From Hiroshima to Gaza: Eighty years of failing to contain violence
Note from the editor: For months Refaat Ibrahim has been writing for P&I from the centre of Gaza in unimaginable conditions. Today I add the note he sent with the piece, so you can see the sacrifice he makes every day.
Recent articles in Palestine Israel
9 August 2025
Israeli military plans to occupy Gaza City in major escalation of war
Israel’s security cabinet has approved a plan by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the military occupation of Gaza City, located in the north of the Palestinian enclave.
9 August 2025
How we at Physicians for Human Rights Israel decided that the Gaza war is a genocide
When examining all the factors together, we identify a clear pattern that indicates Israeli intent to kill Palestinians in Gaza. The systematic nature is the smoking gun.
9 August 2025
IDF chiefs break ranks
Israeli military and security chiefs are active participants in Netanyahu’s biblical holocaust on Palestinians.
9 August 2025
Gaza doesn’t need another gesture, it needs real action
Like many Australians watching the unfolding devastation in Gaza, I read about Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s recent announcement of $20 million in additional humanitarian aid with mixed emotions.
8 August 2025
The Segal report and the universities
The Segal report presented to Prime Minister Albanese on Thursday, 10 July, represents an unprecedented challenge to Australia’s 39 public universities – to their autonomy, their independence and to their reputation both here and internationally.
8 August 2025
'Israel doesn't want journalists on the ground': CNN's Jeremy Diamond on the fight to enter Gaza
The foreign press corps in Israel has been battling — unsuccessfully — since the Gaza war began in October 2023 to be permitted access to the Strip in order to report on the conflict and the humanitarian situation there from the ground.
8 August 2025
Middle Australia marches
As fully paid members of Middle Australia, my partner and I had a clear middle row view on Sunday’s March for Humanity.
8 August 2025
Gendered violence in war isn’t a flaw. It’s a feature
When people ask, “Why are children always the first to suffer in war?” I find myself thinking about Gaza.
7 August 2025
Watermelons in the rain
We knew a thousand police couldn’t arrest 90,000 of us, so the march for Palestine was always going to happen. An 11th-hour decision by Justice Belinda Rigg just made it legal.
7 August 2025
Recognise Palestine? Then free Marwan Barghouti!
The world’s most important hostage must be released. Powerful Western countries have signalled that in the face of the genocide they may recognise the state of Palestine. States need leaders. That’s why Marwan Barghouti — often dubbed the Palestinian Mandela — must be freed.
7 August 2025
Interfaith groups come together to call for Gaza action
A coalition of Australian interfaith and community organisations — including leading Muslim, Christian, and Jewish groups — is calling on the Albanese Government to sanction Israel and to urgently recognise Palestine as a sovereign state. Full page advertisements have appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers. The signatories represent a broad spectrum of religious, ethnic and political affiliations, united in an unprecedented show of solidarity. Their joint message is clear. The time for action is now.
6 August 2025
Palestine recognised
We are approaching the end game. There is a movement towards recognition of Palestine by major Western nations, namely France, the UK and Canada, and including, possibly, Australia and New Zealand.
