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What’s On around Naarm/Melbourne & Regional Victoria: Aug 18-24, 2025 With thanks to the dedicated activists at Friends of the Earth Melbourne! . . . See also these Palestine events listings from around the country: 9560

Israeli military prepares relocations to southern Gaza as US cancels Palestinian visitor visas ABC / Reuters | 17 August 2025 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-17/israeli-military-to-relocate-residents-to-southern-gaza/105663620 ++++++ Israeli unit tasked with smearing Gaza journalists as Hamas fighters – report The Guardian | Emma Graham-Harrison | 16 August 2025 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/15/israeli-military-unit-reportedly-tasked-with-linking-journalists-in-gaza-to-hamas ++++++ ‘Hellish’: heatwave brings hottest nights on record to the Middle […]

Free Palestine Melbourne’s recent forum, How the labour movement can stand with Palestine, held on 14 August 2025, was attended by over 170 unionists and supporters, and another 1000 watching online. The meeting voted unanimously to support the union contingent at the upcoming nationwide March For Palestine on 24 August and to call for sanctions […]

US Ambassador to Israel says decision of Australia, other countries Palestine pledge is ‘hurtful timing’ America’s top diplomat in Israel has branded Australia’s Palestinian statehood recognition ‘ill-timed’ while hostages remain captive under Hamas control. https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/pm-making-real-mess-with-palestine-pledge-opposition-says/news-story/bd2340689f48f41b25a64dfc54d092d4 The US ambassador to Israel has slammed as “ill-timed” and “not OK” the announcement by Australia and other countries to […]

FPM Media Report August 14 2025

FPM Media Report August 13 2025

FPM Media Report August 12 2025

12 August 2025: For 22 months, the Palestine movement has campaigned against the Israeli governments Genocide, calling for a permanent ceasefire and the imposing of immediate sanctions on the State of Israel. To end the bloodshed of innocent men, women, and children. 

11 August 2025: Free Palestine Melbourne fiercely condemns the deliberate and cold-blooded assassination of five Al Jazeera journalists by the terrorist Israeli occupation forces.

What’s On around Naarm/Melbourne & Regional Victoria: Aug 11-17, 2025 With thanks to the dedicated activists at Friends of the Earth Melbourne! . . . See also these Palestine events listings from around the country: 9500

Satellite imagery reveals what Israel didn’t show to the ABC when it granted rare access inside Gaza ABC | Jonathan Hair | 10 August 2025 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-10/gaza-kerem-shalom-rafah-damage-aid/105630618 Satellite imagery has revealed the catastrophic damage done to the areas surrounding an aid depot where Israel has staged tightly controlled media visits. The ABC was granted access to […]

9 August 2025 - Free Palestine Melbourne expresses its unwavering solidarity with the courageous people of Gaza. We salute their steadfastness in the face of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and starvation at the hands of the terrorist Israeli regime.

FPM Media Report Wednesday August 6 2025 We cannot stand by’: Government sends strongest signal yet on Palestinian recognition https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/we-cannot-stand-by-government-sends-strongest-signal-yet-on-palestinian-recognition-20250805-p5mkii.html Matthew Knott Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has discussed efforts to end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza with the head of the United Nations as the government sends increasingly strong signals it will join a coalition […]

Palestine Israel Media Report 5 August 2025

Thursday 14 August 2025 ~ 6pm ~ Victorian Trades Hall.

SUNDAY 24 AUGUST 2025 It’s time to build a massive and unstoppable movement for Palestine! Groups from around the country are calling for a huge nationwide march on Sunday 24 August. Join hundreds of thousands across the country to demand: If you’re from a city or town not listed, click the button below to fill […]

Palestine Israel Media Report Friday 1 August 2025 Trump says Palestinian recognition a threat to trade talks in warning to Australia https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/palestine-recognition-a-matter-of-when-not-if-says-chalmers-as-canada-takes-next-step-20250731-p5mj6s.html United States President Donald Trump has warned that Palestinian recognition could threaten trade talks, raising the stakes for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as he tries to avoid higher tariffs while navigating a growing […]

What’s On around Naarm/Melbourne & Regional Victoria: Aug 4-10, 2025 With thanks to the dedicated activists at Friends of the Earth Melbourne! . . See also these Palestine events listings from around the country: 9397

Palestine Israel Media Report Saturday 2 August 2025

What’s On around Naarm/Melbourne & Regional Victoria: July 28-Aug 3, 2025 With thanks to the dedicated activists at Friends of the Earth Melbourne! . . See also these Palestine events listings from around the country: 9378

