Australia condemns 'slaughter' in Gaza in signing 28-nation statement
www.abc.net.au
The joint statement issued by the signatory countries criticises what they call the "inhumane killing" of Palestinians and condemns the "drip feeding of aid".

“We, the signatories listed below, come together with a simple, urgent message: the war in Gaza must end now,” the statement said.

In short:

Australia has joined the United Kingdom, France and other countries in demanding an immediate end to the war in Gaza and for Israel to lift aid restrictions.

Israel says the statement is “disconnected from reality” and is urging countries to instead place pressure on Hamas.

What’s next?

The 25 countries went on to urge other members of the international community to “unite in a common effort to bring this terrible conflict to an end”.

ABC doesn’t seem to have a link to the full statement, but I believe it’s this: https://www.foreignminister.gov.au/minister/penny-wong/media-release/joint-statement-behalf-26-partners-occupied-palestinian-territories

This statement has been signed by:

  • The Foreign Ministers of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK
  • The EU Commissioner for Equality, Preparedness and Crisis Management
  • maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    9 days ago

    While Australia is in that supply chain, “stopping it” wouldn’t do anything.

    It would stop Australian workers from being implicated in the genocide of Palestinians.

    But all that will happen from this is LM will send the parts to their USA operations and from there, they’ll magically be reassigned to Israel. Or worse: They move production of those parts to another nation and Australians lose their jobs.

    Who cares. Albo goes on national TV and says in order to protect Australian workers (and businesses?) from being involved or implicated in genocide these parts will no longer be manufactured here. All Australian workers (and businesses) affected will be be supported long term by <insert name of special anti-genocide-complicity package here>.

    Either way, the parts will still get to Israel. The government holds no actual cards in this equation.

    I don’t think you understand how important even the smallest wins on the board are to a people under the threat of extermination.