Issam Abuanza

Issam Abuanza is the former Islamic State health minister of the Islamic State Health Service.^[1] A Palestinian with British citizenship,^[2] he is the first practicing National Health Service doctor known to have joined the Islamic State group.^[3] Concerning the death of Jordanian pilot Muath Al-Kasasbeh, he stated:^[4]

I would've liked for them to burn him extremely slowly and I could treat him so we could torch him once more

Issam Abuanza
Islamic State health minister
Personal details
Citizenship	United Kingdom
Military service
Allegiance	Islamic State

Abuanza, then living in Sheffield with a wife and two children, travelled to Syria alone in July 2014.^[5]