Exclusive: Government warns Australians seeking to serve with armed forces of a foreign country to ‘ensure their conduct does not constitute a criminal offence’
The government must provide ‘more robust advice’ for Australians in the IDF who may be at risk of being implicated in international crimes, Palestine advocate Nasser Mashni says.The government must provide ‘more robust advice’ for Australians in the IDF who may be at risk of being implicated in international crimes, Palestine advocate Nasser Mashni says.
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundupand alleges that both Israel and Hamas have committed war crimes since the 7 October attacks and the resulting conflict in Gaza. A source familiar with the matter said the ABF does not specifically track individuals intending to serve in foreign militaries but “all movements across the border are screened using a range of intelligence-informed targeting techniques”.
This mirrors language used by both the attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, and the foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, in responding to several recent petitions that called on the government to investigate Australians who served in the IDF amid mounting concerns about the humanitarian impact in Gaza.Rawan Arraf, the principal lawyer and executive director of the Australian Centre for International Justice, said the government’s response to the petitions fell “drastically short” of what was needed.
The Greens immigration spokesperson, David Shoebridge, accused the government of “a deliberate lack of transparency” over its response to the involvement of any Australians in the conflict, including a “lack of clarity around what ‘intervention’ means”.that Australia “has jurisdiction to investigate core international crimes that occur offshore”, such as war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, but says “it is not usually practical for the AFP to do so”.
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