Soroka Medical Center doctor succumbs to wounds sustained in shooting earlier this month

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15 October 2025, 7:13 pm

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A 27-year-old doctor at Soroka Medical Center has died of his wounds after gunmen opened fire on him earlier this month, his employer announces.

Dr. Ziad Abu Abed had been working as a physiatrist in the southern hospital up until the October 5 ambush, in which several attackers fired a burst of bullets at him while in his car near his home in Rahat.

Police said the shooting was related to a longstanding blood feud in the Bedouin city that has claimed three lives since 2013. Officers arrested five suspects who tried to flee the scene of the attack.

“The medical center’s management and staff share in the family’s deep sorrow and express profound shock at the difficult incident,” says Soroka Medical Center in a statement.