'No other explanation' Family say doctor killed in Gaza airstrike was targeted

The children of Dr Marwan al-Sultan, director of Gaza's Indonesian hospital and one of the territory's most senior doctors, said they believed their father was deliberately targeted in the Israeli airstrike that killed him on Wednesday.

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Sultan died when an Israeli missile was fired into the apartment block in Gaza City where he and his extended family were staying after their displacement from northern Gaza. His wife, daughter, sister and son-in-law were also killed in the attack.

His surviving daughter, Lobna, said the airstrike specifically targeted the room her father was in. "All the rooms were fine except for his, the missile hit it precisely," she said.

His son Ahmed said there was "no other explanation" except that his father was deliberately targeted by the Israeli military. He added that the floors where his father and extended family were staying were the only parts of the block hit in the airstrike.

A photo given to the Guardian, reportedly of the building where Sultan was killed, showed that the apartment block had been hit on the front side of the fourth and fifth floors, while the rest remained intact.