Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong has called on Middle Eastern leaders to foster peace and tolerance following deadly attacks that resulted in the deaths of European tourists.
The move comes after the European Union and the United Kingdom also called for calm after British and Italian citizens were killed in two separate attacks in the region.
It follows another flare-up in the ongoing Israel–Palestine conflict in the religious month of April, during Judaism’s Pesach or Passover, Christianity’s Easter, and Islam’s Ramadan.
On the morning of April 7, two British-Israeli sisters in their 20s died in a car crash after their car was shot at in the Harma Junction in the Jordan Valley, and their mother was seriously injured….