Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

The language we use reflects the need for a ceasefire not to be one-sided, and we know that hostages are still being held. We know that Hamas has no place in the future of Gaza nor in any progress towards a two-state solution. Can I say though, in using the words carefully as I do, it does not diminish our concern for the numbers of civilian casualties that we are seeing and, as I said in my answer to the first question from Senator Grogan, we are seeing that there are increasingly fewer safe places for anyone in Gaza to go. We have continued to reiterate the importance of international law, those principles of international law which I've referred to earlier.