Israel risks violations of international law by taking control of the city of Gaza and should consider his plan again, warning Australia and New Zealand’s leaders.
“We are calling for the Israeli government to reconsider before it is too late,” Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his New Zealand’s counterpart Christopher Luxon said on Saturday. “Any proposals for permanent forced displacement of the Palestinian population must be abandoned.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Security Cabinet approved an operation focused on the “defeat of Hamas” on Friday by taking control of Gaza City, which could move 1 million Palestinians who live there and attract global will. The decision stopped before the full takeover of Gaza, which Netanyahu hoverled in an interview with Fox News on Thursday.
“Any attempt by Israel on escalation of hostility, including taking over control of the city of Gaza, would be wrong, the risk of violations of international law and deterioration of the human disaster, which is already taking place inside the Gaza belt,” Albanese and Luxon said after interviews in Queenstown in New Zealand.
Germany said on Friday that it stops supplies to Israel of military equipment, which could be used in operations in the Gaza zone, including spare parts for tanks and other defensive goods.
Previously, Saturday issued a joint statement that also called Israel to leave its planned operation of Gaza, Minsters of Germany, Australia, Italy, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
“It deteriorates the catastrophic humanitarian situation, threatens the life of the hostages, and then risks mass relocation of civilians,” the ministers said.
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