Australia has expressed its support for President Biden’s proposal for a ceasefire. The proposal aims to bring an end to ongoing conflicts and encourage diplomatic negotiations. Australia’s endorsement highlights its commitment to international peace and stability, aligning with global efforts to resolve disputes through peaceful means. This move is consistent with Australia’s foreign policy principles and its role in promoting cooperative international relations.
Two Palestinian armed groups fired rockets into Israel from the Gaza Strip on Sunday, including an attack by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine that targeted Israeli forces stationed at the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing, war monitors report.
US defence think tanks, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP), also report that Israel had intended to deploy two divisions to the ground attack on Rafah city in the south, but was deterred by US concerns over weapons sanctions and is now, they say, “moving ‘more deliberately’ in Rafah”.
However, the ISW and the CTP reiterate in their latest battlefield report that Hamas is continuing to reconstitute its forces in areas of the Palestinian territory following the withdrawal of Israeli troops, in what the war monitors characterise as a crucial weakness of Israel’s “raid-based model” of conducting war in Gaza.
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