Palestinians inspect the damage following an Israeli airstrike at the Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on Wednesday.

Gaza ceasefire is back on,Israel says,after new strikes kill more than 100

The strikes,the deadliest since the ceasefire began on October 10,marked the most serious challenge to the tenuous truce to date.

  • Wafaa Shurafa andJosh Boak

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West Australian MP Andrew Hastie.

Australian peacekeepers in Gaza would be ‘Hamas targets’,Liberal senator warns

Outspoken MP Andrew Hastie launched a provocative argument against sending Australian personnel to Gaza as world leaders plan a stabilisation force.

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Stan Grant delivers the Centre for Public Christianity’s Richard Johnson Lecture in Chatswood on Wednesday night.

In one girl’s tears I found the struggle for the human soul

In this world of toxic identity politics,young people like Kate are programmed for bitterness.

  • Stan Grant
Israeli gymnast Artem Dolgopyat has won Olympic gold on the floor exercise in Tokyo and is the defending world champion.

Ban on Israeli gymnasts earns rebuke from Olympics body

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.

  • Zach Hope andKaruni Rompies
Nepalese pay their respects to Bipin Joshi.

Their son was caught in someone else’s war – and came home in a coffin

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.

  • Binod Ghimire andPranav Baskar
Palestinians collect leaflets dropped by an Israeli drone warning people to stay away from the so-called yellow line in Khan Younis,in the southern Gaza Strip,Monday,Oct. 20,2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

The one-word post that shows how hard it will be to keep peace in Gaza

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.

  • David M. Halbfinger
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Smoke billows following an Israeli strike that targeted a building in the Bureij camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday.

Israel says ceasefire and aid to resume after Gaza airstrikes

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.

  • David Crowe
Ilana Haps. “This war not being my ‘fault’ will not spare me or my child from its shadow.”

As a Jew,I feel less safe than ever,but now we must share Gazans’ agony

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.

  • Ilana Laps
Palestinians watch members of Hamas searching for bodies of hostages in Khan Younis.

Two more hostage bodies released as US warns Hamas planning attack on Palestinians

It comes as Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu increases pressure on the militant group to speed up the retrieval of remains under their ceasefire.

  • Toqa Ezzidin,Sam Mednick andSamy Magdy
Hamas is meant to disarm under the deal,but has shown no sign of doing so.

Greatest reason Gaza war ‘will not end’:Why Hamas isn’t going anywhere

Gaza is pulverised. But reports suggest Hamas fighters have emerged from underground in fresh clothes,with functional weapons and “sparkling clean pick-up trucks”.

  • Michael Koziol