ANALYSIS As Joe Biden was standing shoulder to shoulder with Emmanuel Macron honouring France’s war dead at Paris’s Arc de Triomphe, they were celebrating in Tel Aviv. Israel had successfully freed four hostages held by Hamas. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s apparent refusal to sign up to a ceasefire agreement had found limited, short-term success. … Read more
Israel has hit a Gaza school with what it described as a targeted air strike on fighters inside, however a Hamas official says 40 people were killed, including women and children sheltering at the United Nations site. Video footage showed Palestinians hauling away bodies and scores of injured in a local hospital after the attack, … Read more
The State Library of NSW has apologised after a security guard removed a student wearing a traditional Palestinian scarf. The library posted an apology on its Instagram page, explaining the guard had asked the student wearing the keffiyeh to leave the building, in the Sydney CBD. It said management had since spoken to the guard … Read more
WARNING: Graphic content Australia has decried Israel’s attack on Gaza’s last refuge as “horrific” and “unacceptable”. Israel has launched a bombing campaign on Rafah in the territory’s south after directing more than one million Palestinians to travel to the area. Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today On Monday, one of its airstrikes … Read more
Israeli air strikes have killed at least 35 Palestinians and wounded dozens in an area in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah designated for the displaced, Palestinian health and civil emergency service officials say. Health ministry spokesman in Hamas-run Gaza, Ashraf Al-Qidra, said most of the injured were women and children. Gazan authorities and … Read more
Israeli forces have killed at least 50 Palestinians in aerial and ground bombardments across the Gaza Strip and battled in close combat with Hamas-led militants in areas of the southern city of Rafah. Israeli tanks on Thursday advanced in Rafah’s southeast, edged towards the city’s western district of Yibna and continued to operate in three … Read more
Ireland, Spain and Norway have announced they will recognise a Palestinian state on May 28, saying they hope other Western countries will follow suit – prompting Israel to recall its ambassadors. Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said the move was aimed at accelerating efforts to secure a ceasefire in Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza. … Read more
Israeli forces have thrust deeper into the Jabalia camp in northern Gaza, laying waste to residential districts with tank and air bombardments, residents say, while Israeli air strikes have killed at least five people in the southern city of Rafah. Simultaneous Israeli assaults on the northern and southern edges of the Gaza Strip have caused … Read more
The chief prosecutor of the world’s top war crimes court is seeking arrest warrants for leaders of Israel and Hamas, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, over actions taken during their seven-month war. While Netanyahu and his defence minister, Yoav Gallant, do not face imminent arrest, the announcement by the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) chief … Read more
Israeli forces have rescued the bodies of three hostages from the Gaza Strip, chief military spokesman Daniel Hagari says. Hagari identified the three as Shani Louk, Amit Buskila and Itshak (Yitzhak) Gelernter, who he said “were murdered by Hamas while escaping the Nova music festival on October 7 and their bodies were taken into Gaza”. … Read more
