Wednesday, 30 October 2024
Motions
Middle East conflict
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Motions
Middle East conflict
Aiv PUGLIELLI (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (09:53): 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 have occurred:
(a) Israel’s parliament has designated the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) as a terrorist organisation;
(b) Israel has further prohibited UNRWA from conducting any activity or providing any aid inside Israel;
(c) Israel’s decisions relating to the UNRWA oppose the United Nations Charter and violate the state of Israel’s obligations under international law;
(d) Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the UNRWA, has stated that this move will ‘increase the suffering of the Palestinians’ and is ‘nothing less than collective punishment’;
(2) further notes that UNRWA is a vital United Nations body with a mandate to provide humanitarian assistance and protection to Palestinian refugees; and
(3) calls on the Victorian government to advocate to the federal government to sanction the extremist Netanyahu government and to call for a permanent and lasting ceasefire.
Leave refused.