The strike came a day after Kushner met with Netanyahu and agreed Israel could continue bombing Gaza despite the Hamas disarmament deal
By Dave De Camp, antiwar.com
Israeli forces bombed a seaport in Gaza City on Tuesday evening, killing at least six Palestinians, including one child, as the IDF continues its constant violations of the US-backed ceasefire deal despite the US recently announcing that a deal had been reached to disarm Hamas.
According to the Quds News Network, the strike hit a crowded civilian area, and the intensity of the blast sent dead and wounded into the water. On top of the six killed, more than 12 people were wounded, and the casualties were brought to the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
(A Palestinian child’s shoes at the site of an Israeli strike on a cafe, at the seaport of Gaza City, August 18, 2026. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas)
The IDF took credit for the bombing, calling it a “precise aerial strike” that it claimed, without evidence, targeted Hamas commanders planning attacks on Israeli troops. The Quds report noted that Gaza City’s seaport is an area where no Israeli forces are deployed, and no IDF soldiers have been killed by Hamas in Gaza all year, as Hamas has been pushing for the implementation of the US-backed peace plan.
The massacre came a day after President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. According to reports in Israeli media, the meeting ended with an agreement that Israel would continue launching strikes in Gaza despite Hamas’s push for the disarmament plan.
Claire's Observations: This photo was taken yesterday. I'm particularly encouraging my American brothers and sisters to see this, because we are all complicit in this image's creation.
I say this, because the bombs and bullets, being used by the IDF to kill and maim Palestinians, are pretty much all stamped, "made in the USA."
The word "genocide" sounds so clean, so neat, in its scientific description of a massacre.
But this brilliantly captured image, reminds us that massacres are never clean; never neat; and always leave what is then described as "collateral damage" behind, which usually translates as bodies, blown into smithereens.
Take a good, hard look at this child's shoes, surrounded by and covered in blood.
How old were they, maybe, max, two years old?!?
Those of you with toddlers of your own, can probably do the best estimations, because you've been through the shoe-fitting/kid crying/shoes getting thrown off/ cycles with your own child or children.
Now imagine, for one second, that you as an unarmed Palestinian, who has never attacked an Israeli in their life, had survived this "precision bombing", but your child had been killed, as this child had, through absolutely no fault or yours, or theirs.
What would be going on in your mind right now, if there were not enough pieces left of that child to bury?!?
As uncomfortable is it is to consider, this is a question Palestinian parents in Gaza and the West Bank, have to confront on a daily basis.
And apparently, Kushner doesn't mind one bit, if Israel continues these bombings.
To him, kids like this are just nameless, faceless "collateral damage", whose lives have zero meaning, other than getting massacred in Israel's "precision bombings", and providing US munitions and fighter jet manufacturers "hard data" about how accurately and excellently, their products are performing.
One also has to wonder, just how many Trump-aligned/related companies, from which Kushner may well be already profiting, are making a literal and figurative "killing" from this on-going genocide.
I seriously doubt that we will ever really know the full extent of this.
