Wednesday, 13 November 2024

Motions

Middle East conflict

Aiv PUGLIELLI (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (09:44): 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) the UN human rights office has condemned the Israeli military for their ‘mass arrests, ill-treatment, and gratuitous humiliation of Palestinians during raids in refugee camps and towns across the West Bank’;

(b) over the last month the same office has gathered information showing a ‘pattern of unnecessary, disproportionate and otherwise unlawful force used in Palestinian communities of Madama, Dura, and Al Fawwar refugee camps, among others’;

(c) it has been reported that during one of these raids, people were beaten, handcuffed, blindfolded and kept without food and water for periods of 5 to 19 hours;

(d) at another raid it was reported that Palestinian people were detained, had numbers written on their forehead, blindfolded, handcuffed and forced to walk through town;

(e) Jeremy Laurence from UN Rights Watch has stated that ‘justice must be served with respect to the grave violations of international law that have been committed’;

(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 the Victorian government to advocate to the Australian federal government that it end its support for the state of Israel’s invasion of Gaza.

Leave refused.