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Israeli airstrikes kill dozens in one of war's deadliest nights, Gaza officials say Israeli airstrikes killed at least 78 people in Gaza, Palestinian health officials said, in one of the besieged enclave's deadliest nights of Israel's 11-week-old battle with Hamas. Strikes that began hours before midnight persisted into Christmas Day on Monday. Residents and Palestinian media said Israel stepped up air and ground shelling against al-Bureij in central Gaza. Pope Francis lamented that Jesus' message of peace was being drowned out by the "futile logic of war" in the very land where he was born. read more