Australia not ruling out sanctions against Israeli settlers as concerns grow over ‘troubling’ behaviour
by Daniel Hurst Foreign affairs and defence correspon from World news | The Guardian on (#6PDN6)
Exclusive: Senior Australian government source says ICJ ruling the continued Israeli occupation of territory seized in 1967 was illegal can't be ignored'
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The Australian government is increasingly alarmed at Israel's troubling pattern" of behaviour and has not ruled out a more assertive response, including sanctions against settlers.
In the wake of a sweeping international court of justice ruling read out in a courtroom in The Hague late on Friday that said the continued Israeli occupation of territory seized in 1967 was illegal, a senior Australian government source said the advisory opinion can't be ignored".
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