While Australia couldn't support a UN resolution that demanded Israel end 'its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory', the Albanese government still supports Palestinian self-determination, Senator Penny Wong has said.
Australia was on the verge of supporting an international call for Israel to withdraw from occupied Palestinian territories but pulled the pin after the push went too far. Australia abstained from a non-binding United Nations vote demanding Israel end "its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory" within 12 months and called for an immediate military withdrawal.
It said that not supporting the motion undermined the rights of displaced Palestinians to return and for Israel to make reparations to Palestinians for damages caused by its illegal occupation. Some Jewish organisations condemned the resolution and Australia's abstention from the vote. The Executive Council of Australian Jewry argued Israel couldn't give up "territories it captured in the course of defending itself" without a legally binding peace treaty.
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