Wong condemns Israeli minister’s starvation comments

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Wong condemns ******** minister’s starvation comments

Australia’s foreign minister has condemned a senior member of *******’s government for arguing it was “justified and moral” to starve Palestinians until ******** hostages were released.

*******’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Monday triggered international outrage when he claimed there was justification for blocking aid supplies to Gaza until all hostages captured by ****** in the October 7 attacks were freed.

“It’s not possible in today’s global reality to manage a war — no one will allow us to starve two million people, even though that might be just and moral until they return the hostages,” he said in a speech.

Australia on Saturday joined the ***, Germany and France in condemning Mr Smotrich’s comments.

“The deliberate starvation of civilians is a war ******,” Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong said on X, formerly

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“There is no justification for it, ever.”

Senator Wong reiterated the urgent need for a ceasefire to protect civilians, see hostages released and allow aid to arrive.

The ***’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy also deplored the comments.

“There can be no justification for Minister Smotrich’s remarks and we expect the wider ******** government to retract and condemn them,” he posted to X.

Germany’s ambassador to ******* Steffen Siebert labelled the minister’s remarks as “unacceptable and appalling”.

The ******* Nations’ Human Rights Commissioner Volker Turk demanded an investigation into Mr Smotrich, saying his comments incited hatred against innocent civilians.

The far-right minister also labelled a proposed deal for a ceasefire a “dangerous trap” and that any deal to end the war in the Gaza Strip before ****** had been destroyed would allow ****** to regroup and ******* Jews.

Those statements were “outrageous and absurd” and would jeopardise *******’s security, according to US White House National Security spokesman John Kirby

“I want to underscore how wrong this is, not only in substance, but also jeopardising the lives of the hostages and running counter to *******’s own national security interests,” Mr Kirby told reporters.

About 1200 Israelis were ******* and 250 hostages taken after ****** militants stormed a music festival on October 7. In response, *******’s military has ******* almost 40,000 Palestinians, according to the local health ministry.

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