Standing beside Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ayman Hussein Safadi, Wong burdened the significance of “efforts to restart a political process which leads to a future Palestinian state”.
“We come from different parts of the world, there are some very different perspectives,” she stated.
“But I hope that the international community can work towards a just and enduring peace, in which Israelis live in peace and security and Palestinians are able to achieve their legitimate aspirations for statehood.”
Wong’s arrival within the Middle East got here amid an International Court of Justice case introduced by South Africa accusing Israel of genocide in its response to the Hamas assaults 102 ays in the past.
On Monday, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stated he had no intent so as to add Australia’s assist to the method, one thing pro-Palestinian advocates and the Greens have been calling for.
“What we want is to see a political solution, and that is primarily what the United States has said as well, both publicly and in the discussions that I’ve had with the leadership in the United States,” he advised ABC radio.
“Is that arising out of this conflict, we need to have a pathway to security and peace and prosperity in the region. That’s the main game. Not any court case, not anything else.”
Asked the identical query in a single day, Wong expressed Australia’s respect for the independence of the ICJ.
“Our support for the ICJ and respect for its independence does not mean we accept the premise of South Africa’s case” she stated.
“We will continue to work for justice and enduring peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
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“I’ll word Australia just isn’t at the moment a celebration to the case, and that at this stage, the ICJ has not invited interventions from different events.”
Safadi said Jordan would be expressing its support for South Africa’s case once the court opened up submissions from third parties.
“We’re going through a actuality by which we imagine Israel has dedicated struggle crimes in Gaza,” he said, adding that October 7 didn’t happen “in a vacuum”, a reference to the long history of conflict between the two sides.
“And we imagine that this aggression has to cease and has to cease now.
“Israel is taking 2.3 million Palestinians hostage in Gaza, in addition to the illegal unilateral measures that it is inflicting on Palestinians on the West Bank as well. So we’re dealing with a catastrophe.”
Israel has described the allegations introduced by South Africa as “false” and “malevolent”, arguing its struggle in Gaza is a official defence of its individuals and claiming Hamas is responsible of genocide.
It blames Hamas for the excessive Palestinian demise toll, saying its fighters make use of civilian buildings, and launch assaults from densely populated city areas.
Wong may also go to Israel, the occupied Palestinian territories and the United Arab Emirates on her journey, the primary by an Australian international minister to the area in virtually 10 years.
She stated she would not be “demanding specific assurances” in her conferences however as a substitute “add our voice to that of the cause of peace”.
“One of the things the foreign, the Deputy Prime Minister and I have spoken about is the importance of remembering each other’s common humanity,” she stated.
“And that is a hard thing to say to this region at this time, with all of the tragedy, and violence and war that we have seen.
“But peace will solely come if … there’s amongst leaders a enough, enough braveness, to recognise the widespread humanity of all, no matter our variations.”
The newly announced funding is split into $4 million to the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement for urgent aid and supplies, $6 million through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for food, shelter and emergency healthcare and $11.5 million to refugee programs in Lebanon and Jordan.
Gaza urgently needs more aid or its desperate population will suffer widespread famine and disease, the heads of three major UN agencies warned on Monday.
While the agency chiefs did not directly point a finger at Israel, they said aid delivery was hobbled by the opening of too few border crossings, a slow vetting process for trucks and goods going into Gaza, and continuing fighting throughout the territory — all of which Israel plays a deciding factor in.
The war has prompted unprecedented destruction in the tiny coastal enclave and triggered a humanitarian catastrophe that has displaced most of Gaza’s 2.3 million population and pushed more than a quarter into starvation, according to the UN.
In Gaza, civilians have grown desperate. Footage shared online by Al Jazeera showed hundreds of people rushing toward what appeared to be an aid truck in what the news outlet said was Gaza City. The Associated Press couldn’t independently verify the video and it wasn’t clear when it was filmed.
The ministry, which doesn’t distinguish between fighters and noncombatants in its tally, says two-thirds of those killed in the war were women and children.
Israel says its forces have killed roughly 8000 militants, without providing evidence.
Later in the video, Argamani says separate airstrikes killed Sharabi and Svirsky and that she herself was wounded.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said UN agencies and their partners “can’t successfully ship humanitarian support whereas Gaza is below such heavy, widespread and unrelenting bombardment”.
He said the deaths of 152 UN staffers in Gaza since the start of the war is “the most important single lack of life within the historical past of our organisation”.
– Reported with Associated Press
Source: www.9news.com.au
