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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

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Many believe Benjamin Netanyahu fears his government will collapse if the war ends.

‘I can’t go back’: Netanyahu’s prolonged war risks mutiny in the ranks

More Israeli military reservists are failing to turn up for duty and former army officers say the prime minister is prolonging the war in Gaza for his own benefit.

  • Henry Bodkin and Adrian Blomfield
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
Gaza aid drop.

Gazans are starving, UN warns, as Israel begins daily halt to operations

With warnings of “famine-like” conditions in parts of Gaza, Israel says it will offer secure aid routes and pause military operations in some places.

  • Wafaa Shurafa, Tia Goldenberg and Samy Magdy
Aid drops over Gaza City amid concerns over worsening humanitarian situation. The World Food Programme says 80 of its trucks have entered Gaza amid rising hunger.
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Aid drops and trucks have entered Gaza amid starvation concerns

Aid drops over Gaza City amid concerns over worsening humanitarian situation. The World Food Programme says 80 of its trucks have entered Gaza amid rising hunger.

Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen, in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, on Saturday, July 26.

The moral test for Labor has shifted on Gaza: Words are not enough

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has rightly condemned Israel for breaching international law, but damning statements alone will not stop the killing.

  • Sean Kelly
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RAFAH, EGYPT - JULY 27: Trucks carrying aid enter Gaza through the Rafah border crossing on July 27, 2025 in Rafah, Egypt. Israel announce a “tactical pause” in fighting in some parts of Gaza, including near the Rafah crossing, from 10 AM to 8 PM today to allow for shipments of humanitarian aid, as concern grows about a deepening hunger crisis in the Palestinian territory. (Photo by Ali Moustafa/Getty Images)

Trucks start moving towards border crossing as Israel airdrops aid on Gaza

Israel has been under increasing international pressure to allow more aid into Gaza as reports grow of starvation-related deaths.

  • Wafaa Shurafa, Samy Magdy and Chris Barrett
Ahmad Badra and his three children. 

Ahmad’s wife and three kids all have Australian visas. They still can’t come in

The federal government has a special visa pathway for Palestinians arriving from Gaza, but the flow of refugees has slowed.

  • Mostafa Rachwani
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
Naima Abu Ful and her two-year-old Yazan in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City.

‘We have crossed the line’: Gaza hunger crisis turns into death spiral

This month, the hunger that has been building among Gaza’s more than 2 million Palestinians passed a tipping point into accelerating death, aid workers and health officials say.

  • Wafaa Shurafa, Sarah El Deeb and Lee Keath

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