Overview

• The June 30 strike reduced the nearly 40-year-old seafront café to rubble, eliminating one of Gaza’s last intellectual and social refuges
• Gaza’s civil defence agency and Al-Shifa Hospital report 24 fatalities and dozens of wounded from the café blast
• The Israeli military maintains it targeted Hamas operatives and has launched a review of its civilian protection measures
• Al-Shifa Hospital is operating at just 10% capacity with three functioning operating rooms as it faces crippling shortages of medicine and staff
• Rights groups and local leaders condemn the strike as a civilian massacre and warn that Gaza’s humanitarian crisis and infrastructure collapse are deepening under the blockade