‘Shockingly amateurish’: Australian government delivers veiled rebuke to Israel over UN agency comments
by Daniel Hurst Foreign affairs and defence correspon from World news | The Guardian on (#6JBCA)
Exclusive: Canberra insider hits back at Amir Maimon who accused Australia of forgetting Hamas culpability' for 7 October attacks
An Australian government insider has accused the Israeli ambassador of making shockingly amateurish and counterproductive" comments in a rift over the potential to reinstate funding to a key UN agency.
The Israeli ambassador to Australia, Amir Maimon, said on Friday that Australia had previously backed a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza that would only help Hamas to reorganise" and now seemed to have forgotten Hamas's culpability" for the crisis in the territory.
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