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The home of Canadian-Israeli peace activist Vivian Silver who was murdered by Hamas during the October 7 attack in Kibbutz Be’eri.

‘Unfeasible’: How seven years of Hamas planning were dismissed by Israel

The IDF has released the report of its internal inquiry into the “historic failure” of October 7, 2023.

  • Henry Bodkin

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The AI-generated video of “Trump Gaza” may be a fantasy, but the president’s platform approves.

When we look at Gaza, we see a human catastrophe. Trump sees The White Lotus

Even Trump’s supporters are recoiling at the video posted on his Truth Social platform.

  • Bill Wyman
Thousands of people line the entrance to the Ayalon highway to watch and pay their respects as the funeral procession carrying the caskets of Shiri, Kfir and Ariel pass by with the family in minibuses behind them.

‘I’m sorry I couldn’t protect you’: Father bids farewell to wife and little boys who captured a nation

After tens of thousands of Israelis lined the roads to honour his family, Yarden Bibas reflected on the last moment he shared with them.

  • Melanie Lidman

Trump ‘floods the zone’ with bizarre AI video of future Gaza where he is king

The short video, deemed repugnant even by his own supporters, depicts a glittery riviera complete with a shirtless Trump sipping cocktails with Benjamin Netanyahu.

  • Michael Koziol
British-Israeli hostage Emily Damari and her mother, Mandy, on a call with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer after her release from captivity in Gaza.

Inside the hostage hotel, where freed Israelis come to terms with their new normal

No other hotel is quite like it. Close to a hospital, it shelters people who have had their faces in the world’s newspapers for 16 months.

  • Nicole Lampert
Artist Khaled Sabsabi at the Campbelltown Art Centre.

‘We don’t do that’: Why Creative Australia didn’t check artist’s past work

The federal arts funding agency says there is a possibility the Australian Pavilion will be dark for the first time since 1954.

  • Linda Morris
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Hamas fighters prepare for the handover ceremony of Israeli hostages in Gaza on Saturday.

Israel delays prisoner release over ‘humiliating’ hostage ceremonies

Vehicles apparently carrying hundreds of Palestinian prisoners left the jail gates early on Sunday, only to turn around and go back in.

  • Wafaa Shurafa, Mohammed Jahjouh and Melanie Lidman
A poster shows Shiri Bibas, who was kidnapped to Gaza with her husband and two young sons.

Israel confirms body of Shiri Bibas has been returned, Hamas to free six more hostages

The fragile truce in the war between Israel and Hamas militants had been threatened with derailment by the misidentification of a body released on Thursday as that of Bibas.

  • James Mackenzie and Maayan Lubell
Posters of Shiri Bibas and her sons Ariel and Kfir, who were taken hostage by Hamas militants on October 7, 2023.

‘Violation of utmost severity’: Israel says body released by Hamas is not of a hostage

Two of the bodies were identified as infant Kfir Bibas and his four-year-old brother Ariel, while a third body that was supposed to be their mother, Shiri, was found not to match with any hostage, the military said.

Kfir Bibas, at nine months, was the youngest hostage taken by Hamas on October 7, 2023.

Netanyahu vows revenge as Hamas hands over bodies of youngest hostages

The bodies of the two boys and their mother, along with that of a fourth hostage, were collected by a Red Cross convoy.

  • James Mackenzie

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