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Kate Geraghty

Kate Geraghty

Kate Geraghty is the chief photojournalist at The Sydney Morning Herald. She has won multiple awards including the Gold Walkley in 2017.

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‘It was carnage’: How an Israeli raid tore apart this tiny Lebanese town

Israel this week launched a secretive cross-border raid to find the body of a missing pilot. It instead found defiant locals determined to resist, our reporters David Crowe and Kate Geraghty discovered in Nabi Chit.

  • David Crowe and Kate Geraghty

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Stranger danger: With every Israeli airstrike, Lebanon pays a painful price

As the Israeli Defence Forces hunt down Hezbollah, their relentless pursuit of the Iranian-backed militia has shredded the secular fabric of Lebanese society.

  • David Crowe and Kate Geraghty

A blast across the valley, black smoke over the hills – and the wounded arrive

Streets are empty, the shops are closed and dogs roam the pavements. An explosion erupts, and doctors brace for incoming patients, write David Crowe and Kate Geraghty from Lebanon.

  • David Crowe and Kate Geraghty
Passers-by walk near the scene of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut.

Israel pummels Hezbollah – at growing cost in civilian lives

Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced as Israel widens its assault on the Iranian-backed militants that dominate Lebanon.

  • David Crowe and Kate Geraghty
Beirut

The ritzy waterfront tourist hub was a safe haven – until a drone blasted the Ramada hotel

The strike shows Israeli forces will intensify their campaign in any part of Lebanon to hunt down Hezbollah militants and their allies from Iran, even if that risks civilian casualties.

  • David Crowe and Kate Geraghty
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‘Everywhere is full’: Beirut’s streets, schools, docks become makeshift shelter for desperate families

Lebanon is caught in the crossfire between Hezbollah and Israel and more than 454,000 people have been forced from their homes.

  • David Crowe and Kate Geraghty
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GIF: Swimming pools across NSW

When the mercury soars, these local pools prove the place to stay cool

Just as Sydney flocks to beaches and ocean baths, public swimming pools sit at the heart of the regional towns. Chief photographer Kate Geraghty has spent the summer visiting.

  • Angus Thomson and Kate Geraghty
Maia Domingas, 38, has advanced cervical cancer and lies in the gynaecology unit ward waiting to see if she is eligible for treatment overseas.

‘I can’t watch women die any more’: The remarkable tactics being used to eliminate a killer

Meet the Australian medicos taking the fight to an entirely preventable cancer killing young women, leaving children motherless and causing intergenerational damage.

  • Kate Aubusson and Kate Geraghty
Zoya Shaposhnik looks up at the hole in her ceiling after a missile strike near their home in Krasnohorivka in June 2022.

‘Blood oil’ on the ground: I’ve seen first hand the devastation of war in Ukraine

The Herald’s chief photographer has spent 23 years on assignment in war-torn countries: Ukraine really hit home.

  • Kate Geraghty
Hong Srey Rith holds her eight-day-old baby, Lin Kakada, in their shelter at the Batthkav primary school. Srey Rith went into labour as she fled her home.

In Cambodia’s refugee camps, fear lingers as uneasy peace holds

Waist-high in the acrid reservoir at the edge of the camp, a boy of about 10 crab walks along the line of a fishing net, hauling each section to eye level. He catches only plastic bags and bottles.

  • Zach Hope, Kate Geraghty and Nara Lon