Israel National News reports: “Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese officially announced on Monday that his country will recognize a state of Palestine when the United Nations General Assembly meets in September.

‘Australia will recognise the right of the Palestinian people to a state of their own, predicated on the commitments Australia has received from the Palestinian Authority,’ Albanese said.

‘We will work with the international community to make this right a reality,’ he added.

Albanese clarified that Hamas may take no part in a Palestinian state, while lashing out at Israel and claiming that ‘continues to defy’ international law, with the situation in Gaza ‘beyond the world’s worst dreams.’

The Cabinet had met in Canberra earlier, where it signed off on the move, according to SBS News…”