Independent MP fears tensions could become worse amid fallout from Israel-Hamas conflict. Follow the day’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast‘A ceasefire is where we need to get to,’ Zoe Daniel saysAsked by RN Breakfast host Patricia Karvelas if she supports calls for a ceasefire, Zoe Daniel says:If you call for a ceasefire, you’re letting down the Jewish community, if you don’t you’re allowing death and destruction to happen in Gaza.At the end of the day, if I say to you right now, yes, I support ceasefire, that will make zero difference to what is happening in in Gaza.I’m a former foreign correspondent. I know the logistics of this, of course, a ceasefire is where we need to get to, but you have a terrorist organisation in the middle of this. If there’s just a ceasefire, and there’s no capacity there to try to dismantle Hamas, does that allow Hamas to regroup? What does that actually lead to? That said, I’ve said to you before, very clearly, and I still stick to the position that the Israeli government has to adhere to international law and the rules of war, and I think, in some ways, has not been. Continue reading…
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