Live Blog Update| Israel's genocide in Gaza
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Evening recap

25 December 2024 23:40 GMT

Good evening Middle East Eye readers. On Wednesday, hopes of achieving a ceasefire in Gaza were dimmed after Hamas said that Israel had imposed new conditions, which have led to delays in achieving a deal.

The conditions reportedly pertain to the withdrawal from Gaza, the Israeli hostages and the return of displaced Palestinians.

In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Hamas was lying, and said that the Palestinian group is "reneging on understandings that have already been reached".

Amid the public spat around the negotiations, Israel's military continued its bombardment of Gaza on Wednesday, killing dozens of Palestinians in the process.

Here's what else you need to know about Wednesday's developments in the Israeli war on Gaza:

  • Al-Qassam Brigades released a video showing a Palestinian fighter targeting an Israeli soldier using sniper fire. The armed wing of Hamas also said it was able to target an Israeli helicopter with rocket fire.

  • An Israeli bombing of the Zeitoun neighbourhood in Gaza City killed at least five Palestinians and wounded another 20. Videos shared on social media showed rescue crews pulling out the bodies of several dead children from the rubble of the bombing.

  • Three Palestinian babies have frozen to death in Gaza, including a three-week-old infant, Sila, whose parents found her unconscious in their tent on Wednesday morning in Mawasi, an area west of Khan Younis.

  • After firing a ballistic missile on central Israel earlier on Wednesday, the Houthi movement in Yemen announced it had launched two drone attacks on areas near Tel Aviv and Ashkelon, and said that both of the attacks were successful.

  • In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces killed a young man in Qaffin, an area just north of Tulkarm, where Israel on Tuesday launched a military raid.

  • Israeli security forces also demolished a park in Nahalin, which is located west of Bethlehem.

  • An initiative funded by USAID has taken down a report on its website that sounded the alarm about tens of thousands of Palestinians in northern Gaza at risk of death under Israeli siege. The report was taken down after the Israeli ambassador to the US criticised it. Read more here.