Thursday, 29 August 2024

Motions

Middle East conflict

Samantha RATNAM (Northern Metropolitan) (09:53): 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 second conclusion states that the state of Israel ‘has sought to conceal its eliminationist conduct of hostilities sanctioning the commission of international crimes as IHL-abiding. Distorting IHL customary rules, including distinction, proportionality and precautions, Israel has de facto treated an entire protected group and its life-sustaining infrastructure as “terrorist” or “terrorist-supporting”, thus transforming everything and everyone into either a target or collateral damage, hence killable or destroyable. In this way, no Palestinian in Gaza is safe by definition. This has had devastating, intentional effects, costing the lives of tens of thousands of Palestinians, destroying the fabric of life in Gaza and causing irreparable harm to its entire population’;

(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.