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A London University- and Harvard-trained Palestinian doctor who was
born and raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and who
has devoted his life to medicine and reconciliation between Israelis
and Palestinians' (New York Times), Abuelaish is an infertility
specialist who lives in Gaza but works in Israel. On the strip of land
he calls home (where 1. 5 million Gazan refugees are crammed into a
few square miles) the Gaza doctor has been crossing the lines in the
sand that divide Israelis and Palestinians for most of his life - as a
physician who treats patients on both sides of the line, as a
humanitarian who sees the need for improved health and education for
women as the way forward in the Middle East. And, most recently, as
the father whose three daughters were killed by Israeli shells on 16
January 2009, during Israel's incursion into the Gaza Strip. It was
his response to this tragedy that made news and won him humanitarian
awards around the world. Instead of seeking revenge or sinking into
hatred, Izzeldin Abuelaish called for the people in the region to
start talking to each other. His deepest hope is that his daughters
will be the last sacrifice on the road to peace between Palestinians
and Israelis'.
i> is a Palestinian doctor's inspiring account of his extraordinary
life, growing up in poverty but determined to treat his patients in Gaza
and Israel regardless of their ethnic origin. <Heart-breaking,
hopeful and horrifying,
I Shall Not Hate<
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A London University- and Harvard-trained Palestinian doctor who
was born and raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip
and who has devoted his life to medicine and reconciliation
between Israelis and Palestinians' (New York Times),
Abuelaish is an infertility specialist who lives in Gaza but works
in Israel. On the strip of land he calls home (where 1. 5 million
Gazan refugees are crammed into a few square miles) the Gaza
doctor has been crossing the lines in the sand that divide
Israelis and Palestinians for most of his life - as a physician
who treats patients on both sides of the line, as a humanitarian
who sees the need for improved health and education for women as
the way forward in the Middle East. And, most recently, as the
father whose three daughters were killed by Israeli shells on 16
January 2009, during Israel's incursion into the Gaza Strip. It
was his response to this tragedy that made news and won him
humanitarian awards around the world. Instead of seeking revenge
or sinking into hatred, Izzeldin Abuelaish called for the people
in the region to start talking to each other. His deepest hope is
that his daughters will be the last sacrifice on the road to peace
between Palestinians and Israelis'.
i> is a Palestinian
doctor's inspiring account of his extraordinary life, growing up in
poverty but determined to treat his patients in Gaza and Israel
regardless of their ethnic origin. <Heart-breaking, hopeful
and horrifying, I Shall Not Hate<
