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    Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan have ordered the party “sort it out.“.

    PM tells Vic Labor to sort out Gaza split

    Labor factional powerbrokers were ordered to an emergency meeting to make sure a split on the Palestinian-Israel issue +does not erupt at the Victorian Labor conference.

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    • Patrick Durkin
    Rescuers carry the body of a boy found in the rubble following an Israeli airstrike on a refugee camp in Nuseirat, central Gaza.

    Hamas regroups and Israel’s Gaza endgame is missing

    US and Israeli officials are offering blunt assessments about Hamas’ resilience and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s failure to plan for post-war Gaza.

    • Loveday Morris, Shira Rubin and Hazem Balousha

    This Month

    Benjamin Netanyahu at a wreath-laying ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day in Jerusalem on Monday.

    Israel cannot stand alone and Netanyahu knows it

    The American decision to restrict arms sales could be a turning point in the US-Israel relationship.

    • Gideon Rachman
    Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip walk through a makeshift tent camp in Deir al Balah.

    Fighting flares anew across Gaza as Hamas regroups

    Close-quarters ground combat between Hamas fighters and Israeli troops raged in parts of northern Gaza over the weekend as people continued to flee Rafah.

    • Liam Stack, Aaron Boxerman and Eric Nagourney
    Pro-Palestinian demonstrators at an encampment at Columbia University on April 22.

    Why the campus protests are so troubling

    Hamas is against the existence of a Jewish state and believes there should be an Islamic state between the river and the sea. When protests on college campuses ignore that, they are part of the problem.

    • Thomas Friedman
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    The history of the two-state solution (in six maps)

    The world is still searching for a path to peaceful co-existence by Israelis and Palestinians.

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    • Emma Connors and Hans van Leeuwen
    Israeli soldiers drive a tank at a staging ground near the border with the Gaza Strip.

    Halting the bombs: Biden’s gamble to rein in Netanyahu

    The US president paused a weapons shipment to Israel, piling pressure on Israel’s leader to change course. Will it work?

    • James Politi, Felicia Schwartz and Mehul Srivastava
    Palestinians headed to a makeshift tent camp west of Rafah on Friday.

    Defiant Israel orders more Palestinians to flee Rafah

    Benjamin Netanyahu insists that he must maintain military pressure in Gaza to eradicate Hamas despite warnings from the US and others.

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    • Wafaa Shurafa and Sam Mednick
    The resolution “determines” that a state of Palestine is qualified for membership.

    Australia’s ‘yes’ vote on Palestine at UN slammed by Labor MP

    Penny Wong said Australia’s support for Palestinian statehood will help to broker peace, but a Labor MP has argued it will further isolate Jewish Australians.

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    • Matthew Cranston
    Foreign Minister Penny Wong.

    Australia considers voting yes on Palestine’s UN bid

    Penny Wong says abstaining is a common diplomatic practice, amid pressure to admit Palestine as a United Nations member.

    • Andrew Tillett

    Lowy’s lament: ‘I know how insidious antisemitism can be’

    Sir Frank Lowy experienced hatred against Jews first hand in Hitler’s Europe, and is shaken by what he now sees “leaking out of decent people” in Australia.

    • Jill Margo
    Biden told Netanyahu last month, following the killing of World Central Kitchen aid workers in an Israeli strike, that ongoing US support for the war would depend on new steps to protect civilians.

    ‘We’ll fight with our fingernails’: Netanyahu hits back at Biden

    The Israeli prime minister defiantly says the country is prepared to stand alone if necessary if it attacks Rafah to further its destruction of Hamas.

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    • Shira Rubin, Michael Birnbaum and Karen DeYoung
    Israeli soldiers work on armored military vehicles at a staging ground near the Israeli-Gaza border.

    Biden says US will not supply weapons for attack on Rafah

    The US president’s ultimatum is aimed at trying to deter Israel’s planned operation in Gaza.

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    • Zeke Miller and Aamer Madhani
     So long as Hamas – a terrorist organisation – holds the political baton among Palestinians, Australia should not support the UN resolution.

    Why now is not the time for Palestinian statehood

    We cannot just hope that Hamas will lay down its arms – it will never happen. Nor can we hope that an alternative Palestinian Authority will emerge. We need to demand it, as a pre-condition of any form of recognition.

    • Jeremy Leibler
    Russian President Vladimir Putin

    Why Gaza is an endless gift for Vladimir Putin

    Israel’s war on Hamas is a serious drain for Joe Biden as he heads towards the US presidential election.

    • Edward Luce
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    Benjamin Netanyahu at a ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre, in Jerusalem on Monday.

    Can the ICC actually arrest Benjamin Netanyahu?

    The International Criminal Court is entitled to judge Israeli and Hamas officials, writes one of its former presidents.

    • Chile Eboe-Osuji
    Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli strike on a residential building in Rafah.

    US reveals weapons shipment to Israel halted

    The United States withheld 3500 bombs last week out of concern that they might be used in a major assault against the southern Gaza city, officials said.

    • Peter Baker
    Benjamin Netanyahu this week took a characteristic path: he bought time.

    Benjamin Netanyahu’s dilemma: save the hostages or his government

    In one of the biggest gambles of his career, Israel’s premier sent troops into Rafah to raise pressure on Hamas – and buy time.

    • Neri Zilber, Mehul Srivastava and Andrew England
    Incursion: An Israeli soldier walks near an armoured personnel carrier near the border with the southern Gaza Strip.

    White House piles ceasefire pressure on Netanyahu as tanks roll into Rafah

    White House national security spokesman John Kirby urged negotiators to come to an agreement after Israel launched a “limited” assault on Rafah, in the south of Gaza.

    • Nataliya Vasilyeva, Tony Diver and Abbie Cheeseman
    The United Nations General Assembly may vote on Palestinian membership this week.

    Palestinians seek UN General Assembly backing for full membership

    It would effectively act as a global survey of how much support the Palestinians have for their bid, which was vetoed in the UN Security Council last month by the US.

    • Michelle Nichols