The UN human rights group has denounced the "abhorrent and cruel" manner in which Hamas staged the handover of the bodies of four hostages to Israel. _“The parading of bodies in the manner seen this morning is abhorrent and cruel, and flies in the face of international law,”_ said the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Among the bodies returned were Shiri Bibas and her two young boys -- Kfir and Ariel -- who had become symbols of Israel's ordeal during the unprecedented October 7 Hamas attack in 2023. #AFP 📸 Eyad BABA

2️⃣ A *Delta Air Lines jet with 80 people on board crash-landed at Toronto's main airport,* flipping upside down and leaving *at least 18 people injured but causing no deaths*, officials said. 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 *Endeavor Air Flight 4819 with 76 passengers and four crew was landing* on Monday afternoon *in Canada's largest metropolis,* having flown from Minneapolis in the US, the airline said. *No explanation of the cause of the accident*, or how the plane ended up flipped with its wings clipped, has been provided. *Paramedic services told AFP three people were critically injured* -- a child, a man in his 60s and a woman in her 40s. *Images on local broadcasts and shared on social media* showed people *stumbling away from the upside down CRJ-900 plane*, shielding their faces from wind and snow.

2️⃣ A *Delta Air Lines jet with 80 people on board crash-landed at Toronto's main airport,* flipping upside down and leaving *at least 18 people injured but causing no deaths*, officials said. 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 *Endeavor Air Flight 4819 with 76 passengers and four crew was landing* on Monday afternoon *in Canada's largest metropolis,* having flown from Minneapolis in the US, the airline said. *No explanation of the cause of the accident*, or how the plane ended up flipped with its wings clipped, has been provided. *Paramedic services told AFP three people were critically injured* -- a child, a man in his 60s and a woman in her 40s. *Images on local broadcasts and shared on social media* showed people *stumbling away from the upside down CRJ-900 plane*, shielding their faces from wind and snow.

3️⃣ *An Indonesian court has handed lengthy prison terms to poachers who killed dozens of rare Javan rhinos,* court rulings seen by AFP show, *drawing praise from conservationists* who said it would help deter lucrative wildlife crime. 🇮🇩 🦏 *The rhinoceros, endemic to Indonesia's most populous island, is critically endangered.* Authorities believe there are *only around 82 remaining in Ujung Kulon National Park* in western Java -- their last stronghold. In 2023, authorities uncovered the *criminal gang that confessed to killing 26 rhinos over the span of five years* in the 120,000-hectare park. *A court in Indonesia's Banten province this week sentenced the mastermind of the gang to 12 years in prison* and gave five of his co-conspirators 11 years, according to rulings posted on its website.

3️⃣ *An Indonesian court has handed lengthy prison terms to poachers who killed dozens of rare Javan rhinos,* court rulings seen by AFP show, *drawing praise from conservationists* who said it would help deter lucrative wildlife crime. 🇮🇩 🦏 *The rhinoceros, endemic to Indonesia's most populous island, is critically endangered.* Authorities believe there are *only around 82 remaining in Ujung Kulon National Park* in western Java -- their last stronghold. In 2023, authorities uncovered the *criminal gang that confessed to killing 26 rhinos over the span of five years* in the 120,000-hectare park. *A court in Indonesia's Banten province this week sentenced the mastermind of the gang to 12 years in prison* and gave five of his co-conspirators 11 years, according to rulings posted on its website.

1️⃣ Masses of displaced *Palestinians have begun streaming towards the north of the war-battered Gaza Strip* after Israel and Hamas said they had *reached a deal for the release of another six hostages.* 🇵🇸 🇮🇱 The breakthrough *preserves a fragile ceasefire and paves the way for more hostage-prisoner swaps* under an agreement aimed at ending the more than 15-month conflict, which has devastated Gaza and displaced nearly all its residents. *Israel had been preventing Palestinians from returning to their homes in northern Gaza*, accusing Hamas of violating the terms of the truce by not releasing a civilian woman hostage. But Prime Minister *Benjamin Netanyahu's office said late Sunday they would be allowed to pass* after the new deal was reached for the release of three hostages on Thursday, as well as another three on Saturday. *Crowds began making their way north along a coastal road on Monday morning*, carrying what belongings they could, AFPTV images showed.

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3️⃣ Hundreds of *demonstrators took to the streets in Christian areas of Damascus to protest the burning of a Christmas tree* near Hama in central Syria , AFP journalists witnessed. 🇸🇾 _“We demand the rights of Christians,”_ *protesters chanted as they marched through the Syrian capital* towards the headquarters of the Orthodox Patriarchate in the Bab Sharqi neighborhood. 🎄 The protests come a little more than *two weeks after an armed coalition led by Islamists* topped the government of Bashar al-Assad. 🔥 The protests erupted after a video spread on social media showing *hooded fighters setting fire to a Christmas tree in the Christian-majority town of Suqaylabiyah* , near Hama.

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