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Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Tuesday, December 26th, 2023. This is the

excerpt. Today the death pool rises after continued Israeli airstrikes in Gaza.

Plus a Russian opposition leader has been moved to a remote prison colony and how to

Republican candidates stack up when it comes to

likeability in 2024. The death toll rose to 106 yesterday and one of Israel's

deadliest airstrikes on Gaza since the war began at the Magazzy refugee camp and

refugee workers continue to pull bodies from the rubble. More than 20,000 Palestinians have been

killed in the conflict,

and some 1.9 million Gazans have been displaced,

according to the UN Agency for Palestinian refugees.

At least 156 Israeli troops have been killed,

and around 1,200 people were killed in Israel

during the October 7th Hamas attacks,

along with hundreds more taken hostage.

Pope Francis made a Christmas Day appeal for peace between Israelis and

Palestinians. He also blasted the weapons industry and what he called its

instruments of death. Elsewhere Egypt has released a proposal to end the war with a ceasefire, faced hostage releases, and the creation of a Palestinian government of experts to administer Gaza and the West Bank.

Egyptian officials told the Associated Press yesterday. The plan was worked

out with officials in Qatar and presented to Israel, Hamas, the U.S. and European

governments, but still appeared preliminary. Russian opposition leader Alexi Navalny has been located in a prison colony north of the Arctic Circle,

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