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You can sympathise with the country’s desire to crush Hamas, and yet fear it is taking the wrong path in Gaza The Guardian | Jonathan Freedland | 9.12.23 When will it end? Some ask that question in despair, willing an end to the pictures of crushed buildings and destroyed lives, the succession of bleak images… Continue reading Israel wants to slay the monster next door, but with this lethal bombardment, it is feeding it

ABC | John Lyons | 10.12.13 This is the tale of two wars. There are two wars going on in Gaza right now — the one the Israeli public is watching and the one the rest of the world is watching. Each evening, Israelis are sitting down to watch their prime-time television news programs to… Continue reading Israelis aren’t seeing the devastating pictures Australians see from the war in Gaza. They’re watching a sanitised war

OSAMA AL-SHARIF December 05, 202318:39 Short Url Israel’s war on Gaza, now almost two months old, has polarized the world and created a yawning rift between people and governments in the West, with millions of Europeans and Americans marching for a “free Palestine” and an end to the occupation, while their governments continue to support… Continue reading Change in Washington, not Israel, the priority for Palestinians

© UNRWA/Ashraf Amra People search for their belongings in the rubble in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza. Invoking a rarely used article of the UN Charter, Secretary-General António Guterres on Wednesday called on the Security Council to “press to avert a humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza and unite in a call for a full humanitarian ceasefire… Continue reading Guterres urges Security Council to act over Israel-Palestine crisis as threat to international peace and security

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