Israeli strike kills renowned doctor Marwan Sultan amid renewed attacks on healthcare workers

Marwan Sultan was still in his white white doctor’s coat when an Israeli bomb killed him, his wife and four children in their home in Gaza City.

Dr. Marwan Sultan was taking a rare break from work to be home with his family Wednesday when, at 2:15 p.m., the renowned cardiologist became a grim statistic: the 70th health care worker to be killed by Israeli fire in the past 50 days, according to a Palestinian monitoring group.

Soon after at Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital, an NBC News crew there witnessed grieving family members and colleagues surround the body of the cardiologist, who was killed along with his wife, daughter, son-in-law and sister.

In the morgue, hospital workers wiped blood off Sultan's ashen and scratched face as his body lay wrapped in a smeared white sheet. Visitors embraced and kissed him, their wails reverberating around the room, according to the video.

Dr. Marwan SultanGaza Health Ministry“My father was just a doctor, just a human caring for patients,” one of Sultan’s surviving children, Ahmad, said as his voice trembled.

Ahmad, 17, told NBC News that his family was taking shelter in an apartment in Gaza with five other displaced families when the Israeli bomb hit. Later, he wept in the arms of a relative.