Thursday, 17 October 2024

Motions

Middle East conflict

Sarah MANSFIELD (Western Victoria) (09:54): I move, by leave:

That this house:

(1) notes that since the Legislative Council’s resolution on 17 October 2023 concerning Israel and Gaza, which stated that this house ‘stands with Israel’, the following has been documented by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Including East Jerusalem, as having occurred:

(a) up until 30 July 2024, Israel carried out 498 attacks on healthcare facilities in the Gaza Strip;

(b) a total of 747 persons were killed directly in those attacks and 969 others were injured, and 110 facilities were affected;

(c) as of 23 June 2024, 500 medical staff had been killed;

(d) as of 15 July 2024, 113 ambulances had been attacked and at least 61 had been damaged;

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

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

(4) calls on Labor to take action including severing military trade relationships with the state of Israel.

Leave refused.