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“We found people in pieces.”
The comment is striking, even if increasingly familiar after nearly three years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
It’s how a witness to Tuesday’s Israeli strike on a Gaza City seaside cafe described to Drop Site the aftermath of an attack that killed at least six people, including a child, and reportedly pushed people nearby into the sea. One victim’s body was so mangled, officials said, they could not immediately identify them.
The strike took place one day after Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, Jared Kushner, left the region, failing to make a breakthrough in efforts to implement the next stages of the so-called “ceasefire,” as Israel continues to reject the Trump plan. Unsurprisingly, according to Haaretz, Israeli officials left their meeting with Kushner with an agreement that Israel could continue “targeted” strikes on the enclave.
Meanwhile, in the occupied West Bank, Israeli settlers’ siege of the Palestinian village of Qusra continued; Israeli settler leaders pledged to return to Gaza; and a Palestinian teen was killed in a settler raid in Khirbet Hamroush.
Here’s more on those stories and others from another deadly and troubling week in Palestine: