NNA - Sydney - Australian Federal Labor Minister Tony Burke announced his support for the decision to raise the Palestinian flag in the city of Canterbury-Bankstown, in response to the raising of the Israeli flag in the Opera House and Parliament.

Burke stressed "support for the decision to raise the Palestinian flag," explaining  that citizens in his constituency, in which a large percentage of the Palestinian and Muslim community reside, were receiving images of death, destruction, and children in Gaza.

He stressed that it is “an initiative that gives us an opportunity to console the Palestinian community in its grief, to express the real anger that exists in society, and not to justify injustice selectively and in a biased manner.”

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