Tuesday, 28 May 2024

Motions

Middle East conflict

Katherine COPSEY (Southern Metropolitan) (13:21): 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 this house ‘stands with Israel’, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, on 20 May 2024, applied for arrest warrants for war crimes and crimes against humanity, having reasonable grounds to believe that Yahya Sinwar of Hamas; Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri of Hamas; and Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas; Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel; and Yoav Gallant, the Minister of Defense of Israel, bear criminal responsibility for such crimes;

(2) further notes that:

(a) Australia signed the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court on 9 December 1998, completed ratification on 1 July 2002 and has therefore been a state party for more than two decades;

(b) state parties have a legal obligation to cooperate fully with the International Criminal Court, such as enforcing the court’s warrants;

(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.