He wrapped it up by checking on patients with COVID-19 in the intensive care unit of al-Shifa hospital.
As head of internal medicine at the hospital, he was acutely aware that the panned-demic had not been paused. Rather, the number of coronavirus infections remained high even though Gaza was in the news internationally due to another emergency – a large-scale Israeli attack.
Not long after he got home from work, the building where Abu al-Ouf lived was bombed without warning.
He, his wife Reem and two of their children – Tawfiq and Tala – were killed. So were both his parents and many members of his extended family.
“Big shock”
Dr. Ghada Nasser was a colleague of Ayman Abu al-Ouf. She had accompanied him as he checked on patients that evening.