15 March 2013
“All people have a right to a homeland—all people, including Jews, Kurds, Armenians and Palestinians.
All people have a right to exist and receive the protections under international law.
” ~ NSW MP SHAOQUETT MOSELMANE.
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In the 2009 assault on Gaza 1,000 residents were killed, over 300 of them children, and 5,000 were wounded.
As was described by a member earlier today, Gaza is the world’s largest open-air prison camp, containing 1.
5 million people in a very small parcel of land.
The Israeli assault continues on Gaza.
According to the Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, some 90,000 Gazans were forced to flee their homes.
Residents of Gaza city and to the north had no water and no electricity; they were trapped, traumatised and terrorised.
Nothing was said in this debate about the rights of those Palestinians, who were effectively murdered by this military machine.
They did not have hospitals.
The Israeli military machine effectively erased government buildings, apartment buildings and mosques, and it struck United Nations schools, as well as the compound of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, ambulances and hospitals.
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