Wednesday, 7 February 2024

Motions

Middle East conflict

Ellen SANDELL (Melbourne) (09:35): I move, by leave:

That this house:

(1) notes the Israeli military has killed over 27,000 Palestinian people, including over 10,000 innocent, defenceless children in the current war and that the International Court of Justice has ruled that there is likely a case to be made that the horrendous crime of genocide is happening in Gaza right now at the hands of the Israeli military;

(2) expresses deep concern that the Victorian Labor government has signed a secretive MOU with the Israeli Ministry of Defense and provided funding to Elbit Industries, an arms company whose weapons are being used in the atrocities in Palestine;

(3) notes the thousands upon thousands of Victorians who have raised their voices in Melbourne’s streets asking that Victoria stop being complicit in these atrocities and calling for a ceasefire; and

(4) calls on the Labor government to end the secret MOU with the Israeli Ministry of Defense and end any funding arrangements with arms manufacturers.

Leave refused.