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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

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The Salih family home after an Israeli incursion in Jenin, West Bank in September.

Palestinians say they are being used as human shields in West Bank

More than 180 people have been killed in airstrikes on the territory in the past year, including dozens of children.

  • Raja Abdulrahim and Azmat Khan

It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of the death of Hamas’ leader

Netanyahu has long wanted to show that he is a historic figure. Well, this is his moment.

  • Thomas L. Friedman
Almost 1.5 million Palestinians have been displaced by the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip since October 7.

‘Menu of highly unpalatable options’: Who will run Gaza after the war?

World leaders and diplomats are grappling with the question of what life will look like for Palestinians after the last Israeli bomb falls.

  • Lucy Cormack
Hamas is not a fringe movement but has popular support among Palestinians. A boy wearing a Hamas headband holds a Palestinian flag as protesters gather in Ramallah, West Bank.

Let’s not pretend Hamas is an outlier. It has popular support among Palestinians

Western leaders run with the comforting narrative that Hamas is a fringe movement in Gaza and the West Bank. That is not the case.

  • Josh Feldman
China middle east relations Photo: Aresna Villanueva

Xi wanted to broker peace in the Middle East. He wasn’t counting on a new war

Beijing has spent years building up goodwill in the region. A vacuum left by the US helped. Now the surprise attack by Hamas on Israel brings complicates things.

  • Eryk Bagshaw
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‘Unfathomable’ shooting of lawyer heightens gang war escalation fears

Doctors are working to save criminal lawyer Mahmoud Abbas after a gunman shot him twice outside his family home in south-west Sydney.

  • Perry Duffin, Sarah Keoghan and Angus Dalton
Foreign Minister Penny Wong.

When terrorists hail Australia’s diplomacy, call it a dangerous blunder

In perhaps the greatest condemnation of the policy reversal, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad — both designated by Australia as terrorist organisations — hailed Labor’s move.

  • Josh Feldman
Shatha Safi speaks at the Black-Palestinian Solidarity Conference held at Melbourne University in November 2019.

Shatha’s story: celebrated abroad, brutalised in her homeland

This softly-spoken world-class architect was herded with female doctors and lawyers into a torture site and made to watch.

  • Samah Sabawi
An Israeli police officer is taken away after being injured during clashes with Palestinian protesters in East Jerusalem on Friday.

200 Palestinians, dozens of Israeli police injured in Jerusalem clashes

Anger has swelled over a dispute in an Arab neighbourhood where Palestinians in six households face eviction in favour of Jewish Israelis who claim several properties as theirs.

  • Steve Hendrix

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