Matthew Doran

Thousands of Palestinians turn out in Gaza's Khan Younis to celebrate the wedding of 54 couples who had been unable to tie the knot during Israel's bombardment of the strip.

The Iranian Government has condemned Australia's formal listing of its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a state sponsor of terrorism as "offensive and unjustified", accusing the Albanese government of doing Israel's bidding.

A former "Popemobile" used by Pope Francis during his 2014 tour of the Holy Land has been transformed into a mobile health clinic for Gaza's children, but Israeli authorities are yet to give permission for it to enter the war-ravaged strip.

As Iran suffers through a drought and the president warns the capital could be evacuated, millions are worried about what the future will hold. 

The fragile ceasefire in Gaza has now been in place for five weeks. Here is what has changed, what has not, and where things currently stand.

The Israeli PM says he will not push for a pardon or concede guilt in his long-running corruption trial, less than a day after thanking Donald Trump for urging Israel's president to clear his record.

Donald Trump has taken the extraordinary step of writing to Israel's President Isaac Herzog calling on him to pardon Benjamin Netanyahu of long-standing corruption charges.

A small sense of normalcy has returned in some areas of Gaza, but other parts remain under Israeli military control, fuelling concerns the strip is being divided.

Israel's top military lawyer is behind bars after leaking a video of shocking alleged abuse of a Palestinian man in a military jail. This is why the case has shaken politics and the military to the core.

The father of one of the dead hostages still in Gaza says he does not trust Hamas's assurances it is doing all it can to find and return the remains of Israelis.