Australian Senator Lidia Thorpe has questioned an Australian government contract with Elbit Systems amid media reports the Israeli company manufactured the drone that killed an Australian and six other aid workers in Gaza, Al Jazeera reports.

“Flowers are an insult when Labor is handing $917 million of public money to Elbit Systems, the company whose drones killed Zomi Frankcom and so many others in Gaza,” said Thorpe.

Thorpe said Australia’s Labor government “should look in a mirror” when calling for accountability over Frankcom’s death.

“Stop feeding the war machine and cancel this contract,” she said in a post on social media.

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