Satellite images taken over and around Gaza City point to preparations for the expanded military operation and show signs internally displaced people are already fleeing.

Dozens of Palestinians staged a protest in Gaza City on Thursday against the war and forced migration. Waving Palestinian flags, demonstrators gathered amid destroyed buildings, rubble, and tents for the displaced.

Netanyahu's personal attack on Albanese has further strained relations between the two countries. Ties soured after Australia decided last week to conditionally recognise a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in September.

A ustralia has hit back at Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu after he branded the country’s prime minister “weak”, with an Australian minister accusing the Israeli leader of conflating strength with killing people.

Criticism by home affairs minister comes after Israeli prime minister’s office calls Anthony Albanese a ‘weak politician who betrayed Israel’ - Anadolu Ajansı