Gaza

A security contractor held a senior role in what a US legal service says is an "anti-government extremist group" linked to the hard right. Now he works on an Israel- and US-backed humanitarian aid project in Gaza.

While the Israeli government resents countries such as Australia recognising a Palestinian state, it is more of an irritant than a substantial setback. 

The Albanese government has again condemned the actions of Israel in Gaza but inside Labor there is frustration that the words don't go far enough.

Twenty years ago this month, Israeli soldiers were dragging recalcitrant Jewish settlers out of their homes in Gaza and demolishing the buildings. Now they are returning, with tanks and bulldozers.

Hamas's release of videos showing Israeli hostages comes at a precarious moment in the Gaza war, which has been mired for months in a stalemate over a potential ceasefire and hostage deal.

Shakespeare's Coriolanus has drawn parallels to Trump. But for its star Hazem Shammas, it has brought up the failures of the arts community in relation to the war in Gaza.

A Perth anaesthetist who spent four weeks volunteering in Gaza says her patients were often wounded while seeking food aid amid the ongoing hunger crisis.

Two Australians on board the Freedom Flotilla vessel said they were "brutalised psychologically in every way" while being detained in Israel as they touched down in Sydney. 

Food has been airdropped in Gaza and "humanitarian corridors" have been set up to make it easier to distribute aid throughout the strip. But aid officials and Palestinians question whether it's enough.

The US president has refuted claims made by the Israeli Prime Minister that there is no starvation crisis unfolding in Gaza, instead saying Palestinians "have to get food and safety right now".

The Israeli military says it is starting airdrops of aid into Gaza, and will establish so-called "humanitarian corridors" to allow United Nations convoys to take food through the strip.

For the first time, Israeli tanks have pushed into the Gazan city of Deir al-Balah, where sources say the IDF believe some of the remaining hostages may be held.

The delegation plans to send hundreds of tons of food aid, medical supplies and equipment to families inside Gaza. 

Pope Leo XIV has renewed his call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza in response to the attack.

The United Nations says most of those killed had been close to aid sites managed by the US and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

The Trump administration has imposed sanctions on one of the UN's top advocates for Palestinian rights, Francesca Albanese, accusing her of "spewing unabashed antisemitism".

The Israeli prime minister is expected to spend several days in Washington as Israeli and Hamas representatives take part in ceasefire negotiations in Qatar.

As a child dies from shrapnel wounds to his stomach and Israel denies starvation is occurring in Gaza the UN's aid urgency issues a warning that kids may soon die of thirst.

Israeli troops kill at least 23 Gazans waiting for food at an aid distribution site in Rafah, medics say.

Mohammed Mustafa recently returned from his second medical mission in Gaza, describing horrific conditions. Now, the Australian doctor is on a mission to build an Australian-backed children's hospital to help save lives.