Armed Conflict

If all goes to plan, guns in and around Gaza are set to fall silent as Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners are released and aid is delivered. Even in the darkness of this war, four parties can make an agreement, writes John Lyons.

Israel and Hamas have agreed to a four-day ceasefire in their war in exchange for the release of 50 women and children held in Gaza. Here's what we know about the deal and what may unfold next.

The Australian government has granted hundreds of temporary visas to Palestinians in the weeks since Israel began its bombing campaign of Gaza, which has killed thousands of civilians and flattened large swathes of the densely populated strip.

Israel's government has voted to back a deal to secure the release of some of the hostages held in Gaza over four days where there will be a "pause in fighting".

A second Australian member of a foreigners military unit in Ukraine known as "The Chosen Company" has been killed while fighting against invading Russian forces in the country's east, sources have confirmed to the ABC.

The United States says it believes Israel and Hamas are moving closer to a deal that would secure the release of some hostages held in Gaza.

Thousands more people have reportedly been killed in the Israel-Gaza war in the past month than during the conflict over the past 15 years.

The Ukrainian army says it has pushed Russian forces back "3 to 8 kilometres" from the banks of Dnipro river in what could be an important gain for the nation's counter-offensive.

Foreign affairs officials say 31 more Australians safely left Gaza through the Rafah Crossing into Egypt early Monday morning, as more than 100 others wait to evacuate the war zone.

After an assessment mission, a WHO-led humanitarian team urges full evacuation of the the Al-Shifa hospital, describing it as a "death zone" and says the situation is "desperate".

A journalist in Gaza says Israel is issuing warnings over loudspeakers for people to evacuate Gaza's biggest hospital.

If North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un meets an untimely end, these experts say there's one clear successor.

The World Health Organization says that Israel's ongoing raid of Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital is "totally unacceptable", as the first fuel since October 7 begins to trickle into the enclave after Israel's grants approval. 

The Australian government is accused of being "secretive" about its defence exports to Israel, as calls grow internationally for countries to suspend arms transfers that could be used to commit human rights abuses in Gaza.

Hamas says it is suspending hostage talks due to Israel's attacks around Al-Shifa Hospital, as the first group of foreigners and injured Palestinians to be evacuated from Gaza after the Rafah border crossing reopened arrive in Egypt.

Palestinian officials and humanitarian aid groups working in Gaza say patients are unable to evacuate hospitals in northern Gaza after recent bombardments, while Israel denies firing on the largest hospital, Al-Shifa, saying people can evacuate safely. 

The US has struggled to maintain support for Israel's offensive in the face of the shocking civilian death toll in Gaza. It is now taking a new line, writes Eric Tlozek.

Israel must stop bombing Gaza and killing civilians, French President Emmanuel Macron says, as deadly Israeli air strikes hit three Gaza hospitals and a school, according to Palestinian officials.

Gaza Ministry of Health spokesman Ashraf Al-Qidra says Israeli air strikes struck on or near at least three hospitals on Friday, amid reports that Israel would begin four-hour humanitarian pauses in northern Gaza to allow people to move south.

Gaza City is encircled by tanks and the skies above are full of planes and drones. Now, after inching cautiously around its outskirts, Israeli ground troops are going in, writes Eric Tlozek.

A senior adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says military plans in Gaza are a "fluid situation" while the US carries out a second round of strikes against a Syrian weapon storage facility. 

War began on October 7 when Hamas militants crossed from Gaza and killed 1,400 Israelis, mostly civilians, and abducted more than 200. Since then, Israel has bombarded the Hamas-run strip, killing more than 10,000 people, around 40 per cent of them children, according to regional health officials.

The Gaza health ministry says more than 4,100 children have been killed since October 7, as the Pentagon admits to "thousands" of civilians killed.  

A female Israeli soldier has been seriously injured in a stabbing attack in east Jerusalem. Here's how the day's events unfolded.

Former prime minister Scott Morrison visits a kibbutz in southern Israel, while a woman and three children are killed by an Israeli air strike in southern Lebanon and IDF troops encircle Gaza City.