Tuesday, 19 March 2024

Motions

Middle East conflict

Katherine COPSEY (Southern Metropolitan) (14:43): I move, by leave:

That this house:

(1) notes that since the Council’s resolution on 17 October 2023, which recognised Israel’s ‘right to defend itself’, the state of Israel has deliberately bombed schools, universities, hospitals and refugee camps in Gaza;

(2) acknowledges that since this resolution, a staggering 85 per cent of the total population of Gaza, 1.9 million civilians, have been forcibly displaced and made to evacuate by the state of Israel to areas that continue to be indiscriminately shelled by the Israel Defense Forces; and

(3) agrees that we need an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

Leave refused.