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some hits while others on intercepted smithing, bethlehem went orthodox christians, preparing music celebrations this year, to mazda of the christ also ahead of us as a full of resistance. we meet the displace published and in using the ruins of gauze that as a new canvas we begin in garza where the health ministry says a 162 palestinians have been killed and is rarely as strikes across the strip. the ministry has carried out over night attacks in the southern region, a number of injured all being taken to hospitals and rough, thus at least 18 palestinians have been killed in an attack in hon. eunice. the families have been mooning the death of loved ones in this latest is rarely striking gauze. a southern city of rough

um the rug i will send, john lost his wife and 2 children in the. busy nice strikes is there any military says it's targeting? how much lead is on its infrastructure in rough? uh, well, the city is hosting more than a 1000000 internally displaced. palestinians has been full from news in. i'm central garza, the one we're going to be the most inclusive children. they don't have anything to do with this because of them, because women is there any goldman clips, democracy, and humanity, but they are in human just as good as a honey. my mood, who is live in rockland in southern garza honeymoon death, move suffering, bring us up to date on the latest on the strikes. you're familiar with not only the defend destruction, but now we're seeing a high level of despair at my particular displays,

palestinians. 1.5000000 displays palestinian traumatized hungry and 1st the here in the southern part, the right of the gods have been dropped off city. a small part of the of the gaza strip is squeezed into this part under heavy bombardment as now we're looking at rep, i see an equally bomb and similar to see what's going on in the central parts. and then another part of the doctor. but so far, is that confirmed statement by the minister of health. more than 150 people have been killed in overnights ever strikes in in the north and the central part, the vast majority in the central part on hon. eunice. the remaining numbers are from rough behind, as well as the northern part of the gaza strip, which is very, very consistent with the oral med reports for your mid rights report about the total number so far, we're looking at 4 percent of the total population's i've been i've been killed and the trap then either missing across the golf strip since the beginning of the war.

and we just look at how things are being conducted on the ground. it's it, it goes very well in line with the reports by the owner. well, chief humanitarian chief, when describing garza as a being uninhabitable, it'd be coming on a habit uninhabitable and living that comes on very unbearable giving the intensity of this that in the scale of the bombing a concentrated right now in the central area. soon enough, we're seeing another scenario of what happened to know the pond taking place in the centrally it would more people are either killed or bid for sing, forced into displacement of receive 1000 of people of lee in this particular area, either to dayton, bella, which is not safe, of course, or for an indoor up ice the deep and a vac evacuations on it. on the western side of from behind again, we're looking at the large, the on safe area that came under tv, a bombardment as of the past 2 to 3 days. but overnight,

a stripe targeted more residential homes, more entire families being wiped out and dropped off in hon. you. and as we look at the entire family, but you family team members along with those, the hosted displays policy and the hosted them inside the residential homes. similar to what happened it within the past few weeks, where people within hours of their arrival, they get killed and they are new shelters or, and they are evacuation zones. and how do you mention that warning from the un cement of terry and chief loss in griffith's describing cause as uninhabitable with disease spreading and farm and ongoing. tell us a bit more about what the humanitarian situation is like for those who manage to escape the bombing the right. yes. well there are reports and it's getting closer and that the golf is becoming

uninhabitable is very, very monitors compared to the task. the statements made by the owner when describing the, the real living conditions and the situations across the gods of trade. but not as far as i remember, one official described guys are turning into a graveyard for, for children. and this is exactly what we're seeing now when we look at an entire generation of a children being killed, that i know either, right? the hospital in pieces or in plastic bags, if this a, just in an indication of how bad the situations are. and given the, the, the grieving families and also the, the, the kind of life living is to be that they're going through. but so far we talking on top of this, the destruction and the, the starvation is the lack of everything here to support people as surviving. these, the 4 of the, of this for her name. i knew that for us in rafa in southern gauze, have many things for your reporting. is there any forces, meanwhile,

