The Israeli government claims its bombing is targeted,but the collateral damage is undermining its cause.
The Israeli prime minister has told the US he will strike military targets,not Iran’s oil infrastructure or nuclear installations,according to The Washington Post.
Israeli airstrikes also hit a food distribution centre in northern Gaza,while a Hezbollah drone attack on an army base in central Israel killed four soldiers.
It was their first call in seven weeks,a conversation that came as Israel expanded further into Lebanon,pounded Gaza and killed another Hezbollah member,this time in Syria.
It is becoming harder and harder for Jews like me to support Israel,given the scale of its vengeance for the October 7 atrocity.
Naim Qassem speaking by video from an undisclosed location,said Hezbollah would name a new leader to succeed Hassan Nasrallah who was killed by Israel in Beirut.
The revelations were made in a new book by famed reporter Bob Woodward who the Trump camp called “a truly demented and deranged man”.
Lacking the familiar,if tragic,armed struggle cycle that forces refugees across the border,the world has watched the slaughter in Gaza with horror.
One day,across a field pockmarked with bomb craters,two parties might walk towards each other in tears and embrace,remembering all those lost on both sides in a stupid,pointless,unwinnable war. I wait for that day.
As a Jewish Australian,I am torn between my condemnation of Israel’s almost certain war crimes in Gaza and the terrifying rise in antisemitism,and my relief that Israel might be on track to destroy Hezbollah.
The stain of racist inhumanity on our country is reflected in the historically barbarous treatment of our Aboriginal population.