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France, EU clash with Britain over call for Hamas-Israel ceasefire
Pressure is building in Europe for a ceasefire in and around the Gaza Strip – but not everyone agrees.
- by Joe Barnes and Nicole Lampert
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Relief after Hamas frees two Israeli women; death toll rises as airstrikes on Gaza surge
The Israeli military said it had struck more than 320 targets in Gaza over 24 hours, including a tunnel housing Hamas fighters. Hamas said it had released two hostages.
- by Nidal al-Mughrabi and Dan Williams
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Israel Hamas as it happened: Israel steps up Gaza strikes, aid flows through Rafah
The war has now been going for more than two weeks and expectations of a ground invasion in Gaza are growing.
- by Melissa Cunningham, Angus Thomson and Lucy Cormack
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What’s next in Gaza? Let’s recall what happened to Islamic State
Of history’s various urban wars, the closest precedent is the Battle of Mosul in 2016-17, when an eight-nation force including Australia drove the Islamic State out of that Iraqi city.
- by Peter Hartcher
Israel strikes targets across Gaza after allowing aid, but not fuel, to enter
The convoys marked the end of a 10-day siege of the Gaza Strip, but the UN warned the lack of fuel used to power hospitals meant people would continue to suffer.
- by James Lemon
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Israeli-Palestinian conflict
If women were in charge, the world would be a better place
Women and children are collateral damage. It’s crazy that half the population of the world still have virtually no say in how it’s run.
- by Anne Ring
Field manual found on fighters reveals Hamas capabilities, bloody plans
Included are instructions for close-in combat and the use of North Korean rocket-propelled grenades, which Pyongyang has denied supplying to Hamas.
- by Loveday Morris and Steve Hendrix
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There is a path to peace in the Middle East, but neither side is taking it
Both Israel and the Palestinians are under a duty to negotiate a solution under international law, but neither is giving peace a chance.
- by Geoffrey Robertson
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Israel strikes Gaza, Syria and West Bank as war against Hamas threatens to ignite other fronts
Israeli warplanes struck targets across Gaza, as well as two airports in Syria and a mosque in the occupied West Bank allegedly used by militants, as the two-week-old war with Hamas threatened to spiral into a broader conflict.
- by Najib Jobain, Samy Magdy and Joseph Krauss
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Israel-Hamas conflict as it happened: pro-Palestinian rally in Melbourne, Israel strikes Gaza again
Reports that two Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a compound in the occupied West Bank.
- by Nicole Precel and Laura Chung
‘What does the world expect to happen?’ Fleeing Gazans live in fear in West Bank
The Palestinian workers want to tell their stories, but also ask how much people on the other side of the world really know about the horror in Gaza.
- by Matthew Knott and Kate Geraghty