13 February 2024, The Guardian: Israel is facing growing international pressure over its intention to launch an all-out military assault on the city of Rafah, in southern Gaza, in the wake of a ferocious hostage rescue operation that killed dozens of Palestinians.
Read MoreIsrael rescues two hostages in Rafah, as health officials say 67 people killed by air strikes
12 February 2024, ABC / Reuters: Israel has launched a special forces operation that freed two Israeli hostages in Rafah amid air strikes, which local health officials said killed 67 people and wounded dozens in the southern Gaza city.
Read MorePM orders plan to evacuate Rafah
11 February 2024, The Age & Sydney Morning Herald / AP, Reuters, by Nidal al-Mughrabi: Gaza’s southernmost town, Rafah, is bursting at the seams. Nearly the last place spared an Israeli offensive so far, Rafah’s population has more than quintupled with Palestinians streaming in to escape fighting. They pack by the dozens into apartments. Footpaths and once-empty lots are clogged with tents full of families.
Read MoreBiden urged to include politicians in sanctions on violent Israeli settlers
10 February 2024, The Guardian, by Chris McGreal: There are growing calls for Joe Biden to use his new executive order sanctioning violent Israeli settlers to also target political leaders, including government ministers, responsible for driving attacks against Palestinians.
Read MoreTragic end to Gaza rescue mission, while Rafah awaits full-blown offensive
10 February 2024, The New Daily / AAP / AP: Israeli air strikes have killed 44 people in Gaza’s Rafah overnight, medics said, as more than a million Palestinians crammed into the border city await a full-blown offensive. Also on Saturday, relatives found the body of a six-year-old Palestinian girl who had begged rescuers to send help after being trapped in Gaza City by Israeli military fire, along with the bodies of five of her family members and two ambulance workers who had gone to save her.
Read MoreHamas divisions over US-backed ceasefire proposal stall talks
4 February 2024, The Australia, by Jared Malsin and Summer Said: Divisions between the top leaders of Hamas are preventing the militant group from signing off on a US-backed proposal to stop the fighting in Gaza and free more hostages, according to officials.
Read MorePM backs latest strikes on Houthis
5 February 2024, The Age, by David Crowe: Australia has backed the United States over its missile strikes against militias backed by Iran in the wake of a drone attack that killed three American troops and wounded dozens of others in Jordan last week.
Read MoreMPs keeping Netanyahu in power warn him against any Hamas deal
5 February 2024, The Age: Jerusalem: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is not ready to accept a deal at any price to release hostages held by Hamas amid rifts in his coalition about a US push to get more aid into Gaza.
Read MoreWhat I know about war and genocide
3 February 2024, Canberra Times, by Mike Kelly: I served for 20 years in the Australian Army where I was continuously involved in applying the laws of armed conflict directly and advising in the planning and conduct of operations, both Australian and coalition.
Read More‘Grave violations’: Western officials in unprecedented Gaza protest
2 February 2024, The New Daily: More than 800 high-ranking civil servants in the United States and Europe have voiced dissent against their own governments’ policies on the Israel-Gaza war.
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