In the Australian city of Sydney, an alleged suspicious person has injured several people by stabbing a local mall, on the other hand, the police have killed the suspect.
According to foreign media reports, Australian police received reports of several people being injured in an attack on a local mall on Saturday. To which the police gave an immediate response.
After the attack in Sydney’s Westfield Bonding Junction Malik, citizens tried to help themselves to reach a safe place, 7 people have died in the tragic incident.
According to the police, women and children are also among the injured, while the accused has also died in the retaliatory attack by the police.
New South Wales Police Assistant Commissioner Anthony Cooke said in a press conference that the person who attacked has been killed, civilians have been injured in this attack, who have been transferred to the hospital for medical assistance. While there are reports that a Pakistani security guard was seriously injured in the attack. He has been shifted to the hospital for medical assistance.
The man who fatally stabbed six people in Sydney had mental health problems in the past and there were no indications that the ideology was a motive in the attack at one of the city’s busiest shopping centers, police said Sunday. The attacker, identified by police as Joel Cauchi40, was known to police in the neighboring state of Queensland.
Cauchi’s family recognized and contacted the police on Saturday following seeing news of the murders. “The family, upon seeing the images of the event on television“He thought it might be his son and contacted the authorities,” said Queensland Police Deputy Commissioner Roger Lowe.
Witnesses described how Cauchi, dressed in shorts and an Australian National Rugby League shirt, ran through the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre. with a knife, attacking people at random. Some shoppers and staff at the eastern Sydney shopping center tried to stop him and the crowd broke out. took refuge in the tents closed.
“There is at this point, nothing that we have, no information that we have received, no evidence that we have recovered or intelligence that we have gathered that suggests that this was driven by some particular motivationideology or otherwise,” the police clarified.
Cauchi had recently moved to Sydney. Police said she had searched a small warehouse he had recently rented, but found no significant evidence to indicate an attack was coming. Five of the six people murdered were women, and the victim male was security guard from a shopping center, according to police.
Among the people taken to hospital with stab wounds was a nine month old baby, who was in serious but stable condition, police reported Sunday. The baby’s mother, Ashlee Good, passed away in the hospital as a result of his injuries, according to his family in a statement.
Attacks like Saturday’s are rare in Australia, a country of regarding 26 million people that has some of the strictest firearms and knife laws in the world.
AUSTRALIA says it will appoint a special adviser to work with Israel to ensure “transparency” in the investigation into an airstrike in Gaza that killed seven aid workers, including an Australian.
Foreign Minister Penny Wong said Australia wanted detailed answers regarding how aid workers from the US-based World Central Kitchen were killed by Israeli forces last Monday.
The group includes Lalzawmi “Zomi” Frankcom, a 43-year-old Australian citizen, as well as British, Palestinian, Polish and US-Canadian employees.
Wong told reporters Saturday that the information regarding the attack provided by Israel so far was insufficient and that the Australian government wanted “suitably qualified people” to monitor the investigation.
“The government will appoint a special advisor who we ask Israel to cooperate with so that we can be informed regarding the feasibility of the process,” Wong said.
“We want to have complete confidence in the transparency and accountability of any investigation.”
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Israel’s military said it fired two officers over the killing of aid workers in Gaza, where humanitarian groups say famine is imminent.
But Israel’s admission of rare wrongdoing has not stopped calls for an independent investigation.
The deaths of the aid workers caused tension between US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Wong said details of the special adviser would be announced in the near future.
The war in Gaza began on October 7 with an unprecedented attack on the territory by Hamas militants that resulted in the deaths of 1,170 people in southern Israel, most of them civilians, according to Israeli data.
Palestinian militants also held around 250 Israelis and foreigners hostage, regarding 130 of whom were still in Gaza, including more than 30 people the army said were killed.
Israel’s counteroffensive once morest Hamas has killed at least 33,137 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-controlled territory. (AFP/Z-3)
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Australia has announced it will consider formally recognizing a Palestinian state, in a policy shift as the international community seeks a two-state solution to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Foreign Secretary Penny Wong said today that this recognition can help restart the stalled peace process and fight extremist forces in the Middle East.
“The recognition of a Palestinian state – which can only exist side by side with an Israeli state living in security – will not only offer the Palestinians an opportunity to realize their aspirations.”
“This might also strengthen peacekeeping forces and undermine extremism. It will be able to weaken Hamas, Iran and its other allies in the region,” she added in a speech at the Australian National University in Canberra.
Formal recognition of a Palestinian state has long been seen by Western countries as the result of a peace process with Israel.
The United States, Australia and most European Union countries have said they want to see a Palestinian state one day recognized, but not before thorny issues such as the status of Jerusalem and a final border deal are resolved.
However, following the attacks of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in Israel on October 7 last year, when the Israeli military attack on Gaza began, the diplomats of some countries are reconsidering this possibility.
“The failures of this approach by everyone for decades – such as the refusal even by the (Benjamin) Netanyahu government to consider the issue of a Palestinian state – is a cause of great disappointment,” said Wong.
“The international community is therefore now looking at the issue of a Palestinian state as a way of building momentum towards a two-state solution,” the Australian diplomat added.
Wong backed statements by her British counterpart David Cameron, who said recognition of a Palestinian state, including by the United Nations, would make the two-state solution irreversible.
“A two-state solution is the only hope to break this endless cycle of violence,” Wong said, ruling out any role for Hamas, which holds power in Gaza. “There is no role for Hamas in a future Palestinian state,” he stressed.
Wong said that “those who claim that recognition rewards an enemy” are wrong because Israel’s very security depends on the two-state solution. “There is no long-term security for Israel unless it is recognized by the countries in its region.”
Britain, Ireland, Malta, Slovenia and Spain have already raised the possibility of recognizing a Palestinian state.
In 2014, Sweden, which has a large Palestinian community, was the first European Union country to recognize the state of Palestine.
Six other European countries had done so before Sweden and before they became EU members themselves: Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Romania.
Sources: APE-MPE, AFP, Reuters
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