Israeli ambassador Hillel Newman has suggested Australia sends former defence chief Mark Binskin back to Israel to follow up its defence force’s refusal to further investigate the fatal attack on Australian Zomi Frankcom and other aid workers in 2024.

The Albanese government has reacted furiously to the Israeli chief military prosecutor’s ruling, after an internal probe, that there was “no reasonable suspicion of criminal misconduct” and so there would be no criminal investigation.

Binskin did a report for the Australian government into the incident, although he was not given access to all the information.

Three attacks over a few minutes on the World Central Kitchen convoy, that was travelling in Gaza at night after unloading supplies, killed seven people from several countries.

Foreign Minister Penny Wong called in Newman on Thursday to express the government’s anger. The Wednesday announcement was seen as all the more galling because it came hours after Wong, with Frankcom’s family, had launched an........

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