The strikes,the deadliest since the ceasefire began on October 10,marked the most serious challenge to the tenuous truce to date.
Outspoken MP Andrew Hastie launched a provocative argument against sending Australian personnel to Gaza as world leaders plan a stabilisation force.
In this world of toxic identity politics,young people like Kate are programmed for bitterness.
Indonesia appears to have wrecked its chances of hosting the 2036 Games after denying visas to Israeli athletes who wanted to compete at a world championships in Jakarta this week.
As he left his mountain home to work thousands of kilometres away,Bipin Joshi gave his parents and little sister a big hug. They now know there will be no more.
The short-lived,if intense,Israeli military response to the latest violence in Gaza suggests US officials were at work behind the scenes to push restraint and keep the deal alive.
The Israeli military said it was responding to being fired upon,in what is the most serious test yet of this month’s US-brokered truce.
For my child’s sake,my heartbreak over October 7 and the surging antisemitism in its wake cannot shield me from what lies buried in Gaza’s rubble.
It comes as Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu increases pressure on the militant group to speed up the retrieval of remains under their ceasefire.
Gaza is pulverised. But reports suggest Hamas fighters have emerged from underground in fresh clothes,with functional weapons and “sparkling clean pick-up trucks”.