Senate debates

Monday, 1 July 2024

Questions without Notice

Middle East

2:00 pm

Photo of Penny WongPenny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) | Hansard source

As I also said—I think on an Insiders interview last year—we are democracies. We hold ourselves to higher standards. We do not expect, and neither do we believe, that Hamas will ever be anything other than a terrorist group, dedicated to the destruction of the State of Israel. But, as democracies, we also stand for the observance of international humanitarian law, which is contained— (Time expired)

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