Dr. Marwan al-Sultan, director of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza and one of the territory’s last cardiologists, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on his apartment in Tal al-Hawa on Wednesday, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
According to the Hamas-run civil defence agency, the attack also killed Marwan’s wife, sister, daughter, and son-in-law.
His surviving daughter, Lubna al-Sultan, said the missile hit the room her father was in. “A missile was dropped on his room exactly, on his place, on him precisely. All the rooms were fine except for his,” Lubna said.
Dr. al-Sultan’s son, Ahmad, said the family had been sheltering in an apartment alongside five other displaced families when the bomb struck. “My father was just a doctor, just a human caring for patients,” he told NBC News.
Mourners gathered to grieve and pray over the body of Dr Marwan al-Sultan, who was reportedly killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza city, according to a hospital statement. pic.twitter.com/BDY7jvxBcd
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it targeted a “key Hamas terrorist” in Gaza City and is reviewing reports that civilians were harmed.
“The IDF regrets any harm to uninvolved individuals and operates to mitigate harm to them as much as possible,” a statement read.
Marwan is the 70th health worker killed in Israeli attacks in the past 50 days, according to Healthcare Workers Watch (HWW).
The organization described his death as “a catastrophic loss” for Gaza’s medical sector.
According to the group, Marwan served as a Consultant in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at Al-Shifa Medical Complex and was one of the only two remaining heart specialists in Gaza. He was also an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the Islamic University of Gaza.
“During the past 21 months, Dr. Marwan worked tirelessly, continuing to care for patients despite repeated attacks on the hospitals where he was working and the crippling shortage of medical supplies,” HWW said. “His killing marks a major loss for medical education in Gaza.”
The United Nations estimates that over 1,400 health workers have been killed in Gaza since October 2023.
