Medical officials said on Wednesday that the director of one of the largest Gaza hospitals in northern Gaza was killed, with his wife, daughter and sister in an Israeli strike in their apartment.
Dr. Marwan Al Sultan was director of the Indonesian Hospital-the largest medical facility north of Gaza City and the decisive lifestyle of civilians in the region since the beginning of the war, which lasted approximately 21 months in the region.
Dia Al -Najjar, the son of the Sultan’s brother, said that his uncle did not stop working in the war, even for a moment.
“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 the Sultan and his family arrived at the Shiva Hospital, according to Asmam Naban, head of the Ministry of Nursing at the Indonesian Hospital.
“Gaza lost a great man and a doctor,” Napan said. “The hospital has not left for one moment since the war began, and we urged to stay and provide humanitarian assistance. We do not know what he did in the killing.”
1500 healthcare workers have been killed since 2023
It was hospital Surrounded by Israeli forces In May, she was evacuated alongside other primary hospitals in northern Gaza, after Israeli forces renewed their attack in the area, saying at that time targeting the Hamas Hamas infrastructure.
Only 20 hospitals out of 36 hospitals in Gaza were partially working in May, while others were forced to shine as a result of the damage resulting from Israeli strikes.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and other relief groups accused Israel of targeting hospitals and condemning attacks and arrests from medical workers.
Munir Parash, Director General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, said that the killing of the Sultan was the last death in a long list of targeted health care workers in the Gaza Strip.
“Dr. Marwan Sultan, under the (Israeli Army), was the siege in the Indonesian Hospital … and insisted on the continuation of the operations and did not stop,” Parash told the CBC News Freelance Mohamed El Saif.
“The Israeli (military) targets medical figures.”
More than 1500 health care workers have been killed in Gaza since October 2023, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza.
Warning: This video contains painful pictures Dozens of relief organizations call for an immediate change of how to deliver assistance in Gaza. They say that the Palestinians have left an impossible option: hunger or shot.
The ministry also said that the death toll in Gaza passed 57,000 on Tuesday to Wednesday, after hospitals received 142 bodies overnight.
The Ministry of Health said that since dawn on Wednesday, Israeli strikes have killed a total of 40 people across the Gaza Strip. Hospital officials said at least four children and seven women were among the dead.
The Israeli army said it was looking into reports.
The war began on October 7, 2023, when gunmen led by Hamas attacked southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking nearly 250 hostages.
The war left the coastal Palestinian lands in a state of ruin, as a lot of urban scene was flattened in the fighting. More than 90 percent of the 2.3 million Gaza population has been displaced, often several times. It has ignited a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, prompting hundreds of thousands of people to hunger.
Hamas reviews the Trump -backed ceasefire plan
The last deaths in Gaza are, as Hamas said it is studying what US President Donald Trump called a “final” proposal for the ceasefire in Gaza.
Trump said on Tuesday that Israel agreed to the necessary conditions to end the 60 -day ceasefire with Hamas after he described it as a “long and productive meeting” between its representatives and Israeli officials.
In a statement, Hamas said that she was studying new fires from the ceasefire, which he received from Egypt’s and Qatar intermediaries, but stressed that an agreement would ensure the end of the Israeli war and withdrawal from Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for the elimination of Hamas on his first public notes since Trump’s announcement.
“There will be no enthusiasm,” Netanyahu said at a meeting hosted by a pipeline across Israel.
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