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Here are Press TV's latest top stories, 18:00 GMT on December 24, 2023.

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Israel failure in Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the Gaza war has exacted a “very heavy price” on the regime. Netanyahu said Israel has no choice but to keep fighting to achieve its goals, including elimination of Hamas and return of the captives. He made the comments after the Israeli army confirmed that 14 troops have been killed in Gaza since Friday. It said 153 Israeli troops have been killed and nearly 500 others wounded since the beginning of Israel’s ground invasion in Gaza. Hamas says the number of Israeli army casualties is much higher

Israeli war crimes in Gaza 

A human rights monitor says Israel has turned Gaza schools used to shelter displaced people into makeshift military barracks and sites for field execution. The Euro-Med human rights group said the regime has carried out field executions in many schools. It cited the killing of 15 people at a school near the Jabalia refugee camp where civilians were shot at quote point-blank range after interrogation. According to the monitoring group, schools have also been turned into targets of the Israeli army and are being struck on a daily basis. 

Morocco pro-Palestine rally

Demonstrations in solidarity with Palestinians are continuing apace across the world as Gaza remains under heavy Israeli military strikes. In the capital Rabat, protesters called on the Moroccan government to abolish its normalization agreement with Israel. It was one of the largest pro-Palestinian marches in Morocco since the start of the Israeli onslaught on Gaza on October 7. Protests against the Israeli genocide also continued in the US during the Christmas holiday weekend. Protesters said there should be “no business and Christmas as usual” amid the atrocities. They also called on people to join the boycott and sanctions movement to demand an end to US support for Israel. There were also similar protests in Italy, the UK, Germany and Pakistan.