Australia’s recognition of Palestine a ‘political fig leaf’, advocacy group warns
Australia’s plan to recognise the State of Palestine is being used as a “political fig leaf to deflect from the urgent legal obligations Australia must uphold under the Genocide Convention”, the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) has said.
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Mashni added that recognition is meaningless while Australia continues to arm, trade with, diplomatically protect and encourage other states to normalise relations with Israel.
He called for sanctions, an arms embargo, suspension of trade, and legal action against Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Australia’s recognition of Palestine a ‘political fig leaf’, advocacy group warns
Australia’s plan to recognise the State of Palestine is being used as a “political fig leaf to deflect from the urgent legal obligations Australia must uphold under the Genocide Convention”, the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) has said.
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The Palgrave Handbook of Climate Resilient Societies by Robert C. Brears, 2020
The effects of climate change are beginning to be felt around the world with rising temperatures, changing precipitation levels, more frequent and severe storms and longer more intensive droughts threatening human life and livelihoods and damaging property and infrastructure.
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The Israeli military confirmed that it deliberately killed Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif and four other staff after it hit their tent at the entrance of al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
The journalists, who had been threatened for months, are now among the more than 230 media workers who have been killed by Israeli weapons since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza.
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A daughter comforts her grieving mother at the funeral of her husband, Mohammed Qandeel, who was killed as he sought aid.
Photograph: Mahmoud Issa/Reuters
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What ‘starvation’ really means, for the human body and for Gaza
What does starvation do to the body?
“It’s one of the most undignified and barbaric ways to kill. Starvation is always something that is done by one person to another. It’s intended to be protracted and to maximise suffering.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/4/what-starvation-really-means-for-the-human-body-and-for-gaza
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Israeli attacks continue near aid sites in Gaza where desperately hungry people are trying to get food.
Of the 27 people killed in the enclave so far today, 20 were seeking aid.
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Palestinian boy crushed to death by falling pallet during Gaza aid drop
Dozens of displaced and starving Palestinians have been killed in Gaza today while trying to get something to eat or to feed their families.
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Treat every person
with kindness and respect,
even those who are rude to you.
Remember that you show compassion
to others not because of who they are,
but because of what you are.
Andrew T. Somers
via natureloveratheart
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