UN special rapporteur’s criticism comes after PM sidestepped repeated questions from journalists on Trump’s comments. Follow the latest updates liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastProposed Gaza takeover ‘utterly unlawful’: UN Special RapporteurUnited Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, tells ABC RN Breakfast Donald Trump’s statement the US “will take over” Gaza is “utterly unlawful”.The implications is that the president of the United States says that it’s country ready to commit an act of aggression.It’s pathetic… I think that there are many countries which have a word to say about the two state solution, and then they do not even recognise the state of Palestine. If Australia is not ready to recognise the state of Palestine, it has nothing to say about the two state solution it has nothing to contribute with when it comes to the two state solution, but it still has obligations under international law not to aid and assist a system that is committing international crimes.There really is no discretion here. We have set a mandatory minimum sentence. The judges are free to impose sentences a lot longer than those mandatory minimums, and there’ll be some cases where that’s very necessary for very serious terrorism offences, people can be jailed for 20 years or more Continue reading…
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Australian politics live: ‘pathetic’ not to push back on Trump Gaza plan, Francesca Albanese says; Labor under pressure on hate crime sentencing
