Mahmoud Abbas
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.
- by Lucy Cormack
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Opinion
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Let’s not pretend Hamas is an outlier. It has popular support among Palestinians
Western leaders run with the comforting narrative that Hamas is a fringe movement in Gaza and the West Bank. That is not the case.
- by Josh Feldman
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.
- by 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.
- by 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.
- by 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.
- by 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.
- by 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.
- by Matt Spetalnick and Stephen Farrell
Opinion
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Trump can bring peace to the West Bank
The Trump peace plan not only doesn't prevent a Palestinian state, but may make one more likely.
- by Jamie Hyams
Opinion
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Israel's annexation plan spells the end of the two-state solution
Even COVID-19 doesn't stop the push to dispossess Palestinians under the guise of a "peace plan". Will Australia speak up?
- by Anas Iqtait and Tristan Dunning
Iran reports more than 100 new virus deaths as fears mount
Iran acknowledged that "many" of those who have died from the COVID-19 illness caused by the virus were otherwise healthy, with 15 per cent under 40 years old.
- by Nasser Karimi
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