Medhat Abbas

Medhat Abbas (Arabic: مدحت عباس, romanized: Midḥat ʿAbbās) is a Palestinian doctor and the director-general for the Palestinian Ministry of Health of Gaza, serving in this position since January 2023.

Medhat Abbas
مدحت عباس
Director-General for the Gaza Health Ministry
Incumbent
Assumed office January 2023

Career

He was the chair of the international cooperation department for Gaza's health ministry during the 2008–2009 Gaza war.^[1] Then he went on to become director-general for both Al-Shifa Hospital and Al-Aqsa Hospital in the Gaza Strip.^[2] First, he assumed the position at Al-Shifa during the 2012 Gaza War,^[3] and later assuming the same position at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah during the 2014 Gaza War.^[4]

During the 2023 Gaza war, Abbas implicated Israel in delaying the delivery of several X-ray machines into hospitals in Gaza, causing delays in treating "thousands of patients".^[1]