Australia yuav lees paub lub teb chaws Palestine rau lub 9 hi ntuj

Thawj pwm tsav Anthony Albanese tau hais tias cov kev tsim tau ob lub teb chaws (Israel thiab Palestine) ''yog ib co kev cia siab zoo tshaj plaws yuav pab tau leej tib neeg los daws tau tej teeb meem kub ntxhov ntawm Middle East.''

Anthony Albanese in a black suit is speaking.

Australia will follow the same timeline as Canada, the UK and France of moving to formal recognition of Palestine at United Nations talks in September. Source: AAP / Mick Tsikas

Ntsiab lus tseem ceeb:
  • Australia yuav nrog teb chaws Askiv, Fabkis thiab Canada lees paub teb chaws Palestine ntawm UN.
  • Thawj pwm tsav Anthony Albanese tau hais tias tau muaj cov kev txiav txim siab no tom qab nom tswv Palestinian qhia meej tseeb txog tej hauj lwm no.
  • Lwm pab nom teb chaws hais tias lub tswv yim no ''yog ib co kev txhawj xeeb heev'' ua ke no los pab nom Greens hais tau hais tias ''yog tej yam uas twb tsim nyog ua los ntev lawm.''
Thawj pwm tsav Anthony Albanese tau qhia tias Australia yuav lees paub lub teb chaws Palestine thaum mus koom UN lub rooj sab laj lub 9 hli ntuj no (2025).

Nws tau hais tej lus no ntawm tuam ceeb Canberra rau lub caij nrog tej neeg nthuav xov xwm tham hnub zwj Hli (Monday) dhau los tias "Australia yuav lees paub tej neeg Palestinian kom lawv muaj cai muaj lawv lub teb chaws, raws li tej lus qhia meej ntawm nom tswv Palestinian uas tau qhia rau Australia.''

"Peb yuav ua hauj lwm nrog zejzog pej kum haiv los tsim kom tau lub teb chaws no tiag.''

Tsoom fwv pawg nom tseem ceeb kuj tau sib ntsib ntawm Canberra thaum ntxov hnub zwj Hli (Monday) thiab tau kos xyeem mem tes pom zoo rau cov kev tsim lub teb chaws no.

Muaj tej teb chaws ntau tshaj 140 ntawm 193 ua tub koom siab ntawm UN uas yeej lees paub lub teb haws Palestine lawm.

Albanese tau qhia rau tej neeg nthuav xov xwm rau thaum sawv ntxov hnub zwj Hli (Monday) tias
"Cov kev tsim ob lub teb chaws thiaj yog tib neeg cov kev cia siab zoo tshaj plaws uas yuav daws tau tej xwm txheej kub ntxhov ntawm cheeb tsam Middle East thiab xaus tau cov kev kub ntxhov uas tau ua rau tej neeg tab tom raug kev tsim txom, thiab raug kev tshaib nqhis ntawm Gaza,''

"Zej zog pej kum haiv lub zeem muag ces yog xav kom tau txais kev ncaj ncees thiab kev thaj yeeb tiaj tus rau cheeb tsam Middle East rau ob lub teb chaws Israel thiab Palestine uas nyob ua ke thiab zejzog pej kum haiv lees paub lawv tej ciam teb kom tau txais kev ruaj ntseg rau lawv ob haiv neeg.''

Albanese tau hais tias tsuas yog txog rau thaum uas tsim tau lub teb chaws Israel thiab Palestine ruaj xwb mas thiaj yuav tau txais kev thaj yeeb ruaj, tsis li ntawd ces tsuas tau kev thaj yeeb ib ntus xwb.

Raws li thawj pwm tsav tau hais ces tsis hais ib cov kev lees paub twg li yuav tsum tau xyuas kom meej tias tsis txhob pub Hamas los tswj Gaza, thiab tsis txhob pub nws los ua ib txoj hauj lwm dab tsi ntawm tus tsoom fwv tshiab.

Albanese tau hais tias "Nom tswv Palestinian yeej tau rov qab qhia meej lawm tias nws yeej lees paub lub teb chaws Israel ua txais kev thaj yeeb thiab kev ruaj ntseg,''

Nws tau hais tias "Nws yeej kub siab yuav los txo kom tsi txhob muaj tej tub rog Hamas thiab yuav muaj cov kev xaiv tsa tsoom fwv tshiab.''

Tau teeb tsa tsoom fwv Palestinian xyoo 1994 los tswj Palestinian tej nrim chaw ntawm West Bank (suav East Jerusalem nrog) thiab Gaza Strip raws li cov kev pom zoo Oslo Accords. Thiab cia tus tsoom fwv Fatah ua tus tswj West Bank.
Nws tau tswj lub Gaza strip mus txog xyoo 2006, thaum Hamas yeej kev xaiv tsa hauv tsev tsoom fwv thiab tswj Gaza Strip tom qab tau muaj ib kob tsov rog pej xeem luv luv xyoo 2007. Txawm li cas los nws tsis muaj fwj chim dab tsi hauv Gaza.

