Palestinian foreign ministry condemns Bondi attack, rejects ‘all violence, terrorism’

The Palestinian foreign ministry condemned Sunday’s shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach that killed 11 people, saying it rejected all forms of violence and terrorism.

The ministry said it “reiterates its firm rejection of all forms of violence, terrorism and extremism, which contradict humanitarian values”, expressing in a statement its “full solidarity” with “friendly Australia.”

Australia recognized a Palestinian state in September alongside Britain and Canada in a historic shift in decades of Western foreign policy.