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Israeli Government spokesperson Eylon Levy debunks false claims against Israel
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"Rape is an act of barbaric savagery against innocent people." Israeli Government spokesperson Eylon Levy
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"UNRWA is a front for Hamas... It is not a neutral organisation and... is the mechanism that Hamas uses to launder its propaganda." Israeli Government spokesperson Eylon Levy
#Hamas
#UNRWA
#terrorism
#Gaza
@EylonALevy
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"[Israel] are making unprecedent efforts, efforts that no army in history has made to keep civilians safe": Israeli Government spokesperson Eylon Levy
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"Little girl survivors of Hamas captivity are waking up crying" :Israeli Government spokesperson Eylon Levy
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"Hamas launched missile attacks from inside the...humanitarian zone." Israeli Government spokesperson Eylon Levy
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"Calling for a ceasefire is calling for us to abandon our 31 children in the hands of rapists": Israeli Government spokesman Eylon Levy
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'We are fighting for humanity' - Eylon Levy, Israeli Government Spokesperson speaks with i24NEWS
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"A permanent ceasefire means Hamas wins and they get away with massacring more than 1000 Israeli civilians on October 7": Former IDF Spokesperson Jonathan Conricus speaks with Fox News -
@jconricus
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On August 9, 2001, a
#Palestinian
terrorist blew up a
#Jerusalem
pizza restaurant killing 15 people including 15-year-old Australian Malki Roth. That bombing was one of many terrorist acts during the Second Intifada that killed more than 1000
#Israelis
.
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"I think Britain, the US and the rest of the western world understand we are fighting for humanity on the frontlines of humanity.": Israeli Government spokesperson Eylon Levy talks to GB News -
@EylonALevy
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Watch Ayman Odeh, the leader of an Israeli-Arab political party, cite incredible statistics of Israeli-Arab success in Israel, which refute baseless accusations of Israel being an apartheid state.
Video credit:
@elderofziyon
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"To put Israel and Hamas on an even keel and to draw comparisons between us is morally perverse": Former IDF Spokesperson Jonathan Conricus on Visegrad24 -
@jconricus
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"An option of a Hamas surrender is still there...and anyone who is seriously concerned for civilian casualties should be demanding that.": Israeli Government spokesperson Eylon Levy speaks to Times Radio -
@eylonAlevy
#hams
#terrorism
#bringthemhome
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"If you are attacked, you must retaliate. If you do not retaliate, you invite additional attacks." Former IDF spokesperson Jonathan Conricus speaks to News Nation -
@JConricus
#iran
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"Hamas is an organisation that when they say occupation, they don't mean Gaza. They mean...all of Israel." Former IDF spokesperson Jonathan Conricus speaks to CNN -
#Hamas
#hezbollah
#Terrorism
@jconricus
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"Hamas remaining on its feet anywhere in the Gaza strip... is not an interest of any of our neighbours": Israeli Government spokesperson Eylon Levy
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"If the war stops now... Hamas wins": Former IDF Spokesperson Jonathan Conricus speaks with News Nation -
@jconricus
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"This war has shown that appeasing...allowing... our enemies close to our borders... has not been a very wise one": Former IDF spokesperson Jonathan Conricus speaks to Fox -
#UNRWA
#Hamas
#hezbollah
@jconricus
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Indigenous Friends of Israel slams BDS campaign against the Sydney Festival
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"The only thing keeping Hamas is alive is...civilians...they are using as their human shields.": Former IDF spokesperson Jonathan Conricus speaks on The Rosenberg Report -
@jconricus
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"Hamas spent 16 years redesigning Gaza's cityscape for the sake of its human shield strategy.": Israeli Government spokesperson Eylon Levy speaks to Fox News -
#Hamas
#terrorism
#tunnels
#Gaza
#Hezbollah
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AIJAC has written to ABC Managing Director Michelle Guthrie asking her to explain the ABC's glaring lack of coverage of the biggest rocket and mortar attacks launched by Hamas and Islamic Jihad on Israel since the 2014 war
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"This war will end when it is safe for the children of Be'eri and Nir Oz to sleep in their beds again.": Israeli Government spokesperson Eylon Levy
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A street art mural has been unveiled in Israel depicting the strength & resilience of Iranian women.
@emilykschrader
said “it’s a symbol of how the people of Israel both Arab & Jewish are united in standing with the people of Iran ...”.
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Australian musician Nick Cave has hit back at fans comparing the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the situation between Israelis and Palestinians. Cave has long been an active opponent of the movement to boycott Israel and has a concert planned in Israel this year.
