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Palestinians ride on an aid truck heading into Gaza City on Tuesday.

No, Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza

There is a difference between too many civilian deaths and the extermination of a category of people for no other reason than that they belong to that category.

Yesterday

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Why the RBA held rates; Insignia’s $3b deal; Wall St guru buys dip

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A woman grieves casualties at a humanitarian aid distribution point in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza.

Australia and 24 other countries say the war in Gaza ‘must end now’

Nations condemned “the drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians, including children, seeking to meet their most basic needs”.

This Month

Unlike Xi Jinping who cloaks coercion in civility, Donald Trump tends to punish allies who do not bend.

Standing up to Trump is the true test

Readers’ letters on dealing with China and the US, the productivity summit, the road to renewables and shaking up superannuation.

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ASX drops 1.1pc; Seek sued by rival; Macquarie’s grand new theory

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Palestinians react after carrying the bodies of those killed while trying to reach aid trucks entering northern Gaza.

‘Tanks trapped us’: 85 killed in Gaza on deadliest day for aid-seekers

Israeli troops have killed at least 85 Palestinians trying to reach food in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday, the territory’s Health Ministry said.

Reverend Gabriel Romanelli was wounded in the attack. The priest became well known after it was revealed the late Pope Francis would call him every evening during the war in Gaza.

Israeli strike hits Gaza’s only Catholic Church, killing 3

The parish priest who was close to the late Pope Francis was injured in the shelling, which prompted an angry Donald Trump to call Benjamin Netanyahu.

Inside Gaza’s humanitarian aid ‘death traps’

A US-backed scheme forces hungry Palestinians to trek kilometres for food aid. Between local thieves and IDF attacks, many return empty-handed, or not at all.

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Two top BCG executives stripped of leadership roles over Gaza project

Adam Farber, chief risk officer, and Rich Hutchinson, head of BCG’s social impact practice, will lose those titles following the results of an internal inquiry.

A UK government committee has asked BCG chief Christoph Schweizer to clarify details surrounding the company’s reported involvement in Gaza-related activities.

BCG’s role in Gaza probed by UK parliamentary committee

Liam Byrne, chair of the House of Commons business and trade select committee, has written to BCG chief executive Christoph Schweizer requesting information.

The crash appears to have occurred near a playground.

91-year-old confirmed as Melbourne driver who struck three pedestrians

An elderly woman has been confirmed as the driver that struck three pedestrians near a playground in Melbourne. How the day unfolded.

Christoph Schweizer: “This work was explicitly prohibited, and BCG disavows it.”

BCG chief admits Gaza work was ‘reputationally very damaging’

Christoph Schweizer, in a letter to alumni, promised a “firm-wide remediation effort” after the “profoundly disappointing” episode.

Tony Blair with then-Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for talks at 10 Downing Street in 1998.

Tony Blair’s staff took part in ‘Gaza Riviera’ project with BCG

The plan, outlined in a slide deck, was led by Israeli businessmen and used financial models developed inside Boston Consulting Group to reimagine Gaza.

Smoke rises from Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, seen from southern Israel, last week.

Israel sends delegation to Qatar for talks on Gaza truce

Although Israel and Hamas appear willing to explore the new plan, they could still stall over the most sensitive sticking points, as has happened before.

Mourners bid farewell to relatives killed by an Israeli airstrike that struck a school being used as a shelter in Gaza City.

Hamas gives ‘positive’ response to the latest ceasefire proposal

It was not immediately clear if Hamas’ statement meant that the group had accepted the proposal from US President Donald Trump for a 60-day ceasefire.

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June

Trump’s tax and spending cuts bill clears key Senate vote; Taylor against raising GST

Senate Republicans have narrowly passed a key procedural vote 51-49 to advance US President Donald Trump’s tax breaks, spending cuts and bolstered deportation funds ahead of his July 4 deadline.

Bob Vylan were followed by Kneecap, who led chants against the British PM and pro-Palestinian slogans.

BBC reprimanded over Glastonbury ‘death to IDF’ chant

Bob Vylan, who were performing ahead of an appearance by the pro-Palestinian Northern Irish rappers Kneecap, repeatedly shouted “death to the IDF”.

Relatives of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip mourn their deaths at the weekend.

In defence of frivolity in a world of suffering

Those of us who are spared horror have so much to be grateful for that it seems criminal — and somewhat insincere — to set our faces to despair.

Antoinette Lattouf speaks outside Federal Court on Wednesday.

Inside the court when Antoinette Lattouf won big against the ABC

The ABC spent more than $1 million defending an unlawful termination case brought by the journalist. It now faces significant penalties.

Rather than the suffering Palestinians, Israeli’s target now is more clearly the conservative theocratic state forged by the 1979 Islamic revolution.

By attacking Iran’s nukes, Israel changes the question

After being lambasted by the West for the suffering of Palestinians, Israel has a chance to rebuild its battered standing by focusing on its ultimate enemy.

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