Israeli forces kidnap Gaza nurse two months after abducting her doctor father

Israeli special forces abducted a Palestinian nurse while working at a medical facility in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, just months after her prominent doctor father Marwan al-Hams was captured.

According to local sources citing family, Tasneem al-Hams was working in al-Mawasi, a so-called Israeli-designated "safe zone", when Israeli forces captured her while the driver of their ambulance was wounded in front of a Red Cross field hospital.

The Palestinian nurse faces the same fate as her father, who is the director of Abu Youssef al-Najjar Hospital and spokesperson for the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza.

On 21 July, Marwan al-Hams, who also oversees field hospitals in the Gaza Strip, was on his way to visit the Red Cross facility in northern Rafah when undercover Israeli soldiers opened fire, killing one person and wounding another civilian, before abducting him.

The person killed was a local journalist who had been conducting an interview with the well-known doctor at the time of the attack.

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