Is Israel’s Gaza War the most destructive yet with conventional weapons? | Israel-Palestine conflict

Is Israel’s Gaza War the most destructive yet with conventional weapons? | Israel-Palestine conflict

Some military analysts have compared the Israeli bombardment of Gaza with bombing campaigns from World War II. The Israeli assault on Gaza has included the bombing of an area with an intensity that military analysts say hasn’t been seen since the second world war. Most of the weaponry is supplied…

Are Israel’s attempts to demoralise the Palestinians backfiring? | Israel-Palestine conflict

Are Israel’s attempts to demoralise the Palestinians backfiring? | Israel-Palestine conflict

Middle East expert Steven Cook says US President Joe Biden made a mistake with his ‘bear hug’ embrace of Israel. Some US officials have talked about the need to protect innocent Palestinian lives, but US President Joe Biden has said almost nothing. Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Steven Cook…

Israel should face war crimes probe over journalist death in Lebanon: NGOs | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israel should face war crimes probe over journalist death in Lebanon: NGOs | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Rights groups say attack that killed Reuters journalist and injured six others ‘likely a direct attack on civilians’. International rights groups have said that Israeli strikes that killed a journalist and injured six others in southern Lebanon were likely a direct attack on civilians and must be investigated as a…

Displacement, death, hunger as Israel’s war on Gaza enters third month | News

Displacement, death, hunger as Israel’s war on Gaza enters third month | News

Fighting has escalated in Gaza’s second-largest city of Khan Younis as Israeli air strikes rain down throughout the enclave, forcing Palestinians to flee to increasingly crammed pockets of the territory’s southern edge where there is no promised security, as the war enters its third month. “We are talking about a…

UN secretary-general invokes Article 99 on Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News

UN secretary-general invokes Article 99 on Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News

The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has invoked Article 99 of the UN Charter, urging the UN Security Council to act on the war in Gaza. The rare move by the secretary-general comes as the Security Council is yet to adopt a resolution calling for a ceasefire between Israel, Hamas and…

What do Israelis think of their gov’t handling of the captives’ crisis? | Israel-Palestine conflict

What do Israelis think of their gov’t handling of the captives’ crisis? | Israel-Palestine conflict

Relatives of captives have reacted with fury and demanded PM Benjamin Netanyahu step down over the crisis. In Israel, the plight of the captives dominates the political and news agenda, with major rallies calling for their release. Some have been freed in return for Palestinian prisoners, but 138 remain trapped…

Israeli raid kills 22 members of Al Jazeera correspondent’s family in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israeli raid kills 22 members of Al Jazeera correspondent’s family in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News

The family members of Moamen Al Sharafi, a correspondent for Al Jazeera Arabic, have been killed at Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. An Al Jazeera employee has lost 22 members of his family in an Israeli air attack on the home in which they were sheltering in the Gaza…

The IHRA definition of anti-Semitism has no place on Australian campuses | Israel-Palestine conflict

The IHRA definition of anti-Semitism has no place on Australian campuses | Israel-Palestine conflict

In universities across the world, the definition of anti-Semitism put forward by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) has been used to silence critical commentary on Israel’s human rights violations and war crimes. In Australia, the definition has been having a chilling effect on campuses across the country. Amid Israel’s…

Israel army in most intense combat in Gaza war, no safe place to evacuate | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israel army in most intense combat in Gaza war, no safe place to evacuate | Israel-Palestine conflict News

The Israeli army has widened its attacks in southern and central Gaza, with some of the heaviest fighting in the war seeing homes sheltering displaced Palestinians bombed, refugee camps hit and no safe place left to evacuate thousands of people already on the move for weeks. From early Wednesday morning,…