Published : 17-06-2022
Nine years on, the family of Palestinian surgeon Ahmad AlHasan continue to remember his death with deep sorrow.
Ahmad was killed on June 17, 2013. His brother said he was killed in an air strike launched by the Syrian regime on Palestine Hospital, in Yarmouk Camp for Palestinian refugees, south of Damascus.
Dr Ahmed Nawaf al-Hassan, a surgeon at the Palestine Hospital, died when a rocket fired by government forces struck the hospital. A PRCS-S volunteer who witnessed his killing told Amnesty International: “He died instantly when a rocket fell at the front door of the hospital (about 12m away) and he was sprayed with shrapnel, one piece of which pierced his heart.”
Ahmad’s family hails from Hittin village, in Tiberias, in occupied Palestine. He studied at Ibn Khaldoune School in Damascus before he joined the Faculty of Human Medicine in Aleppo in 2002 and graduated in 2008.
The victim is the father of two twins Teym and Tala. When he died they were fifteen-months old.
The long and violent siege on Yarmouk Camp had a devastating effect on the people who remained in Yarmouk, according to health workers inside the area, local human rights activists and residents with whom AGPS had been in contact. Medical facilities in particular had been badly hit and medical personnel had suffered both through being targeted as well as through indiscriminate attacks and the collective punishment of the siege.
Medical workers were killed and injured in attacks by government forces on Yarmouk during the siege. Some government attacks, including aerial bombing and tank or
artillery shelling, had been indiscriminate, carried out with gross disregard for the civilian population, while others appeared to deliberately target civilian objects, such as hospitals and medical centres.
Nine years on, the family of Palestinian surgeon Ahmad AlHasan continue to remember his death with deep sorrow.
Ahmad was killed on June 17, 2013. His brother said he was killed in an air strike launched by the Syrian regime on Palestine Hospital, in Yarmouk Camp for Palestinian refugees, south of Damascus.
Dr Ahmed Nawaf al-Hassan, a surgeon at the Palestine Hospital, died when a rocket fired by government forces struck the hospital. A PRCS-S volunteer who witnessed his killing told Amnesty International: “He died instantly when a rocket fell at the front door of the hospital (about 12m away) and he was sprayed with shrapnel, one piece of which pierced his heart.”
Ahmad’s family hails from Hittin village, in Tiberias, in occupied Palestine. He studied at Ibn Khaldoune School in Damascus before he joined the Faculty of Human Medicine in Aleppo in 2002 and graduated in 2008.
The victim is the father of two twins Teym and Tala. When he died they were fifteen-months old.
The long and violent siege on Yarmouk Camp had a devastating effect on the people who remained in Yarmouk, according to health workers inside the area, local human rights activists and residents with whom AGPS had been in contact. Medical facilities in particular had been badly hit and medical personnel had suffered both through being targeted as well as through indiscriminate attacks and the collective punishment of the siege.
Medical workers were killed and injured in attacks by government forces on Yarmouk during the siege. Some government attacks, including aerial bombing and tank or
artillery shelling, had been indiscriminate, carried out with gross disregard for the civilian population, while others appeared to deliberately target civilian objects, such as hospitals and medical centres.
