Tuesday, 27 August 2024

Motions

Middle East conflict

Katherine COPSEY (Southern Metropolitan) (13:43): I move, by leave:

That this house:

(1) notes that:

(a) the special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967 reported to the 55th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on 24 March 2024;

(b) the report is titled Anatomy of a Genocide and its first conclusion states that ‘there are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating the commission of the following acts of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza has been met: killing members of the group, causing serious bodily or mental harm to group members and deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part. Genocidal acts were approved and given effect following statements of genocidal intent issued by senior military and government officials’;

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

(3) supports calls for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and calls on the Victorian government to advocate to the Australian government that it end its support for the state of Israel’s invasion of Gaza.

Leave refused.