The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly voted in favour of a resolution recognising Palestinians as qualified to join and recommending the UN Security Council reconsider the matter. Australia and 142 other members of the General Assembly voted in favour of the resolution, while nine — including the US and Israel — voted against it. Twenty-five members […]
Read MoreAbout 110,000 people have fled Rafah, UNRWA says
Some 110,000 people have left Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip since the Israeli army started advancing on the city, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) says. “@UNRWA estimates around 110,000 people have now fled Rafah looking for safety,” the UN agency for Palestinian refugees […]
Read MoreGaza conflict: snapshot of a population being starved into submission
Israel has banned the UN aid-coordinating agency, Unrwa, from accessing the population of northern Gaza where a major famine is now believed to be imminent. The country has accused UNWRA staff of involvement in the October 7 Hamas attack but has provided no evidence this was the case and the agency denies the allegations. Across […]
Read MoreThis Gazan family has just started their new life here after their visas were cancelled en route to Australia
Nine-year-old Eleen Eissa was so excited to play with her newly donated Barbie doll that she immediately unpacked it after receiving it. It’s one of the first toys she’s been given after she and her family fled from Gaza to Australia on temporary visas a week ago. As Eleen sat quietly next to her six-year-old […]
Read MoreReject ‘propaganda’ against aid agency, Australia urged
Australia is being urged to immediately reinstate aid for Palestinian refugees and commit to a national debate on a two-state solution with Israel. The government needs to “reject propaganda attacks” against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), the nation’s peak foreign aid body says. Israel had a clear motive in […]
Read MoreSTC performer dons Palestinian keffiyeh for her family at curtain call
Actor Violette Ayad, who stars in Oil at the Sydney Theatre Company, donned a Palestinian keffiyeh headscarf during the curtain call of the show at the Wharf Theatre on Wednesday night and has vowed to wear it every night of the season. Ayad, an Australian-born actor with Lebanese and Palestinian parents, has family who have […]
Read MoreYoungest hostage killed in Israeli airstrike: Hamas
30 November 2023, The Australian, by Jacquelin Magnay The youngest Israeli hostage, 10- month Kfir Bibas and his four -year-old brother Ariel have been killed in an Israeli airstrike alongside their mother Shiri Silberman-Bibas, Hamas claims. The baby, who was learning to crawl when snatched on October 7 along with his mother and older brother, […]
Read MoreGazans fleeing the Israel-Gaza war say even with a visa to Australia, it’s a struggle to cross the Rafah border
01 December 2023, ABC News, by Ahmed Yussuf and Zena Chamas Mahmoud Idrees is on the brink. He is trying to hold it all together for his family. But after weeks of dodging Israeli air strikes and bombs falling from the sky, all he can do now is wait. He moved his family seven times […]
Read MoreTragic Days in the Annals of a Palestinian Refugee Camp
Days in the life of Aqabat Jabr, a refugee camp on the outskirts of Jericho.
Read MoreShames Mousa interviewed about her family’s Nakba experience.
Palestine Remembered interviews Australian Palestinian refugee Shames Mousa about her family’s Nakba experience. https://www.3cr.org.au/palestine/episode-201812150930/interview-shames-mousa-about-her-familys-nakba-experience From the 11th to the 15th please continue to wear the keffiyeh remembering Nakba Day. 549
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