US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warns the latest push for a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal is probably the best and possibly last opportunity, urging Israel and Hamas towards an elusive agreement. However, with the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas announcing a resumption of suicide bombing inside Israel after many years, and with Israeli … Read more
Israeli forces have stepped up air strikes across the Gaza Strip, killing at least 40 people, Palestinian medics say, in further battle with Hamas-led militants as Israel braced for potential wider war in the region. Israeli air strikes hit a cluster of houses in central Gaza’s Al-Bureij camp, killing at least 15 people, and the … Read more
Nine staff members of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees may have been involved in the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and they will be dismissed, the United Nations says. “For nine people, the evidence was sufficient to conclude that they may have been involved in the seventh of … Read more
The Israeli military has confirmed that the head of Hamas’ military wing, Mohammed Deif, was killed in an air strike in Gaza in July. The announcement on Thursday comes a day after an apparent Israeli strike in the Iranian capital killed Hamas’ top political leader. Israel believes Deif, the head of Hamas’ military, and Yahya … Read more
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has been killed in Tehran, the Palestinian militant group Hamas has said. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Islamist faction mourned the death of Haniyeh who it said was killed in “a treacherous Zionist raid on his residence in Tehran”. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the assassination but suspicion … Read more
Australians are being warned to leave Lebanon immediately as world powers race to deter Israel from striking the capital Beirut in response to a deadly rocket attack on the Golan Heights. Flights to and from Beirut airport were cancelled or delayed on Monday as tensions escalated between Israel and armed political group Hezbollah after the … Read more
US Vice President Kamala Harris has pressured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to help reach a Gaza ceasefire deal that would ease the suffering of Palestinian civilians, striking a tougher tone than US President Joe Biden. “It is time for this war to end,” Harris said on Thursday in a televised statement after face-to-face talks … Read more
The top United Nations court says Israel’s presence in the occupied Palestinian territories is unlawful and should end, and for settlement construction to stop immediately. The ruling was an unprecedented, sweeping condemnation of Israel’s rule over the lands it captured 57 years ago. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quickly denounced the nonbinding opinion issued by … Read more
Australian surgeon Bushra Othman was surprised so many young Palestinian men were being shot in their groins and legs in Gaza and suffering instant infections. She soon found out it was so they would be paralysed. The brutalities of war and crippling lack of resources were quickly laid bare to Othman when she returned to … Read more
Russia and Ukraine are set to exchange 90 prisoners of war in a deal facilitated by the United Arab Emirates, Bloomberg reports. The Ukraine parliament’s commissioner for human rights Dmytro Lubinets had been reported in local media last week saying the government, with the help of the UAE, was planning “a big” prisoner exchange with … Read more
