Another doctor died in Gaza

Five months ago, while I was on a medical mission in northern Gaza, a Palestinian cardiologist named Marwan Sultan showed me what was left of the Indonesian hospital, an Indonesian hospital, a facility with a hundred-beds that was shelled and attacked by Israeli troops. The building is bound by shrapnel scars. Its corridor is dark, with messy debris and broken windows blowing. The Sultan, who directed the facility, wore a long white coat, tie and rectangular glasses. He pointed to the twisted remains of the hospital generator. He said the operating room was under repair but there was no anesthesia.

Sudan is popular, but after more than 15 months of Israeli military operations in Gaza, he appears to have been in serious wear and tear. I pointed out a row of dialysis machines with my smartphone that were smashed. Upstairs of the ICU, he showed me a lot of other equipment destroyed with bullets. He shook his head, speechless, and his palm appeared. When I describe damage to the Israeli military or IDF A story published in April“It is a clear mistake to claim that IDF is deliberately targeting medical devices,” a spokesperson said.

A few months later, I talked about my witnesses in Gaza. I don’t understand how to advance any military goal by destroying medical equipment. I said that dialysis machines are not weapons. One of the listeners raised his hand and asked, “How long can someone who needs dialysis live without it?” I told him days to weeks. “I think That’s it How do you turn a dialysis machine into a weapon. ” he said.

On the afternoon of July 2, Sudan, his wife, daughter, sister, niece and son were killed by Israeli missiles. At that time, they were displaced from their homes and lived with other families in a multi-story apartment building near the Mediterranean. “The missile was thrown in his room and landed in his place,” said Lubna, a surviving daughter. She said the rest of the apartment was intact. In the damaged photo, a hole can be seen at the strike site.

When I asked the Israeli military about the Sudan’s killings, the IDF said in a statement that there was no evidence that it “targeted a senior Hamas terrorist agent.” It refused to say whether Sudan was the target. “The IDF regrets any harm to civilians not involved and has taken all possible precautions to minimize harm to civilians who are not involved,” the statement said. The Sudan family said he had no connection with any political group. “My father is just a doctor, just a person who cares for patients,” his seventeen-year-old son Ahmad Tell NBC News Team.

Sudan reportedly serves as a professor of medicine at the Islamic University of Gaza and is reportedly one of only two cardiac experts in northern Gaza. Colleagues described his killings as a catastrophic disaster for the medical community, especially for medical trainees to keep the remaining hospitals. “It’s a huge loss for us,” Muneer Al-Boursh of director Gaza’s Ministry of Health told me. The ministry is part of the Hamas State Government of Gaza but consists of medical professionals. “I still can’t understand that he’s gone,” Bolsh said.

During their time with Sudan in February, there are some promising reasons. Gaza is protected by a ceasefire and aid is flowing in. The table was piled with fresh fruits and vegetables. The hospital is able to supplement its supply of antibiotics, sterile gauze, painkillers and surgical equipment. I saw the kids playing Hopuchi, swaying from the falling wires. I visited several warehouses in Gaza City where the food was bundled into a calm and distributed effectively. “We hope this is the end of the war so that we can rebuild the hospital,” Sultan told me.

One month later, Israeli authorities blocked further aid from entering Gaza. On March 18, Israel ended the ceasefire and resumed military attacks. In April, a colleague in Sudan, a 27-year-old Egyptian surgeon named Mahmoud Abu Amsha, volunteered in Gaza and was killed in an air strike. Sudan texted me that he did not sleep due to the explosion every night. “We miss it [a] He wrote, very brave colleagues. Medical staff suffered a lot. ”

A few weeks later, the World Health Organization reported that Indonesian hospitals “failed due to the ongoing military presence.” Who said that a staff member was killed and almost all patients at the facilities had to be evacuated. The repaired generator was destroyed again. In a statement, the IDF accused Hamas of “using hospital infrastructure and staff for terrorist activities.” It said it was “out of military necessity and in line with international law.” Bolsh told me that he begged the Sudan, “like a child begging for parents”, to leave. Besh said the Sultan refused because he wanted to be with the patient.

Boursh claims Sudan’s position in Gaza’s health care system was assassinated. He said Sudan’s salary comes from Palestinian authorities in the West Bank, not from Hamas. The same is true for a colleague of Sudan’s hospital in Indonesia. Colleagues described the Sultan as “a man without dust”, using an Arabic idiom. “They’re because he’s a man, he’s a kind man, and everyone in Gaza knows him.” A medical student in his twenties I met on the journey told me in his voice. The IDF told me it was “not targeting medical staff or health care workers.”

according to Medical staff watchSudan, a Palestinian NGO cited in medical journals and international media coverage, has been the seventh health care worker killed in the Gaza Strip in the past fifty days alone. The group called his killings a “broader model.” It said Israeli forces have killed or detained at least one director, one of whom is from every hospital in northern Gaza. According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, a total of 57,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023. Bolsh said that number includes more than a thousand health care workers: 2,000 doctors, seventy of whom are top experts in their field; one hundred and eighty pharmacists; twenty-twenty nursing staff; and many others.

This month, Israel and Hamas held new ceasefire negotiations in Qatar Benjamin NetanyahuIsraeli Prime Minister flew to Washington to meet with the president Donald Trump. Netanyahu was surprised by the news about Trump, who has officially nominated the Nobel Peace Prize president, an honor Trump wanted for years. Whether Trump deserves the award or not, he is in command as far as peace is concerned. The United States is Israel’s most powerful ally and supplier of most of its weapons. He has the ability to stop the destruction in Gaza.

The sound of the hammer echoed in the hall as Sultan led me through his destroyed hospital. Workers are anxious to carry out repairs. Sudan was pleased to tell me that the day before my arrival, the emergency room had completely reopened. Still, he was taking everything from what was lost. He listed the names of the dead medical staff. “You miss your colleagues,” he told me. “Some were killed; some were arrested. For what? Do their job.” ♦