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‘What the hell have they been doing?’: Former human rights commissioner on Frankom killing
Former human rights commissioner, Chris Sidoti, has lambasted the Israeli Defence Force’s decision not to pursue a criminal investigation into the killing of aid worker Zomi Frankom and six others when their aid convoy was hit by airstrikes.
The Israeli military constantly announces internal investigations and then we hear nothing more, at least here in five cases they have announced the results of the investigations … And only now are we being told that these matters, some of these matters, are going to be referred to criminal investigation. Well, what the hell have they been doing for the last two, two and a half years? There’s no confidence either in the appropriateness, the thoroughness of the internal investigations or of any criminal prosecutions that may flow.
The review conducted by the Australian appointee was itself a very soft touch, I have to say. The recommendations that were made, apology, reparations were the very least that could have been expected. And yet the Israeli authorities are not even responding to those. It’s a ridiculous situation.
Today’s debt is tomorrow’s taxes, and the debt the Albanese government is racking up is being spent as fuel for inflation making the damage so much greater
