Month: December 2023

The Age / AP, Reuters | Simon Lewis | 7.12.23 Deir al-Balah: Israeli troops have entered Gaza’s second-largest city as intensified bombardment sent streams of ambulances and vehicles racing to hospitals with wounded and dead Palestinians in a bloody new phase of the war. The military said its forces were ‘‘in the heart’’ of Khan… Continue reading Israel unleashes ‘most intense day’

ABC | 7.12.23 Israel’s widening air and ground offensive in southern Gaza has displaced tens of thousands more Palestinians and worsened the territory’s dire humanitarian conditions, with the fighting preventing distribution of food, water and medicine outside a sliver of southern Gaza and new military evacuation orders squeezing people into ever-smaller areas of the south.… Continue reading Israel-Gaza war live updates: Telecom services shut down in Gaza as 80 per cent of population is displaced

The Age | Jenna Price | 6.12.23 There is, I think, the hint of a better future after the latest heartbreaking revelation to emerge from the Middle East that the Israeli government knew a year ago about Hamas’ plans for the horrific murders on October 7. It knew. It did nothing. Why is that knowledge… Continue reading As a non-Zionist Jew, I’ve had enough

ABC | Allyson Horn and ABC staff in Gaza | 6.12.23 Inside Gaza’s overwhelmed hospital system, an influx of injured children arriving alone without any family has prompted doctors to coin a new term: WCNSF. The heartbreaking label stands for Wounded Child, No Surviving Family and means the child is the sole surviving member of… Continue reading A devastating new term has emerged in Gaza’s hospitals: Wounded Child, No Surviving Family

Also on Sunday, families and friends of hostages taken by Hamas addressed a gathering at a Sydney synagogue Thousands of pro-Palestine protesters have gathered in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane to demand an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, pledging the rallies will not stop until “freedom and justice prevails”. For the eighth week in a… Continue reading ‘Until freedom and justice prevail’: rallies for Palestine march again through Australian capitals

Demonstration is first time abductees’ families have come together with other activists Dozens of people attended a noisy fringe protest in Tel Aviv on Saturday night outside the Israeli military’s headquarters, protesting against the renewed bombardment on Gaza that they blame for the halt in the release of the estimated 130 hostages still held by… Continue reading Dozens attend protest in Tel Aviv against Israeli bombardment of Gaza

By Arafat Barbakh and Nidal al-Mughrabi Updated December 4, 2023 — 6.40amfirst published at 5.21am Khan Younis: The Israeli military says it had expanded its ground operations to every part of Gaza and ordered more evacuations in the crowded south, followed by heavy bombardment, as it vowed that operations there against Hamas would be “no… Continue reading Israel says it will hit crowded south Gaza as hard as it hit north

ABC | 5.12.23 Intense Israeli air strikes have continued to hit the south of the Gaza Strip, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, including in areas where Israel had told people to seek shelter, residents and journalists on the ground said. Israeli troops and tanks have also pressed the ground offensive against Hamas militants in… Continue reading Israel-Gaza: Israel presses ground offensive in southern Gaza Strip, as local media reports schools struck in north

Deir Al-Balah, Gaza Strip: Israel and Hamas agreed at the last minute on Thursday (AEDT) to extend their ceasefire in Gaza by another day to allow more hostages and prisoners to be released. But any further renewal of the truce, now in its seventh day, could prove more daunting since Hamas is expected to set… Continue reading Pair of Israeli hostages released, truce in Gaza holds another day, talks turn tense