Fighting raged in the countdown to the truce,but 15 minutes into the scheduled start Israel said it had completed its operational preparations.
The request for a small “cell” of negotiators came from Qatar as soon as the hostages were taken. That was just the beginning.
The chief of Hamas says that the Palestinian militant group was near a truce agreement with Israel,even as the deadly assault on Gaza continued and rockets were being fired into Israel.
Hamas and local witnesses say militants are waging guerrilla-style war in pockets of the densely urbanised north,including parts of Gaza City.
Flight Centre’s boss and founder Graham ‘Skroo’ Turner says travel industry insiders blame Transport Minister Catherine King for higher airfares.
Witnesses said 20 aid trucks entered Gaza’s southern area including the major towns of Rafah and Khan Younis where hundreds of thousands of people are sheltering.
In 2020,Anna was pulled off a Qatar Airways plane and invasively searched. She says the inquiry probing the rejection of more Qatar flights was a wasted chance to question the country’s human rights record.
Glass half empty or half full? One can slice and dice Virgin Australia’s bumper 2023 profit either way.
The opposition and Greens accused the government of being too close to the national carrier after Qatar Airways lost its bid to add flights to Australia.
A two-state solution is the only sensible response to the crisis in the Middle East.
Qantas says claims that Qatar would have generated hundreds of millions of dollars in additional tourism revenue are over-baked.