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Bethlehem Christmas quiet this year

The Excerpt

USA TODAY

News, Daily News

4.11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Israel killed dozens in an airstrike on a refugee camp Sunday.

USA TODAY Trending News Reporter Anthony Robledo talks about a television channel's plans for AI to generate news.

An animal shelter has empty kennels this Christmas.

The Detroit Pistons make unwanted history.

USA TODAY Breaking News Reporter Claire Thornton tells the story of a young child who found a historic shipwreck in Lake Michigan.

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Good morning and Merry Christmas. I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Monday, December 25th,

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2023. This is the excerpt. Today, Israel has killed dozens at a Gaza refugee camp.

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Plus, we look at one project testing the waters of AI in news.

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And we'll hear the story of a child who found a centuries old shipwreck in Lake

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Michigan.

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Israel continued slamming Gaza yesterday killing some 70 people in an

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airstrike on the Magazi refugee camp.

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Ahmad Turkamani lost several family members, including his daughter and

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grandson.

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He said, quote, we were all targeted.

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There is no safe place in Gaza anyway, unquote.

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The strike killing at least seven children, according to early hospital figures, was

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condemned by the Council on American Islamic Relations.

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Meanwhile, the Israeli military said that 15 Israeli troops were killed over the weekend.

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The death toll among Israeli troops has now reached 156 since Israel's ground incursion into Gaza began and could threaten public support for the war in Israel.

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Some 20,400 Palestinians have been killed,

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while almost all of Gaza's 2.3 million people have been displaced.

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displaced. A Moss-led militant stormed communities in southern Israel on October 7th, killing 1,200 people

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and taking hundreds more hostage.

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The war and its brutal violence is hanging over Bethlehem this year,

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