Who is the doctor Hazem Al-Jolani, who was executed by Israel today at the gates of Al-Aqsa Mosque?

Jerusalem - The

Israeli occupation police executed this Friday evening, the Jerusalemite doctor Hazem Al-Jolani, by shooting him near the Majlis Gate (one of the doors of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque) in the city of Jerusalem.

A statement by the occupation police said that they shot at a Palestinian who tried to carry out a stabbing attack near Al-Aqsa Mosque, and one of its members was wounded in the attack.

The footage of the circulating doctor shows al-Julani lying on the ground in a state of bleeding at the scene of the accident, without providing him with an ambulance, while an Israeli police officer put his foot on his back.

After his death was announced, the occupation forces stormed Al-Julani's house in the town of Shuafat (north of occupied Jerusalem) and arrested his two brothers and two of his sons.

Al-Jazeera Net correspondent in Jerusalem, Aseel Al-Jundi, had previously interviewed the 51-year-old doctor, in which he talked about his experience in establishing a college of complementary medicine for Palestinian students in Jerusalem, after he faced racism while studying at the Israeli Tel Aviv University.

The "Ryan College of Complementary Medicine" included 4 major specialties, and it was opened by Doctor Hazem Al-Julani after he faced many difficulties while studying natural and Chinese medicine at the Israeli Tel Aviv University in 1994, most notably the looks of hatred that the Israeli students could not hide towards him being the only Palestinian in that specialty at the time. As mentioned.

Al-Julani spoke about his lack of mastery of the Hebrew language, which was the first obstacle during his studies, "but after overcoming it, I found that it is not possible to get rid of the students' dealing with me as a different person because I am a Palestinian. Scientifically specialized in complementary medicine, and we dispense with them?”

A picture taken by Al-Jazeera Net of the martyr, Doctor Hazem Al-Jolani in his clinic (Al-Jazeera)

design success

Despite the deterioration of the economic situation of his family due to the death of his father and the dependence of his brothers on him because he is the eldest among them, Al-Julani was determined to realize his dream of opening the college, which was born in 2006, and began teaching both Chinese and natural medicine, in addition to specializing in massage and skin treatment.

The college started with only two rooms, and gradually expanded until it moved to an ancient building that was established 100 years ago on Salah El-Din Al-Ayyubi Street (the most vibrant street in the center of Jerusalem).

Rayan is the only college in East Jerusalem that is recognized by all official authorities after obtaining licenses from the concerned authorities.

Al-Julani explained - in his meeting - that he rejects the term "alternative medicine", and insists on "complementary medicine" because it is a complement to Western medicine and not a substitute for it, "because we are not a substitute for surgical operations or medicines, and in some cases when a patient is prevented from a particular medicine due to an allergy to one of its components." We can give him an alternative medicine, but we cannot, for example, replace the blood pressure medicine - which the patient is taking - with another."

Al-Julani touched on the impossibility of completely treating all diseases through complementary medicine, especially in sick cases that require surgical intervention, stressing at the same time the importance of this type of medicine’s contribution to relieving patients, especially through Chinese acupuncture.

Al-Julani established the first medical school in Jerusalem after he faced Israeli racism during his studies at Tel Aviv University (Al-Jazeera)

Create a herbal pharmacy

The College of the Martyr Physician relied on treatment with medicinal herbs mainly imported from China, and the college students use them in their educational courses to probe the depths of their components and to practice their preparation accurately.

Al-Julani spoke at the time about the activity of the college in drying and preserving herbs, in addition to preparing it for treatment with accurate proportions, especially when mixing more than one type of herbs.

This is what prompted him to open a natural pharmacy that provides patients with medicinal herbs correctly, after the Palestinians relied for many years on the random herbs of Attar, he said.