US EditionA Moment of Hope in Gaza
The 'Humanity Cohort' of 168 doctors earned Palestinian Board certifications amid war destruction, honoring fallen health workers and defying attacks on Gaza’s medical system.
- On Thursday, December 25, 2025, 168 Palestinian doctors called the Humanity Cohort received advanced Palestinian Board certifications in front of Al‑Shifa Medical Complex, Gaza City’s destroyed facade.
- WHO assessments show Al‑Shifa was reduced to `an empty shell with human graves` after November 2023 and March 2024 invasions, illustrating catastrophic damage to Gaza's healthcare system.
- Completing exams, the graduates endured nonstop work inside Gaza hospitals during two years of starvation, displacement and genocide, with some injured or arrested and killed healthcare workers commemorated by empty chairs.
- Healthcare capacity is severely reduced, with only 18 partially functional hospitals of Gaza's 36 and more than 18,500 critically ill patients, including 4,000 children, needing inaccessible evacuation.
- Gaza Health Ministry official Youssef Abu al‑Reish called the ceremony graduation from `the womb of suffering, under bombardment, among rubble and rivers of blood`, while Dr Mohammed Abu Salmiya said Israel failed to destroy Palestine's medical human capital.
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A Moment of Hope in Gaza
On Thursday, December 25th, 2025, during Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians, 168 students graduated from medical school, in Gaza. Wearing their white coats, they stood in front of the ruined façade of what was formerly Gaza’s largest hospital, the Al-Shifa Medical Complex. As a backdrop, the destroyed building realistically conveys…
168 Gaza doctors graduate even as Israel reduced hospitals to rubble
A cohort of 168 Palestinian doctors received advanced medical certifications in Gaza amid the ruins of al-Shifa Medical Complex, once the territory’s largest hospital, Al Jazeera reported Friday.
JFJFPPalestinian doctors graduate in ruins of Gaza’s destroyed al-Shifa Hospital – JFJFP
Doctors attend a graduation ceremony at al-Shifa Hospital, honouring 168 physicians who received specialist certificates, 25 December 2025 Faisal Ali and News Agencies report in Al Jazeera on 26 December 2025: A cohort of 168 Palestinian doctors have received their advanced medical certifications in Gaza amid the rubble of what was once the Palestinian territory’s largest hospital. The graduation took place in front of the destroyed facade of th…
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