Israel launched a new deadly strike on Tuesday as the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken called for "fundamental changes" to the way Israeli forces operate in the occupied West Bank.
Even before the Gaza case was detected, officials concluded that "the worst-case scenario has materialised". Now they've diagnosed "an unqualified failure".
Tiers of graves are stacked deep underground in a bloated Gaza cemetery, where Sa'di Baraka spends his days hacking at the earth, making room for more dead.
Israel targeted Mohammed Deif in a July 13 strike that hit a compound on the outskirts of the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. Hamas has denied he was killed.
The top UN court ruled Israel's presence in the Palestinian occupied territories is "unlawful" and called on it to end, pointing to the building and expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.
The strikes came as as the Israeli military announced it would begin sending draft notices to Jewish ultra-Orthodox men, in a move that could rattle the government.
Abandoned, bullet-ridden apartment buildings have blasted out walls and shattered windows. Bedrooms and kitchens are visible from roads dotted with rubble.
The demonstrations on Sunday came after long-running efforts to broker a truce gained momentum last week when Hamas dropped a key demand for an Israeli commitment to end the war.
A Labor senator has been suspended after vowing to again cross the floor if a motion supporting an independent Palestinian state is brought back before parliament.
The group has new weapons and intelligence capabilities that could help it target more critical positions deeper inside Israel in case of an all-out war, it has warned.
Israel said it rescued four hostages who were kidnapped in the Hamas-led attack on October 7, in the largest such recovery operation since the war began in Gaza.
The annual march, seen as provocative by Palestinians, could ignite broader unrest, as it did three years ago, when it helped set off an 11-day war in Gaza.
Israel launched its war in Gaza after Hamas' Oct. 7 attack in which militants stormed into southern Israel, killed some 1200 people — mostly civilians — and abducted about 250.
Rocket sirens have sounded across central Israel, including in Tel Aviv, for the first time in months, as Hamas claimed to have fired a barrage of rockets from Gaza.
Pro-Palestine students occupying a Melbourne University building have been ordered to pack up and leave or face possible expulsion, while Queenslanders have been arrested.
Pro-Palestine protesters are suspected to be responsible for the attack, which also caused damage to the ABC's Southbank offices and Seven's offices in Docklands.