Brief: Mediators say Israeli ceasefire violations threaten deal
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
This week: 81 days into a ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 394 Palestinians in Gaza. Palestinians in Gaza continued to struggle to find food. Israel further expanded its presence in Syria. Israel has killed more than 70,925 Palestinians in Gaza since October 7th, 2023.
In this episode:
- Hani Mahmoud, Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Tareq Abu Azzoum, (@abuoazzum) Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Gabriel Elizondo, (@elizondogabriel) Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Gemma Nash, (@GemmaNash10) Al Jazeera Presenter
Episode credits:
This episode was produced and mixed by David Enders. Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Andrew Greiner and Munera AlDosari is our engagement producer. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm David Enders, and this is the take. |
| 0:05.9 | As Israel's war on Gaza continues, we're coming to you on Sundays with a weekly roundup. |
| 0:12.9 | This week, 81 days into a ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 394 Palestinians in Gaza. |
| 0:21.6 | Palestinians in Gaza continued to struggle to find food. |
| 0:25.6 | Israel further expanded its presence in Syria. |
| 0:28.6 | Today is Sunday, December 21. |
| 0:31.6 | Israel has killed more than 70,925 Palestinians in Gaza since October 7, 2023. |
| 0:42.3 | Hamas officials warned this week that Israel's continued violations of the ceasefire in Gaza were threatening the viability of the agreement, |
| 0:50.3 | a sentiment that was echoed on Friday during a meeting between U.S., |
| 0:55.4 | Qatari, Turkish, and Egyptian officials, four countries that were instrumental in brokering |
| 1:00.7 | the current truce. Al Jazeera's Hani Mahmoud reported on Saturday from Gaza's city, where Israel |
| 1:07.4 | continues to carry out attacks, even in areas that are no longer formally under its control. |
| 1:13.6 | It's a little over two months since the beginning of the ceasefire, |
| 1:16.6 | close to 650 violations of the ceasefire since its beginning. |
| 1:22.6 | But what happened last night, early evenings of last night what we know at this hour that |
| 1:29.0 | Israeli military tanks fired shells at a school housing displaced families |
| 1:35.3 | tank shells were fired at the second floor of the school while families had |
| 1:41.9 | gathered for for a wedding so far looking at six people |
| 1:46.4 | who were killed in the attacks including children and many other were critically |
| 1:51.5 | wounded this just highlights how areas inside or outside the yellow line are |
| 1:57.6 | equally dangerous for for Palestinians in fact over the past few weeks many of the attacks were carried out outside the yellow line are equally dangerous for for Palestinians in fact over the past few weeks |
| 2:02.0 | many of the attacks were carried out outside the yellow lines that we're not talking |
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