Tuesday, 13 August 2024

Motions

Middle East conflict

Sarah MANSFIELD (Western Victoria) (13:41): 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 Israeli government and its forces have restricted access to health care for civilians by:

(a) establishing significant checkpoints and movement restrictions on civilians of South Hebron Hills, leaving them with very limited capacity to access health care;

(b) shooting at community volunteers at al-Hawl refugee camp, who are trying to provide life-saving first aid;

(c) routinely stopping ambulances from entering the checkpoint of al-Aroub refugee camp for 1 or 2 hours at a time;

(2) recognises the brave healthcare workers who continue to risk their lives to provide care to people in Gaza;

(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 Labor government to take action, including severing military trade relationships with the state of Israel.

Leave refused.