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Evening recap

21 December 2024 23:47 GMT

Our liveblog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day's key developments:

-The Israeli military is using "booby-trapped robots" around Kamal Adwan Hospital in the besieged northern Gaza as it demands a complete evacuation of the facility, its director has said. Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya has been pleading for international help as the hospital comes under direct shelling from Israeli forces.

-At least 10 Palestinians, including two children, were killed in Israeli airstrikes on two houses in the Nuseirat refugee camp and Deir Al-Balah city in the central Gaza Strip, local medics confirmed to the Reuters news agency on Saturday.

-Aljazeera reported that two Palestinians were killed as a result of the Israeli shelling of a residential building in the center of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza strip, in the early hours of Sunday, local time. 

-US Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Saturday its forces conducted "precision airstrikes" against what it describes as a "missile storage facility and a command-and-control facility" belonging to the Houthis in Yemen. It comes hours after a missile launch by the Houthis that landed in the Israeli capital Tel Aviv, injuring some 30 people. 

-The Times of Israel said on Saturday that Hamas has still not provided Israel with a list of the captives in Gaza that would be exchanged during a ceasefire deal. The paper cited the Israeli Channel 12 news. "Nevertheless, Israeli officials believe that progress is being made in the ongoing negotiations," the paper wrote. 

-The Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' military wing, released a video montage Saturday showing all three of its now deceased senior leaders together, in the first known footage of its kind, given the men resided in three different countries.  The nearly 4-minute clip shows Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader in Gaza who was killed by Israel in a firefight; Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas chief negotiator who resided in Qatar but was assassinated while visiting Iran; and Saleh Al-Arouri, the Beirut-based deputy to Haniyeh who was assassinated in his Lebanon office.

-A US judge has ruled in favour of WhatsApp in a lawsuit accusing Israel's NSO Group of exploiting a bug in the messaging app to install spy software allowing unauthorised surveillance. US District Judge Phyllis Hamilton in Oakland, California, found NSO liable for hacking and breach of contract.

-Pope Francis has condemned an Israeli air strike in Gaza which killed seven children from the same family in the Jabalia refugee camp. In his annual Christmas message, Pope Francis said: "Yesterday, children were bombed. This is barbarity, it is not a war. I wanted to say this because it touches the heart."