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April 5, 2024 at 5:00 pm The Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, was distraught and testy.  It seemed that, on this occasion, Israel had gone too far.  Not too far in killing over 32,000 Palestinians in Gaza, a staggering percentage of them being children.  Not too far in terms of using starvation as a weapon… Continue reading Killing aid workers: Australia’s muddled policy on Israel

Apr 10, 2024 The Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) welcomes the Foreign Minister’s support for the recognition of Palestine, but considers this only the first political step in supporting Palestinians to realise their rights to self-determination, justice and equality. With the most right-wing government in Israel’s history currently committing genocide in Gaza, and terrorising Palestinians… Continue reading Australian recognition of Palestine a first step to Palestinian rights, but recognition of Israeli apartheid also crucial

The Age & Sydney Morning Herald | Ben Saul | 9 April 2024 How can anybody believe a single word that comes from the mouths of the Government of Israel – bravo to Australia for standing up to something that EVERY nation should be doing – Mark Israel’s swift investigation into the killings of seven… Continue reading At last, the West awakens to Israel’s fighting

The Age & Sydney Morning Herald / AP | Jack Jeffery, Tia Goldenberg | 9 April 2024 There is no point in occupying a huge pile of rubble because that is all that is left after Israel has continued its genocidal destruction and murder of all Palestinians – Mark JERUSALEM: Israel’s military has announced it… Continue reading Israeli troops leaving Khan Younis

The Age | James Lemon | 04.04.2024 ACCIDENT – Mark Zomi Frankcom, an Australian aid worker, left Rafah in southern Gaza early on Monday with six others to help unload 400 tonnes of food at a makeshift jetty. They were all dead less than 24 hours later – killed by a series of Israeli drone… Continue reading Aid workers were unloading a million meals. Here’s how the IDF killed them

The Age | Farrah Tomazin | 05.04.2024 The threats by Biden simply don’t stand up to the ongoing supply of arms that Israel continues to use to murder so many innocent men, women and children – come on America put your money where your mouth is and stop this genocide – Mark Washington: US President… Continue reading Biden tells Netanyahu future US support for Israel’s war is on the line

by Jonathan Kuttab Previously, I wrote of the importance of bread for Palestinians, of the horrors of starvation, and the need to grant immediate and unencumbered access to the truckloads of food and supplies waiting at the border to meet that need. As Israel has systematically destroyed all means of Palestinian livelihood, Gazans are in… Continue reading Humanity Does Not Live By Bread Alone

Everybody who has even the smallest knowledge of the situation in Gaza knows that Israel is starving men, women and children to death as part of their plans to destroy all Palestinians – not only in this Genocide in Gaza but in the Genocide it has inflicted on the West Bank since 1967 – yet… Continue reading UN Agency ‘Banned’ From Delivering Aid To StarvingThe Australian / AFP |26 March 2024