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Medical teams retrieve the body of the deceased Palestinian from under the rubble, as they continue search and rescue efforts to locate other family members after a building belonging to the El Halo family collapsed due to heavy rainfall, in the Nasr neighborhood, Gaza Strip, Gaza on December 16, 2025. [Khames Alrefi – Anadolu Agency]
Civil defence teams in the Gaza Strip managed on Tuesday to recover the bodies of 30 people from a Palestinian family, out of 60 who died under the rubble of their home in western Gaza City, destroyed by Israeli airstrikes during the ongoing conflict.
The house is the first site in an organised operation launched by the civil defence on Monday to search for thousands of Palestinian bodies trapped under the ruins of homes and buildings destroyed by Israeli strikes.
In a statement, the civil defence said: “For the second day in a row, our teams have recovered 30 bodies and remains of martyrs, out of 60, belonging to members of the Salem family, who were trapped under the rubble of the Abu Ramadan family home. They were targeted while inside by the occupation in the Al-Rimal area, west of Gaza City.”
The statement added that search operations will continue using limited equipment, including a digger, to recover the remaining bodies from the house destroyed by the Israeli army on 19 December 2023.
On Monday, the civil defence announced the start of organised operations to search for the bodies of Palestinians missing under the rubble of homes and small buildings destroyed by Israel during months of mass attacks in Gaza City.
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Genocide denier and Current UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is quoted that he supports Zionism without qualification. He also confirms that UK air force support has been essential in Israel’s mass-murdering genocide. Includes URLs https://www.declassifieduk.org/keir-starmers-100-spy-flights-over-gaza-in-support-of-israel/ and https://youtu.be/O74hZCKKdpAOrcas discuss Genocide-supporting and complicit Zionists. Donald Trump, Keith Starmer, David Lammy, Rachel Reeves, Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting are acknowledged as evil genocide-complicit and supporting cnuts.Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits military troops in the northern Gaza Strip in Gaza on November 26, 2023. [Israeli Government (GPO) – Anadolu Agency]
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the League of Arab States and the African Union Commission have called on the international community to take all necessary measures to hold the Israeli occupation accountable for all violations and crimes it has committed.
In a joint statement, the three organisations urged that Israel be prosecuted before national, regional and international courts, particularly the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice, in order to end impunity and ensure international protection for the Palestinian people.
The statement was issued following a consultative meeting held on Tuesday at the headquarters of the OIC in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, which focused on developments related to the Palestinian cause.
The organisations referred to the peace plan announced by the President of the United States and signed during the international peace summit held in Sharm El-Sheikh in October 2015, under Egyptian and American auspices and with the participation of Qatar and Turkey.
The plan, later endorsed by the UN Security Council in Resolution 2803, was described as the starting point for ending the bloodshed, ensuring unhindered access for humanitarian aid, securing the withdrawal of Israeli occupation forces, restoring normal life, and convening an international conference in Cairo to implement the Arab-Islamic plan for early recovery and reconstruction in the Gaza Strip.
They said these steps would open an irreversible path towards the realisation of the two-state solution.
The three organisations also strongly condemned Israeli statements regarding the opening of the Rafah crossing in one direction only. They expressed their absolute rejection of any attempts or plans to displace the Palestinian people, whether in the Gaza Strip or the West Bank, describing such actions as a war crime, a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law, and a serious threat to regional and international peace and security.
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Genocide denier and Current UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is quoted that he supports Zionism without qualification. He also confirms that UK air force support has been essential in Israel’s mass-murdering genocide. Includes URLs https://www.declassifieduk.org/keir-starmers-100-spy-flights-over-gaza-in-support-of-israel/ and https://youtu.be/O74hZCKKdpAOrcas discuss Genocide-supporting and complicit Zionists. Donald Trump, Keith Starmer, David Lammy, Rachel Reeves, Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting are acknowledged as evil genocide-complicit and supporting cnuts.Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.
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Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) speaks at the weekly cabinet meeting, inside the Western Wall [Al-Buraq Wall] tunnels of Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in Jerusalem, on May 21, 2023 [Kobi Gideon (GPO) / Handout) – Anadolu Agency]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem on Tuesday to celebrate the Jewish Hanukkah holiday, Anadolu reports.
In a statement, the Jerusalem Governorate denounced Netanyahu’s visit to the mosque’s Western Wall (Al-Buraq Wall) “a new provocative move.”
The Al-Buraq Wall, called by Jews as the Western Wall or Wailing Wall, is a significant religious site for both Muslims and Jews and forms part of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
Netanyahu’s office shared photos of the premier, along with several officials, including US Ambassador Mike Huckabee, while visiting the Western Wall at the flashpoint site.
The eight-day Hanukkah holiday is marked from Dec. 14 to Dec. 22.
According to Palestinian authorities, at least 210 illegal Israeli settlers broke into the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex to mark the occasion since Monday.
Al-Aqsa Mosque is the world’s third-holiest site for Muslims. Jews call the area the Temple Mount, saying it was the site of two Jewish temples in ancient times.
