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Yahoo
02-07-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Director of north Gaza hospital killed alongside his family in Israeli strike on apartment
The director of one of north Gaza's largest hospitals was killed, along with his wife, daughter and sister, in an Israeli strike on their apartment, medical officials said Wednesday. Dr. Marwan Al-Sultan was the director of the Indonesian Hospital — the largest medical facility north of Gaza City and a critical lifeline for civilians in the area since the start of the nearly 21-month-long war in the territory. Diaa Al-Najjar, Al-Sultan's nephew, said his uncle never stopped working amid the war, even for a moment. "He kept resisting. Until the last second, the last moment," Al-Najjar told CBC News in Gaza City. "May God grant us patience and may God have mercy on our martyrs." The bodies of Al-Sultan and his family arrived at Shifa Hospital in pieces, according to Issam Nabhan, head of the nursing department at the Indonesian Hospital. "Gaza lost a great man and doctor," Nabhan said. "He never left the hospital one moment since the war began, and urged us to stay and provide humanitarian assistance. We don't know what he did to deserve getting killed." 1,500 health-care workers killed since 2023 The hospital was surrounded by Israeli troops in May, and evacuated alongside the other two primary hospitals in northern Gaza, after Israeli forces renewed their offensive in the region, saying at the time it was targeting Hamas infrastructure. Only 20 of Gaza's 36 hospitals were partially functioning in May, while others were forced to shutter as a result of damage from Israeli strikes. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and other aid groups have accused Israel of targeting hospitals and condemned the attacks and arrests of medical workers. Munir Al-Barash, general director of Gaza's Health Ministry, said the killing of Al-Sultan is the latest death in a long list of health-care workers targeted in the Gaza Strip. "Dr. Marwan Al-Sultan was under [Israeli army] siege in the Indonesian Hospital ... and he insisted on continuing operations and did not stop," Al-Barash told CBC News freelance videographer Mohamed El Saife on Wednesday outside Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. "The Israeli [military] is targeting medical figures." More than 1,500 healthcare workers have been killed in Gaza since October 2023, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. The ministry also said the death toll in Gaza passed the 57,000 mark Tuesday into Wednesday, after hospitals received 142 bodies overnight. In central Gaza, the Al-Awda Hospital said an Israeli strike Wednesday near the entrance of a school housing displaced Palestinians killed eight people, including three children and wounded 30 others. The hospital also said that Israel struck a group of Palestinians who gathered near the entrance of the hospital's administration building in Nuseirat refugee camp. The Israeli military said it was looking into the reports. The war began on Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking roughly 250 hostages. The war has left the coastal Palestinian territory in ruins, with much of the urban landscape flattened in the fighting. More than 90 per cent of Gaza's 2.3 million population has been displaced, often multiple times. And it has sparked a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, pushing hundreds of thousands of people toward hunger. On Tuesday, nearly 170 non-governmental organizations called for the dismantling of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF)-run aid system, saying it forces Palestinians to be caught between starvation and danger. The controversial U.S.- and Israel-backed group distributing aid in Gaza said on Wednesday it was planning to shut its branch in Geneva, after Swiss authorities launched proceedings to dissolve it. Since late May, when the GHF launched operations, at least 640 Palestinians have been killed in shootings and over 4,400 have been injured near GHF aid sites or on routes guarded by Israeli forces, according to Gaza's Health Ministry. WATCH | Charities call on dismantling of GHF aid system: The group has been distributing food and aid under a system which Israel says is intended to prevent aid from being diverted to militants. The Swiss Federal Supervisory Authority for Foundations (ESA) said in a notice published on Wednesday that it could order the dissolution of the GHF unless creditors come forward within 30 days. The latest deaths in Gaza come as Hamas said it was studying what U.S. President Donald Trump called a "final" ceasefire proposal for Gaza. Trump had said Tuesday that Israel had agreed to the conditions needed to finalize a 60-day ceasefire with Hamas after what he described as a "long and productive" meeting between his representatives and Israeli officials. In a statement, Hamas said it was studying new ceasefire offers it received from the mediators Egypt and Qatar but stressed it aimed to reach an agreement that would ensure an end to the war and an Israeli pullout from Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for the elimination of Hamas in his first public remarks since Trump's announcement. "There will not be a Hamas. There will not be a Hamastan. We're not going back to that. It's over," Netanyahu told a meeting hosted by the Trans-Israel pipeline.
