Students have again heeded the call of their peers to skip school as they turned out to block streets in Australian cities in support of Palestine. Hundreds of students showed up outside Melbourne’s Flinders Street Station on Thursday to demand Israel end the siege in Gaza, release all Palestinian political prisoners and end its occupation … Read more
The entire population of Gaza is “being dehumanised,” the chief of the main UN agency operating there told the UN Security Council Monday, as pressure intensified on the besieged strip with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ruling out a ceasefire, saying “this is a time for war”. Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner general of the UN Relief … Read more
For more than 40 years, Adelaide man Mustapha Chahine has yearned for answers over the disappearance of his son Khaled from a Lebanese street. The family suspects he was taken when he was just 16 by Israeli soldiers as the first Lebanon war was about to erupt. It came after Mustapha had already experienced immense … Read more
Thousands of Palestinians fled northern Gaza on Wednesday, travelling kilometres on foot through the battered enclave in a growing exodus prompted by Israel’s intensified ground and air campaign. Streams of people — women, children, the elderly and disabled — made their way down Salah Eddin St, one of the two north-south highways in Gaza, along … Read more
Violence has erupted as pro-Palestine and pro-Israel protesters squared off in Melbourne’s southeast after a suspicious fire at a nearby burger shop. Police used pepper-spray as a fight broke out in the middle of Hawthorn Road in Caulfield South on Friday night. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Melbourne protesters clash as pro-Palestine and pro-Israel groups face … Read more
Israeli tanks have sought to push further west in their battle against Hamas in and around Khan Younis, the southern Gaza Strip’s main city, as UN officials reiterated calls for a ceasefire to avert a humanitarian catastrophe. The fighting in Khan Younis comes as Israel refocuses its more than two month war effort to the … Read more
Australia has voted in favour of a UN resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza, hours after the prime minister called for a “sustainable ceasefire” with his Canadian and New Zealand counterparts. The 193-member United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday (AEDT) passed a resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza with 153 members in favour, … Read more
Maverick federal MP Bob Katter wants to scrap the King’s image from the country’s coins in favour of significant Australians. The Katter’s Australian Party leader has touted an alternative design for the national currency, suggesting it could feature a Kalkadoon warrior or distinguished Australian soldier Ralph Honner. “Surely you’d put Kokoda hero Ralph Honner on … Read more
The UN Security Council has approved a toned-down bid to boost humanitarian aid to Gaza that stopped short of a call for a ceasefire because of fears the United States and Israel would veto the motion. The US, which is Israel’s main ally had threatened to veto the Security Council motion during days of wrangling, … Read more
Salwa Tibi recalls how she covered several miles on foot in southern Gaza in a desperate search for blankets and sheets that might help keep her four children and other young relatives warm at night. The aid worker, 53, told CNN she and her husband were “full of fear” as they ventured out to buy … Read more
