TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - At least 34 Palestinians were killed and dozens more injured on Monday when an Israeli airstrike hit a crowded beachside cafe in Gaza City, according to Palestinian medical and security sources.
Al-Shifa Hospital said in a brief statement that most of the victims were women and children. The victims were taken to the hospital after the attack.
One of the injured in the attack was female journalist Bayan Abu Sultan. Her bloodied photo went viral on social media X on Monday evening. Journalist Anas Al-Sharif reported that the cafe was a gathering place for journalists and civilians seeking internet access.
Also viral was a photo of an old man crying hysterically on the cafe floor, while his wife's body was slumped on the table.
Palestinian security officials and eyewitnesses told Xinhua that an Israeli aircraft fired at least one missile at the cafe, located west of the al-Shati refugee camp.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.
They were among at least 92 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza on Monday. As reported by Asharq Al-Awsat, this is one of the heaviest attacks as Israeli officials are scheduled to be in Washington for a new ceasefire called by US President Donald Trump.
The Israeli army has intensified airstrikes and artillery shelling in the southern and eastern parts of Gaza City, especially in the Zeitoun, Shejaiya and al-Tuffah neighborhoods, witnesses said.
Another Palestinian was killed and 23 others were injured after being targeted by Israeli soldiers while seeking help on Salah al-Din Street, south of Gaza's Wadi region, according to a statement from Al-Awda Hospital in central Gaza.
Israeli forces also killed one Palestinian and injured several others in shelling that targeted their tent in the al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, according to medical sources.
The bodies of 10 Palestinians and several wounded were taken to Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital following an Israeli airstrike that targeted a commercial warehouse in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City, medical sources told Anadolu.
The commercial warehouse was used by a charity organization to receive and distribute humanitarian aid to people in the enclave.
Meanwhile, the body of a woman and several other injured people were taken to Baptist Hospital after Israeli helicopters dropped bombs on Al-Sikka Street in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, medical sources said.
Another Palestinian was killed and another was injured in a drone strike near a gas station in the same area, the sources said.
Four bodies and several injured people also arrived at the hospital following an Israeli airstrike that targeted a group of citizens in the northern Gaza city of Jabalia, according to the sources.
Separately, three Palestinians, including a woman, were killed in an Israeli drone strike in Katiba, Khan Younis, a medical source at Nasser Hospital told Anadolu Agency.
Thirteen more people were killed and 50 others were injured in an Israeli airstrike that targeted aid seekers southwest of Khan Younis, another medical source said.
The source also said that another Palestinian was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Rafah in southern Gaza.
Another Palestinian was killed and several others were wounded in an Israeli airstrike on a house near the Al-Sahaba Medical Complex in central Gaza City.
An Israeli drone strike killed three more Palestinians and wounded several others in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood northeast of Gaza City, a medical source said.
The source added that at least 10 people were killed and dozens more were wounded when a drone struck a crowd on Al-Wahda Street in central Gaza City.
In the same area, four Palestinians were killed and several others were wounded in another attack on a horse-drawn carriage, medics said.
The army also launched airstrikes on four schools housing displaced Palestinians after they issued evacuation warnings -- three of them in the Zeitoun neighborhood and one in the al-Tuffah neighborhood east of Gaza City, according to local sources.
A day after Trump called for “Make a deal on Gaza, get the hostages back,” Israeli strategic affairs minister Ron Dermer, a close confidant of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is traveling to Washington for talks on Iran and Gaza, according to an Israeli official and a source familiar with the matter.
Dermer is expected to begin meetings with Trump administration officials on Tuesday, July 1, 2025, the source in Washington said.
But in Gaza, there is no sign of the genocide ending. The Israeli military issued evacuation orders on Monday to residents of large districts in the northern Gaza Strip, forcing a new wave of displacement.
"The explosions never stop; they are bombing schools and homes. It feels like an earthquake," said Salah, 60, a father of five, from Gaza City.
"On the news we hear that a ceasefire is near, on the ground we see death and we hear explosions."
Israeli tanks advanced into the eastern suburb of Zeitoun in Gaza City and shelled several areas in the north, while planes bombed at least four schools after ordering hundreds of families sheltering inside to leave, residents said.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military, which said Palestinian fighters were hiding among civilians. Hamas groups denied this.
The heavy bombardment followed new evacuation orders for large areas in the north where Israeli forces have previously operated and left extensive damage.
The military ordered people there to move south, saying it planned to fight Hamas, which operates in northern Gaza, including in the heart of Gaza City.
More than 80 percent of the area is now either a militarized Israeli zone or under evacuation orders, according to the United Nations.
Israel resumed military operations in the enclave on March 18. Since then, at least 6,203 Palestinians have been killed and 21,601 others wounded, according to the Gaza-based health authority on Monday.
That brings the total Palestinian death toll since the conflict began in October 2023 to 56,531, with 133,642 others wounded.
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