The anger of Labor ministers over Netanyahu’s ‘it happens’ response suggests an inflection point is close over support for his government
The first came on Tuesday morning when a terrible image featuring a bloodied Australian passport appeared on social media and made its way rapidly into the offices of prime minister Anthony Albanese and foreign minister Penny Wong.
Netanyahu called it “a tragic case” of “unintentionally hitting innocent people” and that Israel would “do everything so that this thing does not happen again”.But that is little assurance because “this thing” has happened before. Wong came to Guardian Australia’s podcast interview on Thursday armed with facts about the incident being “not an isolated one”.
US president Joe Biden told Netanyahu that future US support was contingent on Israel taking “specific, concrete and measurable steps” to address not only the safety of aid workers but the harm to civilians in Gaza and the humanitarian suffering the conflict is inflicting overall.
If the details of these agreements struck between aid organisations and the IDF’s liaison officers – which are life-and-death for those who will be travelling – are not communicated and upheld, they are worthless. That sounds like very careful consideration and planning. It doesn’t sound like an approach that leaves much room for mistakes. And yet mistakes keep being made.
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