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Three months ago,
@KMooreGilbert
was released from
#Iran
in a prisoner exchange after 2 years of imprisonment on false charges. Since returning to
#Australia
, she has campaigned for the release of other foreign hostages held in Iranian jails
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A traffic camera in Israel's south caught the moment of impact this morning. Official reports indicate more than 50 rockets have been fired on Israel from Gaza
#israelunderattack
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@JulianBurnside
Mr Burnside,
@TheIHRA
definition of antisemitism is pretty clear. "Contemporary examples of antisemitism in public life ... include: drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis."
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"They and we know what we are fighting for...to be a free people in our own country": Eylon Levy gives an in-depth interview with The Jewish Chronicle -
@EylonALevy
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"History has taught us that when people say they want to kill Jews, they want to kill Jews.": Israeli spokesperson Avi Hyman
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Nova Peris OAM, former Australian Senator and the first indigenous Australian to win Olympic gold is currently visiting Israel.
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Agricultural cooperation between
#Israel
and
#Indonesia
, including the direct involvement of Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto, have brought the two countries closer together. The US has been actively promoting normalisation.
Full story by
@LahavHarkov
:
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Everyone at AIJAC is utterly devastated by the passing today of our beloved, widely admired and respected colleague Jeremy Jones AM, after an extended illness which he fought with great courage.
May His Memory be a Blessing.
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AIJAC's Naomi Levin argues that
@KMooreGilbert
's
#IRGC
captors should be among the first sanctioned under the
#Magnitsky
-style laws recently adopted by Australia
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Israeli teen
#OriAnsbacher
was brutally killed in the
#Jerusalem
forest in a
#Palestinian
terrorist attack on Feb.7. Her murderer will receive a lifetime payment from the Palestinian Authority for committing this heinous crime
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"As for me, I love and stand with my Jewish brothers and sisters": Dr Phil
#Hostages
#october7massacre
#antisemitism
#university
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AIJAC Executive Director Colin Rubenstein in today's
@dailytelegraph
: The BDS campaign is driven by "a deeply offensive obsession which has no place amidst the celebration of artistic creativity and diversity that the Sydney Festival represents."
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“Al Jazeera is a toxic problem – they are the mouthpiece of Hamas” - Australian actor
@NateBuzz
tells Sky News Australia host
@SharriMarkson
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“Kylie Moore-Gilbert is an Australian citizen, a political prisoner and she must be released and we must not be silent until she is.” – Important speech by
@joshburnsmp
in Parliament calling for the release of Kylie Moore-Gilbert who has been unjustly imprisoned in
#Iran
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Prime Minister
@ScottMorrisonMP
marked 70 years of Australia’s diplomatic relationship with Israel, telling Parliament that Israel had come under one-sided, unfair attack at the UN
#israel
#antisemitism
@IsraelinOZ
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This week marks the 31st anniversary of Operation Solomon. Over the course of just 36 hours in 1991, 40 continuous flights covertly airlifted almost 15,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel to rescue them from religious persecution, famine and civil wars in their home country.
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Former senior British military officer
@colrichardkemp
discusses how the coronavirus pandemic is being exploited to conspiratorially attack Jews and
#Israel
on
@SkyNewsAust
'Outsiders'
#antisemitism
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AIJAC guest
@Doranimated
on the US recognition of Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights: "It's a recognition of reality. Everybody, including the Arab leaders who expressed opposition to the move, know the Israelis are never going to give back the Golan Heights."
@ABCTV
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Hamas jailed Gazan Rami Aman after he organised a video call with Israeli peace activists.
Australian academic Leigh Toomey, chair of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, received a legal complaint over Aman's arrest from 70 NGOs. AIJAC urges her to seriously consider it.
GENEVA, September 9, 2020 – Ahead of a United Nations debate next week on arbitrary detention, a coalition of 70 NGOs announced today that it lodged a legal complaint with the UN to demand the release of Rami Aman...
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Khaled Abu Toameh, Senior Fellow with the Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs, speaks to Sky's Sharri Markson about how the vast majority of Arabs inside Israel have condemned Hamas’ actions.
@SharriMarkson
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"The tunnels with all of the arms and rockets that came into Gaza were coming in through Egypt...and nobody is putting pressure on them to be part of the solution.": Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem Fleur Hassan-Nahoum -
@FleurHassanN
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Sarah Halimi was thrown out a window by a man shouting Allahu Akbar, but a French court has said the man will not stand trial because he was under the influence of drugs.
