Michael Danby (Melbourne Ports, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I would like to present this petition on behalf of 3,741 constituents of mine. I particularly pay tribute to those women of conscious, Lisa De Winter and Tzipporah Oliver who stood outside various shops organising this in two or three days for the three boys who have been kidnapped, Eyal Yifrah, Naftali Frenkel and Gil-Ad Shaer. Two of them are only 16, and we pray for their successful release from kidnap and that they return unharmed.

I am pleased to present this petition, and thank the whips for agreeing to this.

Don Randall (Canning, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The document will be forwarded to the Standing Committee on Petitions for its consideration. It will be accepted subject to confirmation by the committee that it conforms to the standing orders.

Michael Danby (Melbourne Ports, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to incorporate the petition.

Leave granted.

The document read as follows—

To the Honourable The Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives

This petition of certain citizens and residents of Australia:

1. Draws attention to the House that teenagers; Eyal Yifrah (19) Naftali Frenkel (16) and Gil-Ad Shaer (16) were kidnapped while travelling home near Gush Etzion in the West Bank.

2. Draws attention to the House the widely held belief that Hamas is involved in the kidnapping.

We therefore ask the House to:

1. Condemn the kidnapping.

2. Request that the Executive Government convey to the Palestinian Authority its firm belief that the Palestinian Authority must co-operate and co-ordinate with Israeli Authorities in their efforts to secure the release of these teenagers.

3. Request that the Executive Government request NGO's such as UNWRA, Oxfam, Human Rights Watch and the Red Cross (organisations which are the beneficiaries of Australian taxpayers financial support) to exercise their influence on Hamas to ensure that the teenagers are released unharmed.

from 3,741 citizens