RT News - January 02 2024 (09:00 MSK)

At least 15 more civilian casualties are reported in Gaza overnight, as Israeli strikes rain down on the central part of the enclave. It comes as local officials say the total Palestinian death toll in the war is nearing twenty two thousand. The southern city of Khan Yunis is also targeted again by the Israeli military, which is expanding its ground invasion to previously so-called safe zones of the Strip. Speaking to RT, former high-ranking Israeli officers break down the failure to pre-empt the terrorist attack that killed more than a thousand people in the country on October 7th. We report from near the frontlines in the Lugansk republic, where Kiev allegedly had some big plans to retake ground by the end of last year. That's amid sinking Western support, in the wake of the failed Ukrainian counter-offensive across Donbass.