A Ukrainian who spent a year and a half enduring “hell on earth” as a prisoner of war is returned to family in Sydney.
Photographer Kate Geraghty returns to the Middle East to show the human toll of a conflict causing grief,loss and anger.
Matthew Knott and Kate Geraghty have spent eight days in Beirut,where bullet-holes in palm trees among the glitzy restaurants tell the tale of a broken city.
Before the October 7 attacks,Kibbutz Be’eri’s residents were among Israel’s most progressive. Now some find their hearts hardening.
In the pre-dawn darkness,family and friends of the 364 people who were killed at the Nova music festival in Israel on October 7,2023,gathered to remember their loved ones.
As the world looks on in horror at events unfolding in the Middle East,Herald journalists Kate Geraghty and Matthew Knott,who have just arrived in Israel,talk about what it’s like to fly into a conflict zone.
Award-winning photographer Kate Geraghty has unparalleled experience in operating out of conflict zones over decades. Here are her images from southern Israel.
Matthew Knott and Kate Geraghty visit the north Lebanon village of Aitou,where at least 22 people were killed by a strike far from the Hezbollah strongholds.
Two years ago,Ihab Matar was running a successful construction company and living in western Sydney. Now he’s a member of Lebanon’s parliament taking on Hezbollah.
Survivors of the deadliest Israeli attack on Lebanon in a year are frustrated that Lebanese families are paying for the war between Israel and Hezbollah.
The federal government estimates there are about 15,000 Australians in Lebanon. Some people have continued travelling there against DFAT advice.