Business Recorder
02-07-2025
- Health
- Business Recorder
Palestinians say director of key Gaza hospital killed in Israel strike
GAZA CITY: Palestinian officials and witnesses said on Wednesday that an Israeli strike killed the director of the Indonesian Hospital, a key clinic in the north of war-ravaged Gaza. Doctor Marwan Al-Sultan was killed in his apartment in Gaza City along with his wife, daughters and son-in-law, a relative who said he found them, Ahmed al-Sultan, told AFP. Gaza's civil defence agency said seven people were killed in the strike early Wednesday afternoon, including Sultan, his wife and at least three of his children. The doctor's body was taken to the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, where mourners gathered around it, AFP journalists reported. 'His face was unrecognisable, we could barely identify him,' the director of that facility, Mohammad Abu Salmiya, told AFP. Surviving daughter Lubna Sultan paid tribute too her father at the hospital. 'His whole life was devoted to medicine and the struggle to treat patients,' she told AFP. Gaza rescuers say at least 10 killed in Israel strikes 'There is no justification for targeting him and his martyrdom.' The killing drew condemnation from Hamas and the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory, where Israeli forces are battling to crush the Palestinian group. 'We strongly condemn this heinous crime against our medical personnel, and we ask Allah to grant him and his family mercy, after a long journey of service,' the ministry said. The Israeli army told AFP: 'The claim that as a result of the strike uninvolved civilians were harmed is being reviewed.' It said it 'struck a key terrorist from the Hamas terrorist organization in the area of Gaza City' on Wednesday. The Medical Emergency Rescue Committee, the group that runs the hospital, called the killing of the doctor and his family 'a flagrant violation of humanitarian principles and a grave act of injustice', saying those responsible 'must be held accountable'. An Israeli military operation targeted the Indonesian Hospital in mid-May, when the Gaza health ministry said the facility's electricity generators were deliberately destroyed.
Al-Ahram Weekly
02-07-2025
- Health
- Al-Ahram Weekly
Palestinians say director of key Gaza hospital killed in Israel strike - War on Gaza
Palestinian officials and witnesses said on Wednesday that an Israeli strike killed the director of the Indonesian Hospital, a key clinic in northern Gaza. Doctor Marwan Al-Sultan was killed in his apartment in Gaza City along with his wife, daughters, and son-in-law, a relative who said he found them, Ahmed al-Sultan, told AFP. The doctor's body was taken to the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, his face barely recognisable, the director of that facility, Mohammad Abu Salmiya, told AFP. The killing drew condemnation from Hamas and the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory. "We strongly condemn this heinous crime against our medical personnel, and we ask Allah to grant him and his family mercy, after a long journey of service," the ministry said. The Israeli army told AFP: "The claim that, as a result of the strike, uninvolved civilians were harmed is being reviewed." It said it "struck a key terrorist from the Hamas terrorist organisation in the area of Gaza City" on Wednesday. Follow us on: Facebook Instagram Whatsapp Short link:
Shafaq News
02-07-2025
- Health
- Shafaq News
Israel kills +140 Palestinians in 24h: Hospital director among victims
At least 142 Palestinians were killed, including the Indonesian Hospital director, and 487 wounded in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, the Palestinian Ministry of Health reported on Wednesday. Among the casualties, 39 people, mostly women and children, were killed and more than 210 injured while waiting for food aid, according to the ministry. As strikes continued to hit Gaza City, Jabalia, and Khan Younis, the director of Medical Relief in Gaza accused Israeli forces of 'targeting everything in the Strip, especially healthcare teams.' One strike killed Dr. Marwan Al-Sultan, director of the Indonesian Hospital, along with members of his family, when their Gaza City home was bombed. The Health Ministry accused Israel of 'deliberately targeting medical and humanitarian teams,' calling Al-Sultan's killing a 'heinous crime ' against those working to save lives. Since the war began in October 2023, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics has recorded 57,499 deaths, among them 18,000 children, 12,400 women, and 1,411 medical workers.
Days of Palestine
20-05-2025
- Health
- Days of Palestine
IOF Bombs Indonesian Hospital, Destroys Its Power Generators
DaysofPal- The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced today, Sunday, a complete power outage at the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, following a direct attack by Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on the hospital's electricity generators. In a press statement, the ministry said that 'targeting the generators means a complete halt to medical services inside the hospital,' describing this act as an assault on the lifeline of healthcare services and an attempt to shut down medical facilities in the Gaza Strip. Dire Warnings from the Ministry of Health The ministry warned of catastrophic scenarios threatening the lives of patients and the wounded, emphasizing that the repeated targeting of healthcare infrastructure endangers thousands of lives and constitutes a war crime under international law. Siege and Targeting of the Hospital Early Sunday morning, the IOF surrounded the Indonesian Hospital in Jabalia, northern Gaza, with drones and fired live ammunition at its surroundings. The hospital's director, Marwan Al-Sultan, confirmed in a statement that 'the occupation is besieging the Indonesian Hospital with drones and firing bullets at anyone who moves' within its vicinity. He added that drones belonging to the IOF targeted the intensive care unit of the hospital with gunfire. Al-Sultan reported that one patient was shot with live ammunition by the occupation forces, and doctors were unable to complete a surgical operation 'due to the dangerous situation.' Escalation Against Medical Facilities In the same context, the Ministry of Health in Gaza stated that the IOF has intensified its targeting and siege of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza since early Sunday morning. The ministry noted that this escalation follows days of taking the European Gaza Hospital out of service. It highlighted a state of panic and confusion among patients, the wounded, and medical staff at the Indonesian Hospital due to the siege and attacks by the IOF, 'which impedes the provision of emergency healthcare.' The ministry also pointed out that 'besieging the hospital prevents the arrival of the wounded, amid increasing massacres against civilians in northern Gaza.' Two patients were injured while attempting to leave the hospital. A Call for International Action The Ministry of Health reiterated that the systematic targeting of hospitals and healthcare facilities in Gaza violated international humanitarian law and demanded urgent intervention by the international community to protect medical institutions and ensure the safety of patients and medical personnel. Shortlink for this post:
