Australian government scrambles to clarify stance on Golan Heights after Wong references ‘Israeli town’
by Daniel Hurst Foreign affairs and defence correspon from World news | The Guardian on (#6PM6B)
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The Australian government has insisted it still regards the Golan Heights as occupied territory after Penny Wong described the site of a weekend attack as a northern Israeli town".
The foreign minister's statement was met with a flood of comments online asking why she had effectively recognised Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights - which Israel seized from Syria in the six-day war in 1967 - and not described it as occupied.
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