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Dr Basem Naim, a member of Hamas, was minister of youth and sports in the Palestinian national unity government between March and June 2007, also served as minister of health in the government formed by Hamas in 2006.
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Naim was born in 1963 in Beit Hanoun, Gaza. He holds a degree in medicine and a PhD in surgery and works at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. He is head of the medical bloc of Hamas. Naim is secretary of the Palestinian Medical Forum Institute. His eldest son was a member of the Izzedin Qassam Brigades and was killed at the age of 17 during an Israeli army incursion in the Shujaia Quarter, east of Gaza.
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