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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Hamas Says Israel Killed Members While Discussing Disarmament as Part of Trump\u2019s Deal</h1>
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<div class="gmail-reader-estimated-time">August 19, 2026</div>
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</p><img src="cid:ii_mt0v9lmn0" alt="image.png" width="558" height="372"><br>A Hamas official has confirmed that the Israeli attack
on a café on Tuesday targeted unarmed members of the movement who were
discussing disarmament as part of US President Donald Trump\u2019s plan to
implement the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, which Israel
has firmly rejected. The attack on the crowded café killed seven
Palestinians, including a child.
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<p>Gaza (QNN)- A Hamas official has confirmed that the
Israeli attack on a café on Tuesday targeted unarmed members of the
movement who were discussing disarmament as part of US President Donald
Trump\u2019s plan to implement the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire
agreement, which Israel has firmly rejected. The attack on the crowded
café killed seven Palestinians, including a child.</p>
<p>On Wednesday, Alaraby TV reported, citing a Hamas official, that the
targeted group was unarmed and had gathered for a meeting as part of the
movement\u2019s preparations for disarmament under Trump\u2019s plan.</p>
<p>An Israeli drone attack on a cafe in the port area west of Gaza City
on Tuesday killed at least seven Palestinians, including a child, and
left one body so mutilated that health workers could not identify the
victim, according to Palestinian Health officials. </p>
<p>The hospital said one victim appeared to have taken a direct missile hit, with the body shredded beyond recognition. </p>
<p>Health officials said the intensity of the strike pushed a number of
the injured and dead into the sea, meaning the real number of casualties
may be higher.</p>
<p>Mohammed Alghoul, an eyewitness to the event, told AFP that \u201cIsraeli
warplanes fired two missiles at the \u2018Sweet and Bitter\u2019 cafe on the
fishermen\u2019s port west of Gaza City\u201d. </p>
<p>The Israeli military claimed that they carried out a \u201cprecise aerial
strike\u201d against \u201cseveral Hamas commanders\u201d in the Shati area, west of
Gaza City who \u201cwere planning attacks against Israeli forces operating in
the Strip\u201d, adding that \u201csteps were taken to mitigate harm to
civilians\u201d. </p>
<p>They did not comment on the child who was killed, or provide evidence to substantiate their allegations against those targeted.</p>
<p>Following the attack, Hamas said in a statement that the strike,
which they described as a "massacre", demonstrates Israel's \u201cdisregard\u201d
for Trump\u2019s calls to maintain the \u201cceasefire\u201d deal, calling on mediators
to pressure Israel \u201cto commit to the ceasefire deal\u201d and the peace
roadmap already agreed upon.</p>
<p>The Director-General of Gaza\u2019s Government Media Office, Ismail
Al-Thawabta, said Israel continues to wage its \u201cbloody war\u201d and commit
grave violations against civilians in the Gaza Strip, stressing that
Tuesday\u2019s \u201cheinous massacre\u201d constitutes clear evidence of Israel\u2019s
intent to violate the ceasefire agreement and continue its genocidal
campaign.</p>
<p>The timing of the attack makes the claim more striking still. For the
past two days, US officials have publicly pressed Israel to justify its
strikes by pointing to specific, imminent threats and to minimize the
killing of Palestinians in Gaza. </p>
<p>US envoy Jared Kushner said only this week that Washington would not
restrict Israel's right to defend itself against what it deems imminent
threats. Israel appears to have simply adopted that language, labeling a
strike on a seaside café full of civilians as the elimination of a
threat, in what looks like an attempt to fit its continued killing into
the formula its American backers have handed it.</p>
<p>The result is a killing that lays bare the hollowness of both the
ceasefire and the US posture. Only hours after Kushner emerged from
meetings with Netanyahu to signal American support for Israel to
continue the attacks in Gaza, Israel had bombed a civilian cafe by the
sea and reached for the very "imminent threat" justification Washington
provided. </p>
<p>Moreover, an Israeli airstrike targeting a police center in Gaza
City on Wednesday killed at least ten Palestinians, including police
officers and personnel, with some victims torn to pieces. The attack
came as Israel continues to target the Palestinian police force across
the war-ravaged enclave to create chaos and undermine public security. </p>
<p>Following the attack, the Israeli military claimed, without providing evidence as always, that it targeted Hamas leaders.<br>
Hamas, however, slammed the attack. In a statement, the movement said
the \u201chorrific massacre carried out by the Israeli occupation forces..
constitutes a new Israeli war crime and demonstrates the Netanyahu
government\u2019s continued determination to evade its obligations and
effectively refuse to implement the ceasefire agreement and advance its
remaining phases.\u201d</p>
<p>Hamas also confirmed that the Israeli claims that the attack targeted resistance leaders are \u201centirely baseless\u201d. </p>
<p>\u201cThese false allegations are being used to justify its aggression and
conceal its deliberate targeting of the civilian police force and
unarmed civilians in the Gaza Strip.\u201d</p>
<p>The timing of the massacre, it added, which \u201ccame following recent
meetings and contacts with mediators and guarantors of the agreement,
and.. efforts to advance implementation of the agreement and its
roadmap, confirms that the Netanyahu government is deliberately
undermining these efforts and dangerously pushing toward a renewed war
against the Palestinian people in Gaza, rather than honoring its
commitments under the agreement.\u201d</p>
<p>Since the ceasefire took effect in October 2025, Israeli forces have
killed 1,266 Palestinians in Gaza. Children account for 21.5 percent of
the total death toll.</p>
<p>Apartment buildings, markets, vehicles, and cafés have continued to
come under attack. In some cases, families received displacement orders
only minutes before their homes were bombed, while many others received
no warning at all.</p>
<p>United Nations human rights chief Volker Turk condemned Israel\u2019s
attacks in the Gaza Strip, saying that \u201cthe unrelenting pattern of
killings\u201d reflects Israel\u2019s \u201csweeping impunity\u201c.</p>
<p>"Palestinians are still being killed and injured in what is left of
their homes, shelters and tents of displaced families, on the streets,
in vehicles, at a medical facility and a classroom,\u201d Turk said.</p>
<p>\u201cWe mourn as Gaza reaches yet another tragic milestone \u2026 Thousands
more people who were told the worst was over are still burying their
loved ones,\u201d said Fikr Shalltoot, Gaza director at Medical Aid for
Palestinians.</p>
<p>Doctors Without Borders, known as MSF, said it has been \u201cover 1,000
days since Israel's genocide in Gaza began, and the collective
punishment of Palestinians continues to this day. Amidst a so-called
ceasefire, the world has normalised seeing Palestinians being maimed and
killed daily in their tents, in hospitals, and on the street.\u201d</p>
<p>It added, \u201cThis is not a ceasefire.\u201d</p>
<p>It is worth mentioning that Hamas reaffirmed its acceptance of the
roadmap for the second phase of Trump's plan, seeking a permanent
ceasefire, a full Israeli withdrawal, urgent relief, and reconstruction,
and told the mediators it had implemented the first phase in full while
Israel escalated its attacks and openly rejected the roadmap. Yet the
understandings reached with Netanyahu the next day guarantee the
opposite: no full withdrawal, no unconditional reconstruction, and an
explicit agreement that Israel will keep operating freely and
assassinating in Gaza. When Hamas was told the plan aimed at a permanent
ceasefire and an Israeli pullout, Netanyahu was assured Israel could
keep its forces in place and continue the killing.</p>
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