Amman, Aug. 18 (Petra) -- Six Palestinians were killed and 10 others wounded on Tuesday in an Israeli air strike on western Gaza City, medical sources said.

Medical sources at Al-Shifa Hospital said six Palestinians, including a child, were killed and 10 others wounded, some critically, when an Israeli drone struck a cafe at the old Gaza seaport in the western part of the city.

Ambulance and civil defense crews transported the bodies of those killed and the wounded to the hospital for treatment, the sources said.

Since October 2023, the death toll from Israel's ongoing military offensive on the Gaza Strip has reached 73,400, with 174,312 people wounded, according to the latest figures.

//Petra// AF