T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

The quiet at home was blissful and calm. The quiet in Gaza was a deathly alarm.

It followed a bang in a home race to the ground. Through the rubble he dug

until she was found. For hours she fought. She tried to be brave, but without the right care,

she couldn't be saved. She takes her last

breath her mom by her side. Her dad holds her hand as they bid her goodbye.

For children in Gaza every minute is a battle of survival.

Please visit unicef. i.e to donate today and help save a child's life.

Thank you.

This is John Batchelor.

This from a longer conversation with Seth Franzman, the chief Middle East correspondent for the Jerusalem

Post, my colleague Bill Rajo and I spoke with Seth about the situation as we understand it in the Gaza

conflict and the wider war.

Fog of war here, however Seth did point to a mystery that may or may not be solved by his observations. How did the Hamas

under fire move the hostages being released now in and around the migrant city camp of Con Eunice and Seth

provides us a very good case for how they did it, why they did it that way, and what comes next in these

claims that all the hostages are not in the hands of Hamas.

Claims.

Here's Seth explaining.

Well, one would assume that's correct, but we have seen some interesting reporting I saw in

from Iranian media claiming the quote Israeli media, but we actually couldn't find all of it but

basically saying that some of the hostages had somehow been smuggled out of the north.

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