On the Greens call to sanction Israel, Ed Husic says:

I have said previously it was an important step and these are all step towards trying… (Q: Would you like to see more?)

I will answer your question in a clear-cut way. We are trying to encourage the Netanyahu government, a number of countries are saying clearly and if you look at the statement itself the other big thing about it is a lot of allies of Israel signed up to that statement, so pretty significant. If they fail to respond it will be up to the international community to take further steps and certainly the Australian government as part of a broader coalition should be prepared to take further steps.

There have only been two sanctions, some settlers sanctions in times past under what the government has done.

I previously said and I believe the decision makers responsible for the conduct of the operations that have seen nearly 60,000 people killed, innocent civilians, those people should be held to account and I also said being completely direct it should not be something applied across the populace of Israel, just like I do not want to see the broad populace of Palestinians affected by actions. They should be targeted towards decision-makers.