the health sector in northern Gaza, and he remains present in memory as a doctor, manager, consultant to his colleagues, a reference in his specialty, and a sacrificer for his patients. He always used to say, “The best of you to people are those who are most beneficial to people.”
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