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Gaza strikes March 18.

‘Gates of hell will open’: Israel launches major strikes on Gaza

Israel’s military said it was conducting extensive strikes on Hamas targets and medics reported dozens of deaths, in the biggest attacks since the ceasefire.

February

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New battle for skies; Has PM misled on live fire?; Joe Aston’s flying tips

Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

Donald Trump posted to social media an AI-generated video purporting to show Gaza’s future.

Trump posts bizarre AI video of Gaza’s golden future

The video features belly dancers and skyscrapers and concludes with a shirtless US President and Benjamin Netanyahu lying next to each other on sun beds by a pool.

Freed Israeli hostage Omer Shem Tov gestures from a van as he arrives at Beilinson hospital in Petah Tikva, Israel.

Israel delays release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners

The prisoners were due to be set free after Hamas released six Israeli hostages as a precarious ceasefire beset by recriminations nears the end of its first phase.

Two people embrace amid a sea of Israeli flags in hostages square in Tel Aviv.

Hamas says it has handed over body of Shiri Bibas

Israeli medical authorities said forensic teams were preparing to examine the body, which Hamas transferred via the Red Cross, and confirm its identity.

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Kfir Bibas, at nine months, was the youngest hostage taken by Hamas on October 7, 2023.

Bulldozers enter Gaza as Israel mourns death of youngest hostages

Hamas will release more hostages, along with several bodies, thought to be two young boys and their mother who came to symbolise the plight of those taken.

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Trump boosts BlueScope; Housing crisis hope; Business class wars

Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a joint news conference with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Netanyahu signals he’s transferring Palestinians from Gaza

The Israeli prime minister discussed the plan in Jerusalem with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who said Hamas “must be eradicated”.

 A man sells bread under the ruin of his bakery destroyed by the Israeli air and ground offensive in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip.

Hamas signals it will release more hostages this weekend

The statement came amid rising tensions between Hamas and Israel pointed to rising risks about the future of the precarious truce between the adversaries.

Israeli army troops are seen on the Israeli-Gaza border during a ground operation in the Gaza Strip. in November.

Israel calls up reservists as fears for fragile Gaza ceasefire rise

Concern that the truce will collapse is growing as fury mounts in the Arab world over President Donald Trump’s plan for the United States to take over Gaza.

A billboard in downtown Tel Aviv.

Trump’s Gaza plan is a crazy answer to a valid question

I can say with confidence that Donald Trump’s proposal is the single most idiotic and dangerous Middle East “peace” initiative ever put out by an American president.

Israeli captive, Eli Sharabi, who has been held hostage by Hamas in Gaza since October 7, 2023, stands on a stage escorted by Hamas fighters before being handed over to the Red Cross.

Trump may be wrong about many things, but he’s right about Hamas

Arab states such as Qatar and Egypt depend on US protection even as they harbour Hamas leaders or failed to stop the group from arming itself to the teeth.

An Israeli soldier driving a tank near the Israeli-Gaza border.

Netanyahu threatens to restart war if hostages not returned

“If Hamas does not return our hostages by Saturday noon – the ceasefire will end,” the Israeli leader said, adding he’s ordered the military to prepare.

James Packer before the Israel prime minister’s address to Congress last year.

Packer moves in with billionaire Mar-a-Lago residents

The Australian businessman has picked up a two-year lease, putting him ever closer to the US president.

Israeli captive Eli Sharabi is escorted by Hamas fighters on the weekend.

Trump says US losing patience with Gaza ceasefire deal

The president was reacting to images of the three latest released hostages who he said looked like “Holocaust survivors”, bringing uncertainty to the deal.

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Trump’s announcement also took Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu by surprise.

There is method to Trump’s Gaza takeover madness

Trump’s ‘Gaza plan’ is almost certainly designed to scare Palestinians and third parties to the negotiation table with creative solutions.

How dare Trump state the obvious about Gaza

Everyone says the Gazans must live in the rubble and stay under the control of Hamas. No one asks why the Gazans should be suspended in the aspic of their leaders’ failure and fanaticism.

Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump at their press conference.

Reality will bite Trump’s big dreams in Gaza

The US president’s vision of the US taking over Gaza and turning it into a peaceful, prosperous property development project is a fantasy.

Benjamin Netanyahu will soon need to decide whether he is willing to see the ceasefire through to completion, but he must reckon with the mercurial Donald Trump.

The ‘Bibi sandwich’: Will Netanyahu really end the war in Gaza?

The Israeli leader wants to destroy Hamas and get all the Israeli hostage back. He’ll have to prioritise one over the other in his meeting with Donald Trump this week.

January

A tent camp for displaced Palestinians is set up amid destroyed buildings in Shijaiyah neighbourhood, Gaza City, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025.

Labor pro-Israel group backs free trade pact with Netanyahu

Local Palestinians slam opposition plan for deeper economic ties with Israel, saying it endorses genocide and apartheid.

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