Australia will recognise the state of Palestine at the United Nations General Assembly in September.
The government will join a string of international allies, but not the United States.
Israel says the move will bring more war, not peace.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects harsh criticism of his expansion plan in Gaza, saying it will be finished “fairly quickly.”
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