have reportedly arrested a base in several palestinians during raids in at least 9 towns in new york and pod westbank and strangers of fine with hud in pots as not loose, their will will say, reports of confrontations between the ministry in palestinian fights is in some refugee camps. let's get more in there. so we can go to work on who's in oki party source, the lower call and give us a bit more detail about these rates. are they still ongoing? they're all non still ongoing at the moment, but it's certainly a great a crackdown by israel against any form of resistance from i'm fine to it. so even just just send benjamin netanyahu the it's ready, 5 minutes. so it's already said he's fighting a war on 7 front, and this includes the occupied westbank. how is he doing this through daily rates at least, 40 on a daily basis. so they happened here at dawn, in short, cuts refugee camp unoccupied, east jerusalem, and also still want shifting across the,

the wall. it's the pipe westbank in janine, we know that some finances did fire upon and his writing check points. we haven't got much information. we know they did flee directly off to god's in kalki as some flights of steps up up in provides explosives as he is ready. all these entered in and fights, he went on so many hours. but some of the most violent confrontations happened in nablus festival. in a lots of refugee campuses, just in the south. these ready army entered. they started storming some homes. they setup smart, took positions on the roof tops and they were met with some very fast resistance. that was gun shots, i think back and forth. and also in the old city, that's a prison is family who reported that they entered his printing press shops they salted to destroy it. they run, sacked the place, and then they come to the sky to it's his top, but they got his sons to drive. it's cost to

a check point near and the legal is right assessment. and they said this is because they didn't want to be 5 ohms themselves. we'll to know in back to him further down south. there was 3 policy and arrested. but we do have reports that they were brucely beaten just beforehand. now we have been to many of these refugee camps, usually off to and is ready all the rage. and along with the palestinians, tell us that they are still paying not any, any form of resistance. this is also a collective punishment against them in a way to drive a wedge between them. and this point, as they say, they do have strengths in unity, no soul, but certainly many we've spoken to, but they said you have, did they come in, they tear up the roads, they run sick, the homes and destroy many of them. so certainly forms collective punishments and laura, in recent hours have been more strikes coming in from the lebanese full, the, into northern israel. what more can you tell us about these in

the last couple of hours that were at work at sly, written warnings, and most people happen out here at the shows exactly where that's taking place. let me just show you that there are red dots. so in the upper callaway, and also the golan heights where the desire and to sound. but these rarely ami said they were full. 2 rockets fight directly towards mount narrow and only in the off the counter lake area. they also said they intercepted one of them with the wind time defense system. and there was also a drone coming through. we don't know what this was a suicide drone or whether it's just after surveillance, put it inside the crate. so now the kind of direct and the app is it can stay up to for a very long time. but you have got on the defense at minutes has already set he's already off for his book to push box by about 30 kilometers. and only then will they allow back some of the people who the to foxridge,

of tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from the folder. he also said it's a console and it's diplomatic solution to this. then the only way of dealing it with it is with millet tree of the middle tree escalation. ok, thank you for that. laura. com, the 1st an occupied east jerusalem. now we had lower that talking about those real kids, according to his fuller, it's hits and is really observation posts using 60 to will kits in what 8 calls a preliminary response to the kidding of a home us official in favorites. on tuesday. let's take a look. well, according to israel's ministry, the rockets from 11 on target to northern regions of galilee and the occupied golden heights. they set off sirens as we were hearing that from laura and move the

90 illegal is riley assessments submitted. she says it struck the cell that launched the rockets tension. escalation of to the killing of how much the saw that i'll re and they wish on she say, 11 on blames israel and is filed an official complaint for the un security council . that's the case in wrong cohen who is following developments from beverage to the secretary general of his bullet has him this rela, promised a response to the killing of the head. lastly this, i'll read in the thousands of eggs on tuesday night. he also promised a, a reaction in a speech he gave it just 24 hours ago and again, about 12 hours ago. so we knew a response was coming his well, his beloved release, they said, as part of the initial response vs estimation of the great leader shakes all the other reasons for the mazda is in the suddenness of, of, of root. we targeted the mayor on a control base and job,

a gentleman with 62 missiles of various types and inflicted a direct unconfirmed hit on it. it's interesting language though, because they saying that this is a response but more will come now. it really depends on what b is, riley is due. next he's right. these will have been expecting a response. they will open on highlights. they may not have been expecting it in the gallery, which is unusual. however, what they are going to do next will be of interest that has beloved. but this is all about keeping the conflict contained, keeping it with in the 120 kilometer boda between the 2 countries and no escalating . hezbollah has a very political calculation to do in 11 on it doesn't live in order to suffer as a result of an outright will, but it is talking tough. it says it is wrong once to escalate, then it will respond in kind is all for his part is putting in men's pressure on

