Foreign minister said Magnitsky-style financial sanctions and travel bans would apply to seven Israeli individuals and one entity. Follow the day’s news live
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Penny Wong also spoke about the sanctions against seven Israelis and one Israeli youth group involved in violent attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank. Josh Butler reported on this earlier in the blog.
She told ABC AM the sanctions were taken after “careful consideration”, marking a “substantial penalty”:
These individuals have been involved in violent attacks on Palestinians, including things such as beating, sexual assault and torture, resulting in serious injury and in some cases death.
We have imposed these after careful consideration and we would expect that all Australians would recognise the weight of these.
Settlements are unlawful under international law. We are continuing to act in ways that we can to look to how we protect a pathway to a two-state solution, and part of that is to ensure we also impose penalties who perpetrate violence against Palestinians.
We consider that the situation in Gaza now is catastrophic, and we really, we are deeply, deeply worried and distressed by what we are seeing happening in Gaza, in relation to the humanitarian situation.
We condemn Hamas. We have been clear in terms of our actions and our words that we find Hamas repugnant. We also know there are civilians in Gaza – men, women and children – who are suffering and the fact that in this century we have polio found in the traces of wastewater is extremely, extremely disturbing.
Continue reading…Foreign minister said Magnitsky-style financial sanctions and travel bans would apply to seven Israeli individuals and one entity. Follow the day’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastPenny Wong also spoke about the sanctions against seven Israelis and one Israeli youth group involved in violent attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank. Josh Butler reported on this earlier in the blog.She told ABC AM the sanctions were taken after “careful consideration”, marking a “substantial penalty”:These individuals have been involved in violent attacks on Palestinians, including things such as beating, sexual assault and torture, resulting in serious injury and in some cases death.We have imposed these after careful consideration and we would expect that all Australians would recognise the weight of these.Settlements are unlawful under international law. We are continuing to act in ways that we can to look to how we protect a pathway to a two-state solution, and part of that is to ensure we also impose penalties who perpetrate violence against Palestinians.We consider that the situation in Gaza now is catastrophic, and we really, we are deeply, deeply worried and distressed by what we are seeing happening in Gaza, in relation to the humanitarian situation.We condemn Hamas. We have been clear in terms of our actions and our words that we find Hamas repugnant. We also know there are civilians in Gaza – men, women and children – who are suffering and the fact that in this century we have polio found in the traces of wastewater is extremely, extremely disturbing. Continue reading…