Middle East

Australia has joined the UK, Canada, New Zealand and Norway in slapping travel bans and financial sanctions on two senior Israeli government ministers in a major split from the US. 

Greta Thunberg has accused Israel of kidnapping her and her fellow pro-Palestinian activists in international waters, breaking her silence as she landed in Paris, France.

Strikes by Israel on Yemeni ports have involved the nation's navy for the first time since the Gaza war erupted more than two years ago.

Activist Greta Thunberg is being held in an Israeli prison after IDF troops intercepted her ‘Freedom Flotilla’ in the Mediterranean Sea, according to her lawyer.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg and her ‘Freedom Flotilla’ shipmates will be made to watch a video of Israeli’s slaughtered by Islamic militants before they are deported after being detained.

The Israeli military says it has found the remains of Hamas military leader Mohammed al-Sinwar in an underground tunnel in the south of the Gaza Strip.

A series of Israeli air strikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs on Thursday night, after the military said it would target underground Hezbollah drone factories.

SARAH STINSON: I thought I understood anti-Semitism. I thought it lived in the past.  But in Israel, I felt its weight — not as theory, but inheritance. 

For the first time in over a year, rockets fired from Syria have landed in the Israeli-controlled territory of Golan Heights.

Hamas health officials say the Israeli army has again killed people near a humanitarian aid distribution centre during attacks in the Gaza Strip.

There are conflicting reports over what happened when 31 people were killed while waiting for food at a Rafah aid distribution site in Gaza.

A Palestinian man says he can’t wait around to watch his ‘family die of hunger’ as he begs for food at a distribution site run by a US and Israeli-backed foundation.

In fresh signs of progress towards a truce, Israel has accepted a new US proposal for a temporary ceasefire with Hamas, the White House says.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced the Israeli Defence Force has ‘eliminated’ the leader of the Hamas terrorist group in an airstrike.

The UN has described the scenes of Palestinians storming Gaza sites where food was being distributed as "heartbreaking."