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Israeli airstrikes kill 100 in one of war’s deadliest nights, Gaza officials say



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At a wake in Gaza on Monday a line of Palestinians overwhelmed white shrouds containing a bodies of during slightest 70 people who Palestinian health officials pronounced were killed by an Israeli airstrike targeting Maghazi in a centre of a besieged strip.

It followed one of a enclave’s deadliest nights in a 11-week-old dispute between Israel and Hamas. One male hugged a passed child and others were hysterical.

“The walls and a fate fell on us,” pronounced one man. “I reached down to my four-year-old child though all we found were rocks.”

Strikes that began hours before midnight persisted into Monday. Palestinian media pronounced Israel stepped adult atmosphere and belligerent shelling in executive Gaza.

Health method orator Ashraf Al-Qidra pronounced many of those killed during Maghazi were women and children. Eight others were killed as Israeli planes and tanks carried out dozens of airstrikes on houses and roads in circuitously al-Bureij and al-Nusseirat, health officials said.

Medics pronounced an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis in southern Gaza killed 23, bringing sum Palestinian fatalities overnight to some-more than 100.

Pope Francis pronounced in his Christmas summary on Monday that children failing in wars, including in Gaza, are a “little Jesuses of today” and that Israeli strikes were reaping an “appalling harvest” of trusting civilians.

Some of Gaza’s tiny Christian village took a mangle from a dispute and pang to applaud Christmas.

Several residents done pleas on amicable media for people to give them preserve as they have turn homeless after withdrawal their homes in Bureij.

“I have 60 people in a house, people who arrived during my residence desiring that executive Gaza area was safe. Now we are acid for a place to get to,” pronounced Odeh, a proprietor of a interloper camps.

The Israeli army pronounced it was reviewing a news of a Maghazi occurrence and was committed to minimising mistreat to civilians. Hamas denies a Israeli assign that it operates in densely populated areas or uses civilians as tellurian shields.

The Palestinian Red Crescent published footage of bleeding residents being ecstatic to hospitals. It pronounced Israeli warplanes were bombing categorical roads, opposition a thoroughfare of ambulances and puncture vehicles.

In his Christmas Day “Urbi et Orbi” (to a city and world) address, Francis also called a Oct. 7 conflict on Israel by Hamas fighters “abominable” and again appealed for a recover of around 100 hostages being hold in Gaza.

Clergy cancelled celebrations in Bethlehem, a Israeli-occupied Palestinian West Bank city where Christian tradition says Jesus was innate in a fast 2,000 years ago.

Palestinian Christians hold a candle-lit Christmas burial in Bethlehem with hymns and prayers for assent in Gaza, instead of a common celebrations.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in a depart from his common use that reflected a stream dejection over Gaza, did not attend a midnight vigil, and instead sent a representative.

There was no immeasurable tree, a common centrepiece of Bethlehem’s Christmas observances. Nativity figurines in churches were placed among rubble and spiny handle in oneness with a people of Gaza.

Catastrophic conditions

Palestinians accumulate during a site of Israeli strikes on houses during a Maghazi stay in a executive Gaza Strip Dec 25, 2023. PHOTO: REUTERS

Palestinians accumulate during a site of Israeli strikes on houses during a Maghazi stay in a executive Gaza Strip Dec 25, 2023. PHOTO: REUTERS

Palestinians accumulate during a site of Israeli strikes on houses during a Maghazi stay in a executive Gaza Strip Dec 25, 2023. PHOTO: REUTERS

Hamas and smaller fan Islamic Jihad, both sworn to Israel’s destruction, are believed to be holding some-more than 100 hostages from among 240 they prisoner during their Oct. 7 uproar by Israeli towns, when they killed 1,200 people.

Since then, Israel has besieged a slight Gaza Strip and laid most of it to waste. Nearly 20,700 people have been killed by Israeli airstrikes, including 250 in a final 24 hours, according to authorities in Hamas-ruled Gaza on Monday. Thousands some-more are believed to be passed underneath a rubble.

The immeasurable infancy of a 2.3 million Gazans have been driven from their homes, and a United Nations says conditions are catastrophic.

Since a week-long equal collapsed during a start of a month, fighting has usually strong on a ground, with fight swelling from a north to a full length of a densely populated strip.

The Israeli troops pronounced on Monday that dual of a soldiers had died in a final day, bringing to 158 a series killed given belligerent operations began on Oct. 20.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told lawmakers from his Likud celebration on Monday that a fight was distant from over and discharged what he expel as media conjecture that his supervision competence call a hindrance to a fighting opposite a enclave’s Hamas group.

Israel has been underneath vigour from a closest fan a United States to change operations to a lower-intensity proviso and revoke municipal deaths.

On Saturday, Israel’s troops arch of staff pronounced his army had mostly achieved operational control in a north of Gaza and would enhance operations serve in a south.

But residents contend fighting has usually strong in northern districts.

Diplomatic efforts, mediated by Egypt and Qatar, on a new equal to giveaway a remaining hostages hold in Gaza have yielded small open progress, nonetheless Washington described a talks final week as “very serious”.

Netanyahu was due to attend a parliamentary contention of a emanate on Monday and afterwards to assemble a event of his fight cabinet, Israeli officials told Reuters.

Islamic Jihad pronounced a commission led by a banished personality Ziad al-Nakhlala was in Cairo on Sunday. His attainment followed talks attended by Hamas arch Ismail Haniyeh in new days.

The groups have pronounced they would not plead any recover of hostages unless Israel ends a fight in Gaza, while a Israelis contend they are peaceful to plead usually a postponement in fighting.