Israel occupied East Jerusalem, where Al-Aqsa is located, during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. It annexed the entire city in 1980 in a move never recognized by the international community.
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Genocide denier and Current UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is quoted that he supports Zionism without qualification. He also confirms that UK air force support has been essential in Israel’s mass-murdering genocide. Includes URLs https://www.declassifieduk.org/keir-starmers-100-spy-flights-over-gaza-in-support-of-israel/ and https://youtu.be/O74hZCKKdpAOrcas discuss Genocide-supporting and complicit Zionists. Donald Trump, Keith Starmer, David Lammy, Rachel Reeves, Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting are acknowledged as evil genocide-complicit and supporting cnuts.Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.
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Four Palestinians lost their lives after an Israeli airstrike that targeted a vehicle at Al-Rashid Al-Bahri Street in the western part of Gaza City, Gaza on December 13, 2025. [Saeed M. M. T. Jaras – Anadolu Agency]
A Hamas leader accused Israel on Tuesday of repeatedly violating a Gaza ceasefire agreement and killing around 400 Palestinians since the truce, Anadolu reports.
In a statement, Ghazi Hamad said the Israeli army has committed 813 violations of the ceasefire deal since Oct. 10, calling the situation “extremely dangerous.”
Hamad said nearly 400 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed and 991 others injured, including 334 children and 210 women, in Israeli attacks since the ceasefire.
The Israeli violations include “killings, executions, shooting civilians, bombardment, targeted attacks, and targeted assassinations, as well as clear breaches related to humanitarian aid,” he added.
Hamad said Hamas has submitted detailed daily reports documenting the Israeli violations to mediators, warning that the Israeli breaches pose a serious threat to the agreement.
Israel “has no right to target resistance members during a ceasefire,” he said, accusing Tel Aviv of “repeatedly fabricating pretexts such as alleged explosives or gunfire without evidence,” which he said mediators know to be false.
He also said that Israel expanded its “fire control zones” across Gaza, reaching 700–1,000 meters in the north, about 1,300 meters in Gaza City, 1,150 meters in central areas, 1,100 meters in Khan Younis, and around 1,000 meters in Rafah.
Israel currently occupies more than half of the Gaza Strip and continues to target Palestinians in other areas outside its control, according to Palestinian authorities.
Israel has killed nearly 70,700 people, mostly women and children, and injured over 171,000 in Gaza since October 2023, and reduced the enclave to rubble.
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Genocide denier and Current UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is quoted that he supports Zionism without qualification. He also confirms that UK air force support has been essential in Israel’s mass-murdering genocide. Includes URLs https://www.declassifieduk.org/keir-starmers-100-spy-flights-over-gaza-in-support-of-israel/ and https://youtu.be/O74hZCKKdpAOrcas discuss Genocide-supporting and complicit Zionists. Donald Trump, Keith Starmer, David Lammy, Rachel Reeves, Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting are acknowledged as evil genocide-complicit and supporting cnuts.Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.
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Israeli soldiers, tanks, howitzers and armored vehicles are seen as Israeli military mobility continues on the Gaza border, in Nahal Oz, Israel on December 13, 2023 [Mostafa Alkharouf – Anadolu Agency]
The Israeli army warned of “mass personnel exodus” amid a surge in resignation requests by officers and soldiers, local media said Tuesday, Anadolu reports.
The Israeli army is suffering from a “mass exodus of officers and non-commissioned officers after they submitted resignation requests,” the daily Yedioth Ahronoth said.
“So far, there have been 500 requests from officers and NCOs in the regular forces seeking to be relieved of their positions in the army,” the paper said, without specifying when these requests were submitted.
The army is “warning of a steady rise in resignation requests, indicating a real manpower crisis affecting all age groups and military ranks, which has now reached a boiling point.”
The Israeli army expects more resignation requests from permanent personnel serving in the regular forces, the daily said.
According to the report, the Knesset has yet to approve legal amendments allowing an increase in pension entitlements for officers and soldiers by rates ranging between 7-11%.
The newspaper explained that the 500 resignation requests were submitted by permanent personnel in regular service, not reservists, and stem from low salaries amid significant attrition from military service, particularly during the war on the Gaza Strip.
The army is “struggling to convince thousands of officers and non-commissioned officers to continue permanent service, with the expected outcome being a decline in the army’s overall performance,”
Israel has killed nearly 70,700 people, mostly women and children, and injured over 171,000 in Gaza since October 2023 and reduced the enclave to rubble.
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Genocide denier and Current UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is quoted that he supports Zionism without qualification. He also confirms that UK air force support has been essential in Israel’s mass-murdering genocide. Includes URLs https://www.declassifieduk.org/keir-starmers-100-spy-flights-over-gaza-in-support-of-israel/ and https://youtu.be/O74hZCKKdpAOrcas discuss Genocide-supporting and complicit Zionists. Donald Trump, Keith Starmer, David Lammy, Rachel Reeves, Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting are acknowledged as evil genocide-complicit and supporting cnuts.Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.
