Foreign Minister Penny Wong has cleared the ground for a pivotal debate on the conflict in the Middle East by suggesting Australia could recognise a Palestinian state without waiting
Israeli police attacked mourners attending the funeral of Walid Daqqa, who died after spending 38 years in Israeli jails, and arrested five people. London 09 April, 2024 Absolutely inhumane but sadly consistent behaviour by this criminal Government – Mark Israeli forces have cracked down on mourners going to attend the funeral of 62-year-old Palestinian intellectual Walid Daqqa, who died of terminal cancer in Israeli custody on Sunday. Daqqa, who was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer in December 2022, after earlier being diagnosed with leukaemia in 2015, was a
April 5, 2024 at 5:00 pm The Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, was distraught and testy. It seemed that, on this occasion, Israel had gone too far. Not too far in killing over 32,000 Palestinians in Gaza, a staggering percentage of them being children. Not too far in terms of using starvation as a weapon of war. Not too far in bringing attention to the International Court of Justice that its actions are potentially genocidal. Israel had overstepped in doing something it has done previously
The Age & Sydney Morning Herald | Ben Saul | 9 April 2024 How can anybody believe a single word that comes from the mouths of the Government of Israel – bravo to Australia for standing up to something that EVERY nation should be doing – Mark Israel’s swift investigation into the killings of seven aid workers by Israeli forces in Gaza has rightly not satisfied the victims’ families, their employer World Central Kitchen, or the Australian government.The Israeli investigation has admitted the killings were
The Age & Sydney Morning Herald / AP | Jack Jeffery, Tia Goldenberg | 9 April 2024 There is no point in occupying a huge pile of rubble because that is all that is left after Israel has continued its genocidal destruction and murder of all Palestinians – Mark JERUSALEM: Israel’s military has announced it has withdrawn its forces from the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, wrapping up a key phase in its offensive against Hamas and bringing its troop presence in the territory
April 11th, 2024 Last week, The Israeli military withdrew from the Gaza Strip’s largest hospital after a two-week raid, leaving behind scenes of devastation. Local sources who have witnessed atrocities for more than 180 days remark that the scenes at Al-Shifa Hospital are “indescribable”. Indeed, photos, videos, eyewitness stories reveal torture, killings and destruction that cannot be imagined. It is unclear what is the death toll since bodies are unidentifiable, however, Gaza’s civil defense agency claim at least 300 Palestinians were killed in and around