The Age & Sydney Morning Herald | Matthew Knott | 12 March 2024 Cowards – aid for innocent children should not be withheld because our politicians are being bullied by the Israeli Government and their lies – Mark The Albanese government says it will not reinstate funding to the UN’s main provider of humanitarian aid in the Palestinian territories until an investigation into the agency is complete as it prepares for a backlash from the Israeli government and its local advocates. Sweden and Canada announced in

(The Age, 11/3/2024) This takes me back to the Ethiopian starvation / famines of the 80’s and 90’s – how can the USA and the UK let this happen – Mark It is all too easy to trace the skull beneath the boy’s face, the pallid skin stretching tight over every curve of bone and sagging with every hollow. His chin juts with a disturbing sharpness. His flesh has shrunk and shrivelled, life reduced to little more than a thin mask over an imminent death. In

The Age & Sydney Morning Herald / Reuters, AP | Aamer Madhani | 10 March 2024 How really awful – but the air drops are so little way too late anyway – Mark Humanitarian airdrops into the Gaza Strip have killed civilians, in the latest tragedy for Palestinians since the war between Hamas and Israel began. The US military’s Central Command, which oversees the Mideast, issued the statement on X, formerly Twitter, which said: ‘‘We are aware of reports of civilians killed as a result of

ABC | Eric Tlozek, Orly Halpern and Haidarr Jones at the Kerem Shalom crossing | 10 March 2024 Sadly the same type of young Jewish girls are also using social media to describe all Palestinian’s as ‘animals’ that must be destroyed etc. If only their energy was directed at peace the hostages would never have been taken and so many lives saved on all sides – Mark While Palestinians inside Gaza face starvation, some Israelis are trying to stop supplies from getting into the besieged territory.Protesters

The Guardian/ Nina Lakhani/6.3.2024 Any weapon will do in this illegal genocidal war – Mark Special rapporteurs say ‘campaign of starvation and targeting of civilians’ must end after incident in Gaza on Thursday UN experts have condemned the violence they say was unleashed by Israeli forces last week on Palestinians gathered in Gaza City to collect flour as a “massacre”. In a statement, a group of UN special rapporteurs accused Israel of “intentionally starving the Palestinian people in Gaza since 8 October,” adding: “Now it is

The Guardian Australia/Julian Borger/6.3.2024 Israel claims sexual assault on their hostages whilst committing multiple crimes of the same but on a much larger scale and for many more years – do not be fooled by the Israeli misdirection – Mark Internal analysis by UNRWA, based on interviews with released Palestinians, describes dog attacks and the prolonged use of stress positions. An internal UN report describes widespread abuse of Palestinian detainees in Israeli detention centres, including beatings, dog attacks, the prolonged use of stress positions and sexual

The Age/5.3.2024//Aamer Madhani and Seung Min Kim If only there was a real split – but this is just another delaying tactic to allow the genocide to continue – Mark Washington: A member of Israel’s war cabinet has flown to the United States to meet with Vice President Kamala Harris and other senior officials in defiance of Benjamin Netanyahu who told him country has “just one prime minister”. The unauthorised trip by Benny Gantz, a centrist political rival who joined Netanyahu’s three-minister wartime cabinet after Hamas’

The Age | David Leser | 5 March 2024 As we have said all along – we should not associate all Jews with the Israeli Government or Netanyahu – some are prepared to stand up for what is right – God Bless You David – Mark Late last week, I read a headline in Israel’s oldest newspaper, Haaretz, that left me horror-struck: ‘‘30,000 Dead. A Stampede of the Starving.’’ In just over four months, 30,000 Palestinians had been killed in Gaza and, last Thursday, hundreds more

The Age & Sydney Morning Herald / AP / Reuters | Wafaa Shurafa | 5 March 2024 This is what happens when a Government murders innocents in the name of ‘defence’ – genocide leads us to places that only the Jews themselves have experienced in recent times – Mark RAFAH: It took 10 years and three rounds of in-vitro fertilisation for Rania Abu Anza to become pregnant, and only seconds for her to lose her five-month-old twins, a boy and a girl.An Israeli strike hit the

The vice-president called for a ceasefire and the immediate release of hostages, in comments that appeared to be the strongest yet by a US leader on Gaza The Guardian | Staff / Reuters and Associated Press | 4 March 2024 Well that’s then end of her career – at last an American leader prepared to call out Israel no matter the cost – Mark US vice-president Kamala Harris has bluntly called out Israel for not doing enough to ease a “humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza as the