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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Saeed Al-Zubdah is a Palestinian electrical engineer and academic who was the head of the University College of Applied Sciences in Gaza until he was killed along with several members of his family during an Israeli air strike on his home on December 31, 2023.
His life
Saeed Anwar Al-Zebda was born in the Al-Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City in the Gaza Strip , Palestine . He studied communications engineering, then obtained his master's and doctorate degrees in electronic communications engineering and computer engineering from the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom .
His career
Saeed Al-Zubdah was appointed after graduating from the University College of Applied Sciences in Gaza , and he rose through the ranks at the college, managing development programs, then being appointed head of the UCAS Technology Incubator, then assistant to the college president for development and advancement affairs, before the college’s Board of Trustees announced his appointment as the new president of the University College of Applied Sciences, succeeding Rafat Naim Rustum.
Assassinate him
On December 31, 2023, Israeli forces launched an airstrike on the Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City, bombing a number of buildings and homes, including the home of Saeed al-Zebda, who was killed along with several members of his family as a result of the Israeli airstrike. Saeed al-Zebda was not the only Palestinian academic killed by Israeli forces during the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip following Operation Flood of al-Aqsa ; Sufyan Tayeh, the president of the Islamic University in Gaza, was killed along with his entire family in the massacre committed by the Israeli army in the al-Faluja area in the town of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip.
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