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Australia will again use the term ‘Occupied Palestinian Territories’. Here’s why

bourbiza August 9, 2023 Top Stories Leave a comment 23 Views

Australia’s minister for foreign affairs, Penny Wong, has announced Australia will return to the use of the term “Occupied Palestinian Territories”.

The Australian government will use this phrase to describe the territories in the West Bank and Gaza that Israel occupied in 1967.

Australian officials have generally avoided the use of “occupied” and “occupation” in relation to Palestine since 2014.

This move by Australia is an important means of signalling condemnation of Israel’s expansion of illegal settlements on Palestinian lands. It reorients Australia towards the orthodox…

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