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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is weighing up formal recognition of a Palestinian state.

Australia recognising Palestine would infuriate Netanyahu – but not the people of Israel

The Albanese government has considered itself a friend of Israel. But Benjamin Netanyahu’s callous mistreatment of Palestinians has gone too far.

  • Peter Hartcher

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

The Palestine recognition train has left the station. Will Albanese jump aboard?

Western leaders are vowing to recognise Palestine for different purposes, but some advocates for the cause have come to believe it is a sideshow.

  • Matthew Knott
Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen, in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip.

‘Moral obligation’: Top Jewish group calls for Israel to allow more aid into Gaza

The Zionist Federation of Australia says it is important to recognise the suffering of innocent civilians in Gaza while seeking to remove Hamas from power.

  • Matthew Knott
A satellite image over Gaza showing masses of people surrounding aid trucks on July 26.

‘Total failure’: Israel’s return to war has heaped ruin on Gaza and done little for Israelis

Israel appears to have thought its renewed war on Hamas would bring quick results – but the campaign is now looking like a strategic, diplomatic and humanitarian failure.

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

‘Innocent life matters’: The photographs of children that captured the world’s conscience

From Sudan to Vietnam and Gaza, images of suffering children have become totems of humanitarian catastrophes and prompted hard questions about photographic ethics.

  • Nick Newling
Palestinians crowded together as they wait for food distribution in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

‘False campaign’: Israel insists there is no starvation in Gaza

The Israeli embassy has rejected Anthony Albanese’s claim that Israel has breached international law in Gaza, branding news of starvation as propaganda.

  • Matthew Knott
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is weighing up whether Australia will join France by recognising Palestine.

Albanese plans to recognise Palestine but the timing is crucial

The prime minister wants to recognise Palestine. The question is one of timing and how to ensure an Australian intervention has the maximum diplomatic impact. 

  • Matthew Knott
Yazan Abu Ful, a 2-year-old malnourished child, sits at his family home in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on July 23, 2025.

Labor figures demand Palestinian statehood as PM criticises Israel over famine in Gaza

The prime minister stopped short of following France and moving to recognise a Palestinian state as Gaza faces a “humanitarian catastrophe”.

  • Matthew Knott
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

The Albanese government wants the Gaza war to end now. So do most Israelis

In Israel, the idea the war has gone on for too long is utterly mainstream, as is the idea Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is at least partly to blame.

  • Matthew Knott
Palestinians carry sacks of humanitarian aid unloaded from trucks convoy that had been heading to Gaza City.

73 Palestinians killed while waiting for humanitarian aid across Gaza, health ministry says

The Palestinian health ministry says at least 73 people have been killed in Gaza while attempting to access aid across Gaza on Sunday.

  • Wafaa Shurafa, Fatma Khaled and Melanie Lidman

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