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Palestinians carry sacks of flour unloaded from a humanitarian aid convoy that reached Gaza City on Saturday.

Israel announces ‘tactical pause’ in fighting as famine fears mount

Israel says military activity would cease in several parts of Gaza to allow humanitarian aid in, following growing pressure from the international community.

Palestinians carry sacks and boxes of food and humanitarian aid, unloaded from a World Food Program convoy that was heading to Gaza City.

‘The decision Israel made’: Albanese accuses Israel of breaking law

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he’s no lawyer, but it was a breach of international law to stop aid to civilians and that’s what Israel was doing.

Palestinians carry sacks of flour unloaded from a humanitarian aid convoy that reached Gaza City from the northern Gaza Strip.

‘There is nothing to buy’: Gaza’s descent into mass starvation

Israel’s offensive and aid curbs have tipped the enclave of 2.1 million Palestinians into famine.

This Month

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump appear to have turned away from Gaza ceasefire talks with Hamas.

‘Hunted down’: Netanyahu, Trump appear to abandon Gaza talks

The Israeli prime minister and US president have both blamed Palestinian militant group Hamas for the breakdown in ceasefire negotiations.

Yazan Abu Ful, a two-year-old malnourished child, sits at his family home in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on Wednesday.

PM says starving children in Gaza ‘beyond world’s worst fears’

Anthony Albanese has criticised Israel’s handling of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as Penny Wong refused to rule out recognising Palestinian statehood.

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Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq, 1, is facing life-threatening malnutrition.

Children are starving in Gaza. Who is responsible?

Images and information about mass hunger show that a ceasefire between Israel and terrorist group Hamas should be the only priority.

French President Emmanuel Macron (left) with Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu just weeks after the October 7 terror attacks.

France to recognise Palestine state. Is Australia about to follow?

The Albanese government has already signalled it could recognise Palestinian statehood, but Emmanuel Macron’s move adds pressure for Australia to act.

Hamas fighters in Gaza. With its coffers depleted, the group’s military wing can no longer adequately pay the salaries of its fighters.

Hamas is running out of money as aid trade dries up

The military wing is struggling to pay fighters, while the Gaza government that the terrorist group has long run is cutting services and salaries for police and ministry employees.

US President Donald Trump talks often about being a peacemaker.

America’s peacemaker-in-chief is deluding himself

Donald Trump might fantasise about a Nobel Peace Prize, but there is little actual peace to back up his boasts.

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.

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

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

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”.

One reader asks whether Israel’s treatment of Gaza is any worse than what the allies had to do in World War II.

Gaza is a tragedy, but is it any worse than Dresden or Hiroshima?

Readers’ letters on housing development, the Middle East crisis, and the proposed Tibetan hydroelectricity dam.

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

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

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.

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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.

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