Tuesday, 14 May 2024

 Aiv PUGLIELLI (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (13:36): I move, by leave:

That this house:

(1)   notes that since the Council’s resolution on 17 October 2023 concerning Israel and Gaza, which stated that this house ‘stands with Israel’, the following has occurred:

(a) Israel has ordered the evacuation of Rafah, where 1.2 million Palestinians are sheltering, despite there being nowhere safe to go;

(b) children are starving to death as Israel continues to block aid, with a famine now projected;

(c) there have been disturbing reports of abuse of Palestinians in Israeli detention centres;

(2)   recognises the ongoing protests in Victoria against Israel’s war on Gaza, including the student encampments;

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

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

Leave refused.