As an Australian, no we didn’t. We just had it put in context. Jews around the world are great people, the Israeli government and the hardline supporters are absolute monsters. I hope the Australian government tells them as much. Israel deserves no support and everything that may happen when it’s withdrawn.
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The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, also fired a political warning shot against resuming the funding but Australian aid groups said the dire situation in Gaza would “rapidly escalate without UNRWA’s critical support”.
The aid groups implored the government to “be judicious and discriminate between allegations against a small number of individuals and the foreseeable impact of defunding UNRWA on millions of Palestinians reliant on their services, including children”.
A spokesperson for Wong said the foreign affairs minister had “acted entirely within the law” in responding to a “dire humanitarian situation” while Dutton was “focused on making false and exaggerated claims for a cheap political hit”.
But aid groups wrote to Albanese and Wong on Friday warning that the “dire situation in Gaza will rapidly escalate without UNRWA’s critical support, with 2 million Palestinians facing starvation, imminent famine, and disease outbreak”.
The Acfid chief executive, Marc Purcell, said the Australian government should consider “the allegations against a small number of the agency’s 13,000 employees in the context of the catastrophic consequences of withholding life-saving aid to Palestinian civilians, including children”.
The letter also called on the Australian government to express public support for the International Court of Justice’s decision last week to order urgent provisional measures to limit harm to Palestinian civilians, in response to South Africa’s case against Israel under the Genocide Convention.
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