At 1 p.m. on Wednesday, July 2, 2025, eleven civilians, including the director of the Indonesian hospital and a journalist, were reportedly killed, and a number of civilians were injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike on Dr. Sultan’s family home in the vicinity of Roundabout 17 and Al-Sina’a Street, northwest of Gaza City.

According to Echorouk Online, Palestinian medical sources announced that Israeli warplanes launched an airstrike near Junction 17 west of Gaza City, killing the director of the Indonesian Hospital. The sources reported that nine deceased and wounded arrived at Gaza hospitals as a result of Israeli airstrikes on Al-Sina’a Street and the 17th Roundabout west of Gaza City. Al-Mayadeen said that rescue teams were still searching for missing persons under the rubble.

Facebook posts by Abdurham Alsultan, Nader Al-Sultan, and Lubna Marwan identified those killed as 49-year-old Dr. Marwan Omar (Rabia) Sultan (Abu Omar), his 45 or 46-year-old wife, Zukra Namr Deeb Sultan, their 18-year-old daughter Lamees (Omar) Marwan Sultan, Marwan’s 36-year-old sister Amina Omar (Rabie) Sultan, his 85-year-old aunt, Siham Muhammad al-Hajj Abdul-Sultan, his 28-year-old son-in-law, Mohammed (Mohammad) Imad Sultan, Mohammed’s sister, 24-year-old Aisha Imad (Mohammad) Sultan, his aunts, 44-year-old Mona Muhammad Ramadan Sultan and 45-year-old Asma Mohammad Mohammad Sultan, and Asma’s niece, 14-year-old Malak Iyad (Mohammed) Sultan. Zaina Sultan on Facebook also mentioned one more victim, her cousin’s daughter, 29-year-old Sabreen (Khader Mohammed) Sultan, as having been killed in this strike.

In particular, Muthananajjar8 and Ultra Palestine on Facebook claimed that Dr. Sultan was killed alongside his five children, but other sources did not corroborate this information. Marwan’s surviving daughter Lubna spoke to Al Jazeera, where she mentioned the death of her father, her mother, her sister, her husband, and her aunt. She did not mention the death of other siblings.

According to yousef1989f on Facebook, Marwan Sultan “had long been a resident of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza. He oversaw the reconstruction and re-operation of the hospital twice during the war, and shouldered the responsibility of providing medical services despite the heavy costs incurred by officials at the time. He was finally displaced from the Indonesian Hospital after being forcibly evacuated and from his hometown of Jabalia after the enemy began destroying it.” The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza mourned Dr. Sultan, describing his killing as a “new heinous crime” in a series of attacks on medical and humanitarian personnel.

Many sources, including @Sa7atPlBreaking, @Jamal_A_Salem, and @Dr_Muneer1 on Twitter/X and Fayçal Beldjilali on Facebook, posted the images of the late doctor. In one of the images, he is seen as a clean-shaven man in glasses, wearing a blue shirt, a red tie and a light-blue jacket, gently smiling at the camera. In other images he is seen in a medical uniform, sitting at his table or standing with a microphone in his hands. One casual photo shows Marwan surrounded by his children; another shows him picking strawberries, smiling as he holds a large berry aloft.

A Facebook post by the Al Jazeera journalist described Dr. Sultan: “He used to go to the hospital to help people. For two months, he risked his own life just to help people.” Saeed S. Abu Elaish also highly praised the late doctor and his selfless service on Facebook: “I worked alongside Abu Omar in the cardiac catheterization department at Al-Shifa Medical Complex. He was an unforgettable brother, friend, and companion. A great doctor, with a heart greater than all the pain the intensive care unit contained.”

Zouhair Lahna also wrote a tribute to Dr. Sultan: “Today, I was shocked by the news of the death of Dr. Marwan Sultan, a cardiologist and internal medicine specialist and director of the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza… I knew him for a year as an energetic man who spared no effort to restore the hospital after it was bombed and put out of service.” Facebook user “Trend 2030” wrote that Marwan had carried “humanity in his heart”; it was for this reason “he refused to leave the sick and wounded alone until the last moment.”

