Israel Hamas Conflict

The Israeli government has reversed course hours after it blocked the AP's live video of Gaza and faced mounting criticism for interfering with independent journalism.

The ICC is seeking arrest warrants for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Pro-Palestine students occupying a Melbourne University building have been ordered to pack up and leave or face possible expulsion, while Queenslanders have been arrested.

Israel's latest actions in Rafah have prompted fresh legal action amid genocide accusations in the UN's highest court.

Pro-Palestinian protestors at UQ have occupied a campus building as the wave of university protests continues around the country.

More than half a million Palestinians have been displaced in recent days by escalating Israeli military operations in southern and northern Gaza, the United Nations says.

Dozens of students filed from the crowd of graduates, including some carrying a Palestinian flag.

Ruby Chen’s son, Itay, was killed in the Hamas attack on October 7.

Israeli forces were battling Palestinian militants across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, including in parts of the devastated north that the military said it had cleared months ago, where Hamas has exploited a security vacuum to regroup.

The vote, which passed 143-9 with 25 abstentions, also called on the UN's Security Council to "favourably reconsider" Palestine's request to become the 194th member of the international body.

Heavy fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants on the outskirts of Rafah has left crucial nearby aid crossings inaccessible and forced more than 110,000 people to flee north, UN officials said.

The United States warned on Thursday that Israel will be dealing a strategic victory to Hamas if it carries out plans for an all-out assault on Rafah, the militants' last major stronghold in Gaza.

US President Joe Biden has said he won't supply offensive weapons that Israel could use to launch an all-out assault on Rafah – the last major Hamas stronghold in Gaza – over concern for the well-being of the more than 1 million civilians sheltering there.

The UN say no humanitarian aid has yet entered and there is no one to receive it on the Palestinian side after workers fled during Israel's military incursion in the area.

Israel said the peace deal did not meet its "core demands", but a glimmer of hope remains of at least a pause in the fighting.

With the eyes of the world turning to the Met Gala, anti-war protestors took the opportunity to march on the venue calling for an end to the Gaza conflict.

Multiple protesters were reportedly cuffed by police, who rigged steel barricades around the A-list event.

Israeli leaders have approved a military operation into the Gaza Strip city of Rafah, just hours after Hamas said it had accepted a ceasefire plan.

It's believed to be the first time Israel has ever shuttered a foreign news outlet, although its government has taken action against individual reporters in the past.

A delegation of the Palestinian militant group Hamas was in Cairo on Saturday as Egyptian state media reported “noticeable progress” in ongoing cease-fire talks

Dror Or, a 49-year-old held captive in Gaza, has died, the Hostages Families Forum said on Friday.

The cease-fire efforts appear to have reached a critical stage, with mediators reporting signs of compromise.

Tensions have been building for days as demonstrators refuse to remove campus encampments and administrators turn to police to clear them by force.

Violence between rival groups, as well as clashes with police, have led to turmoil around the US.

Israel's foreign minister slammed the 'hate-filled, antisemitic' decision, yet said relations between the two nations would remain warm.

Duelling groups of protesters clashed on Wednesday at the University of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and using sticks to beat one another.

Police officers carrying zip ties and riot shields stormed a Columbia University building being occupied by pro-Palestinian protesters.

Netanyahu said Israel would enter Rafah to destroy Hamas' battalions there regardless of whether a truce-for-hostages deal was struck or not.

Antony Blinken said Hamas had been presented with an "extraordinarily generous" offer by Israel that he hoped the group would accept.

Details of the deaths emerged as a multi-billion dollar military aid package for Israel was approved by the US House of Representatives.

Israel's war against the Islamic militant group Hamas has led to a dramatic escalation of tensions in the Middle East.

Graphic video shows several casualties scattered on the floor with blood streaming around the area.

Any strikes by Tel Aviv would be a high-stakes move, with the potential to expand the war into a full Middle Eastern conflict.

The refugees say they're prepared to risk Israeli Defence Force warnings the area remains an active war zone.

US President Joe Biden said he would convene a meeting of the Group of Seven advanced democracies "to coordinate a united diplomatic response to Iran’s brazen attack."

Israel's military says the "vast majority" of missiles launched from Iran were intercepted outside of Israel's borders.

The change in flight path is due to fears Iran is planning an imminent attack on Israel.

Tess Ingram was on a coordinated joint aid mission with UNICEF to get critical aid into Gaza, when her vehicle was shot at by the Israeli Defence Force.

UNICEF says one of its vehicles was hit by "live ammunition" while waiting to enter North Gaza.

The Foreign Minister urged restraint as Tehran pledged it would respond to an attack on its consulate.

Within days, protesters will descend on the nation's capitals, with the goal of causing the maximum economic impact.

The Foreign Minister said only a two-state solution could guarantee a secure future for Israelis and Palestinians.

Decomposed remains were buried or found above ground. Israeli tanks crushed others to death, leaving some of those killed completely disfigured and unable to be identified.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has escalated his pledge to invade the southern Gaza city of Rafah, saying a date has been set for the ground offensive into the city filled with around 1.4 million Palestinians.

The US are trying to broker a ceasefire deal, but agreement on two thorny points is still miles away, insiders say.

Mark Binskin has been appointed to liaise with the Israeli military as it conducts an investigation.

Israel's military announced Sunday it was drawing back some forces from a Hamas stronghold in southern Gaza following a major phase of its offensive.

Israel's army said it found the body of Elad Katzir and believed he was killed in January by militants with Islamic Jihad, one of the groups that entered southern Israel.

Two officers have been sacked and others disciplined, as the Australian government demands accountability for the deaths

Israel has ignored warnings from friendly governments before. But the deaths of seven aid workers, including an Australian, might be an inflection point, Brett McLeod writes.