Strike on a cafe at Gaza City's fishing port kills six and wounds 10

Medical sources at Al-Shifa Hospital said six Palestinians, one of them a child, were killed and 10 others wounded on Tuesday evening when an Israeli aircraft hit a cafe in Al-Mina, the fishing port district on the western edge of Gaza City.

A source at the hospital described two missiles fired in succession into a spot where people had gathered. Several of the wounded were said to be in a serious condition, and witnesses quoted by Al Jazeera said the force of the blast threw people into the water.

The count rose through the evening. The first reports from the hospital put the dead at five, and both SAFA and Al Jazeera later raised the figure to six as bodies were identified.

The Israeli military said it had targeted four Hamas commanders. It has not published names, and nothing in the accounts from the hospital identifies any of those killed as fighters; one of them was a child.

Cafes are among the few places left in Gaza City where people sit outdoors, and the seafront strip draws displaced families sheltering nearby as well as residents of the port district. A strike on a public gathering place at an ordinary hour removes what little unstructured space is left, and sends a mass casualty load to a hospital that is already running its wards on reduced power and depleted stocks.

The health ministry in Gaza counts 1,266 people killed and 4,200 wounded since the ceasefire took effect in October 2025, part of a toll it now puts at 73,400 killed and 174,312 wounded since October 2023.