Tuesday, 27 May 2025

Middle East conflict

Aiv PUGLIELLI (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (19:24): (1645) My adjournment matter is for the Premier, and the action I seek is that you advocate to your federal colleagues to impose sanctions on Israel. An SBS report states:

Israeli military strikes on schools, tent encampments and residential buildings have left dozens of Palestinian men, women and children dead …

Another report states:

Israeli forces have killed more than a dozen Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip in the last 48 hours, while thousands more face the threat of imminent starvation amid a drastically deteriorating humanitarian crisis.

And another one states:

… they are the sounds of airstrikes and artillery bombardment which have killed about 750 people and injured 2,000 more across Gaza in the last week, mostly women and children, according to medical officials there.

This is just some of what we have been hearing out of Gaza in the last few days. Tens of thousands of children are at risk of starvation, if they are not bombed first, and Israel are openly and proudly stating that they are going to completely take over the Gaza Strip. We have utterly failed Palestinians. We have failed Gaza. Instead we have seen weapons expos welcomed to our city. But still I plead to you, because we must not give up: Australia can still impose sanctions on Israel. The complicity must end.

The PRESIDENT: Mr Puglielli, was that an action to stop or to expose?

Aiv PUGLIELLI: That was an action to the Premier to advocate to their federal colleagues to impose sanctions on Israel.