Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr Sinytskyi reunited with daughter Yaroslava,14,and son Nikita,9,in suburban Sydney.

After 562 days of brutal torture,a soldier wasn’t prepared for what was waiting at Sydney Airport

A Ukrainian who spent a year and a half enduring “hell on earth” as a prisoner of war is returned to family in Sydney.

  • Kate Geraghty andMichael Ruffles

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Manessa Ali,10,in the aftermath of the October 5 Israeli strike on Dahiyeh,a southern suburb of Beirut.

‘Nowhere is safe’:A photographer’s perspective on the Middle East conflict

Photographer Kate Geraghty returns to the Middle East to show the human toll of a conflict causing grief,loss and anger.

  • Kate Geraghty
Heartbreak in Beirut

Beirut is a city you can’t help but love,even as it breaks your heart

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.

  • Matthew Knott andKate Geraghty
In Kibbutz Be-eri,Australian Israeli Geoffrey “Danny” Majzner,62,sits in his bedroom which is also his safe room where he took shelter for 30 hours during the October 7 Hamas attack. Geoffrey’s sister Galit Carbone was killed by Hamas in her home a few streets away. Kibbutz Be-eri,Israel. October 4,2024. Photo:Kate Geraghty

They’re rebuilding after watching loved ones murdered. Rebuilding trust is more complicated

Before the October 7 attacks,Kibbutz Be’eri’s residents were among Israel’s most progressive. Now some find their hearts hardening.

  • Matthew Knott andKate Geraghty
On the first anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attack,Rachel Moshe mourns her son Oz Ezra at his shrine at the site of the Nova music festival.

‘Why,Lord,why?’ The moment the music stopped

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.

  • Matthew Knott andKate Geraghty
Photographer Kate Geraghty

Into the conflict zone

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.

  • Liam Phelan,Kate Geraghty andMatthew Knott
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Avida Bahar,who lost his right leg after being shot by Hamas,sits in his home where his wife,Dana,and son,Carmel,were killed and daughter,Hadar,was wounded by Hamas during the October 7 attack on Kibbutz Be’eri.
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In pictures:On the ground in southern Israel

Award-winning photographer Kate Geraghty has unparalleled experience in operating out of conflict zones over decades. Here are her images from southern Israel.

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Aitou

Far from Hezbollah strongholds,a tiny body is found among the dead

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.

  • Matthew Knott andKate Geraghty
Australian citizen and Tripoli Independent MP Ihab Matar at his office in Tropli.

The Australian politician in Lebanon speaking out against Hezbollah

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.

  • Matthew Knott andKate Geraghty
A 900-kilogram Israeli bomb which killed 22 people landed next to Ali Khalifeh’s home in Basta,central Beirut on October 10.

Ali was watching the war on TV. Then an Israeli bomb fell beside his home

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.

  • Matthew Knott andKate Geraghty