Australia will recognize a Palestinian kingdom, Prime Minister Anthony Albanis on Monday said, he would do so by joining the leaders of France, Britain and Canada.
His remarks followed the weeks to recognize a Palestinian kingdom within his cabinet and in Australia amid the increasing criticism of officials in his government when he was suffering in Gaza, which Albani called a “human destruction” on Monday.
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The Australian government has also criticized the schemes announced by Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu in recent times. New military aggressive in Gaza,
Netanyahu defended the aggressive on Sunday – which is more comprehensive than the previously declared – announced increasing condemnation at home and abroad, “Israel has no option to” finish the job and fulfill Hamas’s necklace. ”
Netanyahu said that last week the security cabinet directed the disintegration of Hamas Stronge not only in Gaza city but also in “central camps” and also in Mavasi. A source familiar with the operation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media, confirmed from the Associated Press that Israel is planning it in both areas.
According to the United Nations, the camp-she was not part of the earlier announcement of Israel, sheltering more than half a million displaced people. It was not clear why, although Netanyahu faced criticism at the end of this week within his ruling alliance that it was not enough to target the city of Gaza. Netanyahu said that there will be “safe areas”, but in such designated areas, there is a bombing in the past.
Albanis told reporters after a cabinet meeting on Monday that Australia’s decision to recognize a Palestinian kingdom would be formalized in the United Nations General Assembly in September. Albanis said that the acknowledgment was “dedicated to the commitments received from the Palestinian Authority.”
Those commitments had no role for Hamas in a Palestinian government, demonetisation of Gaza and holding elections, he said.
Albanis said, “A two-state solution is the best hope of humanity to break the cycle of violence in the Middle East and to end conflict, pain and starvation in Gaza.”
,Status in Gaza He said that the world’s worst fears are beyond, “He said.” The Israeli government continues to avoid international law and denies adequate assistance, food and water to desperate people, including children. ,
“As long as the Israeli and Palestinian state is not permanent, peace can only be temporary,” he said. “Australia will recognize the rights of Palestinian people in its own position. We will work with the international community to make this right a reality.”
The Israel-Hamas War, since the attack of the Palestinian terrorist group on Israel on 7 October, 2023, has revived the global pace towards a Palestinian state. Next to Albani’s announcement, Netanyahu on Sunday criticized Australia and other European countries that have moved in that direction.
The Israeli leader said, “To march in European countries and Australia in that rabbit hole … it’s canard, disappointing and I think it’s really embarrassing.”
Australia nominated Hamas as a terrorist unit and Albanis on Monday reiterated its government’s group to return the Israeli hostages held since October 7, 2023.
The Australian leader spoke to Palestinian President Mahmood Abbas last week, which the authority administered parts of the West Bank-occupied West Bank, supports the two-state solution and cooperates with Israel on security matters. Abbas has agreed to situations with Western leaders including Albani, as he prepared to identify the Palestinian kingdom.
“This is an opportunity to provide self -determination for the people of Palestine, which separates Hamas, canceled it and removes it out of the area once and for all,” Albanis said. He said that Hamas did not support the two-state solution.
About 150 out of 193 members of the United Nations have already recognized the Palestinian kingdom, most of them decades ago. The United States and other Western powers have stated that the Palestinian should be part of a final agreement to solve the decades -old Middle East struggle of the state.
Recognition announcements are largely symbolic and are rejected by Israel.
A two-state solution will see a status of Palestine, which is built in the most or all occupied West Bank with Israel, the war-opinion Gaza Strip and Eastern Jerusalem was anxked, in the Middle East War of 1967, Israel seized that Palestinians wanted to their kingdom.
Albanis on Monday dismissed the suggestions that the step was completely symbolic.
“This construction is a practical contribution to speed,” he said. “This Australia is not acting alone.”
He said that Albani had discussed Australia’s decision with leaders from Britain, France, New Zealand and Japan. He also had a “long discussion” with Netanyahu this month, he said.
In the neighboring New Zealand, Foreign Minister Winston Peters said on Monday that his government would carefully weigh his position on recognition of a Palestinian state before taking a formal decision in September “.
Peters said in a statement, “New Zealand has become clear for some time that our recognition of Palestinian state is one thing, when not,” Peters said in a statement.