Politics latest: Jason Clare says Israel's bombing of schools, hospitals doesn't comply with rules of war
Labor frontbencher Jason Clare says Israel 'is not complying with international law' and has repeated pleas for a ceasefire, saying the killing hits close to home for the large Muslim constituency in his western Sydney seat of Blaxland.
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