Abigail Edan, a 4-year-old American dual citizen abducted by Hamas on October 7, has been released — marking the first successful release of an American hostage since the start of a truce between Israel and Hamas. Edan was one of the 17 hostages released on Sunday. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: More hostages released. Watch the … Read more
Australia remains a safe place for Jewish people, the deputy prime minister has affirmed, despite Israel issuing travel warnings for its citizens looking to visit. Israel has upgraded travel warnings to multiple countries, including Australia, following a rise in anti-Semitism stemming from the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. Travel warnings to Australia have been … Read more
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
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
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
An Etihad Airways Boeing 787-9 “Dreamliner” aircraft displays Israeli and Emirati flags after landing upon arrival from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on the company’s first scheduled commercial flight from Abu Dhabi, on April 6, 2021. JACK GUEZ | AFP | Getty Images DUBAI, United Arab Emirates … Read more
Aermacchi MB-339 trainer aircraft of the Fursan al-Emarat (UAE Knights) aerobatics team release smoke as they fly over with an Emirates Airbus A380-861 jetliner aircraft during the 2023 Dubai Airshow at Dubai World Central – Al-Maktoum International Airport in Dubai on November 13, 2023. Giuseppe Cacace | Afp | Getty Images DUBAI, United Arab Emirates … Read more
Houthi military helicopter flies over the Galaxy Leader cargo ship in the Red Sea in this photo released on Nov. 20, 2023. Houthi Military Media | Via Reuters Drone and missile attacks by Yemen-based Houthi militants have upended shipping through the Red Sea and Suez Canal, a narrow waterway through which some 10% of the … Read more
