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"Two Israeli missiles struck a small café inside the fishermen's port in western Gaza City on Tuesday evening, 18 August 2026, killing at least six Palestinians including a child and wounding around fourteen, according to medical sources at al-Shifa Hospital and Gaza's Civil" - Source

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Event Notes

Gaza Port cafe massacre

At 6 pm, an Israeli airstrike targeted the 'A-lhulwa wi'lmurra ("through tick and thin") cafe at the Gaza City harbor. At least six people were killed on the spot including a child, and 14 others were injured.

Two other young men succumbed to their wounds by the morning.

Among the the wounded was an elderly mother whose right hand was gruesomely severed as a result of the blast that also killed her son Isam Mortaja.

Names of the martyrs (identified):

  1. Muhammad Hamdi Ahmad Al-Masri (father)
  2. Jihad Muhammad Hamdi Al-Masri (child son)
  3. Izz-eddin Salem Deeb
  4. Isam Muhammad Musa Mortaja
  5. Muhammad Fathi Husein Naser
  6. Samed Sameer Harb Abu Habal (his wife, children and in-laws were killed in the genocide. He remarried and was expecting a baby son)
  7. Muhammad Najeeb Al-Attar (succumbed to injuries the next morning)
  8. Mosab Muhammad Madi (succumbed to injuries the next morning)