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Port strike kills civilians
An Israeli airstrike hit people in the area of the port to the west of Gaza City, and a Palestinian Ministry of Health statement said six Palestinians were martyred and 14 more were injured.
“A Palestinian Ministry of Health statement said six Palestinians were martyred and 14 more were injured”
The same account described an injured elderly woman whose image was widely shared on Palestinian social media after journalists and activists saw it as testimony that “Even the sea is no longer a safe refuge; killings chase Palestinians everywhere.”
Activist Malik al-Shanbari said Gaza residents’ access to see the sea had become limited, and he took his family to the beach where it was the first time in three years that his two children, Zein and Ayloul, could swim.
Al-Shanbari quoted his daughter Ayloul saying, “I don’t want to go to the sea after this, Dad, because the shelling even chased us here,” as shelling returned after the children built a small castle.
The article also said activist Abboud al-Battah described the port as a place for brief moments of rest and catching breath, but that shelling pursued people even there.
Police station bombing toll
An Israeli airstrike hit a police station in central Gaza City, and local medical sources said at least nine Palestinians were killed and more than 15 others injured.
An Anadolu report said Gaza's Interior and National Security Ministry accused Israel of seeking to “disable the police force to spread chaos within Palestinian society” and rejected Israel’s claims used to justify the attack.
The same Anadolu account said Gaza Health Ministry figures put Israeli violations of the ceasefire at 1,273 Palestinians killed and more than 4,000 injured since last October, when the ceasefire agreement went into effect.
Arab News said the airstrike killed nine Palestinians at a police station in Gaza on Wednesday, with medics and police sources saying several officers, including high-ranking ones, were among those killed at what the Hamas-led interior ministry described as the headquarters of the municipal police.
Arab News added that a separate Israeli airstrike in Nuseirat refugee camp killed one Palestinian, taking Wednesday’s death toll to at least 10, while the Israeli military said it targeted a Hamas militant.
Diplomacy stalls, escalation continues
The Gaza port café attack described in Greatreporter followed talks involving United States envoy Jared Kushner that ended without a breakthrough on implementing a ceasefire and disarmament agreement.
“Seven Palestinians, including a child, were killed when an Israeli airstrike hit a crowded café”
Greatreporter said seven Palestinians, including a child, were killed when an Israeli airstrike hit a crowded café inside Gaza City’s fishermen’s harbour on Tuesday evening, and it reported the death toll rose from six to seven on Wednesday, 19 August, when Musab Muhammad Madi died.
The Israeli military said the strike targeted a meeting of commanders from Hamas’s elite Nukhba Force, including a company commander, three platoon commanders and several other operatives, and it alleged one person present had entered Israeli territory during the Hamas-led attack of 7 October 2023.
Middle East Eye reported that Hamas condemned the police-station bombing as a “war crime,” and it said the Israeli military claimed it targeted “Hamas operatives” planning attacks on Israeli troops but provided no evidence.
Middle East Eye also quoted Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qasem saying the US-led “Peace Council” bore responsibility for the escalation and accused it of failing to “fulfil its responsibilities by pressuring the occupation and compelling it to abide by what was agreed.”
