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On 73rd day of Israel’s war of genocide in Gaza, dozens of civilians killed, including journalist and her familyWEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2023

GAZA: As the Israeli occupation forces continue their war of genocide against the Gaza Strip for the 73rd day in a row, dozens of Palestinian civilians, mainly children and women, were killed, including a journalist and her family, in early morning bombings on several areas throughout the Gaza Strip.

Journalist Haneen Ali al-Qashtane was killed along with members of her family, a total of eight people, and dozens were injured after warplanes bombed their house in Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, health sources said this morning that more than 100 people were killed in massacres in Jabalia while a similar number of people remain under the rubble, along with at least 20 wounded.

Israeli warplanes launched violent strikes on the northern areas of Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, while heavy artillery shelling targeted all areas of the city, resulting in the death and injury of dozens of civilians.

In addition, explosions shook the central region of the Gaza Strip.

More than 3
0 people were killed and dozens were injured last night in a new massacre committed by the Israeli occupation forces in Jabalia al-Balad, north of the Gaza Strip, where a residential square was leveled to the ground.

A woman was killed and others were injured in a bombing that targeted Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis.

Several people were also killed and dozens were injured after warplanes bombed a house belonging to the Abu Gharqud family, west of Nuseirat refugee camp.

More than 19,000 people were killed, most of them children and women, in 73 days of Israeli massacres in the Gaza Strip, and more than 52,000 were injured.
Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA

9:00 am A first aid training session organized by the Ministry of Information, in collaboration with the Lebanese Red Cross, at the Ministry of Information building – 6th floor, aimed at assisting journalists and correspondents on how to deal with minor injuries and incidents if they occur. (Continues until 5:00 pm).

10:00 am The Kuwaiti Embassy in Beirut accepts condolences for the passing of the Kuwaiti Amir, Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, at the new embassy building in Ramlet Al-Baida, Beirut (until 1:00 pm).

10:30 am A session by the Finance and Budget Committee chaired by MP Ibrahim Kanaan to discuss the budget of the Ministry of National Defense, its departments, and institutions in the General Budget Law for the year 2024.

12:00 pm The subcommittee arising from the Administration and Justice Committee, chaired by MP George Okais, holds a press conference at the Parliament to announce the completion of studying proposals related to amending the Military Judiciary Law, attended by MPs: Imad
El-Hout, Bilal Abdullah, Ashraf Baidoun, and George Attallah.

12:30 pm A press conference by the Monitoring Committee of Civil Associations for Environmental Protection and Anti-Corruption, chaired by the General Coordinator of Associations and head of the Popular Ambulance in Lebanon, discussing the increase in taxes and municipal fees and their implications on citizens, at the Press Syndicate.

4:00 pm Mass at the invitation of “Lebanon Youth Movement’, presided by the movement’s guide, Father Maurice Wahbeh, at the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption for the Melkite Greek Catholics – Ain Saadeh.

Christmas activities for institutions under the jurisdiction of the Orthodox Archdiocese of Beirut, under the patronage of the Archbishop Metropolitan Elias Audi, at the Orthodox Annunciation School opposite St. George University Hospital.

4:00 pm Opening of a Christmas exhibition titled “Christmas for Beirut 2023.”

6:00 pm Certificate distribution ceremony at the Faculty of Medicine at Saint George University
in Beirut, with the participation of the Orthodox Schools Choir.

5:00 pm “Dialogue – City – People” on “Urbanism and Spatial Justice in Lebanon and the Region – Environmental Devastation in Palestine and South Lebanon,” at Al-Safir Building – Hamra.

7:00 pm Opening of the Christmas market and tree lighting at the Municipality Square of Dekwaneh in the presence of Dekwaneh Mayor, Antoine Chakhtoura, and Father Fadi Alam. The event includes activities for children and the distribution of free gifts.
Source: National News Agency – Lebanon