Australia's foreign minister says international recognition for Palestine could help 'build momentum towards a two-state solution' with Israel.
Australia's foreign minister says peace and security will only come to Israel if Palestine is recognised as a state.
"What needs to happen immediately is Hamas needs to release hostages and we need to see an immediate humanitarian ceasefire so that we can have aid at scale into Gaza where we know we have a humanitarian catastrophe."Senator Wong said her government had not yet made a decision but was joining the international debate on a long-term solution.
Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Birmingham said the government's argument to "pre-emptively recognise a Palestinian state puts statehood before security and will be seen as a win by the terrorists who initiated the current horrific conflict". Israeli's prime minister insists that "victory" over Hamas "requires entry into Rafah and the elimination of the terrorist battalions there".
The US, one of whose citizens had been killed in the Israeli air strike on the World Central Kitchen aid workers in Gaza, has recently hardened its language on Israel and how it has been defending itself, calling for ceasefires and urging Israel not to invade Rafah.The government has slowly ramped up criticism of Israel in recent months as violence has intensified in Gaza, and has peaked in the last week after an Israeli air strike killed an Australian.
"Australians do expect there to be transparency and full accountability and we've appointed Mark Binskin as a special advisor because he will be able to assist the Australian government in considering the investigation."
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