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Israel President Isaac Herzog will visit Australia next week.

‘Israel and Australia have always been very close friends’: Isaac Herzog’s full interview

The Israeli president spoke about his controversial trip to Australia, the relationship between the nations, and what comes next for the Middle East.

  • Peter Hartcher and Matthew Knott

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Herzog’s warning to Albanese: Now is not the time for a two-state solution

On the eve of his trip to Australia, the Israeli president says the savage October 7 attacks so traumatised his people that a Palestinian state is not workable in the near future.

  • Matthew Knott and Peter Hartcher
Ran Gvili in an undated photo.

Israel recovers last hostage body, paving way for Gaza’s lifeline to reopen

The remains of police officer Ran Gvili – held in Gaza for more than 840 days – have been identified and will be returned for burial, the Israeli military said.

  • Alexander Cornwell
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has pushed a settlement expansion agenda in the West Bank.

Israel approves 19 new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank

The move further threatens the possibility of a Palestinian state, and brings the total number of new settlements over the past few years to a record level.

  • Melanie Lidman
A still from the leaked video of Israeli solders with Palestinian prisoners

The torture video shaking Israel to its core

The arrest of a senior military figure who allegedly leaked footage purporting to show Palestinian prisoners being abused has shocked Israel and ignited a major political row.

  • Henry Bodkin
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
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Smoke billows following an Israeli strike that targeted a building in the Bureij camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday.

Israel says ceasefire and aid to resume after Gaza airstrikes

The Israeli military said it was responding to being fired upon, in what is the most serious test yet of this month’s US-brokered truce.

  • David Crowe
Ilana Haps. “This war not being my ‘fault’ will not spare me or my child from its shadow.”

As a Jew, I feel less safe than ever, but now we must share Gazans’ agony

For my child’s sake, my heartbreak over October 7 and the surging antisemitism in its wake cannot shield me from what lies buried in Gaza’s rubble.

  • Ilana Laps
Hamas is meant to disarm under the deal, but has shown no sign of doing so.

Greatest reason Gaza war ‘will not end’: Why Hamas isn’t going anywhere

Gaza is pulverised. But reports suggest Hamas fighters have emerged from underground in fresh clothes, with functional weapons and “sparkling clean pick-up trucks”.

  • Michael Koziol
Although there is jubilation that the hostages have been freed difficult questions remain.

Hostages and prisoners have been exchanged. What now for Gaza?

There was elation when the hostages were released, but difficult questions remain, including whether Hamas will disarm and who will govern Gaza – highlighting the fragility of an agreement.

  • Melanie Lidman and Wafaa Shurafa