EU draft statement falls short of calls for ceasefire after ‘difficult discussions’; Biden says: ‘When this crisis is over, there has to be a vision of what comes next’

Australian foreign minister Penny Wong has acknowledged “widespread suffering” of civilians in Gaza but has stopped short of saying Israel’s siege amounts to collective punishment of Palestinians, during a fiery Senate committee hearing.

Wong was challenged by the Greens senator Jordon Steele-John to concede that Israel’s strikes on the Gaza Strip met the “textbook definition of collective punishment”.

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