Omar Ferwana

Omar Saleh Omar Ferwana (عمر فروانة; 7 February 1956 – 15 October 2023) was a Palestinian gynaecologist and researcher. He worked as a dean and assistant professor at Islamic University of Gaza, Faculty of Medicine.

Biography
Ferwana was born in Sabra, Gaza on 7 February 1956. He was educated at Cairo University, Faculty of Medicine, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery in 1982, then he specialized in obstetrics and gynecology. He obtained his PhD in physiology from University of Leeds. He was a member of the board of directors of the Patient's Friends Society-Gaza.

On 17 December 1992, he was expelled by Israel along with 414 other leading figures of Hamas and Islamic Jihad to Marj al-Zohour in southern Lebanon, beyond the Israeli Security Zone. Ferwana was there in charge of the medical committee, and he ran the clinic there.

It is noteworthy that his father is the Palestinian poet Saleh Omar Ferwana (صالح عمر فراونة; 1936 – 10 March 2013). He published a diwan entitled “Mufradāt Filasṭīnīyah” (مفردات فلسطينية) in 2004, and the second part in 2011.

On 15 October 2023, he, his wife, children, and grandchildren were killed during an airstrike attack fired by Israeli Air Force on his home located in Tel al-Hawa, southwest of Gaza City, during the Israeli response to Hamas attack on Israel.