Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I seek leave to amend my general business notice of motion No. 342 standing in my name.

Leave granted.

I move the motion as amended:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes with regret the number of people who have been killed in the recent hostilities in Gaza and southern Israel;

(b)

expresses deep concern regarding the 437 Palestinian children killed, as indicated by the Palestinian Health Authority; and

(c)

calls on the Government to:

(i)

provide urgent additional funding for recovery and reconstruction efforts to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East, including the $10 million already committed in 2009 to Gaza, and

(ii)

support medical treatment to assist Palestinian children and their families, including consideration of medical evacuation.