Mahmoud Abbas
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- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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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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
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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
- Analysis
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
‘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
- Analysis
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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
‘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
- Opinion
- Middle East tensions
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
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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
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
Biden restores assistance for Palestinians axed by Trump
The Biden administration has announced it would provide $US235 million in US aid to the Palestinians, restarting funding cut off by former president Donald Trump.
- Matt Spetalnick and Stephen Farrell
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