Good afternoon. The Labor MP Josh Wilson has broken ranks with the Albanese government, condemning Israel’s bombardment of Gaza as “unconscionable” and declaring that the besieged territory is “being bombed into rubble”.
The backbench MP made the comments in a speech to parliament on Thursday after the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, rejected the terms of a potential ceasefire deal proposed by Hamas. Labor ministers have expressed increasing alarm about the resulting humanitarian crisis in Gaza but generally refrained from directly criticising Israel.