Albanese kuj tau qhia tias nws tau nrog Israel tus thawj pwm tsav Benjamin Netanyahu tham hnub zwj Teeb (Thursday) tias tej xwm txheej ntawm Gaza tau tag mus lawm ''thiab yog ib co xwm txheej phem tshaj qhov ntiaj teb ntshai tshaj plaws'' thiab nqua hu kom siv kev nom tswv los daws tej kev tsis haum xeeb no.

Albanese tau hais tias tej uas cov neeg Ixayees ua - suav cov kev hawv tias yuav txeeb Palestinian tej nrim chaw uas nws tswj thiab yuav thov siv cov kev yuam kom tej neeg Palestinian tsiv tawm ruaj tau ua rau yuav tsis muaj peev xwm siv tau lub tswv yim los tsim tau ob lub teb chaws.

Albanese tau hais tias "Tsoomfwv Israeli tseem yuam zejzog pej kum haiv cai thiab tsis kam xa khoom pab cuam kom txaus mus pab li tej zaub mov thiab dej mus pab tej neeg xav tau tej khoom pab cuam no, suav tej me nyuam yaus nrog thiab,''

"Yuav tsum tau tso cai rau cov kev xa cov kev pab tseem ceeb no rau cov neeg uas xav tau tshaj plaws. Qhov no yog ib qho tseem ceeb tshaj tham txog ib thaj chaw twg lawm. Thiab yog ib co kev pab uas hais txog ntau tshaj li kos ib kab rau hauv daim ntawv qhia. Qhov no yog ib co kev pab cawm tau tej neeg txoj sia ntawm Gaza."

Penny Wong uas yog Australia tus nom tswj dej num txawv teb chaws tau hais tias ntiaj teb tab siv lub cib fim uas nom tswv Palestinian kub siab tiag yuav los txo tej tub rog thiab yuav npaj kom muaj kev xaiv tsa, "rau lub caij uas ntiaj teb nrhiav kev txhawb nqa ntawm lub koom haum Arab Leagues los cais Hamas".

Wong thiaj tau hais tias tus tsoom fwv Netanyahu tau tsis quav ntsej txog ntiaj teb cov kev tsis pom zoo nrog tej xwm txheej nws ua ntawm Gaza.
A woman with grey hair and a black blazer is standing next to the Australian and Aboriginal flags.
Penny Wong uas yog Australia tus nom tswj dej num txawv teb chaws tau hais tias Australia yuav pab nom tswv Palestinian kom muaj peev xwm thiab yuav ua tus xyuas kom nws ua raws li nws tej lus tau hais tseg. Source: AAP / Mick Tsikas
Wong hais tias "Qhov no tsis yog qhov kawg. Nws yog qhov pib xwb. Tseem tshuav ntau yam haujlwm ntxiv yuav tau los ua rau cov kev yuav tsim lub teb chaws Palestinian no."

Wong tau hais tias yuav pab kom nom tswv Palestinian muaj tsab peev xwm, thiab yuav nrog zejzog pej kum haiv los xyuas kom nws ua raws li tej lus nws tau cog tseg.

"The practical implementation of our recognition will be tied to progress on these commitments," she said.

"Qhov yuav pab kom peb ua tau raws li peb cov kev lees paub no yuav cuam tshuam txog cov kev muaj peev xwm ua tau raws li nws tej kev cog lus no,''

"Peb yeej tseem yuav koom nrog peb cov teb chaws phooj ywg ntau lub los pab tej khoom pab cuam no rau tej pej xeem txom nyem txuas ntxiv kom tau tej khoom siv ua lub neej raws li qhov lawv xav tau, thiab yuav koom tes nrog tej teb chaws no tsim kom tau ib txoj xub ke los xaus tej voj vooj tsim kev kub ntxhov no."

Lwm pab nom teb chaws 'muaj kev txhawj xeeb loj heev', hos pab nom Greens hais tias twb tsim nyog lees paub los ntev lawm

The Opposition has "serious concerns" about Australia's plan to recognise Palestinian statehood, leader Sussan Ley said following Albanese's announcement.

Ley said in a statement that until Albanese's announcement, it had been bipartisan positions that recognising Palestinian statehood should come only at the end of a peace negotiation process, and that there should be no recognition of a Palestinian state with Hamas still in control of Gaza.

"Despite his words today, the reality is Anthony Albanese has committed Australia to recognising Palestine while hostages remain in tunnels under Gaza and with Hamas still in control of the population of Gaza. Nothing he has said today changes that fact," Ley said.

Ley said the decision puts Australia at odds with "our most important ally" and "the most consequential player in the conflict in Gaza" — the United States.

