Israel kept up deadly strikes on the besieged Gaza Strip on Sunday despite growing international calls for a ceasefire and pleas from desperate relatives to bring home the remaining hostages.
UK foreign minister David Cameron and German counterpart Annalena Baerbock stressed that the "need is urgent" for a "sustainable ceasefire" in Gaza in a joint article for Britain's Sunday Times.
An Israeli hostage who was mistakenly killed by soldiers in the Gaza Strip this week was buried on Sunday, with his brother slamming the army for having "abandoned and murdered" him.
Outside Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity in the Palestinian West Bank, the throngs of tourists and pilgrims who normally rub shoulders with costumed Santas and marching bands are missing this year.
Soldiers discovered a tunnel shaft underneath a baby's bed in a children's room in the Jabaliya area of northern Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces announced on Sunday.