6/19/2024–|Last updated: 6/19/202406:35 PM (Mecca time)
“It is with great pride and honor that I bring to you the news of the martyrdom of Habib Al-Fouad, my father.” With these poignant words, the daughter of Dr. Iyad Al-Rantisi announced the martyrdom of her father, head of the maternity department at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip, inside Israeli prisons, a week after his arrest last November.
Yesterday, Tuesday, medical sources revealed to Tel Aviv Tribune the martyrdom of Dr. Al-Rantisi, more than a month and a half after it was revealed that the prominent Palestinian doctor, Adnan Al-Barsh, had been martyred in the occupation prisons.
Israeli media also reported that Dr. Rantisi was martyred at an Israeli investigation center affiliated with the Internal Security Service (Shin Bet) in the city of Ashkelon.
The Shin Bet claimed that this 53-year-old doctor was accused of “taking hostages,” while no official statement was issued by the Israeli army or the Shin Bet regarding Rantissi’s death.
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that the Magistrate Court in the city of Ashkelon issued – following the death of Al-Rantisi – an order prohibiting the publication of any details about the case for a period of 6 months, and its validity expired last May.
It is with great pride that I bring to you the news of the martyrdom of Habib Al-Fouad, my father, Dr. Iyad Al-Rantisi..💔🫂 pic.twitter.com/LQZDQ18zXy
– Dina (@dina_alrantisi) June 18, 2024
Expressions of anger topped social media platforms after the news of Dr. Al-Rantisi’s martyrdom was published, and one of them said, “The doctor is kidnapped from among his patients and disappeared in prisons without charges.”
Dr. Adnan Al-Barash and today Iyad Al-Rantisi, the crime is repeated with the same details and international laws have relegated in the presence of our blood to the position of silent and even supportive.
The doctor is kidnapped from among his patients and disappeared in prison without charges. Then a brief piece of news is issued informing the world without shame or fear that he has risen under the Zionist torture machine. pic.twitter.com/v9gTbys8Mg– Al-Bilad (@elbilad48) June 18, 2024
Israel carries out the deliberate execution and killing of every prisoner inside its prisons, especially the prisoners of Gaza
There is a silent genocide taking place among them, and the vast majority do not realize the extent of the torture to which our prisoners are subjected
Let us also not forget the threats of rape and sexual assault against female Palestinian prisonersThey killed Dr. Iyad Rantissi and Dr.…
– Sorita 𓂆 (@Sorita921) June 19, 2024
Some commentators urged senior Arab doctors to take action at the international level so that the world’s doctors could mobilize “in support of their heroic colleagues.”
#Moncef_Marzouki
The doctor rose #Iyad_Rantisi The Palestinian doctor is under torture
And before him, the doctor rose #Adnan_Al-Barsh Palestinian surgeon under bombardment
And in prisons #Israel Hundreds of Palestinian doctors are imprisoned
May God have mercy on the two martyrs and all the victims of the barbaric war waged by the most moral army in the world against doctors… pic.twitter.com/b7oYJqIUUv– Moncef Marzouki – Moncef Marzouki (@MMarzouki01) June 19, 2024
Today, there was a heinous and extremely heinous murder committed against another Palestinian doctor in the occupation prisons.
“Israel” killed the doctor, Professor Iyad Al-Rantisi, for no apparent fault, except that he was working at Al-Awda Hospital in the north.
I do not know what is the secret of the silence from the doctors of Ramallah and inside and around it. All that the Palestinian doctor asks for…
– Ali Abo Rezeg (@ARezeg) June 18, 2024
Blue Space Facebook activists asked why the Israeli army concealed the death of Dr. Al-Rantisi for all these months, when he was arrested last November.
For its part, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) condemned “the crime of assassinating Doctor Rantisi in Zionist detention centers” and called on the international community to take action to uncover the fate of detainees who were kidnapped by the occupation from hospitals and shelter centers.
Urgent | Hamas: The assassination of doctor Iyad Rantissi in Zionist detention centers is confirmation of the criminality of the fascist entity and its criminal behavior.
We call on the international community to take action to reveal the fate of detainees who were kidnapped by the occupation from hospitals and shelter centers pic.twitter.com/DyCr1DRRDY– Tel Aviv Tribune Palestine (@AJA_Palestine) June 19, 2024
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza with absolute American support, leaving more than 122,000 Palestinians dead or wounded, which has placed Israel in international isolation and led to its prosecution before the International Court of Justice.
