July 3, 2025, by Cuba en Resumen
Marwan al- Sultan, director of the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza.
An Israeli bombing in western Gaza City on Wednesday killed Marwan al-Sultan, director of the Indonesian Hospital, one of the most important hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip, which had been out of service due to the advance of Israeli troops in the area, sources in the enclave confirmed to EFE.
At around 2:18 p.m. local time (11:18 a.m. GMT), Israeli army drones attacked the residential building where Al Sultan was with his family, located next to a roundabout on Rashid Road, which runs parallel to the beach in the Gaza capital.
According to EFE, Al Sultán’s wife and four children were killed alongside him, as well as other residents of the building.
The Gaza Health Ministry also confirmed the death of the Indonesian Hospital director and said in a statement: “Any crime against medical and humanitarian personnel confirms the bloody methodology and premeditated insistence on directly and deliberately targeting them.”
When asked by EFE and informed of the details of the attack, the Israeli army has not yet commented.
During the war, Al Sultán headed the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia, one of the main hospitals in the northern region of the enclave and one of those that resisted the longest until the advance of Israeli troops (after breaking the ceasefire on March 18) forced its closure.
The center was directly attacked on numerous occasions and suffered several sieges by the army along with the other two hospitals that remained open in the northern region: Kamal Adwan and Al Awda. All of them are now evacuated and most of their staff had to flee to the Gaza capital.
One of the last reports of the siege of the Indonesian hospital before its closure came on May 18, when Al Sultán himself warned that Israeli drones were firing at anyone moving around the center.
The director of Kamal Adwan, Husam Abu Safiya, remains in Israeli custody without any details of his condition after he was arrested during one of the sieges on this hospital on December 27.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says that only 17 of the 36 hospitals in the Gaza Strip (47%) remain “partially” operational, none of them in the north of the enclave.
The Gaza Health Ministry puts the number of healthcare workers killed (including some humanitarian workers) since Israel launched its offensive on Gaza in October 2023 in retaliation for the Palestinian resistance operation Al-Aqsa Flood at more than 1,580. Since then, Israel has killed more than 57,000 Palestinians in Gaza as part of its offensive.
Source: Cuba en Resumen