Credit: <\/span>Alex Ellinghausen <\/cite><\/p>\n\u201cOf course people are worried about escalation, but Israel has a right to defend itself and it will be doing so. This is an attack on Israel by Hamas that has no precedent,\u201d Albanese said on Sunday.<\/p>\n
He did not repeat a call, made by Foreign Minister Penny Wong in a statement on Saturday night, for the exercise of restraint and protection of civilian lives.<\/p>\n
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton also condemned Hamas\u2019 attack as a deliberate act of violence that had provoked Israel, which he said had every right to defend itself in response. However, he did not repeat criticism of Wong\u2019s statement by Liberal MP Michael Sukkar, who said the call for restraint was \u201cunbelievable\u201d.<\/p>\n
Greens foreign affairs spokesman Jordon Steele-John said he rejected all violence against civilians and called for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor there to be peace there must be an end to the state of Israel\u2019s illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared war against Hamas on Saturday following a barrage of thousands of rockets from the Gaza Strip and unprecedented ground attacks on towns in southern Israel that left at least hundreds dead. Hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza were also killed in retaliatory strikes from Israel, local authorities reported.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, fighting spread to the country\u2019s north, where the Israeli military said it was responding to mortar fire from within Lebanon with artillery fire.<\/p>\n
Abdulhadi, who represents the Palestinian Authority, which operates in the West Bank and is not affiliated with Hamas in Gaza, described the Australian government\u2019s response to the violence as disappointing and regrettable.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not enough just to provide condemnation … without an active leadership role in solving the problem,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s 75 years now of suffering of Palestinian people. Nobody listens.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jewish groups in Australia said the Hamas attacks had been horrific and warranted unequivocal condemnation from world leaders, as their communities reeled from the violence during a Jewish holiday.<\/p>\n
Alex Ryvchin, co-chief executive of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, labelled the reports of shootings and abductions of civilians egregious war crimes.<\/p>\n
\u201cAny calls for de-escalation by \u2018both sides\u2019 or attempts to draw equivalences between the crimes of a terrorist organisation and the defensive measures of a sovereign and democratic state are misconceived and only play into the hands of the terrorists,\u201d Ryvchin said.<\/p>\n
Abdulhadi, however, said it was impossible to view the weekend\u2019s events outside their historical context. He also called on Australia to join an international effort to guarantee a ceasefire before more Palestinian and Israeli civilians lost their lives.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think Australia has this capacity to work closely with the two parties, especially because they don\u2019t have colonial history in the region. They\u2019d have respect in this region, and they can play a constructive role, more than just these repetitive statements of condemnation of Palestinians and [about the] self-defence process of Israel,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course, we are totally against the killing of civilians, from both sides. And I hope the international community will realise this, and see that the most important thing is to protect the Palestinian people who are under occupation.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Australia\/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council\u2019s executive director, Colin Rubenstein, said the attack could have been motivated by Hamas\u2019 concern at progress being made in negotiations between Israel and Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n
\u201cAny prospect of peace is anathema to Hamas and the rogue Iranian regime which sponsors, arms and directs it,\u201d Rubenstein said.<\/p>\n
NSW Jewish Board of Deputies president David Ossip said it was a dark day for Israel and Jewish people around the world after the slaughter, kidnapping and torture of Israeli civilians in their homes and on the streets.<\/p>\n
\u201cIsrael deserves the full support of Australia and the international community as she defends herself against the evil and barbarity of Hamas,\u201d Ossip said.<\/p>\n
Nasser Mashni, president of the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network, said Hamas\u2019 attack was a \u201cclear result of Israeli escalation\u201d and followed a 16-year blockade of Gaza that has isolated Palestinians who live there from the rest of the world.<\/p>\n
He said Western leaders, including Albanese, had ignored injustices perpetrated against Palestinians in their rush to affirm Israel\u2019s right to defend itself, and called for an immediate end to Israeli attacks.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe glaring hypocrisy and double standard applied by the Western media and politicians, who celebrate the heroism of the Ukrainian resistance against Russia yet condemn the Palestinians for using the same tactics, is why we\u2019re here today,\u201d Mashni said.<\/p>\n
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