🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- "Israel is imposing new conditions that are keeping us away from a deal." - Hamas affiliated media.

There is a new ongoing round of negotiations for a ceasefire and prisoner release, which - according to this statement from Hamas - indicate they aren't going so well.

Local Syrian outlets report that Alawites and Christians in Syria have decided to launch protests and demonstrations in their areas in response to the ongoing sectarian killings carried out against them by Al-Jolani’s terrorist gangs.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- "Ceasefire and prisoner exchange negotiations are progressing seriously," - Hamas.

🇮🇪🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Israel has closed its embassy in Ireland. The Irish government now reportedly plans to open a "Palestine museum" in the building that formerly housed the Israeli embassy.

🇾🇪⚡- Violent artillery exchanges between the Southern Transitional Council and Ansarullah east of Musaimir, Lahij direction, Yemen.

This comes after over 24 hours of relative peace along the front line since the fighting around the Jabal Sabr mountains, Taizz direction.

🇸🇾⚡- SNA brings in new reinforcements to try to recapture lost settlements west of the Tishrin Dam, SDF-controlled Syria.

🇸🇾⚡- Syrian Arab Army resistance cell ambushes a Hayat Tahrir al-Sham convoy in Tartus, Syria. High HTS casualties reported.

🇦🇿🇰🇿⚡- Azerbaijan Airlines flight crashes in Aktau, western Kazakhstan, while en route to Grozny, Russia.

72 people were on board, with 10 confirmed to have been killed. Death toll expected to rise to at least 40+.

🇷🇺🇦🇿⚡- Azerbaijan Airlines suspends flights to Russian cities, Grozny and Makhachkala.

🇸🇾⚡- Violent clashes inside Homs city, Syria, between SAA resistance cells and HTS.

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- Pakistan strikes Afghanistan in retaliation for cross border raids by the Taliban. 15 killed, Afghanistan claim most were civilians.

🇾🇪⚡- The UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council in Yemen raises its "combat readiness and combat preparedness to confront the military escalation launched by the Iranian militia [Ansarullah]".

🇾🇪⚡- "The militia [Ansarullah] sends reinforcements to the border with the Musaimir, Lahij direction, Yemen" - Taiz Times, STC outlet.

🇺🇸🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡- Ansarullah said it thwarted US and Israeli intelligence activities in areas of Yemen under its control, arresting a number of spies.

🇦🇿🇰🇿⚡- Death toll rises to 38 from the Azerbaijan plane crash in western Kazakhstan.

🇺🇸⚡- "Merry Christmas to all, including to the wonderful soldiers of China, who are lovingly, but illegally, operating the Panama Canal (where we lost 38,000 people in its building 110 years ago), always making certain that the United States puts in Billions of Dollars in “repair” money, but will have absolutely nothing to say about “anything.” Also, to Governor Justin Trudeau of Canada, whose Citizens’ Taxes are far too high, but if Canada was to become our 51st State, their Taxes would be cut by more than 60%, their businesses would immediately double in size, and they would be militarily protected like no other Country anywhere in the World. Likewise, to the people of Greenland, which is needed by the United States for National Security purposes and, who want the U.S. to be there, and we will!" - Donald Trump, US President-elect.