Good evening and Merry Christmas. I'm Jeff Bennett. On the Navas is away on the news hour tonight.

In one of the war's deadliest nights an Israeli

airstrike on Christmas Eve kills more than 100 Gazans.

Two months after the state's deadliest mass shooting,

Maine's death community

works to rebuild in the wake of tragedy.

And a unique way of combating loneliness in Britain,

so-called chatty cafes and chatty benches,

help build connections across communities.

People walk along with their phones, they've got earphones in,

they don't want to converse, they don't want to have it even eye contact.

So the art of conversation is an awful lot less than it used to

it. The death toll in the Israel-Hymah's war surged higher today as Israel ramped up its strikes on Gaza.

Health officials there reported 250 Palestinians died and another 500 were injured in the last

24 hours alone.

All this comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vows to intensify the fight.

William Bringham has this report.

Gaza woke up to one of its deadliest mornings of this war, an entire residential block in Deer

albala, a city in Central Gaza, bombed into rubble.

Survivors at the Magasi refugee camp dug through the debris with their bare hands,

searching desperately for all that they've lost.

On Friday, they were told by the Israeli military

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