About Issam Abuanza
Issam Abuanza was a physician.
Issam Abuanza is the former Islamic State health minister of the Islamic State Health Service. A Palestinian with British citizenship, he is the first practicing National Health Service doctor known to have joined the Islamic State group. Concerning the death of Jordanian pilot Muath Al-Kasasbeh, he stated:
Abuanza, then living in Sheffield with a wife and two children, travelled to Syria alone in July 2014.
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