We will go to bethlehem, the birthplace of jesus christ. Public christmas festivities have been canceled in the occupied west bank city as israel intensifies it assault on gaza. We will speak to a prominent Palestinian Christian theologian in bethlehem. In United Nations Security Council is preparing to finally vote on a watered down resolution on aid to gaza after the United States repeatedly pushed for the vote to be delayed even though the u. N. Is warning more than 500,000 palestinians, about a quarter of the population, face catastrophic hunger and starvation. It is quite shameful and disgraceful because they are complicit in this genocide. They have the lives of palestinian children on their hands. This is another nakba with a genocide unfolding before our eyes. Amy plus we speak to sonia guajajara, brazils firstever minister of Indigenous Peoples. And so now we need to rebuild and strengthen Public Policies in health, education, fighting racism, and environmental racism, and bei
the hamas run health ministry is that the air strike hit a densely populated residential block in central gaza. several buildings in very close proximity to one another. one man who had lost his daughter, his grandchildren and his son in law had said that his family was ordered to evacuate from gaza city because of the israeli military operation. he said, we came to central gaza only to die. he said, there s just no safe place. there are two big challenges ahead after this. one is that the palestinian red crescent said because of the air strike has caused the main road connecting these refugee camps to shut down. that s going to make it very difficult for rescue teams, for ambulances to get through. but also remember that most hospitals in gaza are struggling, whether it s fuel or lack of supplies or water. so as this rescue operation struggles, so will the medical situation. the world health organization has described the situation at gaza s largest hospital, as absolut
is a sovereign nation, our military decisions are based upon our own calculations. israel has pledged to continue its military operations, but admitted that it is protracted and difficult . this is the live scene over the israel gaza border, where we ve seen continued bombardement this weekend. an israel military spokesman said it was expanding its ground operations in both southern and northern parts of the gaza strip. and these are live pictures from outside nasser hospital in khan younis. we ve seen more injured arriving there in the past few hours. further north, this was the view across the israel lebanon border. in the past couple of hours, we ve seen a thick plume of black smoke in the sky there. the white house has said that in a phone call with mr netanyahu, president biden stressed the importance of allowing civilians to move safely away from areas where there s fighting in gaza. greg mckenzie has this report. president biden told the israeli prime minister, ben