Full text of joint statement.
The Prime Ministers of Australia, Canada and New Zealand today issued the following statement on reports of Israel’s planned military operation in Rafah.
We are gravely concerned by indications that Israel is planning a ground offensive into Rafah.
A military operation into Rafah would be catastrophic. About 1.5 million Palestinians are taking refuge in the area, including many of our citizens and their families. With the humanitarian situation in Gaza already dire, the impacts on Palestinian civilians from an expanded military operation would be devastating. We urge the Israeli government not to go down this path. There is simply nowhere else for civilians to go.
There is growing international consensus. Israel must listen to its friends and it must listen to the international community. The protection of civilians is paramount and a requirement under international humanitarian law. Palestinian civilians cannot be made to pay the price of defeating Hamas.
An immediate humanitarian ceasefire is urgently needed. Hostages must be released. The need for humanitarian assistance in Gaza has never been greater. Rapid, safe and unimpeded humanitarian relief must be provided to civilians. The International Court of Justice has been clear: Israel must ensure the delivery of basic services and essential humanitarian assistance and must protect civilians. The Court’s decisions on provisional measures are binding.
We are clear that a sustainable ceasefire is necessary to finding a path towards securing lasting peace for Israelis and Palestinians. Any ceasefire cannot be one sided. Hamas must lay down its arms and release all hostages immediately. We again unequivocally condemn Hamas for its terror attacks on Israel on October 7.
Ultimately, a negotiated political solution is needed to achieve lasting peace and security. Australia, Canada, and New Zealand remain steadfast in their commitment to a two-state solution, including the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, where Palestinians and Israelis live side by side in peace, security, and dignity.
Israheil already bombs south liban. After Gaza liban will be next.
The duplicitous stupidity of these three so-called ‘leaders’ leaves me speechless.
The animals who run Gaza (together with around 80% of the population who support them) have been rocket attacking Israel for 20 years on a regular basis before they committed their evil attack on October 7th. Southern Israel has been literally depopulated with tens of thousands of Israelis fleeing their homes, towns and kibbutzes – and these grovelling weasels want Israel to stop destroying Hamas!
Luxon you spineless halfwit. You don’t represent me and you don’t represent any decent New Zealander who has any morality or conscience.
The Palestinians have been rocketing trespassers who illegally stole their land.
If someone came in and took YOUR home, YOUR land and YOUR country, wouldn’t you react to the same?
Could you do it for 76 years????
The Mossad had operatives inside Hamas and the IDF KNEW that they were coming.
Also the coroner’s reports on those Israelis killed on 7 October 2023 were found to have been shot by the IDF helicopters, based on the ballistics, and the fact that the IDF was extremely careless in their ops to shoot everyone on the ground without determining who they were!
But…could one have expected anything less from those who masterminded first the GULAGs, and then modeled the AshkeNAZI Konzentration Kamps after the same????
Yes, this was a closely-coordinated Mossad Ops to wipe Gaza and the Palestinians from the Earth via Genocide, and to once again steal the natural resources under Gaza (Oil & Gas). that Israel denied the Palestinians for YEARS!
This is what Zionist Talmudic Noahide Law J3w$ do- justifications for stealing, subterfuge and deflections via imposed guilt when they are caught-out!
After all, the Mossad Motto is ‘By Deception Thou Shalt Wage War’..!
If that’s true then why is Australia and NZ involved in AUKUS? Given the US and UK are Israels primary supporters in this conflict? Looks and sounds, like yet more weasel words.
Israel has to finish the job with Hamas otherwise it will only happen again. Israel should be left alone to finish Hamas. Hamas have stated that they would not stop with Israel: They wish to force Sharia upon all of humanity using the sword. That is the goal of Islam itself and most terrorist groups follow this goal.
I find it “interesting” that Western countries are talking up war with Russia, trying to incite a war when Russia has done nothing to them and at the same time are telling Israel to stop attacking Hamas after Israel was attacked by that Satanic barbarism on 7 October 2023.
I do wonder if the “fashionable” support for Palestinians is a round-about way of admitting hatred of Jews? They would never say they hate Jews directly, but instead support Palestinians and policies (e.g. truce with Hamas) that would result in more Jews being killed in the future.
U need to take your j@%$h goggles off and get your facts straight.
Maybe start with history lessons.
Israel will ignore these nations…as they have no reason to follow International Law’ as instructed in accordance with Noahide Law and the instructions to ignore the laws of the Gentiles / Goyim in the Talmud.
In other words, the laws that everyone else has to conform to is blatantly ignored by ‘God’s Chosen’…and deliberately so with supreme arrogance and false entitlement.
Learn the difference between Israelis and Israelites, and then research the Khazarian Mafia…
Read the works of Aleksander Solzhenytsyn…
And understand why Putin is defending Russia and Russian Orthodox Christianity against the Zionist efforts to re-impose another J3wi$h-led Bolshevik Revolution by J3w3$$ Victoria Nuland and the Zio-Nazis in the Ukraine!