Issam Abuanza

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Issam Abuanza is the former Islamic State health minister of the Islamic State Health Service. [1] A Palestinian with British citizenship, [2] he is the first practicing National Health Service doctor known to have joined the Islamic State group. [3] Concerning the death of Jordanian pilot Muath Al-Kasasbeh, he stated: [4]

I would've liked for them to burn him extremely slowly and I could treat him so we could torch him once more

Abuanza, then living in Sheffield with a wife and two children, travelled to Syria alone in July 2014. [5]

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