Ramzy Baroud

[2] Baroud was born in 1972[a] and raised in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, where from age 6, he attended an UNWRA Elementary School for Boys.

[3][4] The school was separated from Bureiji refugee camp by an Israeli military encampment, whose soldiers frequently handcuffed and detained students for displaying pictures of the Palestinian flag.

[5] He has recounted much of his family's history, within the wider historical context of the creation of the Palestinian refugee problem since 1948, in his memoir, My Father was a Freedom Fighter which has been highly praised by Richard Falk[d] and by Gilad Atzmon who called it a "heartbreaking" "masterpiece" which narrates "a tragic journey of a rural self-sufficient population that is driven into total dispossession, humiliation and absolute poverty".

[2] His elder sister Soma Baroud, who graduated in medicine at Aleppo and whose home in the Qarara area of Khan Younis was demolished by the Israeli army in September 2024, was assassinated the following month, on October 9, 2024, when an Israeli missile struck a taxi at the Bani Suhaila roundabout near Khan Younis, which was carrying her and some friends either to or from the hospital where she worked.

At the time of her death, she was living in what remained of a bombed building near her home She became the 166th doctor killed by Israel in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of hostilities.