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Israeli forces killed 13 Palestinians in a series of pre-dawn attacks on Gaza, according to the Wafa news agency.

At least 10 people were killed and several others wounded when a house was bombed in the Maen area of southern Khan Younis.

In a separate strike, a man and his wife were killed in an attack on a residential building near the Ain Jalut Towers in the central Nuseirat refugee camp. 

Meanwhile, a young man was killed in an Israeli raid on his home in the central city of Deir al-Balah.

Israeli forces arrested at least five Palestinians and wounded two during pre-dawn raids across the occupied West Bank, according to the Wafa news agency.

Three Palestinians were arrested in the Rafidia neighbourhood of Nablus, while another was detained in Balata.

The agency also reported that 22-year-old Mohammed Fateh Badran, who had been previously held by the Israelis, was arrested again during the operation in Deir al-Ghusun.

The raids sparked clashes in Nablus, where soldiers opened fire. Meanwhile, Israeli bulldozers destroyed streets and infrastructure in Balata.

Good morning, Middle East Eye readers, 

Here are some of the latest updates from Israel's war on Gaza:  

• The Israeli military said it intercepted a missile early on Wednesday that was launched from Yemen and crossed into Israeli territory.

• Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, the head of the Houthi movement's Supreme Political Council, warned the US of retaliatory strikes if its forces attack Yemen.

• Several Palestinians were wounded after Israeli forces launched a drone attack on the town of Tammun in the occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera reported.

• Israeli air strikes on an apartment in Khan Younis killed at least two Palestinians, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.

• Since December 1, Israeli authorities have denied 48 of 52 UN attempts to coordinate humanitarian access to northern Gaza, which is under a "near-total siege". According to the UN, the four approved attempts still faced obstacles.

• Israeli air strikes killed three people in Beit Hanoun and killed two in Khan Younis, the Palestinian news agency Wafa and Al Jazeera reported.

Good evening Middle East Eye readers. On Tuesday evening, Christian Palestinians in Gaza gathered in the north for worship on Christmas eve amid ongoing, nonstop Israeli bombardment.

In one bombing of the Nazla area in Jabalia, at least nine Palestinians were killed. Another bombing on the area of Beit Hanoun killed at least three Palestinians.

As the death toll continues to climb in Gaza, the Israeli negotiating team that was in Qatar this past week is returning to Israel. The Israeli prime minister's office described the talks in Doha as "meaningful", with Palestinians in Gaza hoping for an end to Israel's war that has raged on for more than a year.

Here's what else you need to know about Tuesday's developments in Israel's war on Gaza:

• Several members of Gaza's civil defence were killed by Israeli forces in separate attacks, including firefighter Najib Naji Sakr.

• An Israeli raid on the West Bank refugee camp of Tulkarm has killed at least 8 Palestinians, while an Israeli military commander was injured in the raid.

• Fatah, which heads the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, threatened Al Jazeera's operations in the occupied West Bank, accusing the network of biased reporting on the PA's assault on Jenin.

• Al Jazeera condemned the attack by Fatah, saying that it followed its coverage of the confrontations between Palestinian security forces and resistance fighters in Jenin.

• Israeli authorities extended the administrative detention of Khalida Jarrar for the third time, forcing her to stay in Israeli prison for another six months.

• At least 12,820 students have been killed and 21,351 wounded in Gaza and the occupied West Bank since the onset of Israeli onslaught in October 2023, according to the Palestinian education ministry.

• A must read: Netzarim corridor, Israel’s ‘axis of death’ for Palestinians

The Israeli military said on early Wednesday morning that one of its commanders was injured after his vehicle was hit by an explosive device during a raid on the Tulkarm camp in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Palestinian news outlets shared footage on social media showing the damaged vehicle being towed out of the camp.

Israel's raid killed a total of eight Palestinians, according to the latest death toll from the Palestinian health ministry.

