Palestine news headlines

Abandoned, bullet-ridden apartment buildings have blasted out walls and shattered windows. Bedrooms and kitchens are visible from roads dotted with rubble.

The demonstrations on Sunday came after long-running efforts to broker a truce gained momentum last week when Hamas dropped a key demand for an Israeli commitment to end the war.

A Labor senator has been suspended after vowing to again cross the floor if a motion supporting an independent Palestinian state is brought back before parliament.

"I am proud of what I did today and I'm bitterly disappointed that my colleagues do not feel the same way," she said. 

The Israeli military strapped an injured Palestinian man to the hood of a military vehicle during an operation on Saturday in the occupied West Bank.

The group has new weapons and intelligence capabilities that could help it target more critical positions deeper inside Israel in case of an all-out war, it has warned.

The flow of aid in southern Gaza has drastically declined just as the humanitarian need grows.

ACT police are searching for a man who allegedly defaced three parts of the Australian War Memorial with graffiti in Canberra this morning.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that mediators would keep trying to close an elusive cease-fire deal for Gaza.

Hamas said yesterday that it gave mediators its reply to the US-backed proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza, seeking some "amendments" on the deal.

A deadly raid by Israeli forces freed four hostages over the weekend and killed hundreds of Palestinians.

The move does not immediately pose a threat to Netanyahu, who still controls a majority coalition in parliament.

The killing of so many Palestinians, including women and children, showed the heavy cost of such operations.

Israel said it rescued four hostages who were kidnapped in the Hamas-led attack on October 7, in the largest such recovery operation since the war began in Gaza.

The attack in central Gaza killed at least 35 people, including women and children, according to local health officials.

The annual march, seen as provocative by Palestinians, could ignite broader unrest, as it did three years ago, when it helped set off an 11-day war in Gaza.

In a newly published interview, the president also said it was "uncertain" whether Israel had committed war crimes.

He reiterated his government's focus is on the state rather than foreign conflict.

The State Library of NSW has issued an apology after a security guard told the student to leave yesterday.

Red paint and pro-Palestine slogans were sprayed on the buildings, which include the offices of Mark Dreyfus and Bill Shorten.

He also reiterated China's call for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state,

Her demand comes after a strike in a tent camp killed dozens of people, including many women and children.

Israel launched its war in Gaza after Hamas' Oct. 7 attack in which militants stormed into southern Israel, killed some 1200 people — mostly civilians — and abducted about 250.

Israeli shelling and airstrikes pummelled the same area where strikes triggered a deadly fire days earlier in a camp for displaced Palestinians.

Tel Aviv slammed the diplomatic move that will have no immediate impact on its grinding war in Gaza.

Rocket sirens have sounded across central Israel, including in Tel Aviv, for the first time in months, as Hamas claimed to have fired a barrage of rockets from Gaza.

While Israel is unlikely to comply with any such order, it will ratchet up the pressure on the increasingly isolated country.

UniMelb 4 Palestine representatives said they had reached a deal with the university last night.

It's a historic move that has drawn condemnation from Israel and jubilation from the Palestinians.

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-Palestine protesters are suspected to be responsible for the attack, which also caused damage to the ABC's Southbank offices and Seven's offices in Docklands.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

A wave of mass demonstrations are expected to impact Sydney, Melbourne and other cities today.

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

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

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.

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.

The bodies of six foreign aid workers, including one Australian, killed in a series of Israeli strikes were transported out of the Gaza Strip and into Egypt ahead of their repatriation.

A preliminary investigation by the Israeli Defence Forces said the deadly airstrike was due to a 'misidentification'.

Benjamin Netanyahu has confirmed the country's forces carried out an "unintentional strike" that killed seven aid workers, including one Australian, working for a charity in central Gaza.