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If Jesus were to be born today, he would be born under the rubble in Gaza.

When we glorify pride and richness,

Jesus is under the rubble.

Stop the genocide in Gaza. That was the Christmas message of the

Palestinian pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, where Christmas festivities were canceled to more

in the more than 20,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza.

We'll speak to the Reverend Munter Isaac and air his Christmas sermon, Christ in the rubble.

Then a growing number of U.S. labor unions, including the American Postal Workers Union and the United Auto Workers

are calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

We cannot bomb our way to peace. The only path forward is to build peace and social justice

is through a ceasefire. All that and more coming up. More and Peace Report, I'm Amy Goodman. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to step up attacks on the Gaza Strip

after a weekend of violence that left hundreds of Palestinians dead.

On Friday, 90 people were killed when Israel bombed two homes in Gaza City.

76 of the dead were members of one family. They include Aisam al-Mugraibi who worked as a United Nations Development Program official for three decades.

He was killed along with his wife and five of their children.

On Sunday at least 106 Palestinians were killed in a single

Israeli airstrike on the Magazi refugee camp in Gaza. This is Ibrahim

Youssef, a camp resident who search for his wife and four children after the attack, bury them under the rubble.

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