WASHINGTON D.C., October 11, 2024 – We are deeply saddened to announce the tragic news that on Wednesday, October 9th, Israeli forces targeted and killed Dr. Soma Baroud while she was in a taxi in Khan Younis, Gaza. Dr. Baroud was the sister of renowned author and journalist Dr. Ramzy Baroud and the aunt of our colleague, Digital Media Associate Zarefah Baroud.

Dr. Baroud was a prominent Obstetrician-Gynecologist in Gaza who dedicated herself to serving women and those in need across the Strip. Dr. Baroud worked at the now-destroyed Al-Shifa and Nasser Hospitals and ran her own medical clinic in Al-Qarara prior to the genocide. Even prior to the genocide, Dr. Baroud was compelled by her urge to help others and did not charge the poor, doing what she could to heal those victimized by occupation and genocide.

Dr. Baroud now joins her husband, Dr. Hamdi Baroud, who was killed by Israeli forces in January of this year while in Khan Younis. Prior to her passing, Dr. Baroud found herself displaced, like 1.9 million other Palestinians in Gaza, in the last months of her life before she was killed by a US-backed Israeli airstrike on her taxi.

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