Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Greens Deputy Leader and International Aid Spokesperson, has condemned new Israeli legislation labelling UNRWA a terrorist organisation and restricting its operations, and has called on the Albanese government to sanction Israel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senator Faruqi:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIsrael just keeps reaching new levels of depravity while the Australian government watches on. If committing a genocide wasn\u2019t enough, now they want to effectively block the main UN agency from providing relief to desperate Palestinians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cUndermining and stopping UNRWA from providing aid to Palestinians has been a long term goal of Israel and it\u2019s outrageous that now they are even closer to achieving this because the world has refused to take action to stop them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIsrael is only proving to the world that it is a rogue, genocidal state that has no regard for international law or institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Labor government has been \u2018urging\u2019 Israel to abide by international law for a year, and all we\u2019ve seen is its war crimes and genocide escalating. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEnough with the weasel words. It\u2019s time for Albanese and Wong to impose sanctions and expel the Israeli ambassador.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Greens Deputy Leader and International Aid Spokesperson, has condemned new Israeli legislation labelling UNRWA a terrorist organisation and restricting its operations, and has called on the Albanese government to sanction Israel. Senator Faruqi:\u00a0 \u201cIsrael just keeps reaching new levels of depravity while the Australian government watches on. If committing a genocide wasn\u2019t … Continue reading “Wong must strongly condemn and sanction Israel after shocking UNRWA bill”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29842,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29841\/revisions\/29842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}