The French Jewish community will be rallying in Paris on Sunday for justice for
#sarahhalimi
#justiceforsarah
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"We have repeatedly warned and will continue to warn about the Red Cresent's ties to terrorism" Israeli Government spokesperson Tal Heinrich
@TalHeinrich
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Australians are free to send money to Hezbollah and fly its flag because only a small fraction of the Lebanese group is banned by the Australian Government.
@Doranimated
from the
@HudsonInstitute
says that is a mistake
#banhezbollahnow
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“President Mahmoud Abbas left Palestinians to die in Syria during the height of the civil war, prioritizing his nationalist agenda over the individual’s right to life,” writes
@palwatch
director Itamar Marcus
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Mimi Reinhardt, who drew up the famous ‘Schindler’s List’ that saved the lives of hundreds of Jewish people during the Holocaust, has passed away at the age of 107. May her memory be a blessing.
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American singer Bruno Mars has wowed a sold-out crowd of 63,000 people, including Israeli Arabs and Jews, at Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park with a dazzling performance that included singing a song in Hebrew with the lyrics, “Ani ohev otach” (I love you).
The American superstar faced…
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AIJAC congratulates
@MonashUni
on adopting
@TheIHRA
's working definition of antisemitism. This follows
@UniMelb
, which adopted the definition in January. At a time of rising antisemitism on campuses, it’s important that every university adopts the IHRA definition.
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Iran's imprisonment of Australian citizens is designed to "spook" Australia and its allies, who have taken an interest in the threats posed by
#Iran
to its people, the region and the world, according to AIJAC visitor Behnam Ben Taleblu
@FDD
@FDD_Iran
@SkyNewsAust
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For the first time ever, Portugal’s parliament last Friday passed a resolution to mark Israel’s 75th anniversary. It was the result of a united effort between Israel’s Ambassador to Portugal Dor Shapira and Portuguese MP Alexandre Poco (pictured), which saw 215 out of 230…
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Dont miss Palestinian human rights activist
@eid_bassem
discussing "The
#Palestinian
case against
#Hamas
" with AIJAC Live on June 1 at 7.30pm via facebook
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Good news! Private Ori Megidish has been rescued by the IDF in Gaza. She was kidnapped during the October 7th terrorist attack.
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At a public vigil on Monday night, Australian academic Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert, who was imprisoned by Iran on false spying charges, spoke out at the silence from feminists and gender equality activists on the horrific crimes committed by Hamas against Israeli women and girls in…
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Former Labor MK
@EWilf
skilfully explains that anti-Zionism is antisemitism. It is worth taking time out to watch her speech.
My ten-minute opening speech at the "Anti-Zionism is Antisemitism" debate in London, highlighting the striking, but not coincidental, similarities between the early stages of Antisemitism as it arose in Europe in 19th c and Anti-Zionism in the West today:
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Papua New Guinea will create its first embassy in Israel, setting it up in Jerusalem. The South Pacific country said it wanted to work with Israel in the areas of “economic empowerment, industry, commerce" among other fields.
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ABC MD David Anderson has admitted that Jerusalem-based ABC news producer Fouad Abu Gosh has both breached the ABC”s social media policy and undermined “his ability to impartially report from that region” via recently revealed anti-Israel tweets.
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The Australian Government is commended for calling out a blatant injustice in the ICC's ruling to accept the non-existent 'state of Palestine'. 1/2
@MarisePayne
@dfat
@ScottMorrisonMP
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PM
@ScottMorrisonMP
has announced that Australia will not participate in the 20th anniversary of the 2001 UN World Conference Against Racism. The 2001 conference, colloquially known as Durban I, was a watershed in the long history of the UN being manipulated to discredit Israel.
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@LahavHarkov
Pleased that Australia was one of the first countries to say no to celebrating a conference that descended into antisemitic hate speech
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"We are tearing down layer by layer Hamas' infrastructure [and] their ability to operate freely." IDF spokesperson Peter Lerner speaks with CNN
@LTCPeterLerner
#hamas
#terrorists
#hostages
#bringthemhome
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Australia’s Prime Minister
@ScottMorrisonMP
was asked about
@amnesty
's latest report accusing Israel of apartheid against Palestinians.
#shamnesty
#amnestylies
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Israelis – from the north to the south – have been under fire.
Israel has called up reservists and continues to target Hamas combatants and their sites in a bid to end the rocket fire and the ongoing threat from the terrorist group.
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"Israel didn't want this war. Israel didn't start this war. But we will finish this war when Hamas is eliminated.": Israeli Government spokesperson Tal Heinrich
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Israeli racing driver Ariel Elkin from Haifa, won third place in USF Juniors league Formula 4 Championship in New Orleans. He raced in a helmet covered with pictures of the Israeli hostages in Gaza and on the podium chose to hold up his helmet instead of his trophy.
