New Zealand’s Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said that Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu had “lost the plot.” He made the comment on Wednesday (August 13) as Wellington considers whether to recognise Palestinian state.
He condemed the Prime Minister for the take over of Gaza City, calling the lack of humanitarian assistance and forceful displacement of people "utterly appalling."
“What we are seeing overnight, the attack on Gaza City, is utterly, utterly unacceptable”, said Luxon.
He said that New Zealand was considering whether to recognise a Palestinian state.
Close ally Australia on Monday joined Canada, the UK and France in announcing it would do the same at the U.N. conference in September.
Meanwhile, a small number of protesters gathered outside the country’s parliament building in Tel Aviv Tuesday night after the parliamentary session. They were hitting pots and pans and shouting slogans “MPs grow a spine, recognise Palestine.”
Britain, Canada, Australia, and several European allies said yesterday that the humanitarian situation in Gaza has reached “unimaginable levels.”
They urged Israel to allow unrestricted aid into the Strip. However, Israel has denied responsibility for the hunger in Gaza, accusing Hamas of stealing it, which Hamas has denied.
At the same time, New Zealand Co-leader of the Green Party, Chloe Swarbrick, was kicked out from parliament's debating chamber after she refused to apologise for a comment implying government politicians were showing no backbone for not supporting a bill to “sanction Israel for its war crimes."
Swarbrick was ordered to leave the debating chamber for a second day on Wednesday after she again refused to apologise. The government voted to suspend her, when she refused to leave, initially for a week. However the speaker of the house said he would give her the opportunity to apologise tomorrow.
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New Zealand declared a state of emergency in Otorohanga on Saturday (14 February) after torrential rain caused severe flooding, power outages and evacuations.
Several people, including children, were reported missing in New Zealand's north island on Thursday after a landslide struck a coastal campsite amid heavy rain that caused evacuations of people to safety, road closures and widespread power outages.
The possibility of restricting social media access for children is a hot topic in the European Union and the United Kingdom, after Australia implemented a world-first ban for those under 16. Lawmakers have labelled the ban a “real-world test” of how far governments can go to protect young people.
U.S. President Donald Trump said the U.S. military has enough stockpiled weapons to fight wars "forever"; in a social media post late on Monday. The remarks came hours before conflict in Iran and the Middle East entered its fourth day.
U.S. first lady, Melania Trump chaired a UN Security Council meeting on children and education in conflict on Monday (2 March), a move criticised by Iran as hypocritical following U.S. and Israeli strikes that triggered a UN warning about risks to children.
A torpedo from a U.S. submarine has sunk an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka, U.S. Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth told reporters. The Sri Lankan navy carried out a rescue operation for dozens of sailors in the wake of the strike.
The U.S. embassy in Riyadh was hit by two drones resulting in a limited fire and some material damage, the kingdom's defence ministry said in a post on X on Tuesday, citing an initial assessment.
The U.S.-Iran crisis has entered its third day, with further strikes reported across the Middle East and the death toll rising. Oil prices have surged to levels last seen during the Covid-19 pandemic, raising fears of economic disruption and higher prices worldwide.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the United States is making gains in its conflict with Iran after a key Iranian naval target was destroyed, confirming that the strike was carried out by a U.S. submarine off the coast of Sri Lanka. Rescue efforts are now under way for the ship’s crew.
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Strikes across the Middle East are intensifying, fuelling travel disruption, driving up global energy prices and forcing diplomatic missions to shut their doors.
U.S. President Donald Trump has said the United States has a “virtually unlimited supply” of munitions and is capable of sustaining military action indefinitely, as the conflict with Iran entered its fourth day.
The United Nations has called for an investigation into a deadly attack on a girls’ primary school in Iran, which Iranian officials say has killed more than 100 children. The U.S. has said its forces “would not” deliberately target a school.
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