Israeli tanks have pushed deeper into Rafah, reaching some residential areas of the southern Gazan border city where more than one million people had sought shelter, and its forces pounded the enclave’s north in some of the fiercest attacks in months. Israel’s international allies and aid groups have repeatedly warned against a ground incursion into … Read more
The sentencing of the man who helped expose allegations of Australian war crimes in Afghanistan has been met with outrage, with David McBride to spend at least two years and three months behind bars. McBride, 60, pleaded guilty to leaking classified defence information to journalists. Justice David Mossop sentenced him to an aggregated five years … Read more
Israeli forces have pushed deep into the ruins of Gaza’s northern edge to recapture an area where they had claimed to have defeated Hamas months ago, while at the opposite end of the enclave, tanks and troops pushed across a highway into Rafah. With some of the most intense fighting for weeks now taking place … Read more
Some 110,000 people have left Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip since the Israeli army started advancing on the city, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) says. “UNRWA estimates around 110,000 people have now fled Rafah looking for safety,” the UN agency for Palestinian refugees … Read more
Israeli forces have massed tanks and opened fire close to built-up areas of Rafah after US President Joe Biden vowed to withhold weapons from Israel if its forces launch a major invasion of the southern Gaza city. As ceasefire talks continued in Cairo, Palestinian militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad said their fighters struck Israeli … Read more
The Israeli military has seized control of the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt and its tanks have pushed into the southern Gazan town of Rafah after a night of air strikes on the Palestinian enclave. The Israeli offensive took place as mediators struggled to secure a ceasefire agreement between Israel and … Read more
Israel has called on civilians to evacuate parts of Rafah in what appears to be preparation for a long-threatened assault on Hamas holdouts in the southern Gaza Strip city where more than a million war-displaced Palestinians have been sheltering. Instructed by Arabic text messages, telephone calls, and flyers to move to what the Israeli military … Read more
A former military lawyer who helped expose allegations of war crimes by leaking classified documents is asking a judge for leniency but prosecutors want him to spend at least two years behind bars. David McBride pleaded guilty to three offences including stealing commonwealth information and passing it onto journalists. Justice David Mossop heard arguments in … Read more
Protesters have been taken into custody after Columbia University called in New York police to end the pro-Palestinian occupation on campus. Police said the university’s Hamilton Hall was cleared of pro-Palestinian protesters who took over the building on Tuesday. The scene unfolded as officers wearing helmets and carrying zip ties and riot shields massed at … Read more
United Nations rights chief Volker Turk is “horrified” by the destruction of the Nasser and Al Shifa medical facilities in Gaza and reports of mass graves containing hundreds of bodies there, a spokesperson says. Palestinian authorities reported finding bodies in mass graves at a hospital in Khan Younis this week after it was abandoned by … Read more
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