Liam Mendes

Liam is a journalist with the NSW bureau of The Australian. He started his journalism career as a photographer before freelancing for the NZ Herald, news.com.au and the Daily Telegraph. Liam was News Corp Australia’s Young Journalist of the Year in 2022 and was awarded a Kennedy Award for coverage of the NSW floods. He has also previously worked as a producer for Channel Seven’s investigative journalism program 7News Spotlight. He can be contacted at MendesL@theaustralian.com.au or Liam.Mendes@protonmail.com.

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Inbar and Yaari Vigder with son Ari; Mr Vigder this week. Picture: Liam Mendes

Amid tragedy, Yaari holds on to precious life

Until last week, Yaari Vigder’s world had been a picture of happiness. He lived with his fitness instructor wife and baby boy in the historic port city of Jaffa. A terror attack changed everything.

Yoni Bashan and Liam Mendes

Israel at warThe Wall Street Journal

TOPSHOT - A plume of smoke billows following an Israeli air strike on the village of Khiam in southern Lebanon near the border with Israel on October 7, 2024. The Israeli army said on October 7 that it had deployed another division to participate in operations in Lebanon -- making it the third troop grouping at division strength to be used in the ground fight against Hezbollah. (Photo by AFP)

IDF takes out Hezbollah HQ commander

Assaults on Tel Aviv came as Israel launched strikes in Gaza and added troops in Lebanon.

Liam Mendes and Rory Jones

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Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a neighbourhood in Beirut's southern suburbs on October 8, 2024. (Photo by Mohammad ABOU AL AINAIN / AFP)

Israeli army moves into southwest Lebanon as Hezbollah says ‘leadership in order’

Israel has expanded its offensive into the western part of Lebanon’s south and killed the Hezbollah headquarters commander plus Hamas operators in Gaza, as Hezbollah’s deputy says the Iran-backed group has ‘overcome ‘painful blows’.

Liam Mendes, Anne Barrowclough and agencies

October 7 memorialWorld

RE'IM, ISRAEL - OCTOBER 07: A woman breaks down at the memorial to Yulia Waxer Daunov as family members and friends of the lost and kidnapped gather at the site of the Nova Festival to mark the one year anniversary of the attacks by Hamas, on October 07, 2024 in Re'im, Israel. Various commemorations are taking place around Israel to mark the anniversary of the Hamas attacks in Israel. On October 7, 2023, members of Hamas mounted a series of attacks and raids on Israeli citizens in the Gaza Envelope border area of Israel. 251 Israelis and foreigners were kidnapped with nearly 100 still unaccounted for and 1139 people were killed. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Fatal Nova festival site: Harrowing echo of the day the music died

Bound by wrenching misery, this community of survivors amassed in the dark for this saddest of reunions, waiting until exactly 6:29am – the moment when a final song that had been playing at the Nova festival was cut off due to the incoming rocket fire.

Yoni Bashan and Liam Mendes

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Relatives of Nova Festival victims gather at memorial in Israel’s south

At a vigil at Re’im forest in Israel’s south, the final music track that was playing at Nova Festival on October 7, 2023, will be cut off at the exact moment Hamas terrorists struck a year ago and killed 364 people.

Anne Barrowclough, Liam Mendes and agencies

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Clockwise from main: Zohar Shpak at Kfar Aza in Israel’s south; destroyed homes at kibbutz Kfar Aza; a child’s scooter is all that remains amid the destruction of this house; Yifat Zailer at the kindergarten of kibbutz Nir Oz – her cousin’s children were Hamas’s youngest captives.

Home to a shattered peace, tormented by the memories

The kibbutz of Kfar Aza was founded with peace in mind. Its founders dreamt of an Israel where Jews and Arabs would work and live together. That vision of harmony is gone.

Liam Mendes

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Israel at warWorld

Australian Government officials assisting Australians to depart Lebanon on two government-supported charter flights from Beirut Airport to Larnaca, Cyprus on Saturday 5 October 2024. Picture: DFAT

Aussies evacuated from Lebanon as Israel plans ‘serious’ response to Iran

The first Australians fleeing the conflict in Lebanon land in Cyprus as a senior US official admits an Israeli strike on Iran could come on the anniversary of the October 7 massacre.

Anne Barrowclough, Liam Mendes and Agency writers

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This handout picture provided by the office of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows him during a gathering of Iranian top scientific talents in Tehran on October 2, 2024. Iran fired a barrage of missiles at Israel late on October 1, 2024 in what it said was in response to Israel's killing last week of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, as well as the death of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in a Tehran bombing in July widely blamed on Israel. (Photo by KHAMENEI.IR / AFP) / === RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / HO / KHAMENEI.IR" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS ===

Iran’s supreme leader denounces Israel in rare sermon

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei defended his military’s missile attack against ‘our enemy’ Israel as he led Friday prayers for the first time in five years | FOLLOW LIVE

Agencies, Liam Mendes, Anne Barrowclough and Jack Quail

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IDF footage of strikes on Hezbollah terrorists and structures in Lebanon.

IDF announces death of head of Hamas government in Gaza Strip

Senior Hamas operative Rawhi Mushtaha and other senior officials were killed in an Israeli airstrike three months ago as drone footage released by Israel Defence Forces show their overnight bombardment on Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon.

Anne Barrowclough and Liam Mendes

legal affairsNation

Behind prison barsPhoto: Brett Wortman / Sunshine Coast Daily

Crucial legal body forced to axe criminal services

People accused of serious crimes in the NT could be unable to access critical legal services from next year, sparking grave concerns innocent people will end up behind bars.

Liam Mendes and Ellie Dudley

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