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Focus right now is on ensuring ceasefire process continues: Marles

Asked if Australia would commit to helping rebuild Gaza, Richard Marles said Australia had “already contributed humanitarian assistance.”

Obviously, we’ll work through all of the opportunities that present themselves in terms of the way in which Australia can help as we move forward, but I think right now, the focus is on ensuring that all the effort is maintained so this fragile and delicate process continues.

It is a wonderful thing to see hostages reunited with their families. It is also, obviously, wonderful to be seeing the beginning of humanitarian assistance start to flow into Gaza, and there’s clearly a long way to go in terms of the rebuilding of Gaza.

Australia [will] continue to lend our voice to the promotion of peace, to seeing this arrangement fulfilled, and to seeing the return of all the hostages, and to seeing the rebuilding of Gaza.