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"One for the saddest birthdays in the history of the world": Israeli spokesperson Avi Hyman
@AviHyman
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@Israel
Huge contrast to the actions of some other judokas, who refused to compete against Israelis in a clear breach of the Olympic spirit
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Less than three months after announcing its intentions, the Australian Government has this week opened a Trade and Defence Office in Jerusalem 🇦🇺🇮🇱
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UN Women's hypocrisy towards violence against Israeli and Jewish women
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An Indian expert's perspective on why Prime Minister Modi's visit to Israel was path-breaking & historic
@tabletmag
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"Our estimation is that about 60% of the aid coming into Gaza is being stolen by Hamas" Israeli Government spokesperson Tal Heinrich speaks to BBC -
#Gaza
#Hamas
#terrorism
@talheinrich
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@HonestReporting
@UN
@UNIFIL_
Yesterday, in the Australian Parliament, Foreign Minister
@MarisePayne
called these villagers "courageous" and "worthy of public recognition". She accused Hezbollah of breaching international law by using these brave people as human shields.
#PT
:
@MarisePayne
also condemned
#Hezbollah
's attacks on
#Israel
as well as
#Iran
's internal repression and support for terrorist groups like
#Hamas
, calling on Iran to come back into compliance with the
#NPT
and
#JCPOA
and to work with
#IAEA
inspectors.
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Lucy Aharish, the first Muslim Arabic TV presenter and Israeli tv anchor, gives a powerful monologue
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Australia has opposed a bid by the International Criminal Court to look into alleged war crimes in the Palestinian Territories. According to documents, “Australia does not recognise the 'State of Palestine'”. AIJAC welcomes Australia’s principled stance.
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Michal Cotler-Wunsh, Special Envoy for Combatting Antisemitism, gives a powerful speech at the UN about the ever-mutating virus of antisemitism.
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We will not let Hamas achieve their goal of obliterating the Jewish State - Israeli Government spokesperson Tal Heinrich talks to EWTN News -
@TalHeinrich
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"Any country which is concerned about the welfare of Palestinians and Israelis must insist on Hamas' complete surrender and unconditional release of hostages.": Israeli Government spokesperson Tal Heinrich
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"We take extensive efforts to minimise civilian casualties. Hamas makes every effort to maximise them." IDF spokesperson Keren Hajioff
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"Whoever tells us not to operate in Rafah is telling us to lose the war - and that will not happen.": Israeli Government spokesperson Ilana Stein
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In an interview with Sky News Australia,
@KMooreGilbert
revealed the “psychological torture” she experienced in an Iranian prison, when she was convicted on false charges.
AIJAC applauds her courage & supports her calls for
#Iran
to free other foreign hostages
📸Sky News
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Former Australian PM Scott Morrison during his visit to Israel spoke with Israel National News about his support for Israel’s right of self-defence to ensure that the atrocities of October 7 can never be repeated.
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Two-State Dilemma - How Palestinian leaders not Israel, have ruined the opportunity to create a Palestinian state.
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The Australian Government will designate Hezbollah a terrorist organisation. The Minister for Home Affairs Karen Andrews accepted the recommendation of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Intelligence and Security to list the entirety of Hezbollah, not just Hezbollah’s ESO.
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"There are posters everywhere...calling for the destruction of the State of Israel." Jewish academics speak to Sharri Markson about the anti-Israel protests at the University of Sydney - -
@SkyNewsAust
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Turkish media reported that Israel has sent the second-biggest rescue and medical team to Turkey, following last week's devastating earthquake. Azerbaijan sent the largest team (725), followed by Israel (450), then France (204) and India (201).
#turkeyearthquake2023
#israel
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"The only thing that we target in Gaza... is terrorists and terrorist infrastructure." Israeli Government spokesperson Tal Heinrich speaks to CNN -
@TalHeinrich
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"UNRWA is unravelling in real time as the world wakes up to the way in which a United Nations aid organisation has been hijacked by Hamas and tainted with terror" Israeli Government spokesperson Avi Hyman
@AviHyman
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has written to Israeli President Isaac Herzog to personally thank him for his warm congratulations for Mr Albanese’s May election win. Mr Albanese wrote “Australia remains a committed friend of Israel under my Government”.
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"It's also almost never reported that UNRWA has distributed less than 80% of the aid that has entered Gaza": Israeli Government spokesperson Tal Heinrich
@TalHeinrich
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