Foreign minister’s ‘alarming’ phrasing echoes sovereignty recognised only by Israel and the US under the Trump administration, Palestine advocates say
A statement condemning the strike on the Golan Heights town of Majdal Shams by the Australian foreign minister, Penny Wong, made no reference to the area being occupied territory.A statement condemning the strike on the Golan Heights town of Majdal Shams by the Australian foreign minister, Penny Wong, made no reference to the area being occupied territory.
“There is no change in our position that the Golan Heights are occupied by Israel, as determined by the UN security council,” a spokesperson for the department told Guardian Australia. On Tuesday the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, visited Majdal Shams, a majority Druze village, and promised a “harsh” response to theshowed a crowd of Druze residents gathering in objection
“The community deserves to know why the minister’s position is seemingly contradictory with her own department,” Steele-John said. In 1981, UN security council members unanimously agreed that “the Israeli decision to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights is null and void and without international legal effect”.
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