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Cricket commentator Peter Lalor.

‘Standing up for the people of Gaza is not antisemitic’: Usman backs dumped cricket journalist

Cricket reporter Peter Lalor has received support from the Australian opener Usman Khawaja after the journalist was told he could not cover cricket for SEN any more due to his social media support of Palestinians.

  • Daniel Brettig and Tom Decent

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‘I burst into tears’: Emotions high as World Vision worker freed in Gaza ceasefire exchange

Hamas freed three male hostages as Israel released 183 Palestinian prisoners in the fourth exchange.

  • Roy Ward, Mohammad Jahjouh and Imad Isseid
Kfir Bibas, at nine months, was the youngest hostage taken by Hamas on October 7, 2023.

Fears for Israel’s youngest hostage as Hamas releases father

The Bibas family became a potent symbol of Israel’s hostage crisis after video showed Palestinian militants leading away a distraught mother clutching her two small red-haired sons.

  • Erika Solomon
Arbel Yehoud who had been held hostage since October 7, 2023, is escorted by Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters to be handed over to the Red Cross in Khan Younis, Gaza.

Chaotic scenes as Hamas releases eight more hostages following Gaza truce

The latest release was delayed when crowds surrounded the hostages as they made their way to waiting Red Cross vehicles.

The former home of prominent Jewish Australian Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin was targeted in a firebombing.

Eleven arrests, over a dozen attacks: Sydney’s wave of antisemitic horror

The discovery of a caravan laden with explosives follows an escalating series of attacks, with businesses, homes and synagogues defaced with graffiti and set alight.

  • Amber Schultz
David Coleman and Donald Trump.

‘That’s not our policy’: Coalition splits with Trump on Gaza ‘clean-out’

New opposition foreign affairs spokesman David Coleman says a Coalition government would argue for a two-state solution for the Palestinian and Israeli people, not the plan put forward by Donald Trump.

  • David Crowe
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An unending stream of people marched up the coast of Gaza on January 27, carrying their belongings in plastic bags and repurposed flour sacks through the central city of Nuseirat after Israel reopened access to the territory’s north.

Hamas list shows eight hostages to be freed during ceasefire are dead

The news came as Israel began allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to return to the heavily destroyed northern Gaza Strip.

  • Samy Magdy
Displaced Palestinians wait near a roadblock after being stopped from returning to northern Gaza.

‘We’re worthless’: Israel blocks Palestinians going home to northern Gaza, kills 22 in Lebanon

Israeli forces opened fire on protesters demanding their planned withdrawal from Lebanon, while in Gaza, a dispute over a hostage appears settled.

  • Wafaa Shurafa, Samy Magdy and Joseph Krauss
Displaced Palestinians returning to a destroyed Rafah in the Gaza Strip, a day after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas came into effect.

Here’s why Trump’s ‘clean out Gaza’ idea is rejected

The US president said resettling most of the strip’s population of 2.3 million in Jordan or Egypt could be “temporary or long term”. He’s already heard a firm “no”.

  • Joseph Krauss
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One as he travelled from Las Vegas to Miami.

‘You know, it’s over’: Trump floats plan to ‘just clean out’ Gaza

Donald Trump told reporters he wants Jordan, Egypt and other Arab nations to take in “probably a million and a half” Palestinians from the war-torn strip.

  • Will Weissert and Zeke Miller

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