4 February 2024, Herald-Sun: Geneva: The UN estimates at least 17,000 children in the Gaza Strip have been left unaccompanied or separated nearly four months into the war. “Each one has a heartbreaking story of loss and grief,” said Jonathan Crickx, spokesman for the UN children’s agency Unicef in the Palestinian territories. “This figure corresponds to 1 per cent of the overall displaced population – 1.7 million people,” he said. Each one “is a child who is coming to terms with a horrible new reality”.
Read MoreAfter 3 months of devastation in the Israel-Hamas war, is anyone ‘winning’?
7 January 2024, The Conversation, by Ian Parmeter, Australian National University: The conflict still has a long way to run and may be headed towards stalemate. From a geopolitical perspective, here’s where the main players stand at the start of the new year.
Read MoreNation must not surrender principled stand on Israel
26 December 2023, The Australian, Editorial: Israel’s ambassador to Australia, Amir Maimon, speaks an uncomfortable truth when he questions whether his country is being held to a different standard than that which would be imposed on others. His concerns point to disappointment at the Albanese government’s contradictory support for a UN ceasefire motion that failed to hold Hamas to account for the atrocities of the October 7 invasion and massacre.
Read MoreUN resolution avoids ceasefire call
24 December 2023, The Age/ Reuters, by Michelle Nichols: The United Nations Security Council has approved a toned-down bid to boost humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip and called for urgent steps ‘‘to create the conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities’’ after a week of vote delays and intense negotiations to avoid a veto by the United States.
Read MoreUN Issues Aid Demands
24 December 2023, Sunday Telegraph: GAZA STRIP: Fighting is raging on between Israel and Hamas as the UN Security Council approved a much-delayed resolution to boost aid to the besieged Palestinian territory where civilians are struggling to find food.
Read MoreFood aid failing to reach Gaza residents despite ‘catastrophic’ hunger crisis
24 December 2023, The Guardian, by Kaamil Ahmed: A couple of biscuits and a can of beans is all that many Palestinians in Gaza say is being given to families to live on, if they receive aid at all, and that they are finding donated items for sale in the markets.
Read MoreUN resolution calls for Gaza aid but shies away from backing ceasefire
23 December 2023, The Age, by Michelle Nichols: Amid global outrage over a rising Gaza death toll in 11 weeks of war between Israel and Hamas and a worsening humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian enclave, the US abstained to allow the 15-member council to adopt a resolution drafted by the United Arab Emirates.
Read MoreThe fight to keep counting the dead in Gaza
23 December 2023, The Age, by Bassam Massoud and Maggie Fick: The morgue workers at the Nasser Hospital are part of an international effort that includes doctors and health officials in Gaza as well as academics, activists and volunteers around the world, to ensure the toll doesn’t become a casualty of the increasingly dire conditions of the war.
Read MoreGaza death toll passes 20,000 as US says it will support watered-down aid resolution
23 December 2023, The Age, by Najib Jobain, Jack Jeffery and Colleen Barry: Rafah, Gaza Strip: Health officials in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip say more than 20,000 Palestinians have been killed in the war between Israel and Hamas. The figure, amounting to nearly 1 per cent of the territory’s prewar population, is a new reflection of the staggering cost of the war, which in just over 10 weeks has displaced more than 80 per cent of Gaza’s people and devastated wide swaths of the tiny coastal enclave.
Read MoreUN votes for aid influx as Gaza famine looms
23 December 2023, The New Daily: The UN Security Council has demanded both sides of the Israel-Hamas conflict allow crucial aid into Gaza at scale amid fears of looming mass starvation and famine. The aid resolution was passed on Saturday morning (AEDT), with 13 Security Council members, including the UK and China, voting in favour.
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