Journalist Mohammed Imad Sultan was also reported among those killed. According to his profile on the website Genocide in Gaza, he was a proofreader at a Palestinian newspaper, but the source did not specify the name of the newspaper. He was also a liberated prisoner. According to Ramallah News on Facebook, Mohammed was “arrested at the beginning of the war and released during the prisoner exchange operations after a full year of detention.” Fellow detainee Yaser Mahdey added that Mohammed was “the first person to give me hope after the harsh rounds of torture and pain” the two experienced in Sidi Timan prison.

In memory of Mohammed, an Al Jazeera journalist on Facebook wrote: “My first meeting with my beloved brother and friend, journalist Mohammed Imad Sultan, after his release from the [Israeli] prisons, where he spent more than 400 days. Today, he ascended as a martyr, leaving behind unforgettable pain.” He added an emotional video where he was hugging Mohammed.

Ibrahim al-Farra praised Mohammed’s personal qualities, writing about him on Facebook, “I have never hidden my admiration for your eloquent language and your clear command. We met at the university, in the midst of its Student Council. I knew you as a humble brother who didn’t push himself, shy, polite, and always smiling. You are a word of strength, truth, and unwavering determination.” He added multiple images of the deceased journalist, including those where he is seen speaking at a tribunal, standing in a company of young men, and an image of his dead body.

Facebook account “News about prisoners in the occupation prisons” also reported the death of Mohammed, adding two other images where he is seen speaking at a microphone.

Yahya Manar mourned the death of his friend on Facebook, writing, “My dear friend and relative, the very kind-hearted, the noble Mohammed Imad Sultan, has passed away! May God make it easy for you, dear heart, Mr. Mohammed Sultan.” Mohamad Ahmad AlKadri’s post also included a video from the funeral.

Reem Abd Rabo mourned her “beloved” friend Lamees. She included two photographs of a smiling Lamees, writing that in death, “her soul departed to [God] in a moment of purity, a moment of selection.”

Lubna Marwan, Marwan’s surviving daughter and Mohammed’s wife, Lubna Marwan, wrote an emotional tribute to her deceased family members of Facebook, mourning her father, “support and my strength in this world, the human doctor”, her mother, “the source of compassion”, her husband Mohammed, “the companion of my soul, the joy of my heart,” her “beautiful, compassionate sister” Lamees, her aunt, “the quiet and contented” Amina, her husband’s sister, Aisha, her “kind and close-hearted” aunt, Mona Mohammed al-Sultan, her “beautiful in heart and soul” aunt Asma, her aunt Haja Siham and her husband’s cousin, “the beloved of the little ones”, Malak. In another post on Facebook, she posted a video showing the images of her deceased family members, accompanying it with religious verses, “O God, have mercy on the souls that have passed away and to which our hearts are now attached… O God, water their graves with an abundance of Your Paradise and give them good tidings of a spirit, basil, and a Paradise of bliss… O God, Amen, O Lord of the Worlds.”

Imad’s brother, Nader Sultan, also mourned the death of his brother and other family members on Facebook, writing, “It is time for the owner of the kind heart and pure soul, the owner of the honest words, to rest,” and also mentioning the death of Marwan, his wife, a daughter and sisters. Nader added an image showing Mohammed sitting alongside his father-in-law, Marwan, both happily smiling, and also his own image with Mohammed.

Where possible, the names of the victims have been matched with the Palestinian Ministry of Health (MoH) lists, which include national ID numbers. Since October 26, 2023, the MoH has released a number of lists, along with an additional list of medical professionals, which was released on September 17, 2024. Airwars is matching individuals to the first list where their name appeared. In regard to this incident, names are matched to the tenth, eleventh and twelfth publications of the “Palestinian Ministry of Health List of Fatalities in Gaza.”

In some cases, the ages of victims have been found by cross-checking names against lists of fatalities shared online by Genocide in Gaza, which has a list of “martyrs” of Israeli forces. Additional middle names within parentheses were found from the Ministry of Health list and the Genocide in Gaza website rather than in local sources.

Where sources identified a belligerent, all sources attributed the strike to the Israeli forces.