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Emergency crews ‘struck one after another’ as they searched for missing colleagues
The United Nations has demanded “justice and answers” after the bodies of 15 emergency and aid workers were recovered from a mass grave in Gaza.
- by Wafaa Shurafa, Lee Keath and Fatma Khaled
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‘Potential to rewrite history’: Archaeologists find tomb from lost dynasty of kings
The huge tomb, buried seven metres underground, dates from 3600 years ago.
- by Alan Yuhas
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Tragedy
Tourist submarine sinks off Egypt’s coast, killing six
Dozens of foreign tourists were also rescued when the vessel sank off the Red Sea resort of Hurghada.
- by Sam Magdy, Mohamed Ezz and Nayera Abdallah
‘We’ve had enough’: Rare show of dissent against Hamas in Gaza
Palestinians tend to blame Israel for the death, destruction and hunger that the war in Gaza has inflicted. But some blame Hamas, too, for starting it in the first place.
- by Iyad Abuheweila, Abu Bakr Bashir, Aaron Boxerman and Malachy Browne
‘If you’re reading this, it means I have been killed’: The final words of a young Palestinian reporter
The UN will start pulling its workers out of Gaza as the conflict claims a growing number of aid workers, medical personnel and journalists.
When the airstrike hit the surgical department, Israel got their target
Ismail Barhoum was reportedly being treated for wounds when the precision strike hit the hospital, killing him and four others, including a teenage patient, according to reports.
- by Nidal al-Mughrabi and Maayan Lubell
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Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Israel strikes Lebanon in response to cross-border rocket fire
The hits on Lebanon came as Palestinian militant group Hamas said an Israeli strike in Gaza killed a senior Hamas political leader and his wife.
- by Maya Gebeily and Maayan Lubell
Israeli airstrike destroys Gaza’s only cancer hospital, ceasefire ‘bridges’ on the table
Meanwhile, E3 countries say they are “appalled” by the violence in Gaza and called for an immediate stop to strikes.
- by Brahim Hazboun, Sam Mednick and Nidal al-Mughrabi
Opinion
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Gazans are trapped in a forever war designed around Netanyahu’s impossible aims
Nobody should be shocked by the ceasefire breakdown between Israel and Hamas. Those with power see no incentive to end this war.
- by Waleed Aly
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Israeli-Palestinian conflict
‘Catastrophic’: Israeli strikes kill dozens at home in Gaza after ground troops return
Israel warned attacks would increase. Now Hamas says the advance of ground forces in Gaza is a clear sign that Israel has backed out of the truce.
- by Wafaa Shurafa, Julia Frankel and Samy Magdy
Opinion
Antisemitism
The problem with Universities Australia’s response to antisemitism
In the US, university students and staff are facing deportation for speaking out against the state of Israel. In Australia, this heated topic is ramping up too.
- by A. Dirk Moses, Lana Tatour and Geoffrey Brahm Levey
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