Tuesday, 15 October 2024

 Katherine COPSEY (Southern Metropolitan) (14:03): I move, by leave:

That this house:

(1)   notes that the United Nations report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Including East Jerusalem, and Israel submitted its third report to the United Nations General Assembly last month, which examines the treatment of detainees and hostages and attacks on medical facilities and personnel from 7 October 2023 to August 2024;

(2)   further notes the commission found that:

(a) the state of Israel has ‘implemented a concerted policy to destroy the healthcare system of Gaza … Israeli security forces have deliberately killed, wounded, arrested, detained, mistreated and tortured medical personnel and targeted medical vehicles, constituting the war crimes of wilful killing and mistreatment and the crime against humanity of extermination’;

(b) ‘Mistreatment of Palestinian detainees by Israeli authorities is the result of an intentional policy … Acts of physical, psychological, sexual and reproductive violence were perpetrated to humiliate and degrade Palestinians’;

(3)   does not support the state of Israel’s continued invasion of Gaza;

(4)   supports calls for an immediate and permanent ceasefire; and

(5)   calls on the Victorian government to advocate to the Australian federal government that it ends its support for the state of Israel’s invasion of Gaza.

Leave refused.