Live Updates: Israel kills 25 Palestinians in strike on home in northern Gaza

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

05:40 GMT — Israel kills 25 Palestinians in strike on home in northern Gaza

The Israeli army has killed two Palestinian families after bombing a home that was sheltering them in the town of Beit Hanoon in the northern besieged Gaza.

"The Israeli army bombed a house that was sheltering two families from the Al-Kahlout clan, consisting of 25 individuals, burying them under the rubble," said Abdel Rahman Al-Kahlout, a relative of the families.

"Israel has committed another massacre, wiping out two families entirely from the civil registry," he added.

04:26 GMT — Netanyahu says won't end Gaza war 'now'

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would not stop Israel's war in besieged Gaza "now", with renewed efforts towards a ceasefire underway.

Speaking at a press conference in West Jerusalem, he said, "If we end the war now, Hamas will return, recover, rebuild and attack us again — and that is what we do not want to go back to".

03:30 GMT — Palestinian detainees in Israeli prison stricken with food poisoning from spoiled meals

A large number of Palestinian detainees in Israel's Etzion prison south of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank are suffering from severe food poisoning after consuming spoiled food, a Palestinian prisoners' rights group said.

"A lawyer for the Commission of Detainees' Affairs, after visiting nine prisoners on Sunday at Etzion Detention Center, relayed that they had suffered poisoning after displaying similar symptoms following their meals," said the Palestinian Prisoners Society.

"This is not the first instance of poisoning in Etzion, as similar cases have been recorded multiple times over the past few years," it added.

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