Among the ten civilian victims killed due to Israeli airstrikes targeting leaders of the Islamic Jihad movement in Gaza on Tuesday, was a dentist known for providing free treatment to poor families. Dr. Jamal Khuswan lived in the same building as Islamic Jihad leader Tarek Ezzedin. His daughter, Miral, who was injured, cried and asked for her father, not realizing at the time that both her father and her mother, along with her brother, had also become martyrs.
Dr. Khuswan, his wife Mervat, and their son Youssef (21), who was studying medicine, were killed while sleeping in their home in central Gaza. Seven other civilians, including women and children, were also killed in other areas of the strip due to the airstrikes.
The Ministry of Health mourned Khuswan, who was the chairman of the board of the Al-Wafa Rehabilitation Hospital and a prominent leader in the local Dental Association, describing him as a national figure "who did not hesitate to deliver his humanitarian message."
Mohammed Khuswan, Jamal’s brother, stated that his brother's other four children survived the attack with minor injuries. After seeing his brother's body in the morgue, he expressed, "The feeling is very difficult, extremely bad in an unnatural way." He added, “He was a well-known doctor, his son is a doctor, his wife is a pharmacist; the whole family is peaceful and calm.” Dr. Jamal, in his fifties, also held Russian citizenship after spending a long time in Russia for his studies. Media outlets circulated a video of the doctor’s daughter, Miral, crying in an ambulance and asking, "I want my dad."
