Web Stories Tuesday, December 24

FIGHTING AT CLOSE QUARTERS

Hamas released a video on Sunday that it said had been filmed in northern Gaza. It showed fighters positioned in blown-out buildings and in piles of wreckage, clad in civilian clothing and firing projectiles at Israeli forces.

The Israeli military said on Sunday forces operating in Beit Hanoun had struck Hamas militants and infrastructure. Hamas and the allied Islamic Jihad group said they caused casualties among Israeli soldiers.

Separately, Israel allowed the Catholic bishop of Jerusalem, the Latin patriarch, into Gaza on Sunday, according to a statement on the Latin Patriarchate website and COGAT, the Israeli defence agency that coordinates with the Palestinians, after Pope Francis said on Saturday that the patriarch had not been allowed in.

Elsewhere, Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 29 Palestinians, eight of them – including some children – at a school sheltering displaced families in Gaza City, medics said.

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