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tv   News In Brief  PRESSTV  January 8, 2024 12:00am-12:03am IRST

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news in brief for this hour, nearly 200 people are killed in fresh israel strikes on the gaza strip as the overall palestinian death doll is approaching 23,000, the... these attacks were mainly on palestinian refugee camps and schools where civilians, mostly women and children, are taking shelter. a human rights group has detailed how the israeli army and shimbet treat palestinian prisoners as non-human animals. the euro-mediterranean human rights monitor said, prisoners are regularly beaten, stripped naked, subjected to electric shocks and bin with cigarettes. at least 8600 palestinians are currently held in israeli jails. at least two more journalists have
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been killed in israeli air strikes in gaza. mustafa thraya and hamza daldu died when a missile directly hit their vehicle west of han unis in southern gaza. at least 109 journalists have been killed in gaza since october the 7th. islamic resistance in iraq says it has recently talked the vital sight in the city of hefer in the israeli occupied territories. the resistance group said it launched the attack with a long-range cruise missile earlier the group said it also targeted us bases in syria and iraq and yemen has vowed to continue to block the passage of all israeli bound ships through the red sea in response to israel's genocidal war on gaza. the head of yemen's political council said yemenis are committed to protecting their palestinian brothers despite us threats.
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the deputy chief of the palestinian resistance movement hamas, salah aluri was a celebrated military strategist and one of the founding members of hamas's military wing, the azidin al-qassam brigades. he had been living in exile in lebanon after spending some 18 years.