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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Ben Doherty and Christopher Knaus

Anthony Albanese raises bulldozed Australian war graves with Israeli president

Israel’s President Isaac Herzog meets with Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, February 11, 2026
Israel’s president Isaac Herzog meets with Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese at Parliament House in Canberra on Wednesday. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/Reuters

The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has raised the issue of Australian war graves bulldozed by the Israeli military in Gaza directly with the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog.

Dozens of Australian war graves – mostly soldiers who died in Palestine during the second world war – were bulldozed by the Israel Defense Forces across April and May last year. Satellite images show the southern corner of the Gaza Commonwealth War Cemetery being obliterated, with headstones destroyed and soil pushed by machinery into an earthen berm.

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