Gaza Strip
‘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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Albanese confronted by protesters at Lakemba Mosque
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke were attending prayers at the mosque to mark the end of Ramadan.
- Mostafa Rachwani
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- Antisemitism
Yes, we feel unsafe, but many Jews know we always will while others live in peril
Our leaders genuflect to so-called Jewish sensibilities, as if Jewish people speak with one emotional voice. We don’t.
- David Leser
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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- Middle East at war
Najah and Hajar and their children walked for hours to flee the bombing. As night fell, they were no closer to shelter
An Israeli evacuation alert spread panic through Beirut’s southern suburbs, forcing people to move north to escape the attacks and search for places to stay, choking highways and overloading shelters.
- David Crowe
- Opinion
- Middle East at war
I covered the Middle East when Saddam was America’s friend. The bloodletting hasn’t stopped
Iranians deserve better than the ayatollahs – and they deserve better than an illegal war waged by a felonious, feckless president with no plan for what follows.
- Geraldine Brooks
She was five years old and under fire. In this film, we hear her last words
The Voice of Hind Rajab uses the real voice of a Palestinian girl who could not be saved. Some call it exploitative, but its director is unapologetic.
- Stephanie Bunbury
Burke under pressure to bar Israeli journalist who would ‘fan the flames of racism’
Zvi Yehezkeli, who said 100,000 Palestinians should have been killed at the start of the war in Gaza, is scheduled to visit Australia for events in March.
- Matthew Knott
The five key questions for the Bondi royal commission to answer
The investigation into the December 14 massacre begins public hearings this week with a statement by Virginia Bell, the former High Court judge who will head the inquiry.
- Matthew Knott
Trump tells Board of Peace he’ll decide on bombing Iran within 10 days
Amid growing expectations of war with Iran, the Board of Peace announced five nations led by Indonesia had agreed to commit troops to an International Stabilisation Force in Gaza.
- Michael Koziol