The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came to an end after the Israeli military fired two rounds of airstrikes over the past three days.

According to the Israeli military, these strikes were in retaliation to a series of balloons launched by Palestinian militants which aimed to set fire to surrounding farmland. 

These strikes have reportedly hit Gaza City. 

Israel army chief, Aviv Kohavi, said the Israeli military will continue to strike Hamas infrastructure along the Gaza strip and holds Hamas accountable for all of the transpiring events.

In interplanetary news,

Three astronauts have flown to China’s unfinished space station where they will live for three months in China’s first crewed space flight since 2016.

The mission is the third of eleven needed to complete assembly of China’s first space station and will be used to test out technologies such as the life support system as well as the physical and psychological impacts of living in space.

Mt Cotton will see the construction of the new precinct commence in 2022 or 2023.

Redland City Mayor Karen Williams said the forty seven hectare site will allow for sports like netball, basketball, and gymnastics to expand, and that the project will take pressure off the Cleveland Showgrounds.

The new precinct will include three clubhouses, sixteen sporting fields, BMX and cycling tracks, and other recreational facilities.

The state government has resumed work on its one-billion dollar ring-road project, and residents have had to leave their homes to make way.

Among those affected were Sarah Greene and her three flatmates. Ms Green said that it was hard to find their house in the first place.

Now the relocating Rockhampton residents need to find a new rental home while the rental vacancy rate sits at 0.4%.

A major abortion provider is going to close clinics in Rockhampton, Townsville, the Gold Coast and Newcastle, citing high operation costs in the wake of COVID-19.

The non-profit organisation Marie Stopes was the only abortion provider in Townsville.

Womens’ health advocates are concerned regional Queenslanders seeking to have abortions will now have to travel to major cities.

Heritage New South Wales has granted ‘Mid-Coast Stories’ fifty-thousand dollars in a bid to capture quirky histories of small coastal towns north of New South Wales.

The developers of the initiative, Janine Roberts and Penny Teerman, said the funding will be used to create up to ten heritage trails over two years, preserving the region's little-known history.

With concern for preserving history, Ms Roberts said "We are losing that uniqueness of our regions and towns."

The Senate foreign affairs committee has recommended fourteen measures to block any goods made by forced labour across the world.

Human Rights Watch Australia researcher Sophie McNiell said Australia is lagging behind the US, Canada and the UK in introducing the measures.

Senior lawyer Freya Dinshaw says testimonies of Uyghur Muslims have propelled Australia to ensure Australian businesses are not complicit in profiting from forced labour from Xinjiang or anywhere else in the world.

Some members of the US congress have warned about the potential danger UFOs have on national security in a pentagon brief.

Republican congressman Tim Burchett said "Clearly, something’s going on that we can’t handle.”