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    Israeli-Palestinian conflict

    Today

    Protesters blocking the entrance to the ALP state conference.

    ‘I’m disgusted’: premier blasts pro-Palestine activists

    Pro-Palestine protesters have stormed a Labor state conference in Melbourne amid heightened tensions over the Israel-Hamas war.

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    • Callum Godde
    From left, Itzik Gelernter, Shani Louk and Amit Buskila. The Israeli military says its troops in Gaza found the bodies of the three Israeli hostages killed by Hamas during its October 7.

    Israel recovers bodies of hostages amid fierce fighting in northern Gaza

    The Israeli military says it has retrieved the bodies of three Israeli hostages from Gaza including Shani Louk, the 23-year-old German Israeli, who was pronounced dead last year.

    • Nidal al-Mughrabi and Nataliya Vasilyeva

    Yesterday

    Protesters have renamed the Arts West building Mahmoud’s Hall, in honour of a Palestinian student who they say intended to study at Melbourne University on a scholarship this year but was killed in Gaza on October 20.

    Sydney Uni wins appeal over academic dismissed over Nazi slide

    Tough-talking university administrators are showing signs their patience is wearing thin, but police involvement is still a last resort.

    • Julie Hare and Patrick Durkin

    The red line on Gaza: PM draws it, students ignore it

    Tensions have come to a head after Australia voted “yes” in a United Nations vote to support a Palestinian bid to become a full member.

    • Patrick Durkin

    What a ‘free Palestine’ means in practice

    The campus protesters are not the first generation of Western activists who have championed movements that promised liberation in theory and misery and murder in practice.

    • Bret Stephens
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    This Month

    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
    Student protesters at Melbourne University on Wednesday afternoon.

    ‘End it now or we’ll call police’: Uni toughens up on protesters

    Melbourne University says protesters ‘crossed a line’ when they occupied a building and warned they could be charged by police if they don’t leave immediately.

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    • Julie Hare and 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
    Labor senator Fatima Payman.

    PM chides Labor MP over her use of anti-Israel slogan

    The opposition wants Anthony Albanese to remove rookie senator Fatima Payman from a prestigious parliamentary committee after her pro-Palestinian advocacy.

    • Andrew Tillett
    A group of students occupy the Arts West building at Melbourne University’s Parkville campus on Wednesday.

    Pro-Palestine protesters storm university building

    Police were called and all classes in one building at the University of Melbourne were cancelled after students occupied the site in defiance of administrators.

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    • Gus McCubbing
    An armoured personnel carrier near the border with the southern Gaza Strip.

    US to send $1.5b in new military aid to Israel

    The White House has alerted Congress a security package is in the works, after it paused a bomb shipment last week in a warning to Israel over its war in Gaza.

    • James Politi
    Hundreds of students gathered at Melbourne University in support of Palestine.

    Why the student protests make me optimistic about the future

    If there is any failure in Australian universities it more likely lies with administrators, rather than student bodies.

    • Adir Shiffman

    Power bill relief, tax cuts in a budget ‘for every Australian’: Chalmers

    The Treasurer has handed down his third budget, promising cost-of-living relief to struggling Australians while delivering a second consecutive surplus. How the day unfolded.

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    • Gus McCubbing, Esther Han and Maxim Shanahan
    Biden v Trump

    Trump leads in crucial states as Biden’s support unravels

    A new set of polls shows the US president is behind in five of six battleground states, as the economy, Israel’s war and a desire for change press on voters.

    • Nate Cohn
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    Go8 Universities agree to combat racism, uphold free speech

    Australia’s oldest and most prestigious universities have set out five principles, as Deakin University prepares for a showdown with campus protesters.

    • Patrick Durkin and Julie Hare
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    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
    Jerry Seinfeld speaks during Duke University’s graduation ceremony.

    Seinfeld speech at Duke University ceremony prompts walkout

    The walkout was the latest manifestation of protests that have roiled US campuses as students call for universities to divest from arms suppliers and others profiting from the war.

    • Julia Harte
    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
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    Plane makes safe emergency landing in Newcastle

    A light plane with three people on board and no functioning landing gear has landed safely after circling for two hours. Sydney bishop stabbing videos back online after court’s decision. Follow updates live.

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    • Gus McCubbing
    Protesters march during a pro Palestine snap rally in Melbourne.

    Labor accused of ‘rewarding’ Hamas with Palestine vote

    Opposition frontbencher Senator Jane Hume said there could be no sustainable two-state solution without the consent of Israel.

    • Ronald Mizen