Ramzi Mahmud and Serdar Dincel<\/p>\n
18 August 2026\u2022Update: 18 August 2026<\/p>\n
Six Palestinians were killed, including a child, and over 12 others were injured Tuesday by an Israeli drone strike that targeted a crowded cafe in the port of Gaza City.<\/p>\n
In the immediate wake of the strike, the bodies of those killed and severely injured were taken to nearby hospitals, a medical source and eyewitnesses told Anadolu.<\/p>\n
The drone attack involved the firing of at least two missiles, witnesses stated.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the Israeli army claimed the attack had targeted Hamas commanders operating in the Al-Shati area west of Gaza City, further alleging the group had been planning attacks on its forces.<\/p>\n
Israeli Army Radio, citing an unnamed security source, claimed the strike had targeted four Hamas commanders who had gathered at the cafe.<\/p>\n
It also alleged that the targets included a Hamas \u201ccompany commander\u201d and three \u201cfaction commanders.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hamas, for its part, has yet to issue a statement on the Israeli claims.<\/p>\n
The drone attack is the latest Israeli violation of a ceasefire deal that ostensibly went into effect last October.<\/p>\n
According to Gaza\u2019s Health Ministry, repeated Israeli breaches of the truce agreement have killed 1,266 Palestinians and left another 4,200 injured.<\/p>\n
More than 73,000 Palestinians have been killed \u2013 and over 174,000 others injured \u2013 since Israel began its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip in October of 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ramzi Mahmud and Serdar Dincel 18 August 2026\u2022Update: 18 August 2026 Six Palestinians were killed, including a child,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-588647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}