Visual analysis and interviews show how Palestinians have been forced from their homes in the north as the Israeli military cuts a new corridor through Gaza.
Gone were the sparkling lights, the festive decorations, and the towering Christmas tree that had graced Gaza City for decades.
Some say that the community is in danger of losing its 1,600-year foothold in the enclave and that it is far from certain those who have fled will ever feel safe enough to return home.
Palestinian medical officials say Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 22 people, including five children
The Health Ministry said 45,028 people have been killed and 106,962 have been wounded since the start of the war in October 2023.
U.S. and Arab mediators are working round-the-clock to hammer out a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, sources close to the talks said, while in the Gaza Strip medics said Israeli strikes had killed 13 Palestinians on Thursday.
Georgios Petropoulos, a senior U.N. official based in Rafah, the southern Gazan city not far from Kerem Shalom, told The New York Times in an article published on Monday that aid convoys faced "systematic, tactical, armed, crime-syndicate looting" by organized groups.
The rights group joins a growing chorus of critics accusing Israel of committing genocidal acts in its war in Gaza.
Israel ordered the closure and evacuation on Sunday of one of the last hospitals still partly functioning in a besieged area on the northern edge of the Gaza Strip, forcing medics to search for a way to bring hundreds of patients and staff to safety.
In most years, by this time, the celebrations of the glorious holidays have long been underway in Gaza. The Gaza Strip is a small area inhabited by 2,300,000 citizens, between 1,000 and 1,300 of them Christians who live in safety and peace among the Muslim majority.
The Israeli military said on Thursday that it has again killed several Hamas militants in Gaza City. A head of Hamas' weapons production department and a company commander of the militia were killed in a targeted airstrike on a former school building in Gaza City,