Yesterday
‘Leave now’: Australians told to flee Israel as Hezbollah attacks continue
After four Israeli soldiers were killed in a missile strike, Australia’s foreign ministry updated its travel advice, urging people to leave Israel.
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- Andrew Tillett
Israeli tanks deepen their push into northern Gaza
Nine days into a major Israeli operation in northern Gaza, the Hamas-run Gaza government media office said Israeli strikes had killed around 300 Palestinians.
- Nidal al-Mughrabi
Four Israeli soldiers killed in Hezbollah drone attack
The Iran-backed terror group said the barrage on the IDF base showed it could still inflict Israeli losses despite the death of its leader in Beirut last month.
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- Jotam Confino
This Month
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- Middle East conflict
UN peacekeeper nations slam Israel over ‘unjustified’ attack
The Israeli military targeted a new location in northern Gaza, as a third UN peacekeeper was wounded in Lebanon in the escalating conflict with Hezbollah.
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- Amina Ismail and Ahmed Tolba
Two more UN peacekeepers wounded in Lebanon
The United Nations watchtower that came under Israeli fire on Friday is located at UNIFIL’s main base in Naqoura in south Lebanon.
- Amina Ismail and Timour Azhari
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- Middle East conflict
Israel hits Beirut in deadliest strike since start of war
The UN says Israeli forces also fired on peacekeepers’ headquarters in southern Lebanon.
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- Bilal Hussein and Wafaa Shurafa
‘Special kind of grief’: Palestinians mourn the life, and lives, lost
The scale of the carnage in Gaza has touched every corner of the vast Palestinian diaspora around the world, including in Australia.
- Andrew Tillett
- Analysis
- Middle East conflict
Why little is stopping Israel from waging war on Iran
Israel’s politicians, and some generals, are gung-ho that the moment has come.
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Rescue flights to be axed as Australians refuse to leave Lebanon
Despite pleadings from the Albanese government to flee to safety, there has been low demand from Lebanese-Australians for free evacuation flights.
- Andrew Tillett
Why Israel is stuck in a forever war
Peace in the Middle East seems more elusive than ever, with October 7 setting off a battle over not just land but the narrative itself.
- Roger Cohen
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
One year ago, my daughter was taken by Hamas
Doron, please, I’m begging you – keep fighting until we can reach you.
- Simona Steinbrecher
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- Middle East conflict
Biden, Netanyahu speak as Israel readies ‘lethal, precise’ attack plan
The two leaders were in discussions for the first time in almost two months as the IDF continued to press hard against Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.
- Matthew Cranston and Hans van Leeuwen
‘Bad f---ing guy’ description hangs over Biden-Netanyahu phone call
Joe Biden’s hopes of avoiding a wider Middle East war are more remote after revelations he described Benjamin Netanyahu as a “son of a bitch”.
- Andrew Tillett
Netanyahu defiant as Middle East braces
Benjamin Netanyahu is set to speak with US President Joe Biden over his retaliation plans against Iran amid fears of a widening war.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Why I still believe in a new golden age for the Middle East
For the region to flourish, the Iranian regime’s network of terror must be dismantled, root and branch.
- Constantine Frantzeskos
Israeli ground invasion reopens old wounds in battered south Lebanon
Escalation in Israel’s campaign against Hezbollah revives memories of the displacement and occupation of the past.
- Raya Jalabi
- Opinion
- Middle East conflict
This is the only way Iran’s regime can topple
Military intervention from Israel or the United States is unlikely to bring about the fall of the Islamic republic.
- Gideon Rachman
Hamas to rise ‘like a phoenix’ to battle Israel: leader
Hamas leader-in-exile Khaled Meshal said the group had suffered heavy casualties in its year-long war with Israel, but would rise from the ashes.
- Samia Nakhoul, Ahmed Jadallah and Andrew Mills
Israel takes fire on three fronts on anniversary of Hamas massacre
As the world commemorated the terrorist attack that triggered the conflict, rockets rained down on Israel from Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen.
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- Hans van Leeuwen and Matthew Cranston
Hezbollah praises pro-Palestine marches in Melbourne and Sydney
Security experts say the Iranian-backed Lebanese terrorist group is “clutching at straws” by posting photos of the rallies held in Australia.
- Gus McCubbing