The death toll from Israel's raid on Tulkarm has now risen to eight Palestinians, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

A group of activists in New York City spread the messages of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement during this holiday season, to remind shoppers of Israel's ongoing war and destruction in Gaza. 

In a video posted on the social media platform Instagram by the New Jersey Palestine Action channel, entitled "Tis the season to end genocide", activists are seen hitting BDS target companies such as Starbucks, McDonald's and Zara with stickers across neighbourhoods in Manhattan.

Activists caught the attention of shoppers with colourful stickers and coupon codes, offering discounts and free items.

But upon scanning the QR codes, customers are confronted with images from Gaza where Israel's war continues to kill, starve and displace Palestinians, in a conflict that has been going on for over a year and a half and has been called a genocide by leading human rights organisations.

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At least seven Palestinians were killed in Israel's raid on Tulkarm in the West Bank on Tuesday, according to the latest tally from the Palestinian health ministry.

At least three Palestinians were killed in an Israeli bombing of a residence in the Beit Hanoun area of northern Gaza.

Several others were wounded in the attack, which targeted a house belonging to the al-Ghandour family.

Israeli authorities have extended the administrative detention of Khalida Jarrar for the third time, forcing her to stay in Israeli prison for another six months, according to the Palestinian Prisoners' Club.

The organisation added that Jarrar's solitary confinement has also been extended for another month. Jarrar has been placed under solitary confinement for 134 days.

The Palestinian rights activist was arrested in December 2023 from her home in Ramallah, where she was placed under administrative detention, where a person is held without a trial or without any charges against them.

According to the rights group Addameer, Jarrar is being held in a cell that is two by one-and-a-half metres, which the group says "is barely enough room for a mattress".

She has served several stints in Israeli prisons, and during a previous imprisonment, she suffered the loss of her daughter.

The occupation renews the administrative detention of administrative detainee Khalida Jarrar for the third consecutive time for an additional six months and extends her isolation for another month.

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At least two Palestinians have been killed, and seven others injured, by an Israeli bombing of the Tulkarm refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.

The attack comes after Israeli forces already killed three other Palestinians in Tulkarm. Israeli forces launched a raid on the refugee camp on Tuesday.

The Israeli delegation that attended the recent round of ceasefire talks in Doha will return to Israel, the Israeli prime minister’s office said on Tuesday evening.

The office described the talks in Qatar as "meaningful", and said that the return to Israel was meant to discuss the continuation of these negotiations.

Gaza's civil defence announced that one of its members, Nabil Abdul Raouf, was killed in an Israeli bombing of a building belonging to the rescue service on Tuesday.

Raouf is one of several civil defence members killed by Israel on Tuesday alone, with firefighter Najib Naji Sakr being killed by Israel earlier in the day.

One civil defence member, Ahmed al-Madhoun, described the scenes of one of the Israeli attacks to Al Jazeera.

"We received an emergency stress message…. calling for help to extinguish a fire that broke out as a result of an Israeli air strike on a residential building," said Madhoun.

"We rushed to the scene. On the way, we received a call telling us that the site we were heading to has just been pounded again. We went and found dozens killed, including our fellow civil defence team members shredded to pieces."

An Israeli bombing in the Nazla area of Jabalia in northern Gaza has killed several Palestinians, according to multiple reports.

The exact death toll is unclear, with some reports stating four were killed and others stating six were killed.

A third Palestinian was killed in an Israeli raid on Tulkarm on Tuesday, after she was wounded in an Israeli shelling of a residence in the Hamam neighbourhood of the camp, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.

The woman, 30-year-old Bara'a Khaled Hussein Al-Sheikh Ali, succumbed to her wounds shortly after the bombing, which included head and chest injuries.

Earlier, we reported that Israeli forces killed two others in the raid: 53-year-old Khawla Abdo and 18-year-old boy Fathi Obaid, who was shot in the chest by Israeli soldiers.