has bullet positions within the south. they using air strikes and drones as well, against his bullet targets. and now them that's actually quite interesting because the more pressure it puts on his bullet, the more likely that they may well be a misfire miss strike from either side and not could escalate things pub to well us next year state answer, the blinking is in tech ha on the 1st leg, for now the diplomatic towards the middle east, lincoln will be looking to ease tensions across the region. this is now his 5th visit to them, at least since the war on garza again. okay, to discuss all these latest developments on joining the senior bar estimate allow, he's director of the mina region at the strategic advisory fund. global council is also a specialist on middle east geo politics. and i want to start with what is going on between the 11 on border and israel in the north. we do appear to see this

escalation coming from has buller. how significant is it? is this, this is this the beginning of something? why the bigger it is hard to say exactly, but it's, it's not you have to think that israel didn't expect some sort of response. has butler had to respond to this attack happened in, in a root and their power base against one of the cost of those are all those personal allies. so then i think that said both parties, israel and 11 on, are not interested in an all out confrontation. it's too costly for both sides. israel doesn't want to be in a, in a high intensity war on the district. and in the north, with, with less than on 11 on is very fragile state right now. and some of us are law, is cognizant of that and doesn't want to drag his country. and therefore his legitimacy and credibility into a, a, a large or with, with israel. so roger,

think up from his bela, yes. but an all out the confrontation. i think it's too risky for uh, for, for both sides. it was interesting that you, that you said that, that you have that perspective because we've also had what's going on with the who would fees in the red sea is that scenario of concerns? always when you're disrupting the most important trade, archery of, of the world, the source canal about the southward. see it's, it's a source of concern. the maritime alliance. the naval lights that the americans have put together is helping but, but it's not a removing the problem to which is continue to use a symmetric warfare and the low cost towards their, their, at the low cost, high reward way of threatening is real security. and don't forget the whole, these are not, it's not a command and control relationship with, with, with iran. they have their own domestic constituency. and to pop up, they're all popular, t as in and young and as a front that's, that's come by think israel, which is in their creed. and, and so if it's not a,

it's not a direct kind of line of control from, from it onto the quote. these will be continuing this for their own legitimacy and for their own goals of, of technic, israel's security. so it's very concerned us, and of course the us extra stage anthony blinking back again for the 5th time in the region during this middle least a tool. have you any expectations that he can achieve anything this time round given a he doesn't seem to have achieved much and previous visits. nothing has transpired since his last visit to suggest that the americans have better leverage over these readers that they can curb these really campaign. on the contrary, the messages they've been sending is that we're fully behind is real and refused to call out israel's, of crimes. and, and the zip they passed they, they passed another support package, $150000000.00 in december, bypassing a congressman before that a much bigger package blinking is in the,

in the region to try and de escalate. he, he doesn't, us doesn't want whitening conflict. they have other theaters that maybe need to be focused on the ukraine taiwanda. so i'm trying to see they don't want this to be a strategic burden for the us. but they have little tools to affect the situation on the ground when it comes to. because israel, their closest ally itself, doesn't have a way of, of, of ending this company. don't have a finite way of, of, of reaching the finish line. really good to get your perspective. i've met hello direct if the mean or region at the strategic advisory fund global council. the still ahead on al jazeera craze in the shadow christians and the oaks upon west pine takes stokes, a bed dwindling numbers. as adults christmas, the

we've got rain wrapping around australia. hi everyone. so let me show you from the top and through this central queensland central new south wales, state victoria, and also south australia. you know, just west of adelaide a town saw a months worth of rain in 30 minutes. i think we could see similar values over the next little bit. let's go to new zealand. right now. it's con son's out light breeze here. so not too bad bit more in the way of cloud cover though for the south island, including christ church at $24.00 degrees. now around jakarta we saw the birth of, of that 100 millimeters of rain in 24 hours. so this is what it produced. waterlogged roads now on sundays. think the worst of that rain will be central job of providence. and also up and down the west coast of sumatra. island talked about those monsoon rains. biddable. all right now, so let's focus on the philippines. there's been some hot nights and some of the city as of late record temperatures here for the month of january overnight,

