00:00Australia has summoned Israel's ambassador after the Israeli military decided not to pursue criminal proceedings
00:06over the death of Australian aid worker Zomi Francom in a 2024 airstrike in Gaza.
00:13Foreign Minister Penny Wong expresses Australia's outrage of the decision.
00:19The Israeli military claimed it found no basis to investigate the killings after a fact-finding and assessment procedure.
00:28The Australian Government does not believe that the removal of two officers from their positions
00:32and three officers being reprimanded is sufficient accountability for the deaths of seven people, including an Australian citizen.
00:40And we do not have confidence in the IDF's military advocate general's process, given the many unanswered questions.
00:49I believe, we believe, the Australian Government believes, that this decision fails to engage with key questions
01:00that have been raised in the Binskin Inquiry and subsequently.
01:04So that is the first point.
01:06The second point, and this is very important, this is not the conclusion of an investigation and a court trial,
01:13etc.
01:13It is a decision not to proceed with any criminal investigation whatsoever.
01:20So, you know, it is a decision not to proceed with any criminal investigation whatsoever.
01:28You know, we want answers to the questions, including those outlined, and we want accountability.
01:34She also said Australia will not expel the Israeli ambassador,
01:38arguing that doing so would limit Canberra's ability to engage with Israel.
01:42More than 73,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since the Gaza War began in 2023,
01:49with aid workers, doctors and journalists among the dead.
01:53Thousands more have also been killed in Israeli military operations in southern Lebanon.
01:58More than 70,000 Christians have been killed in the past.
01:58More than 73,000 Palestinians have been killed in the past.
01:58And hopefully, most people have been killed in power.
01:59More than 45,000 Americans have been killed in the past.
01:59And this is the two major,000 Americans have been killed in the past.
01:59So that is the most important, the history of the rest is the pastравilarly and the past,
01:59of which we do found them to do this project with the best and the past.
01:59I do want to keep them to do with an explanation.
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