The document detailing a $7.7m wishlist of medical equipment and medicines for Gaza under the banner of the state of Palestine has been spread across the Victorian health system. Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital staff have been told the document, a copy of which was found in a secure area at the hospital, has been found […]
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Iraq denies missiles launched from within its borders/Anne Barrowclough Iran has denied Israeli claims that drones or missiles were launched from its territory during Iran’s attack on Israel. Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said Iran had informed Baghdad ahead of the attack, as it did other countries in the region. However he said that […]
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12 January 2024, The Age, by Roger Shanahan: There are growing fears that the war in Gaza is, to borrow US President Joe Biden’s term, metastasising into a regional conflict. In the past 10 days, a senior leader of Hamas and a senior leader of Hezbollah have been killed in Lebanon by Israeli airstrikes, while a US airstrike killed a senior commander of the Shi’a Popular Mobilisation Forces in Iraq. And a letter signed by a dozen nations, including Australia and New Zealand, warned the Yemeni Houthi movement to end their attacks on shipping and to release detained vessels or face the consequences.
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