Thursday, 12 September 2024

 Aiv PUGLIELLI (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (09:50): 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 following have occurred:

(a) UNICEF’s global spokesperson has called Gaza ‘the most dangerous place in the world to be a child’;

(b) it is estimated that one Palestinian child is killed or wounded every 10 minutes;

(c) there are now over 50,000 children suffering from severe malnutrition in Gaza;

(d) more than 14,000 children have died due to the attacks on Gaza by the extremist Netanyahu regime, with thousands more reported missing; and

(2)   calls on the Victorian government to end their relationship with the Israeli defence ministry and with Israeli arms manufacturers.

Leave refused.