The Age/Tony Wright The morning brought the first hint of summer. The sea, flattened beneath a breezeless sky, was translucent. There seemed no horizon. My granddaughter padded into my room, sat on my bed and solemnly studied the view beyond the window. “Pa,” she said in the voice that tells me she is about to… Continue reading There are worse things stolen from children than the colour of the sea.
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Civilians make up 61% of Gaza deaths from airstrikes, Israeli study finds
Civilian proportion of deaths is higher than that in all world conflicts in 20th century, data suggests The Guardian | Julian Borger | 10 Dec 2023 The aerial bombing campaign by Israel in Gaza is the most indiscriminate in terms of civilian casualties in recent years, a study published by an Israeli newspaper has found.… Continue reading Civilians make up 61% of Gaza deaths from airstrikes, Israeli study finds
Israel wants to slay the monster next door, but with this lethal bombardment, it is feeding it
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
Israelis aren’t seeing the devastating pictures Australians see from the war in Gaza. They’re watching a sanitised war
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
Change in Washington, not Israel, the priority for Palestinians
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
Guterres urges Security Council to act over Israel-Palestine crisis as threat to international peace and security
© 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
Israel unleashes ‘most intense day’
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’
Israel-Gaza war live updates: Telecom services shut down in Gaza as 80 per cent of population is displaced
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
As a non-Zionist Jew, I’ve had enough
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
A devastating new term has emerged in Gaza’s hospitals: Wounded Child, No Surviving Family
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