Medhat Abbas is a Palestinian health official who has served as director-general of the
Gaza Health Ministry
The Gaza Health Ministry is the government agency responsible for healthcare and medical services in the Gaza Strip of the Palestinian territories. It operates under the administration of the Hamas authority that has run the territory since 200 ...
since at least January 2023, including during the
2023 Israel–Hamas war
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The ongoing armed conflict between Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups and Israel military forces began on 7 October 2023, 50 years after the start of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Hamas's coordinated surprise offensive, codenamed "Al-Aqsa Fl ...
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Career
Since
Hamas' takeover of Gaza in 2007, Abbas has been an official in the Gaza Health Ministry. As director of the ministry's crisis unit, Abbas told ''
The BMJ
''The BMJ'' is a weekly peer-reviewed medical trade journal, published by the trade union the British Medical Association (BMA). ''The BMJ'' has editorial freedom from the BMA. It is one of the world's oldest general medical journals. Origi ...
'' that Hamas had fired medical officials for "managerial, financial, and moral corruption," rather than politics.
Abbas headed the Gaza Health Ministry's international cooperation department during the
2008-2009 Gaza War. Abbas later was director-general of
Al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza's main hospital, during the
2012 Israeli operation in the Gaza Strip
In November 2012, the Israel Defense Forces launched Operation Pillar of Defense ( he, עַמּוּד עָנָן, ''ʿAmúd ʿAnán'', literally: "Pillar of Cloud") which was an eight-day campaign in the Hamas-governed Gaza Strip, which bega ...
and of Al-Aqsa Hospital in
Deir al-Balah during the
2014 Gaza War
The 2014 Gaza War, also known as Operation Protective Edge ( he, מִבְצָע צוּק אֵיתָן, translit=Miv'tza Tzuk Eitan, ),
was a military operation launched by Israel on 8 July 2014 in the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian territory that h ...
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References
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People from the Gaza Strip
Living people