Murray Watt is speaking to ABC News Breakfast, where he is first asked about Israel’s double strike on a Gaza hospital which has killed at least 20 civilians, including another five journalists.

That is a compounding of war crimes. I remember when Israel first started attacking hospitals and denying it (despite the evidence Palestinians were showing us) and politicians and news editors wanting to ‘wait for more evidence’. For a while, Israel pretended the hospitals were Hamas headquarters. And then Israel launched attacks against every hospital and make shift hospital in Gaza, shutting down most of the health system, kidnapping doctors, killing health care workers – and it all became so normalised. It should NEVER be normal. What is happening in Gaza is genocide, and there is no way that should ever be considered normalised.

Watt is asked about the latest war crime (my language, obviously) and says:

We utterly condemn this action and it’s yet another outrage in a war that’s gone on too long and cost too many innocent lives. It’s very clear that targeting or hitting hospitals, health workers and civilians is a breach of international law.

We join with the rest of the international community in condemning this action.

We can’t speak for Israel’s intent in this, but it appears to be a clear breach of international law and these sort of incidents have got to stop as we find a ceasefire and peace in the Middle East.