Some of the 88 Australians stranded in the war zone could be among the 500 foreign nationals cleared to leave Gaza.
Some Australians trapped in Gaza have been told to head to the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, as reports emerged that some of the 88 trapped in the war zone may be on the list of 500 foreign nationals able to escape.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese spoke to his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, for the first time since war began, though his office did not provide any details of their conversation. No one has been able to leave Gaza since Israel sealed the border ahead of the current ground invasion, in response to the atrocities committed by Hamas in the October 7 attacks on Israeli citizens, which left more than 1400 dead amid reports of rape, torture and mutilation.
Wong repeated that Australia unequivocally condemned Hamas “and its acts of terror”, and said that any state had a right to exercise self-defence. Earlier, opposition foreign affairs spokesman Simon Birmingham was asked whether he agreed with Wong’s warning this week that the world would not accept continuing civilian deaths.“ is a war that Israel is fully entitled to wage, to see Hamas disabled and removed from the capacity to undertake such strikes in the future and to repeat those sorts of terrorist atrocities.”
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