temperatures of about 27 degrees. and we've got some rain through do 920 and 61 provinces in china. that's gonna help freshen up the air. we have been dealing with fog and smug cure and as cold air runs over the warmer sea surface here that's going to give us see and do snow up and down that west coast of japan on sunday. that's a snapshot of your weather, c a it is a tenant of turn to produce object. these coverage. many parts of his really media are effectively engaging in propaganda or j as far as what these really military was telling us does not fit in with what evidence they have so far. and yet on the fringes of his randy public discourse and seeing more voices persist, sales, calling the traitors. the listening close covers how the news is come to watch this space for where the story goes. next,

the, [000:00:00;00] the watching out there on line to saw top stories this hour of night is there any strikes of targeted cell been cause a number of engine people are being taken to a hospital in process least 18 pilot signals were killed and attacking honey. this is there any forces have reportedly arrested and beaten several palestinians during more nightly rates, and at least 9 towns in the old, some odd west pine, strange as a fire hat in. the numbness as bullet says it's hit and is there any homes of ation post using $6.00 to $2.00 rockets for the killing of

a hamas official in beverage on tuesday in response as well as ministry says it struck the cell that launched the number of christians in the palestinian territories has been declining for decades. they now make up just one and a half percent of the population. many of those who remain though refusing to leave that home now despite increasing hardship. and as always, adults christians prepared to mock christmas new to abraham, has been to best latin to hear some of the best stories. the father he saw yours, this church will soon be empty of its worshippers. he preaches with one of the holiest sites in christianity. the church of then activity in bethlehem believe to be the birthplace of jesus christ. in his greek orthodox church alone, he says more than 1500 people have left palestine in the past few years. i know

many people of actually preparing for the migration. like about 9 families and it's, it's not easy for us even because i called the 5th land people the best my life. i call them the living story under and is really closure for 3 months. and under a military occupation for decades, life has become difficult for people in bethlehem. it's a historic city that has always depended on tourism, especially during the christmas and easter seasons. and the chest is not like this during christmas time. it's used to be funded in many people around. it's like a full of life, a joyful many here state. it's not the time to celebrate, but to mourn. churches have called off christmas celebrations because of israel's war on cause. but the prayers continue. many here say that causes of immigration are affecting both protestant in christians and muslims. but because the christian community is already shrinking,

they say one question family leaving is one to many main categories. news this feeling very well. generations of had relatives have left their homes during different waves of immigration. had 5 uncles left after 1948 by her brother after the 1st for the city and uprising. her 2 sons after the 2nd palestinian uprising, a suppression from the patient. i like my children to be around me, but i have also because they can have a futures. we don't have good life here that live nation and life and a bunch of things, but was afraid the check bars, the work, no security, no, nothing, no peace or not. thanks. as the number of christians here dwindles, may says it's becoming more important for palestinian christians to stay in their homeland father. he says, life might be more tempting abroad, but he believed he was born in jesus his birthplace for reason to spread told in

the method of darkness that but he address either bethlehem feel 2 point oh mustang that we can speak to ben at smith. he is lloyd, invest the him in the occupied west bank, and then what's the mood, the head of orthodox christmas 1000000. 260000000 people worldwide celebrate orthodox christmas. most of them in eastern europe, russia, greece, ethiopia, and egypt, and ordinarily at this time of this place would be full of pilgrims and visitors from those countries. but i can show you what there is and to see here. now the main, just where i would have normally be pots that would be a christmas tree over that would be a major within the tippett t c in it. but this year it's all taken on that much more muted atmosphere that will be prepared for session in about half an hour or so with the greek, a patriarch into the church of nativity behind me. but that also has been stripped

back. it's gonna be a much more solemn affair. normally it's a company by a lot of singing a lot of music, but not vitiate. that's why it's a much quieter affair. and also of course here in bethlehem, this is a town under occupation. they've been like that for now more than 50 years. but since october, the 7th. really, it's been much harder for people living under occupation. healthy, pod westport and to move around is a lot more check points has been much more set to the activity many more central attacks, most sacraments going up, settlers. these riley settlers taking advantage of the war on gaza per box. so it all adds so much more, some but moved here in bethlehem, which is normally a time of celebration for this town and it's smith for us and bethlehem. thank you . the the ok,

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