A Lone Pine tree and strawberry plants are among vegetation abruptly cleared from a central Victorian school as part of a state government tree removal program.

A US defense contractor flew spy planes over Gaza. FAA docs show Sierra Nevada Corporation installed a military air traffic control device and surveillance equipment before the plane’s deployment.

South Lebanon: 'It's torture, they are razing our lives before our eyes' Day after day, the Israeli-occupied village of Mansouri, perched on a green hill a few kilometres south of the coastal city of Tyre, is slowly disappearing. Already heavily damaged during the war, it is now quite literally being wiped off the map, in a final twist of cynicism, during the ceasefire. The Israeli army, which has made it one of its main theatres of operations for weeks, is sparing no effort: demolitions with explosives and air strikes have followed one another at a relentless pace in recent days, to the despair of the village’s roughly 5,000 inhabitants. The village, which the Israeli army presents as an operational stronghold of Hezbollah, was initially located outside the “Yellow Line”, the “security” demarcation imposed by Israel on Lebanese territory shortly after the latest ceasefire came into effect. Even then, residents Middle East Eye spoke to following the ceasefire feared that the zone would eventually swallow up their village. It now has, although officially only in part: the Yellow Line cuts through Mansouri, dividing it in two. On paper, that is, as the village is now entirely occupied – this summer, all the residents who had returned to the area had no choice but to flee once again, under fire from the Israeli air force, which continues its operations. Read more:  South Lebanon: 'It's torture, they are razing our lives before our eyes'

A senior official at the UN’s agriculture agency said Wednesday he had lost his job for criticizing Israeli policies in Gaza, as the body’s head condemned staff who “play the game of human rights”.

Iranian media were reporting — hours before the event — that Israel's spy service was planning an aviation attack

Labor MP Josh Burns accuses new Greens leader David Shoebridge of "prejudice" over comments about the party's relationship with Jewish Australians.