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CROSSFIREARABIA – This is what the Israeli army did to Professor Khamis Elessi, it turned him into a displaced refugee inside his hometown in Gaza city
Dr Elessi is one of Gaza’s top surgeon teaching at the Faculty of Medicine in the Islamic University of Gaza since 2008. He was head of the EBM (evidence-based medicine, and neuroscience and neuro-rehabilitation at the University.
His name has been trending on the social media because of Israel’s onslaught on Gaza and its destruction of the Gaza Strip with different images.
Dr Elessi is active on the social media. He has an account on the X platform frequently posting on different aspects of his work and the on-going war on Gaza.
Like hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Gaza, he’s being pursued by Israel forced to move from place to place.
One has to only search his name on the internet to learn how his research has contributed to humanity with his name appearing on the website of Cambridge University in the UK.
Andy Worthington, a British journalist wrote: Like all of Gaza’s 2 million plus civilians Professor Khamis Elessi has been reduce to medieval destitution and constant risk of death
Worthington comments that western leaders don’t care about the credentials of professor Elessi and the fact that he is an international-renowned medical professor and a fellow at Cambridge University. “Like Israel, they regard being a Palestinian is a crime.”
Professor Khamis become the first professor of medicine in the whole of the Gaza Strip in 2021. Professor Shafi Ahmad wrote Dr Khamis is “one of the most inspirational people that I have ever met.”
His career soon started after he got his medical degree from the Far Eastern University in Manila in 1998, getting an MA in Southampton University in the UK, and did a stint at Tel Aviv University and Tel-hashomer Hospital in Israel.
