Israel at War

Hostages Keith Siegel (right) and Omri Miran are seen in a Hamas propaganda video aired April 27, 2024. (The Times of Israel: Screenshot: Telegram)

April 28, 2024, 9:57 am

Hamas airs clip of 2 hostages, as FM says Israel would delay Rafah op for a deal

Sign of life from Omri Miran and Israeli-American Keith Siegel ups pressure on government to okay deal; Miran’s father urges Sinwar: ‘Show humanity’.

By EMANUEL FABIAN and MICHAEL BACHNER, CANAAN LIDOR and LAZAR BERMAN

Community members redoing the hostage posters mural in St Kilda last Tuesday after it was vandalised overnight. Photo: Peter Haskin

April 25, 2024, 12:39 pm

Hostage wall defaced again

"These extremists seek to intimidate the community through the darkness of night. They are gutless cowards," says Caulfield MP David Southwick.

By Bruce Hill

Some of the anti-Israel posters in Fremantle.

April 25, 2024, 12:34 pm

Israel is ‘our ally’

Murphy said the issue of the anti-Israel posters in Fremantle and the attitude of the Federal Labor government towards Israel is going to affect the way people like him vote.

By Bruce Hill

Federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton at St kilda Shule speaking to more than 500 community members last Friday.Photo: Peter Haskin

April 25, 2024, 12:24 pm

Dutton speaks to the community

"The government has done significant damage to the relationship with Israel," says Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.

By Bruce Hill

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan speaking with women from the Jewish community at Central Shule last Friday. Photo: Peter Haskin

April 25, 2024, 12:19 pm

Allan visibly moved by accounts of intimidation

"There's a lot of reflection in terms of what we do next. But I have heard loud and clear your demand … of what your expectations are from us," says Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan.

By Bruce Hill

April 25, 2024, 9:31 am

Empty chairs

While we recounted our people's story of freedom, there were no seders in the dark dungeons of Gaza, where more than 130 Israelis remain captive after 200 days.

By AJN STAFF

Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, held captive in Gaza since October 7, in a Hamas propaganda video released on April 24, 2024. (The Times of Israel: Screenshot: Telegram)

April 25, 2024, 9:17 am

‘Stay strong,’ parents urge Hersh Goldberg-Polin after Hamas airs propaganda clip

Israeli-American hostage, 23, with missing hand, seen fuming at government for failing to free abductees for 200 days, describing ‘hell’ in Gaza captivity.

By Emanuel Fabian, JESSICA STEINBERG, Jacob Magid and Michael Bachner

Israeli soldiers from the Netzah Yehuda Battalion patrol near the Israeli-Gaza border, October 20, 2023. (The Times of Israel: Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

April 22, 2024, 12:55 pm

US mulling sanctions against other IDF units for alleged rights violations – sources

Official says move is part of US policy that disapproves of Israeli conduct in West Bank, but backs right to self defense; source says practical impact of sanctions may be limited

By Jacob Magid

Projectiles being intercepted over the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. Screenshot: X

April 18, 2024, 11:29 am

Iran threat

The failure of the attack shows that despite the belligerence of Tehran's rhetoric.

By AJN STAFF

Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital. Photo: Whatmov/Wikimedia Commons

April 18, 2024, 10:57 am

Gaza medical wish list found

The Victorian branch of the Australasian Jewish Medical Federation (AJMF) expressed its deep concern in a letter to hospital CEO Bernadette McDonald.

By Bruce Hill

Michal Keshet spoke at the rally. Photo: Ofer Levy

April 18, 2024, 10:50 am

Hostage families let down by Wong

“Were you too afraid to face the truth? Or you just couldn’t care less about Jewish people, Ms Wong?” said Michal Keshet.

By Carly Adno

The defaced hostage poster wall in St Kilda.

April 18, 2024, 10:41 am

Calls for ‘intifada’ in Sydney

“Anyone who rips down posters calling for hostages to be returned shows how little humanity they have,” says Macnamara MP Josh Burns.

By Bruce Hill

Iranian drones over the Knesset in Jerusalem.

April 18, 2024, 8:15 am

Iran’s Shocking Escalation

"Iran's evil intent has been brought out into the open," posted Liberal MP Julian Leeser.

By Peter Kohn

The United Nations Security Council meets on the situation in the Middle East at UN headquarters in New York on March 25, 2024. (The Times of Israel: Angela Weiss/AFP)

April 14, 2024, 3:26 pm

UN Security Council to meet Sunday for emergency talks on Iran’s attack against Israel

Israeli envoy requests body condemn unprecedented Iranian missile and drone strikes, list IRGC as terror group; Biden stresses backing for Israel as world leaders denounce Tehran.

By Agencies and TOI Staff

File: In this photo released by the Iranian army on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, drones are launched during the air force nationwide drone drill centered in northern Semnan province, Iran. (The Times of Israel: Iranian Army via AP)

April 14, 2024, 8:26 am

Iran launches over 100 drones at Israel in first-ever direct attack

Suicide drones expected to take hours to arrive; airspace shuttered in Israel, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon; all education Sunday canceled; army says air force ‘prepared and ready’.

By Emanuel Fabian and TOI STAFF