Izzeldin Abuelaish

Izzeldin Abuelaish () is a Canadian-Palestinian medical doctor and author. He was born in Gaza, and was a Palestinian doctor who worked in an Israeli hospital and has been active in promoting Israeli- Palestinian reconciliation. During the Gaza War in January 2009, his three daughters and a niece were killed by Israeli tank fire directed at his home. He had been calling in reports about the effect of the war by phone to a TV station. In his regularly scheduled report, in tears, he described their killing on-air, in a video that was widely circulated in Israel and around the world.

He moved to Canada where he was recruited by the University of Toronto and wrote a 2011 memoir entitled ''I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity''. He now resides in Toronto, Canada, with his remaining children. Provided by Wikipedia