PM slams Israel over Gaza starvation The Age (& SMH) | Paul Sakkai | 30 July 2025 https://edition.theage.com.au/shortcode/THE965/edition/45ce0617-fd09-6671-fd2b-9054e572af46?page=39414d02-f749-50f4-bf3a-5baf9bafaf23& Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has signalled he believes Gaza will be freed from Hamas’ rule, paving the way for recognition of a Palestinian state, as he slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claims that Gazans were not […]

Two leading Israeli human rights groups accuse their country of committing genocide in Gaza ABC | Matthew Doran | 29 July 2025 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-29/israeli-orgs-label-gaza-situation-genocide/105584184 Two Israeli human rights organisations, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel, have labelled the country’s actions in Gaza as “genocide”. B’Tselem compiled testimony as well as details of mass killings, destruction […]

Donald Trump says Hamas doesn’t want Gaza ceasefire deal and will be ‘hunted down’ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-26/netanyahu-trump-appear-to-abandon-gaza-ceasefire-negotiations/105575888 Donald Trump spoke to reporters about Gaza ceasefire talks as he prepared to leave Washington for the UK. (Reuters: Kent Nishimura) In short: US President Donald Trump has said Hamas does not want to make a Gaza ceasefire deal and […]

17 July 2025: Free Palestine Melbourne is deeply concerned by the Australian government’s silence regarding the Freedom Flotilla vessel Handala, carrying desperately needed humanitarian supplies to the besieged, brutalised people of the Gaza Strip.

Palestine Israel Media Report Monday 21 July 2025 1/ 73 Palestinians killed while waiting for humanitarian aid across Gaza, health ministry says (The Age, SMH, 21/7/2025) [link to article] 2/ A fight at the opera as performer unfurls Palestine flag on stage (The Age, SMH, 21/7/2025) [link to article] 3/ Online hate report exposes ‘overt effort to normalise antisemitism’ (The Age, […]

What’s On around Naarm/Melbourne & Regional Victoria: July 21-27, 2025 With thanks to the dedicated activists at Friends of the Earth Melbourne! . . See also these Palestine events listings from around the country: 9340

At least 36 shot dead near Gaza food site: hospital Canberra Times / AAP | 20 July 2025 https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/9020190/at-least-36-shot-dead-near-gaza-food-site-hospital/ At least 36 people have been killed by Israeli fire while they were on their way to an aid distribution site in the Gaza Strip at dawn, according to the Gaza Health Ministry and Nasser Hospital […]

Palestine Israel Media Report Saturday 19 July 2025 ABC News Anthony Albanese calls recent actions in Gaza ‘completely indefensible’ in interview from China [link to article] Top church leaders meet in Gaza as Israel strikes kill several in Khan Younis [link to article] Who are the Druze and why does Israel say it is bombing […]

Palestine Israel Media Report Friday 18 July 2025 PEARLS AND IRRITATIONS THE AGE THE AUSTRALIAN ABC NEWS HERALD SUN NEWS.COM.AU THE GUARDIAN CANBERRA TIMES . JOIN THE MEDIA WATCH GROUP >> Search Google Groups “Palestine Israel Media Monitoring” group. . 9324

FPM Media Report Wednesday 16 July 2025 Why Israel is conducting strikes in Syria as sectarian violence rages https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-16/why-israel-is-conducting-air-strikes-in-syria/105536098 Just over six months since the downfall of Syria’s long-time leader, Bashar al-Assad, the country’s fragile post-war order is on the brink. The country is deeply divided as it tries to emerge from decades of dictatorship […]

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke says he believes antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal did not know husband’s trust donated to Advance ABC | Paul Johnson | 14 July 2025 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-14/tony-burke-antisemitism-envoy-jillian-segal-advance/105531310 Australia’s antisemitism envoy says she had “no involvement” in a donation made by a trust linked to her husband that went to lobby group Advance. Home […]

What’s On around Naarm/Melbourne & Regional Victoria: July 14-20, 2025 With thanks to the dedicated activists at Friends of the Earth Melbourne! . . See also these Palestine events listings from around the country: 9293

A city grappling with weekly protests and antisemitism The Age | Sophie Aubrey & Kieran Rooney | 13 July 2025 https://edition.theage.com.au/shortcode/THE965/edition/39938d2d-35f6-7eeb-ecfb-4b56a2d4027e?page=443a4d3b-798f-c87e-b5a7-6e582cc22386& For a year and a half, many of Fiona Cochrane’s Sundays have looked much the same. She boards a train, often with her children and grandchildren, and joins hundreds – sometimes thousands – of […]

Police told not to confront CBD protesters The Age | Cameron Houston, Chip Le Grand & Rachel Eddie | 8 July 2025 https://edition.theage.com.au/shortcode/THE965/edition/f6304a53-35d9-31c1-612d-878ecbe46a91?page=35c2cda0-3bec-b99a-82ab-3f6f4f578f5f& Victoria’s new chief commissioner has ordered a review into police handling of a violent attack on an Israeli restaurant in Melbourne after it emerged officers were earlier given orders not to interact […]

