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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dissolved his six-member war cabinet, an Israeli official has said, in a widely expected move following the departure from government of centrist former general Benny Gantz

The forum was formed after Gantz joined Netanyahu in a national unity government at the start of the Gaza war in October. It also included Gantz’s political partner Gadi Eisenkot and Aryeh Deri, head of the religious party Shas, as observers. David Mencer, spokesperson at the prime minister’s office, told reporters the war cabinet had […]

Labor senator Fatima Payman calls on government to ‘recognise Palestine’ in rebuke to Albanese

Party were ‘fierce champions of Palestine’ in opposition and they must ‘summon that spirit of old’, she writes for Al Jazeera The Labor senator Fatima Payman has called on her own government to “recognise Palestine” and undermined efforts by the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, to discredit protests against Israel’s military actions in Gaza. Payman, writing […]