Middle East

The US has halted visitor visas for people from Gaza coming to the US for medical treatment, following online backlash.

South Sudan and Israel are discussing a deal to resettle Palestinians from war-torn Gaza in the troubled African nation.

PAUL MURRAY: The Palestine move is gesture politics at its worst, but there are real consequences.

EDITORIAL: Anthony Albanese’s statehood move is driving a wedge between Australia and the country’s number one security guarantor, the US.

BEN HARVEY: Australia’s recognition of Palestine is not about national interest, it’s about Anthony Albanese and his attempt to secure Labor’s flimsy partyroom.

If US Secretary of State Marco Rubio expressed any discontent or even opposition about Australia recognising a Palestinian state, it didn’t matter and more importantly, it didn’t work.

America’s top diplomat in Israel has branded Australia's Palestinian statehood recognition 'ill-timed' while hostages remain captive under Hamas control.

The Prime Minister has blamed the media and the Opposition for feeding Hamas propaganda, deflecting criticism from his own move to recognise Palestinian statehood.

AARON PATRICK The minute-by-minute account of the Battle of Shah Wali Kot describes the bravery and mistakes that led to Australia’s highest military honours and its greatest controversy.

MARK RILEY: The Middle East is a complication wrapped in a complexity, mired in confusion, and the perils for little players are big.

MICHAELIA CASH: Labor’s statehood push will legitimise Hamas and further entrench their power in Palestine.

Senior ministers have rejected comments by Hamas officials praising Australia’s ‘political courage’ to recognise a Palestinian state.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to relocate much of Gaza's population of more than million people through what he refers to as ‘voluntary migration’.

CAMERON MILNER: Like the Voice, Albanese’s push for Palestinian statehood has momentum but no plan, and it could do lasting harm at home and abroad.

A top Hamas official has praised Anthony Albanese’s move to recognise Palestinian statehood, contradicting the Government’s claim that Hamas would be ‘totally opposed’ to the move.