Palestine Israel Media Report 10 July 2025 1/ Israel’s plan for ‘humanitarian city’ on ruins of Rafah paves way for Trump’s ‘Gaza Riviera’ (The Age, SMH, 10/7/2025) 2/ Letters (The Age, 10/7/2025) 3/ ‘Not our job’ to police keffiyehs in classrooms, says NSW Education Department (The Australian, 10/7/2025) 4/ Netanyahu and Trump talk hostages as Gaza war grinds on (Canberra Times, 10/7/2025) 5/ Nothing […]

Palestine Israel Media Report Friday 11 July 2025

10 July 2025: We are deeply alarmed by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s embrace of recommendations that would see public funding withheld from universities, media organisations, and arts institutions unless they adopt a deeply contested definition of antisemitism—one that dangerously conflates criticism of Israel with hatred of Jews.

8 July 2025: Free Palestine Melbourne condemns in the strongest possible terms the attack on the East Melbourne Synagogue.

What’s On around Naarm/Melbourne & Regional Victoria: July 7-13, 2025 With thanks to the dedicated activists at Friends of the Earth Melbourne! . . See also these Palestine events listings from around the country: 9241

7 July 2025: Rob Martin, a retired businessman from Clyde North, will fly to Italy tomorrow to join the international campaign to break Israel's siege of the Gaza Strip.

Man charged over Melbourne synagogue fire amid calls for parliament to reconvene to pass new protest laws ABC | 6 July 2025 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-06/synagogue-fire-charges-protest-laws-victorian-parliament/105498480 A man has been charged after the door of the East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation synagogue was set alight while people were inside on Friday night. The NSW man has been charged with […]

FPM Media Report Wednesday July 2 2025 At least 30 dead in Israeli strike on internet cafe in Gaza popular with journalists https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-01/israel-attacks-gaza-cafe-internet-killing-journalist/105480502 By Maddy Morwood with wires In short: An internet cafe in Gaza frequented by journalists was targeted by the Israeli military, killing at least 30 people including Palestinian photojournalist Ismail Abu Hatab. […]

Israeli bombardment in Gaza kills 58 people in one day ABC / Reuters | 1 July 2025 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-01/israeli-bombardment-in-gaza-kills-58-people-in-one-day/105479464 A beachfront cafe and schools were among targets struck on Monday as Israel stepped up its latest campaign in Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has signalled it would be intensifying operations in the Palestinian enclave after […]

Israeli strikes kill at least 72 people in Gaza as prospects for ceasefire in war improve ABC / AP | 29 June 2025 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-29/israel-strikes-gaza-displacement-tents-ceasefire-talks-improve/105473676 More than 70 people, including children, have been killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza, according to Palestian health officials. There have been sporadic indirect talks between Israel and Hamas since Israel […]

What’s On around Naarm/Melbourne & Regional Victoria: June 30-July 6, 2025 With thanks to the dedicated activists at Friends of the Earth Melbourne! . . See also these Palestine events listings from around the country: 9193

FPM Media Report Saturday June 28 2025 IDF launches investigation into possible war crimes after deaths near aid sites https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-27/israeli-strike-kills-18-palestinians-in-central-gaza/105471440 In short: The Israeli military has opened an inquiry into possible war crimes after deaths near a Gaza aid site. Meanwhile, 18 people have been killed by an Israeli air strike in Gaza, in an […]

Donald Trump’s f-bomb is one missile that could sway Benjamin Netanyahu ABC | Matthew Doran | 25 June 2025 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-25/trump-and-netanyahu-ceasefire-reaction-analysis/105456502 The world is rarely left wondering what Donald Trump thinks. It might be confounded by the tone, but most of the time his unique turn of phrase expresses a blunt assessment of what’s happening in […]

Palestine Israel Media Report Thursday 19 June 2025 Gazans fear they are being forgotten amid focus on Iran https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-19/gazans-fear-they-are-being-forgotten-amid-focus-on-iran/105434708 While Israel’s war with Iran continues, Gazans are begging for help, saying their suffering is being ignored because of the new conflict. “No one cares about Gaza. The massacres continue in silence,” Mahmoud Wadi, from northern […]

20-22 July 2025: Free Palestine Melbourne (FPM) is organising some transport from Melbourne/Naarm to the Converge On Canberra event and return. Please read the following details before making your registration.

What’s On around Naarm/Melbourne & Regional Victoria: June 23-29, 2025 With thanks to the dedicated activists at Friends of the Earth Melbourne! . . See also these Palestine events listings from around the country: 9132