Opposition Leader Peter Dutton to meet senior Israeli government officials in overseas trip

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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton to meet senior ******** government officials in overseas trip

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has begun a three-day trip to *******, where he will meet with the senior members of Prime Minister’s Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.

Mr Dutton trip will stretch from Monday to Thursday August 1, and will involve him meeting hostages impacted by ******’ October 7 attacks, and their family.

Shortly after landing on Monday evening, Sky News’ Sharri Markson reported Dutton was meeting with ******** Foreign Minister ******* Katz, and will then meet with ******** President Isaac Herzog.

His itinerary also includes a visit to the kibbutzes which have come under ****** *****, as well as the site of the Nova music festival in *******’s south, where more than 350 civilian attendees were ******* in a surprise ******* by ****** militants.

Camera IconOpposition Leader Peter Dutton arrived in ******* on Monday night (AEDT). NewsWire/ Martin Ollman Credit: News Corp Australia

In a statement announcing his trip, Mr Dutton said the relationship between Australia and ******* is “deep and abiding”.

“Today, Australia and ******* have a strong bilateral relationship traversing trade, agriculture, technology, security and more,” he said.

Labor powerbroker Cameron Milner applauded Mr Dutton’s trip on Sky News, and said it was “what the Prime Minister (Anthony Albanese) should be doing and isn’t”.

“He (Mr Dutton) is actually doing the things for Australia on the international stage, not going on some Contiki tour on Toto One and having champagne in the White House. (He’s) doing real international relations,” said Mr Milner, who was previously Mr Shorten’s chief of staff.

Mr Dutton’s trip was welcomed by peak body group, the *********** ******* Association.

“After Anthony Albanese has so far disgracefully refused to visit following October 7, despite numerous overseas trips, its nice to see someone in Australia acting prime-ministerial,” they said in a statement shared on X.

In January, Foreign Minister Penny Wong became the most senior *********** official to visit both ******* and the ************-occupied West Bank.

She was criticised for not visiting the key sites involved in the October 7 massacre.

Mr Dutton’s trip also comes after a ******* call from Mr Albanese, ********* leader Justin Trudeau and New Zealand leader Christopher Luxon for ******* to stop their ground and air campaign in Gaza.

The attacks are believed to have ******* more than 39,000 largely civilian Palestinians, and displacing about 2.3m residents into shelters.

Mr Albanese, Mr Luxon and Mr Trudeau urged the ******** government to “listen to the concerns of the international community,” and said the human suffering in Gaza was “catastrophic,”.

While they condemned the October 7 attacks and ******’ “ongoing acts of *******,” they said the “protection of civilians is paramount,” and backed a two-state solution.

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