Today
PM backs Biden’s call for Gaza civilian protection
US President Joe Biden also stressed a “path toward peace” in the Israel-Gaza conflict, as Anthony Albanese pledged an extra $15 million in humanitarian aid to Gaza.
- 36 mins ago
- Matthew Cranston
How Aussie Jewish barristers banded together after Hamas attacks
Working long hours, usually alone, it can be a lonely life. In the days after the bloody attack on Israel, a WhatsApp group helped Jews at the NSW Bar come together.
- Ronald Mizen and Maxim Shanahan
Israel agrees to US request to pause Gaza invasion: report
Washington is reportedly scrambling air defence systems to protect its troops from any regional fallout that might follow Israel’s ground assault on Gaza.
- Hans van Leeuwen
- Opinion
- Opinion
All of Israeli society has mobilised in the face of terror
Israel’s social and economic resilience is critical once more as the country faces an unpredictable new crisis
- Jillian Segal and Michelle Blum
Yesterday
Public buildings are legitimate military targets: Israel
Israel’s ambassador to Australia defended the bombing of Gaza saying Hamas deliberately established its bases in places such as schools and hospitals.
- Phillip Coorey
S&P cites risk that war could spread
S&P Global Ratings has affirmed Israel’s rating at AA-; Amir Maimon says nearly 30 trucks have crossed the Rafah border. He says Hamas is not interested in peace. Here’s how the day unfolded.
- Updated
- Euan Black
Corporate Travel hired for Israel evacuation work
The travel agency also promised shareholders a $100 million share buyback at its AGM on Wednesday.
- Liam Walsh
World leaders urge pause to deadly Gaza strikes
The US and Russia are leading international calls for a pause in fighting, while a UN agency said it was halting operations in Gaza after running out of fuel.
- Nidal al-Mughrabi and Emily Rose
Watch: Hamas release hostage who was held in a ‘spiderweb’ tunnel
Yocheved Lifshitz, speaking from Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital, described the “unimaginable hell” of her kidnapping ordeal.
- Updated
- Kevin Sieff, Noga Tarnopolsky and Karla Adam
Fears grow that Israel has ‘no plan’ agreed for postwar Gaza
Washington has raised concerns about Tel Aviv’s lack of post-invasion exit strategy, say people familiar with discussions.
- Neri Zilber and Felicia Schwartz
Military aircraft sent to Middle East ‘as a contingency’
The Albanese government has sent two more military aircraft to the Middle East in the event the conflict escalates.
- Phillip Coorey and Andrew Tillett
- Opinion
- Iran
West’s enemies may be evil, but there’s no ‘axis’
Democracies should tease out the contradictions between Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, instead of dangerously lumping them together as a bloc.
- Janan Ganesh
Israel warns Hezbollah against ‘unimaginable devastation’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged Lebanon-based Hezbollah against launching its own war, as the two adversaries ratchet higher their rhetoric.
- Hans van Leeuwen
This Month
Freed hostages raise hopes of more to come
The release of another two captured Israelis from Gaza has lifted hopes for dozens still held by Hamas, as world leaders step up efforts to defuse soaring tensions.
- Phillip Coorey and Hans van Leeuwen
US readies plans for mass Middle East evacuations
US prepares evacuation contingency plans; Israel releases video of civilians butchered, in propaganda war; Hamas releases two more hostages. Here’s how the day unfolded.
- Updated
- Tom Burton and Trudy Harris
Pentagon rushes military advisers to Middle East
One of the officers leading the assistance is a Marine Corps general who helped lead special operations forces against Islamic State.
- Tara Copp and Aamer Madhani
- Analysis
- Analysis
The battle Israel fears it is losing
As the conflict drags on, and the bodies on the other side pile ever higher, Israel feels the world is reacting more to the horrific images of bombed out Gaza and dead, desperate and starving Palestinians.
- Updated
- Phillip Coorey
US readies plans for mass Middle East evacuations
Officials said more than 600,000 Americans living in Israel and Lebanon were of concern, but that removing them was a worst-case scenario.
- Yasmeen Abutaleb, Dan Lamothe, John Hudson and Michael Birnbaum
Paralysis, chaos as Israel delays invasion
So pervasive is the infighting in the government that top officials have tried to assure a traumatised public they are “working in close and full co-operation”.
- Isabel Kershner
- Analysis
- Analysis
Iran’s ayatollahs play the Middle East’s most dangerous game
Iran’s autocratic rulers hold one of the matches that could set the region alight: an “axis of resistance”, or network of violent proxies across the region.
- The Economist
