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World Vision’s former Gaza director Mohammed al-Halabi was convicted by an Israeli court of diverting aid funds to Hamas.

World Vision aid worker says Hamas believed ‘lie’, documents are fake

The former Gaza director of World Vision has rejected as “pure fabrications” newly released documents that show Hamas interrogated aid organisation staff.

  • Rob Harris

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World Vision’s former Gaza director Mohammed al-Halabi was convicted by an Israeli court of diverting aid funds to Hamas.

Hamas interrogated World Vision whistleblowers to obstruct trial

Hamas internal documents reveal the militant group assumed the key witness against Mohammed al-Halabi came from inside World Vision’s Gaza office.

  • Rob Harris
Palestinians looks at a destroyed car following an Israeli strike in Gaza City.

Israel says it killed senior Hamas commander in Gaza

It is the highest-profile assassination of a senior Hamas figure since the Gaza ceasefire deal came into effect in October.

  • Nidal al-Mughrabi and Emily Rose
People gather near ambulances ferrying victims of the strike at Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp in Sidon.

Israel targets Lebanon with airstrike that kills 13

The Israeli military said it had hit a Hamas training compound in the deadliest attack inside Lebanon since last year’s ceasefire.

  • Mohammad Zatari
Donald Trump with Benjamin Netanyahu  at the Israeli Knesset in October.

Trump’s Gaza peace plan approved by United Nations Security Council

The vote paves the way for an international security force to enter the beleaguered Palestinian territory, as well as the formation of a governing Board of Peace.

  • Michael Koziol
Hamas’ request to intervene in the case came five days after a ceasefire brokered by US President Donald Trump came into effect.

Hamas’ court bid to overturn its Australian terror listing

Hamas argues the terror listing has breached international law, impeded ceasefire negotiations and exposed its negotiators to assassination.

  • Matthew Knott
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Palestinians inspect the damage following an Israeli airstrike at the Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on Wednesday.

Gaza ceasefire is back on, Israel says, after new strikes kill more than 100

The strikes, the deadliest since the ceasefire began on October 10, marked the most serious challenge to the tenuous truce to date.

  • Wafaa Shurafa and Josh Boak
West Australian MP Andrew Hastie.

Australian peacekeepers in Gaza would be ‘Hamas targets’, Liberal senator warns

Outspoken MP Andrew Hastie launched a provocative argument against sending Australian personnel to Gaza as world leaders plan a stabilisation force.

  • Matthew Knott
Nepalese pay their respects to Bipin Joshi.

Their son was caught in someone else’s war – and came home in a coffin

As he left his mountain home to work thousands of kilometres away, Bipin Joshi gave his parents and little sister a big hug. They now know there will be no more.

  • Binod Ghimire and Pranav Baskar
Palestinians collect leaflets dropped by an Israeli drone warning people to stay away from the so-called yellow line in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Monday, Oct. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

The one-word post that shows how hard it will be to keep peace in Gaza

The short-lived, if intense, Israeli military response to the latest violence in Gaza suggests US officials were at work behind the scenes to push restraint and keep the deal alive.

  • David M. Halbfinger