AP reports Wednesday: “The director of the Indonesian Hospital, Dr. Marwan al-Sultan, was killed in an apartment in an Israeli strike west of Gaza City, a hospital statement said. The hospital is the Palestinian enclave’s largest medical facility north of Gaza City and has been a critical lifeline since the start of the Israel-Hamas war. The hospital was surrounded by Israeli troops last month, and evacuated alongside the other two primary hospitals in northern Gaza. The bodies of the doctor, his wife, daughter and son-in-law, arrived at Shifa Hospital torn into pieces, according to Issam Nabhan, head of the nursing department at the Indonesian Hospital.” The Guardian reports: “Marwan al-Sultan, a renowned cardiologist and director of the Indonesian hospital, is the 70th healthcare worker to be killed by Israeli attacks in the past 50 days, says Palestinian medical organisation.”
Reuters reports: “Over 170 charities call for end to deadly new Gaza aid distribution system” about the U.S. government funded so-called “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” — described as overseeing “a killing field” by an Israeli soldier.
AntiWar.com reports: “Israeli Forces Kill 139 Palestinians in Gaza Over 24 Hours.”
AHMED HASSABELNABY, [email protected]
Hassabelnaby is an emergency medicine physician who served in the Indonesian Hospital.
BING LI, [email protected]
Li is an emergency medicine physician based in Arizona who also worked at the Indonesian Hospital in the north of Gaza.
FEROZE SIDHWA, [email protected], @FerozeSidhwa
Sidhwa is a trauma surgeon who volunteered at the European Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza. He just co-wrote the piece “Hospital Attacks in Gaza and Israel: What Counts as a War Crime?” which states: “Attacks on hospitals, which are subject to special protections under international humanitarian law, are war crimes of the most serious kind.
“That is why we — along with American and British health-care workers who’ve worked in Gaza, American senators and representatives, lawyers and civil servants in the Joe Biden administration and the UK, U.N. experts, and Holocaust and genocide scholars — have been begging the United States to stop providing the weapons Israel has used not just to attack one hospital in Gaza but to demolish the strip’s entire health-care system. Indeed, over the past 20 months Israel, fully backed by the United States, has abandoned any pretense of respecting the protections enjoyed by hospitals under international law. …
“Israeli forces have struck health-care facilities and personnel in Gaza at least 1,844 times, killing hundreds of patientsand health-care workers. According to the World Health Organization, 94 percent of hospitals in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed. All are starved of the most basic medical supplies, electricity, and even clean water.”
He recently posted: “On Monday the Gaza Ministry of Health released a list of fully identified Palestinians in Gaza who’ve died from U.S.-Israeli military violence since Oct 7, 2023. It includes 2,792 children two years of age and younger. …”
See his “65 Doctors, Nurses and Paramedics: What We Saw in Gaza,” published by the New York Times last year.