Morning Mail: AFP assesses Gaza war crimes allegation, median wealth falls, Socceroos aim to make history

Want to get this in your inbox every weekday? Sign up for the Morning Mail here, and finish your day with our Afternoon Update newsletter Morning everyone. Australian federal police have been handed a 61-page brief detailing alleged war crimes committed by an IDF battalion in Gaza across 2023 and 2024 – one of whose members was an Australian citizen. It comes as a poll reveals Australians have an increasingly negative view of Israel. We also report on how middle Australia is going backwards while the rich get richer, large parts of the US face a ferocious heatwave over the 4 July weekend, and the impossible dilemma of the Egyptian diaspora as the Socceroos try to make history. ‘Win-win’ | The nation’s 45,000 strong Egyptian-Australian diaspora faces an agonising predicament when the two teams meet in Dallas at 4am AEDT tomorrow morning, with both teams bidding to win their first World Cup knockout match. Caitlin Cassidy hears about conflicting emotions of a possible “win-win”, a musical mashup, and also about how football can transcend “a shit world”. Wealth gap | Middle Australia’s wealth is going backwards while the richest claim an ever-greater share of the pile, according to ne