Australian FM: Israel must change course in Gaza to keep international support

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong says that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is undermining Israel with his approach to the war against Hamas in Gaza, and urges the country to change course or lose even more international support.

US President Biden said on Saturday that Netanyahu was “hurting Israel more than helping” by conducting the war in a way contrary to the country’s values.

Asked about his comments, Wong agrees and says international support for Israel will continue to fray unless it addressed the “humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza.

“October 7th was a terrorist attack and the world was rightly very sympathetic to and in solidarity with Israel at that time,” Wong says at the Australian Financial Review Business Summit.

“I think the world is horrified with the current situation … and I would say that unless Israel changes its course it will continue to lose support.”