The Israeli strike kills the famous Doctor Marwan Sultan in the midst of the renewed attacks against health workers
Dr. Marwan Sultan took a rare work break to be at home with his family Wednesday when, at 2:15 p.m., the renowned cardiologist became a dark statistical: the 70th health worker to be killed by Israeli fire in the last 50 days, according to a Palestinian surveillance group.
Shortly after, at the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, a team of NBC news there saw members of the mourning family and colleagues surrounded the body of the cardiologist, who was killed with his wife, daughter, son-in-law and sister.
In the morgue, the workers of the hospital suffered the sultan’s blood and the scratching face while his body was wrapped in a white -spreaded sheet. Visitors kissed him and kissed her, their moans resonating in the room, depending on the video.
“My father was just a doctor, just a human who takes care of the patients,” said one of the surviving children of the Sultan, Ahmad, while his voice was shaking.
Ahmad, 17, told NBC News that his family was preparing in an apartment in Gaza with five other displaced families when the Israeli bomb struck. Later, he cried in the arms of a parent.
The Sultan was a cardiologist and director of the Indonesian hospital, one of the largest medical establishments in the north of Gaza, where he had treated the sick and the injured since the Gaza Strip war in October 2023.
“He was a rare doctor,” said Dr. Munir Bursh, director general of the Ministry of Health, at NBC News between tears. “A man of in -depth expertise and an even deeper consciousness. We have not only lost a doctor – we lost a man who was a lifeline for so.”
Watch health workers (HWW), an organization that monitors and verifies attacks on Palestinian health workers, said the Sultan was the 70th worker to be killed in Israeli air strikes in the last 50 days.
