Israel kills prominent Gaza doctor Marwan al-Sultan in targeted strike
The Israeli military has killed a prominent Palestinian doctor and the director of one of Gaza’s largest hospitals in an air strike on Gaza City.
Dr Marwan al-Sultan was killed, along with his wife, sister, daughter and son-in-law, when a missile struck his home on Wednesday.
The doctor was the 70th healthcare worker killed in the past 50 days, according to the Palestinian medical organisation, Healthcare Workers Watch (HWW).
The missile “specifically targeted” the room where Sultan was, his surviving daughter Lobna al-Sultan said, according to the HWW report.
“A missile was dropped on his room exactly, on his place, on him precisely. All the rooms were fine except for his; the missile hit it precisely,” Lobna said.
Sultan was the director of the Indonesian Hospital, one of the largest medical facilities in the besieged Gaza Strip, which has been heavily damaged by Israeli attacks since the war began on 7 October 2023.
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