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View all search resultsDirector of Indonesia Hospital in Gaza killed in Israeli airstrike
The Medical Emergency Rescue Committee (MER-C), a volunteer group that funds the hospital's operation, and the Indonesian Foreign Ministry condemned an Israeli airstrike in the western part of Gaza that killed at least seven people, including the hospital’s director and his family.
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Facing profound loss: The Indonesia Hospital in Gaza City is abuzz with activity on Nov. 1, 2023, amid Israel's siege on the Palestinian enclave. (AFP/Bashar Thaleb)
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he government and volunteer organizations have condemned the attacks that led to the death of Dr. Marwan al-Sultan, director of the Indonesia Hospital in Gaza, who was killed along with his wife and children by an Israeli airstrike that hit their house in the western part of the enclave.
“Our hearts are filled with sorrow, and words cannot express the magnitude of this loss,” a local volunteer of the Medical Emergency Rescue Committee (MER-C) in Gaza said in a post uploaded by the group on its Instagram account on Wednesday. The volunteer group funds the operation of the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza.
“May Allah have mercy on their souls, grant them the best place in heaven and give fortitude to all who knew and loved them,” he went on to say.
Marwan, an interventional cardiologist, and his family were among the casualties of a bombing by the Israeli military targeting residential areas and a school in Gaza on Wednesday, as reported by the Palestinian news agency WAFA.
At least seven Palestinians were killed in the airstrike, with all casualties brought to Al-Shifa Medical Complex.
Marwan has been working as a doctor at the Indonesia Hospital in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza since 2016, tending to the sick and wounded in the city.
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