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The conference, being held in Brisbane, runs three days, with Albanese delivering his keynote address on Thursday morning
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Since 2014, Australian officials have generally avoided using the terms “occupied” or “occupation” in relation to Palestine. That has now changed.
Israeli settler boys throw stones during clashes with Palestinians in the West Bank.
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Israeli settler youth in the West Bank are using their right-wing ideology as a tool that allows them to harm Palestinians and their villages with no remorse.
The planned judicial reforms have caused unprecedented unrest among Israeli citizens.
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The state of Israel was partly built on principles established by the British empire. It has just struck down the law that underpinned democracy in the country.
U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Israel’s President Isaac Herzog in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on July 18, 2023.
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Despite claims of defending democracy and shared values, the U.S.-Israel relationship is one of self-interest where the Palestinians pay the price.
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Since 1948, the story of Palestine has been a story of constant displacement and eviction.
Palestinian Authority officials were chased from funerals like this one in Jenin on July 5, 2023.
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The West Bank governing body has seen its popularity erode amid accusations of corruption and incompetence.
A Palestinian confronts Israeli military vehicles in the Jenin refugee camp on July 4, 2023.
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Israeli troops have withdrawn after two days of fighting in a camp in the occupied West Bank. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that it would not be a ‘one-time action.’
Cycle of violence: the funeral of one of the 12 Palestinians estimated to have been killed during Israel’s military operation in Jenin, July 2023.
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Israel’s prime minister is under pressure from public protests and an increasingly assertive right wing in his coalition government.
Palestinian children play at an entertainment facility in the West Bank community of Jinba, Masafer Yatta, in May 2022.
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The youth of Masafer Yatta understand the power of education to help them lift up their communities and share their struggles with the world — and they continue to fight for their right to it.
A Palestinian protester rests during clashes with Israeli troops after a demonstration against Israel’s settlements, near Nablus, West Bank, June 9, 2023.
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Australia should recognise the state of Palestine. The legal, moral and political arguments are compelling.
An Israeli soldier, seen through a shattered window of an Israeli army vehicle, near the Gaza border in southern Israel, August, 2010.
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Tried and tested in the field, Israeli weapons and surveillance technology are being packaged and sold for export.
Palestinian novelist and intellectual Ghassan Kanafani was assassinated by Mossad in 1972.
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Generations of Palestinian writers and poets have expressed their feelings of grief and loss.
Carrying a key symbolising the right to return, a Palestinian woman marches through the streets of Ramallah on Nakba Day.
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Many in the West are unaware of the displacement of around 750,000 Palestinians in 1947-8
Evicted: about 750,000 Palestinians were killed or expelled from their land during the Nakba which began on May 15 1948.
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The village of Lajjun, near Nazareth, which was destroyed in 1948 to make room for a kibbutz is a microcosm of the catastrophe that still affects Palestinians 75 years later.
Palestinians leave their Jerusalem neighborhood during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
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For the first time, the United Nations will mark the commemoration of the displacement of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes in 1948.
David Ben-Gurion formally declares Israel as an independent state on May 14 1948.
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A series of poor decisions in the face of Jewish manoeuvring led to the end of the British mandate in Palestine and the creation of the Israeli state.
Israel declares independence: David Ben-Gurion (on left) was first to sign the declaration.
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British media coverage of the creation of the state of Israel reflected the concerns of the government at the time.
Under a portrait of Theodor Herzl, David Ben-Gurion on May 14, 1948, declares the establishment of a Jewish state to be known as the state of Israel.
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Israel may no longer be a fledgling state – but it has yet to overcome the basic contradiction that has defined it from the very beginning.
Mark Raphael Baker, author of The Fiftieth Gate.
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Mark Raphael Baker is best known for two outstanding memoirs, The Fiftieth Gate, exploring his parents’ Holocaust experience, and Thirty Days, about the death of his first wife.