Senate debates
Friday, 10 November 2023
Statements by Senators
Occupied Palestinian Territories: Casualties
1:54 pm
Mehreen Faruqi (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
Yesterday, the Labor government and the opposition opposed the Greens' call for a ceasefire in Gaza. Both said, 'This is a very grave and serious situation,' yet your actions completely belie your words. Labor wants a pause. What is a four-hour pause in bombing going to achieve? Hopefully it can feed some starving children or it can give water to some dehydrated pregnant women—and then what? Then you start bombing and massacring those women and children again?
You have lost all humanity, but I will not let you forget the humans that are being massacred in Gaza right now:
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