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A destroyed beachside cafe in Gaza City.

The Trump-backed Palestinian who wants to bulldoze Gaza’s rubble into the sea

Ali Shaath, a civil engineer from Khan Younis who has been chosen to administer Gaza, wants to push the war debris into the Mediterranean to make new islands.

  • Rami Ayyub and Nidal al-Mughrabi

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

Albanese was set for a high-level meeting in New York. The US scuppered it

The visas of about 80 Palestinian officials, including Mahmoud Abbas, have been revoked before a UN meeting at which Australia plans to recognise a Palestinian state.

  • Brittany Busch
Aaron David Miller advised six United States secretaries of state on Middle East policy.

Recognising Palestine now is virtue signalling, says veteran Middle East negotiator

Aaron David Miller has advised six US secretaries of state, and said Australia was going about its approach to the Middle East in the wrong way.

  • Matthew Knott
ANKARA, TURKEY - AUGUST 15: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the Turkish parliament during an extraordinary session on August 15, 2024 in Ankara, Turkey. Mahmoud Abbas, who heads the Fatah Palestinian movement, a rival to Hamas, and internationally recognized Palestinian Authority and seeks a two-state solution with Israel. Turkey has not cut diplomatic ties with Israel, although they have been scaled back and Turkey has announced the suspension of trade, and wants to play a role as a guarantor in ending the Gaza war. (Photo by Serdar Ozsoy/Getty Images)

Mahmoud Abbas: Palestine’s future president – or yesterday’s man?

The 89-year-old was once seen as the man most likely to lead a future Palestinian state. Many Palestinians now see him as an irrelevance.

  • Tom Housden
Anthony Albanese and Donald Trump.

Trump is watching Australia’s decision on Palestine. Does it matter?

The US president pays particular attention to the Anglosphere. But he has been relatively subdued in his response to other countries moving to recognise Palestine.

  • Michael Koziol
It’s a surprise to peace campaigners to find themselves putting their hope in Donald Trump.

Why two men from opposite sides see Donald Trump as a ‘saviour’

Unlikely allies Gershon Baskin and Samer Sinijlawi speak as one about peace in the Middle East. Now they see hope in the form of the US president.

  • Matthew Knott
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Displaced Palestinians returning to a destroyed Rafah in the Gaza Strip, a day after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas came into effect.

Here’s why Trump’s ‘clean out Gaza’ idea is rejected

The US president said resettling most of the strip’s population of 2.3 million in Jordan or Egypt could be “temporary or long term”. He’s already heard a firm “no”.

  • Joseph Krauss
The Salih family home after an Israeli incursion in Jenin, West Bank in September.

Palestinians say they are being used as human shields in West Bank

More than 180 people have been killed in airstrikes on the territory in the past year, including dozens of children.

  • Raja Abdulrahim and Azmat Khan

It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of the death of Hamas’ leader

Netanyahu has long wanted to show that he is a historic figure. Well, this is his moment.

  • Thomas L. Friedman
Almost 1.5 million Palestinians have been displaced by the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip since October 7.

‘Menu of highly unpalatable options’: Who will run Gaza after the war?

World leaders and diplomats are grappling with the question of what life will look like for Palestinians after the last Israeli bomb falls.

  • Lucy Cormack