On 12 December, just over a month before a ceasefire went into imperfect effect in Gaza, the Israeli military killed Dr. Said Jouda, 68, while he was traveling from Kamal Adwan Hospital to Al-Awda Hospital to perform surgery.
Accounts differ about whether it was an Israeli tank, an Israeli sniper or a quadcopter, but his killing brought to 1,057, the number of health workers killed in Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza since October 2023, according to figures from the Gaza health ministry.
What is not in doubt is Jouda’s dedication and heroism.
Jouda could have evacuated to the south when Israel ordered all residents to leave northern Gaza at the outset of its all-out assault there in early October 2024.
By early November, at least 100,000 people, including doctors, had fled south amid a ferocious Israeli attack that has left the north a wasteland.
Jouda could have left. ….more
