The General Delegation of Palestine to Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific has urged the government to "urgently" reconsider its decision and enable those who had been granted visas to travel safely to Australia.
"With extreme difficulty, these individuals and families were finally able to exit through the Rafah crossing and escape unimaginable horrors in Gaza, only to find themselves stranded in transit countries, unable to travel onward to Australia," the delegation said in a statement.
"Transit countries permitted them entry for a limited time only because they held Australian visas: they will be forced to leave, but they have nowhere else to go.
"Introducing such unjustified measures will undermine the positive engagement process between the Australian government and the Palestinian community, and widen the gap that is already growing between them, worsened by Australia's ongoing suspension of aid to UNRWA."