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Smoke pours from a building after it was hit by Israeli airstrikes in the Al-Remal area in Gaza City.

Israel kills Hamas armed wing leader ‘the Ghost’ in Gaza strike

Izz al-Din al-Haddad, whose wife and 19-year-old daughter were also killed, had survived multiple assassination attempts by Israel, according to Hamas sources.

  • Nidal al-Mughrabi

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A visitor in Berlin looks at pictures of people killed in the Hamas attack on an Israeli music festival on October 7, 2023.

‘Systematic, widespread and integral’: New report lays bare the full horror of Hamas-led attack

A two-year investigation by a team of researchers in Israel has compiled a catalogue of sexual violence on hostages during and after the October 7 attack perpetrated by Hamas and its allies.

  • Isabel Kershner
John Keane (centre) and Nick Riemer (right)  at a rally ahead outside the Federal Court last year.

Defining the intifada and testing Australia’s racial hate laws

A linguistics expert and a political scientist are being sued over a series of social media posts in a case that will test the nation’s hate speech laws.

  • Sally Rawsthorne
Right-wing Israeli settlers walk in the direction of the Israel-Gaza border during a rally near the Kibbutz Kfar Aza in southern Israel on February 5, 2026.

Religious Zionists spearheading a radical movement sweeping Israel

Their goal – a “Greater Israel”, encompassing Gaza, the West Bank and more.

  • Paul Nuki and Nedal Hamdouna
A tent camp for displaced Palestinians stretches across the Gaza City seaport.

As world turns attention to Iran, rats, insects and a fracturing peace process engulf Gaza

While the globe’s eyes have been fixed on the war in the Gulf, Hamas and Israel are cementing control of the strip and delaying the introduction of the next stage of a ceasefire.

  • Matthew Knott
World Vision’s former Gaza director Mohammed al-Halabi was convicted by an Israeli court of diverting aid funds to Hamas.

World Vision aid worker says Hamas believed ‘lie’, documents are fake

The former Gaza director of World Vision has rejected as “pure fabrications” newly released documents that show Hamas interrogated aid organisation staff.

  • Rob Harris
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World Vision’s former Gaza director Mohammed al-Halabi was convicted by an Israeli court of diverting aid funds to Hamas.

Hamas interrogated World Vision whistleblowers to obstruct trial

Hamas internal documents reveal the militant group assumed the key witness against Mohammed al-Halabi came from inside World Vision’s Gaza office.

  • Rob Harris
Palestinians looks at a destroyed car following an Israeli strike in Gaza City.

Israel says it killed senior Hamas commander in Gaza

It is the highest-profile assassination of a senior Hamas figure since the Gaza ceasefire deal came into effect in October.

  • Nidal al-Mughrabi and Emily Rose
People gather near ambulances ferrying victims of the strike at Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp in Sidon.

Israel targets Lebanon with airstrike that kills 13

The Israeli military said it had hit a Hamas training compound in the deadliest attack inside Lebanon since last year’s ceasefire.

  • Mohammad Zatari
Donald Trump with Benjamin Netanyahu  at the Israeli Knesset in October.

Trump’s Gaza peace plan approved by United Nations Security Council

The vote paves the way for an international security force to enter the beleaguered Palestinian territory, as well as the formation of a governing Board of Peace.

  • Michael Koziol