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#gaza

Palestinian death toll since the start of the truce in Gaza rises to 411 amid near daily Israeli violations. Israeli forces have fatally shot a Palestinian man east of Gaza City as they continue their ceasefire violations and carry out sweeping raids across the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian news service Wafa reported on Friday that Israeli forces opened fire on Uday al-Maqadma while he was sitting near the entrance of a school in Gaza.

Many of the remaining churches across Gaza either scaled back or cancelled Christmas activities altogether. Gaza's Christian community has marked a subdued Christmas as the sound of Israeli bombardment and hum of drones from the east of the enclave carried through the night and into the early hours of this morning, according to Al Jazeera's team on the ground in Gaza City.

Mustafa and Nesma al-Borsh's wedding party was, understandably, a modest affair, considering the conditions in the Gaza Strip. Nesma went to a beauty salon, rented a white dress, and took some photos with her groom, Mustafa. The ceremony and party were held in a tent in eastern Gaza City's neighbourhood of Tuffah, with only 40 people in attendance. I won't say it was the wedding day I had always dreamed of,

The Halawa family's building still stands two storeys above the rubble in Gaza City, a rare survivor after two years of nonstop Israeli air attacks that levelled buildings across the besieged Palestinian enclave. One section has collapsed, with bent metal rods protruding from where a roof once existed. The family built a narrow set of creaking wooden steps to access their home, though these makeshift stairs threaten to give way at any moment. Yet amid the destruction, it remains home.

Unfortunately, antisemitism has been around for a long time, but its flames have been fanned recently by the wanton slaughter of thousands of innocent women and children in Gaza. As for accountability, look to Benjamin Netanyahu, who has equated Zionism with Judaism, and to our Congress, which has unanimously and repeatedly appropriated our tax dollars to fund this massacre. Mayor Martinez is calling attention to a genocide. He should be applauded, not censored.

Nisrin Antone's Christmas wish is to celebrate Christmas Eve again with her husband and three daughters, around a table in a real home. Since October 2023, this 45-year-old Palestinian Christian has been confined with her family to a small office in the Holy Family parish church, in the heart of Gaza City. Along with them are some 400 other people, all with very similar stories and longings, as well as three priests, five nuns, and about 50 people with disabilities whom they care for.

Against all odds, Gaza's youths continue to adapt. They work offline, code in notebooks, store solar power whenever the sun is out, and wait for rare moments of connectivity to send their work to clients around the world. In a war that has taken nearly everything, digital skills have become a form of survival and resilience. Many now also rely on online work to make a living.

As I stood by the side of the road, I felt a small hand tugging at my clothes. I looked down and saw a little girl, no older than eight. She was barefoot, her shirt was torn, and her hair was messy and unwashed. Her eyes were beautiful, and her face showed innocence, yet exhaustion and despair clouded it. She pleaded: Please, please, give me just one shekel, God bless you.

The footage, aired on Israeli TV, shows the captives observing Hanukkah in a Gaza tunnel months before they died. Israeli media outlets have aired footage of six Israeli captives lighting Hanukkah candles in a Hamas tunnel in Gaza, eight months before their deaths during Israel's genocidal war in the besieged enclave. The footage, depicting captives Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Almog Sarusi, Ori Danino and Alex Lobanov, was released online on Thursday night after being aired on Israeli television.

An Israeli sniper shot my six-year-old sister at a family friend's wedding in northern Gaza during the ceasefire on November 3. In the Daraj quarter, far from the Israel-controlled yellow area, Sundus was playing on the first floor of a wedding hall with other kids, happy with her new clothes, while the wedding itself was taking place upstairs. Suddenly, she collapsed.

As Israel's genocide in Gaza drags into its third year, more than two million Palestinians have been hemmed in by a military border. In "East Gaza," as the Israeli Defense Forces-controlled zone east of the border has become known, more than two million Palestinians live surrounded by rubble, decaying corpses, and unexploded munitions, as they struggle to survive in makeshift shelters without adequate access to food, clean water, sewage, or protection against the harsh winter weather.

The Israeli efforts to establish Palestinian rule in Gaza loyal to the occupation are doomed. [The death of Yasser Abu Shabab] marks the end of a dark chapter one that did not reflect our tribe's history and principles The Tarabin tribe stands with the Palestinian resistance in all its factions it refuses to let our tribe's name or members be exploited to form militias that work for the benefit of the occupation.

The German chancellor said "lasting peace is possible" in Gaza and that the possible establishment of a Palestinian state, alongside Israel, offered the best prospect for future peace. DW has more. Speaking at a joint news conference with visiting German Chancellor Merz, Netanyahu said Israel believed that any Palestinian state would pose a risk to Israel's securityImage: Michael Kappeler/dpa/picture alliance

We're here trying to present so many activities for children to live in a positive vibe, said Minass al-Jabour, the initiative's media coordinator. So we are trying to make them skip the scenes, the hard scenes that they were living during the war in Gaza.