27 January 2024, Canberra Times: The United Nations’ top court has stopped short of ordering Israel to cease its attacks on Gaza, as it considers allegations of genocide made by South Africa.
Read MoreUN court rules on Israel ‘genocide’ hearing
27 January 2024, Herald Sun: The International Court of Justice delivered its landmark ruling on the emergency measures requested by South Africa in its genocide case against Israel over its war on the Gaza Strip.
Read MorePalestinian death toll in Gaza surpasses 25,000 with no end in sight to Israel-Gaza war
22 January 2024, ABC News: The Palestinian death toll from the war between Israel and Gaza has soared past 25,000, the health ministry in the Gaza Strip said on Sunday, while the Israeli government appeared far from achieving its goals of crushing the militant group and freeing more than 100 hostages.
Read MoreThe barbaric conduct of the Israeli state must be stopped. The dignity and freedom of the Palestinian people must be upheld
16 January 2024, Pearls & Irritations, by Richard Falk, Chandra Muzaffar and Joseph Camilleri: The genocidal violence unleashed by Israel in Occupied Palestine since October 7 has produced unspeakable tragedy and suffering for the Palestinian people. Such barbaric behaviour places the State of Israel outside the bounds of a civilized world. Israel has become a pariah state, and must be treated as such by the international community.
Read MoreSolution Still Seems Very Long Way Away
20 January 2024, Courier-Mail, by Adella Beaini and Tiffany Bakker: The United States says it will not stop working towards a two-state solution despite Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu reiterating his stance opposing a future Palestinian state.
Read MoreGiving solace and seeking focus
20 January 2024, The Age & Sydney Morning Herald, by Matthew Knott: Three months on, it’s the smell of death I remember most. The rancid odour of dried blood filling my nostrils. On a reporting trip last year, when photographer Kate Geraghty and I visited Kfar Aza – a kibbutz in southern Israel that was attacked by Hamas on October 7 – the once tranquil communal town was a massacre site frozen in time.
Read MoreNetanyahu rejects US calls to wind back Gaza assault
20 January 2024, The Age & Sydney Morning Herald / AP, Reuters, by Josef Federman
JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected US calls to scale back Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip and take steps towards the establishment of a Palestinian state, drawing an immediate rebuke from the White House.
Read MoreIsrael rejects genocide accusations at international court hearing
The Hague: Israel on Friday rejected as “a grossly distorted story” accusations brought by South Africa at the UN’s top court that its military operation in Gaza is a state-led genocide campaign aimed at wiping out the Palestinian population. Israel told the United Nations’ highest court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), that its war […]
Read MoreLabor Is Blind On Israel
16 January 2024, Courier-Mail, by Andrew Wallace: Only a short drive from where, over a century ago, Australia’s 4th Light Horse Brigade freed the people of Beersheba, Hamas launched the worst single-day massacre against the Jews since Hitler’s Holocaust.
Read MoreWong Under Fire Over ME Agenda
16 January 2024, Courier-Mail, by Emily Olle: Prominent Jewish groups have lashed Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong’s decision not to visit the site of the October 7 Hamas attacks during a high-stakes peace trip to the Middle East, while internal pressure mounts from Labor MPs to condemn extremist Israeli settlers.
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