Australia today told its citizens to leave Israel if possible, citing a “high threat of military reprisals and terrorist attacks”, issuing a similar warning for the Palestinian territories. “We urge Australians in both Israel or the Occupied Palestinian Territories to depart if it’s safe to do so,” the Department of Foreign Affairs said in a [...
•UN The United Nations Security Council will vote tomorrow on the Palestinians’ application to become a full UN member state, several diplomatic sources have told our correspondent. Amid Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, the Palestinians in early April revived a membership application first made to the world body in 2011, though the veto-wi...
•PM Mohammad Shtayyeh Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh today announced the resignation of his government which rules parts of the occupied West Bank. “I submit the government’s resignation to Mr President (Mahmud Abbas),” Shtayyeh said, adding it comes in the wake of the “developments related to the aggression against the Gaza Stri...
•Relatives and supporters of Israeli hostages taken by Palestinian militants demonstrate in Tel Aviv The Israeli army kept bombing the Gaza Strip and fighting Hamas militants on Wednesday as US top diplomat Antony Blinken met the head of the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank. The military said it killed dozens of “terrorists” and...

