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Truly, we will not stop supporting Gaza or abandon it.

We hope in this new year that God grants us his victory, and that he grants victory to those resisting among us in Gaza.

We stand with them until death. We approach this with determination and willpower, using all the

strength we can muster.

Israeli airstrikes in Gaza have already killed 52 Palestinians since dawn on the second day of 2025, including women and children in so-called

humanitarian zones. We'll go to Gaza for an update from Palestinian journalist Shruela.

Her husband and fellow journalist Roche de Saraj was killed in an Israeli Israeli air strike more than a year ago.

She was recently honored by the committee to protect journalists.

The coverage cannot convey for the audience the smell of death.

Everywhere you go, there is the smell of death.

And it brings me back to the zero moment, to the moment I lost my dear

husband, Trichita. And as we begin 2025, we look at how the world is cracking down on migrants

and the dangers they face when they flee their countries due to persecution, economic

conditions or the climate crisis.

In Greece, prosecutors have opened a murder investigation of, quote, unknown perpetrators following a damning BBC exposé of the deadly crackdown on asylum seekers by the Greek Coast Guard,

with evidence showing they abducted and abandoned asylum seekers

in the Mediterranean Sea where thousands have died.

They started with the Cameroonian.

They threw him in the water.

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