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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has met with senior security officials to finalise a new strategy for the war in Gaza, with Israeli media reporting he is leaning towards a complete military takeover of the strip.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas tells Prime Minister Anthony Albanese that Australia could play an "important role" in achieving peace by joining others to recognise the state of Palestine.

Facing domestic pressure and international condemnation, Benjamin Netanyahu will convene a meeting of his security cabinet to consider the Israeli military's next moves.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society says one staffer is dead after an Israeli strike on its headquarters in the Gaza city of Khan Younis.

A Perth anaesthetist who spent four weeks volunteering in Gaza says her patients were often wounded while seeking food aid amid the ongoing hunger crisis.

Donald Trump's latest statement on Gaza suggests the ties binding the US administration and the Netanyahu government may be fraying, ever so slightly, even as Israel tries to downplay it. 

The British prime minister says the UK will recognise a Palestinian state in September unless Israel takes steps to secure a ceasefire and increase the flow of humanitarian assistance to Gaza.

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification — a global initiative that assesses the extent of hunger suffered by a population — says the worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip. 

Food has been airdropped in Gaza and "humanitarian corridors" have been set up to make it easier to distribute aid throughout the strip. But aid officials and Palestinians question whether it's enough.

Anthony Albanese expresses his astonishment at claims made by Israel's prime minister that "there is no starvation in Gaza", telling Labor MPs that statement is "beyond comprehension".

The Coalition demands Prime Minister Anthony Albanese "produce the facts", challenging his assertion that Israel has "clearly" breached international law by blocking aid into Gaza.

The reality of the situation on the ground in Gaza, and the spectre of children dying of malnutrition or starvation, sits at such extraordinary odds with the language of spokespeople for both the Netanyahu government and the IDF.

A UN agency says it is trying to get more than 6,000 truckloads of aid to Gaza to alleviate mass starvation, as the US announces it is pulling out of ceasefire talks and sending its delegation home. 

There's an old adage in the media about journalists not wanting to become the story. But the lack of food inside Gaza means journalists and the story are intrinsically linked in a battle for survival.

In a ward of Gaza City's Shifa Hospital, multiple children and some adults can be found emaciated from the lack of food. Doctors say the rate of death from starvation is rapidly rising.

Public outrage as the Palestinian death toll has climbed has been followed only slowly by official statements from governments reluctant to criticise Israel — until now. 

China is expected to fill a gap in aid funding to Australia's region as the Trump administration slashes US development programs. 

The decision to gift the tanks to Ukraine's war effort encountered "logistics challenges" in its path to fruition, but more than half of the tanks have now arrived.

The UN says the withdrawal of US funding for the global HIV fight could lead to more than 4 million AIDS-related deaths and over 6 million additional HIV infections by 2029 if not replaced.

Health authorities in Gaza have accused Israeli forces of killing women and children queuing for supplements and medicine near a medical centre in the strip.