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 unprecedented events in Jerusalem have further fuelled the conflict. Hamas, the Islamist movement ruling Gaza, rejected Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' recent decision to postpone the Palestinian election — ostensibly because Israel sought to prevent Jerusalemites from participating in it. In response to recent Israeli incursions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and the pressure placed on the Palestinians of Sheikh Jarrah, Hamas launched homemade rockets into Israel.  

The response from Israel’s sophisticated military power destroyed infrastructure and residential flats. Innocent civilians, including women and children, were killed. This action – a contravention of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights – has inspired condemnation from the international community.

Palestinian innocents killed by Israeli air strikes on Gaza

The death and destruction caused by Israel’s military power in recent conflicts have fuelled Palestinians in their fight for statehood.

The world’s powerhouse economies have turned their backs on coal, with economists warning Australia is setting itself up for misery if the federal government keeps investing in fossil fuels.

 In a communique, the world’s seven largest advanced economies – the United States, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, plus the European Union – said international investments in “unabated coal must stop now”.

Source: Australia isolated on climate change as G7 ditches coal

 

Politics

Asylum seekers

Almost 1000 refugees still in limbo as US deal approaches completion

The 2016 deal to move refugees from Australian detention centres to the US has filled three-quarters of its 1250-person cap.

LNP passed a law enabling the government to detain asylum seekers for their entire lives. That makes bombing Gaza seem an act of kindness

Did you know you’re counted as “employed” if you work 1 hour a week? When you first hear that, it can sound shocking. It can make you suspect the government’s manipulating the unemployment data to make the labour market appear in better health than it is. But let me explain why it’s not a problem. It’s a perfectly logical definition for “employed”. Then, after I’m done with that, let me show you some ways in which you can be led astray by the government. It regards the unemployment rate itself.

Source: You’re counted as ’employed’ if you work one hour a week, but why is that a problem? – ABC News