Thursday, 2 May 2024

Motions

Middle East conflict

Samantha RATNAM (Northern Metropolitan) (09:45): 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) over 100,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed, injured or are missing;

(b) a growing humanitarian catastrophe caused by the state of Israel’s blockade, bombing and invasion of Gaza; and

(c) the state of Israel has indicated its intention to invade Rafah, where 1.2 million Palestinians are sheltering;

(2) recognises that the Victorian people are continuing to rise up in protest of Israel’s war on Gaza from the streets to university campuses to outside weapons manufacturing companies;

(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 government that it ends its support for the state of Israel’s invasion of Gaza.

Leave refused.