US President Donald Trump has remained steadfastly opposed to recognition and maintains that international moves to do so are rewarding Hamas.
A woman wearing a blue top is speaking while standing outside.
Opposition leader Sussan Ley has criticised the government's decision to recognise Palestinian statehood. Source: AAP / Mick Tsikas
Greens foreign affairs spokesperson David Shoebridge said Australia's decision was "overdue" and "should have happened decades ago".

"What Australia has done today is take a tiny step away from a shrinking and discredited minority of states, centred on the US and Israel, to join the overwhelming majority of nations that already recognise Palestine," he said.

But Shoebridge said "recognition won't feed starving kids or stop the bombs", and called on Australia to sanction Israel and stop exporting F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel.

Over the weekend, deputy prime minister Richard Marles was questioned on whether Australia would cease exports of armoured steel and components for F-35 jets to Israel.
Marles said Australia did not supply weapons to Israel and that Australia was part of "the F-35 supply chain".

Responding to Marles' remarks on Sunday, Shoebridge said if Australia stopped exporting F-35 parts to Israel, then their fleet would be grounded, and that international law was "crystal clear" that "parts of weapons are weapons".

Australia Palestine Advocacy Network president Nasser Mashni made similar comments, saying Palestinian recognition could be used as a "veneer" that allowed Israel to "continue brutalising Palestinians without consequences".

"What I want today is for Palestinians not to be slaughtered, what I want as an Australian is our government not to be complicit in that slaughter ... for Palestinians like myself to have the opportunity to enact our inalienable right to return," he told reporters in Melbourne.

"What happens after that will be upon the Palestinian people.

"It's not my job, or Anthony Albanese's, to determine how Palestinians might seek their self-determination."

Ambassador says proposal 'undermines Israel's security'

Israel's ambassador to Australia, Amir Maimon, has criticised the decision to recognise Palestinian statehood, saying it was symbolic rather than "genuine progress towards peace".
A map showing which countries recognise a state of Palestine
Source: SBS
"By recognising a Palestinian state while Hamas continues to kill, kidnap, and reject peace, Australia undermines Israel's security, derails hostage negotiations, and hands a victory to those who oppose coexistence," he said in a statement on social media.

"This decision will not change the reality on the ground."

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry, Australia's peak representative body of the Australian Jewish community, said it felt the government's announcement was a "betrayal and abandonment of the Israeli hostages" held in Gaza.

"Today's announcement acknowledges the need for all the hostages to be released and for Hamas to be disarmed and removed from power. It accepts that the Palestinians and the Arab States have to recognise and make peace with Israel as the State of the Jewish people, and normalise relations with it," president Daniel Aghion said in a statement.

"The major flaw in the announcement is that it relegates all of these conditions to the status of a mere promise to be fulfilled at some future time, and says nothing about what will happen if those conditions are not met."

ECAJ co-CEO Alex Ryvchin said the move would be seen in the Jewish community as a "punitive measure against Israel" and a "reward for Palestinian violence".

Israeli PM says international criticism won't change position

During a briefing with foreign reporters ahead of Albanese's announcement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was asked about international criticism of the Gaza City takeover, responding that Australia would do the same.

"They know what they would do if they were right next to Melbourne or right next to Sydney," Netanyahu said.

"You had these horrific attacks. I think that you would do it — at least what we're doing. Probably, maybe not as efficiently and as precisely as we're doing it," Netanyahu said.

"To have European countries and Australia march into that rabbit hole, just like that, fall right into it and buy this canard is disappointing, and I think it's actually shameful.

"It's not going to change our position. Again, we will not commit national suicide to get a good op-ed for two minutes."

Announcement follows increased pressure on Australian government

Australia's federal government has faced increasing pressure to do more as the situation in Gaza has worsened.

At least 90,000 protesters marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge in early August, alongside thousands more in other Australian capitals, urging the government to sanction Israel.

A poll in August found rising support among Australians for formal recognition of Palestinian statehood.
The survey from DemosAU found 45 per cent of respondents supported Australia recognising a Palestinian state before a negotiated peace agreement, with 23 per cent opposed.

Levels of support were highest among those aged 18 to 34 at 57 per cent, while people aged 55 and over were more likely to be opposed, at 28 per cent.

Momentum for a Palestinian state has also swelled within Labor's ranks, as MP Ed Husic and former foreign minister Bob Carr called for action.

Israel has bombarded Gaza since an attack on southern Israel by Hamas on October 7 2023, which killed 1,200 people, with about 250 more taken hostage, according to Israeli tallies.

Israel has since killed more than 61,000 people in Gaza, according to the enclave's health authorities, and UN sources project more than two million people are facing high levels of acute food insecurity.

Israel has denied that the population is suffering or dying from starvation despite international human rights groups condemning its offensive.

— With additional reporting by the Australian Associated Press

This is a developing story and this article will be updated.


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