The Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel has taken aim at the Albanese government for the second time this week.

Australian detectives are examining whether foreign entities are funding criminal groups to carry out antisemitic attacks in the country.

The Gaza ceasefire will come into effect at 0630 GMT (5:30pm AEDT) on Sunday. The White House expects three female hostages to be released to Israel in the afternoon through the Red Cross.

It was Donald Trump rather than Joe Biden who issued a statement confirming the ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel.

Australian Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw was meeting with state police chiefs to discuss an increase in anti-Semitic crime in Australia since the war between Israel and Hamas began on Oct.

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister says he does not see Donald Trump's new administration increasing the risk of an Israel-Iran conflict, addressing an issue the region has feared since the start of Israel's war in Gaza.

Mark Dreyfus’ mission to salvage relations with Israel is “as important as it will be difficult”, an Australian Jewish group is warning.

Peter Dutton says Penny Wong is “the most inappropriate person” to be representing Australia at the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz because she has “trashed” the relationship with Israel.

Australian detectives are investigating whether foreign actors are paying criminals to commit antisemitic attacks in the country, police said on Wednesday. Australia Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw was meeting on Wednesday with state police chiefs to discuss an increase in antisemitic crime in Australia since the war between Israel and Hamas began on Oct.

Israeli security forces backed by helicopters have raided the volatile West Bank city of Jenin, killing at least nine Palestinians in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a "large-scale and significant military operation".

Detectives in Australia are investigating whether foreign actors paying criminals are behind the recent string of antisemitic attacks.

Hamas has released three Israeli hostages and Israel has freed 90 Palestinian prisoners on the first day of a ceasefire suspending a 15-month-old war that has devastated the Gaza Strip and inflamed the Middle East.