The former Labor foreign affairs minister Bob Carr says the federal government should sanction the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and move quickly to recognise Palestinian statehood, saying it would send “a message that we are turned inside out with disgust by what appears the deliberate starvation” of Gaza.
Carr, the former New South Wales state premier and Labor elder, praised Anthony Albanese’s latest statement condemning Israel, which accused Netanyahu’s government of denying aid and killing civilians – including children – seeking water and food.
