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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Fadl Naeem Muhammad Naeem was born on October 12, 1965, in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip. He is married and has two sons and four daughters. He completed his primary education at Al-Falah School in the Zeitoun neighborhood and Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi School in the Rimal area. He completed his secondary education at Al-Karmel School, graduating in 1984. He earned a Bachelor of Medicine degree from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany in 1992 and specialized in medicine at Gazi University in Ankara, Turkey, between 1997 and 2003. He received his Turkish Board certification at the end of 2002.
He worked as a general practitioner in Germany between 1992 and 1995, and as a general practitioner within the UNRWA job creation project in 1996. That same year, he opened two clinics in the Zeitoun and Beit Hanoun areas. He also worked at Al-Wafa Rehabilitation Hospital, where he established an orthopedic surgery department. At the time, there was only one orthopedic hospital in the Gaza Strip, and he became its medical director. He also served as head of the orthopedic surgery department at the Arab National (Baptist) Hospital between 2003 and 2006. He participated in the founding of the Faculty of Medicine at the Islamic University in 2007, where he lectured and became its dean in 2015, a position he held for eight years. During this time, he established the Hayat Center for Emergency and Disaster Management Training, the first and only center in the Gaza Strip specializing in training for managing natural and man-made disasters.
He served as chairman of the center's board of directors and became the director of the Arab National (Baptist) Hospital during the genocidal war waged by the occupying power. Against the people of the Gaza Strip since October 2023.
In his early youth, Naeem joined the Islamic movement and was active in Islamic institutions and student associations while studying in Germany, including the Islamic Association of Palestine, which played a significant role in strengthening his connection to Islam and Palestine.
He participated in events supporting the First Intifada and worked to activate the role of the Palestinian and Arab communities in supporting the Palestinian people. He was also active in union activities within Palestine, where he headed the Student Action Committee, through which he founded the Palestinian Medical Forum (student branch).
He served as the head of the Doctors Syndicate from 2013 to 2023, remaining at his post despite the occupation targeting medical personnel, besieging and destroying hospitals, and committing massacres within them. He refused to leave the Gaza Strip, even though he held dual citizenship, stating to the media that remaining in Gaza and working in the health sector was a "religious, moral, national, and humanitarian duty that cannot be abandoned."
Naeem adopts Islamic thought and believes that the solution to the world’s problems will be through the tenets of Islamic thought. He also believes that Palestine is the right of the Palestinians and it is not permissible to give it up. Therefore, he supports the Palestinian resistance in general and everyone who resists the occupation and supports the Palestinian people. He believes that the Oslo Accords are “the greatest catastrophe and disaster that has befallen the Palestinian people,” as there was no document before Oslo that gave the occupier the right to the land, but the Oslo document gave the occupation more than two-thirds of the land of Palestine, and the agreement made “treason a point of view” and hindered the path to liberating Palestine.
Naeem suffered in his life, as he was prevented from working by the Palestinian Authority for three years after his return from Germany. He was arrested by the PA security services for three weeks as part of a campaign of arrests that targeted all opponents of the “Oslo” agreement. His son Anas, a paramedic, was martyred during the Israeli occupation’s aggression on the Gaza Strip, “Operation Cast Lead” (2008-2009). Naeem survived the “Baptist” massacre committed by the occupation on October 17, 2023, but he lost his mother in a bombing that targeted their displacement site, and three of his nieces and two grandchildren of the family were killed with her, and his brother and his daughters were moderately injured in that attack.
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