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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 staff say.

  • Wafaa Shurafa, Sarah El Deeb and Lee Keath

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No longer able to breastfeed, Randa watches her three-month-old starve

More than 100 aid agencies warn that the humanitarian situation is growing desperate. But Israel denies blocking supplies to Gaza or that there is famine.

  • Maeve Cullinan
A Hamas fighter in Gaza. With its coffers depleted, the group’s military wing can no longer adequately pay the salaries of its fighters.

How Gaza’s aid crisis broke Hamas and starved the Strip

As 2 million Palestinians face severe food shortages, Israel’s war has left Hamas starved of funds and looking increasingly desperate.

  • Ben Farmer, Melanie Swan and Iona Cleave
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

The Albanese government wants the Gaza war to end now. So do most Israelis

In Israel, the idea the war has gone on for too long is utterly mainstream, as is the idea Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is at least partly to blame.

  • Matthew Knott
Palestinians gather to collect humanitarian aid from a distribution point in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, on Sunday.

Penny Wong: Israel condemnation channels Australians’ ‘distress’ over Gaza

Penny Wong has sought to downplay a rift with the Trump administration after Australia joined a coalition of 28 nations calling for an immediate end to the war in Gaza.

  • Matthew Knott, Nick Newling and Angus Thompson
Federal officers confront a masked man atop a police car outside Parliament House.

Pro-Palestine protesters disrupt opening of parliament

Seventeen pro-Palestine protesters were detained inside Parliament House after they managed to enter the building, and one woman was arrested outside.

  • Nick Newling and Brittany Busch
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Palestinians react after carrying the bodies of those killed while trying to reach aid trucks entering northern Gaza.

‘Gunshots rained down’: 85 killed in Gaza on deadliest day yet for aid-seekers

Israel’s military also issued evacuation orders for parts of central Gaza, one of few areas it has rarely operated with ground troops, and where many organisations trying to distribute aid are located.

  • Wafaa Shurafa, Fatma Khaled, Melanie Lidman and Samy Magdy
A photo posted on X showing a cast member at the Royal Opera House in London holding a Palestinian flag during a curtain call. 

A fight at the opera as performer unfurls Palestine flag on stage

The London cast member fended off an attendant who tried to remove the flag during curtain calls at the Royal Opera House. Hours earlier, police arrested more than 100 people at protests across the UK.

  • David Crowe
Palestinians carry sacks of humanitarian aid unloaded from trucks convoy that had been heading to Gaza City.

73 Palestinians killed while waiting for humanitarian aid across Gaza, health ministry says

The Palestinian health ministry says at least 73 people have been killed in Gaza while attempting to access aid across Gaza on Sunday.

  • Wafaa Shurafa, Fatma Khaled and Melanie Lidman
Relatives and supporters of the Gaza hostages hold a rally demanding their release in Tel Aviv last week.

More hostages to be released from Gaza ‘very shortly’, Trump says

As the president hints that a deal with Hamas could be close, the UN has accused Israel of withholding visas from its aid staff in Gaza.

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