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For over a year, the world has been bearing witness to unfathomable levels of death and destruction in the occupied Gaza Strip. In a landmark new report, Amnesty International’s research has found sufficient basis to conclude that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip following 7 October 2023.

Israel’s brutal onslaught against Palestinians in Gaza has killed tens of thousands of people, wiped out entire families, flattened residential neighbourhoods, destroyed critical infrastructure and forcibly displaced 1.9 million Palestinians, over 90% of the population of the Gaza Strip and restricted essential services and lifesaving goods causing an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe. 

“The international community’s seismic, shameful failure for over a year to press Israel to end its atrocities in Gaza, by first delaying calls for a ceasefire and then continuing arms transfers, is and will remain a stain on our collective conscience. Governments must stop pretending they are powerless to end this genocide.." Dr Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International Secretary General. 

Amnesty International’s report ‘You Feel Like You Are Subhuman’: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza has documented how Israel has unleashed hell and destruction on Palestinians in Gaza brazenly, continuously and with total impunity. These acts include killings, inflicting serious physical or mental harm to members of the protected group and deliberately creating conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians in Gaza. 

Australia’s continued support and assistance to Israel shields Israel from accountability or effective international scrutiny regarding its treatment of Palestinians. Diplomatic backing and impunity enable human rights abuses and war crimes, and further fuel the genocide in Gaza. 

Together, we must act now by calling on Foreign Minister to take urgent steps to: 

  • Publicly recognise Israel is committing the crime of genocide;
  • Support efforts to investigate Israel for genocide and hold perpetrators to account;
  • Ensure unimpeded humanitarian aid access, and call to lift the Israeli blockade over Gaza strip;
  • Immediately suspend the direct and indirect supply, sale or transfer, to Israel of all weapons parts and other military equipment or aid;
  • Stop rendering aid to the occupation. 

Add your name now and call on Foreign Minister to stop fuelling Genocide in Gaza.

 

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  Our Petition
 
 

Senator the Hon Penny Wong 
Minister for Foreign Affairs  
PO Box 6100 
Senate 
Parliament House 
Canberra ACT 2600 

Subject: Urgent Appeal to end the genocide in Gaza 

Senator the Hon Penny Wong, 

I am writing to you to take necessary measures to immediately stop the ongoing genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip. Over the past year, Israel’s brutal onslaught and relentless attacks on Gaza have brought unprecedented levels of death and destruction in the occupied Gaza Strip, and a deplorable catalogue of violations and crimes.   

Amnesty International’s report titled “‘You feel like you are subhuman’: Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza” provides research findings and legal analysis to support the conclusion that Israel has committed and is committing genocide in Gaza. The report concludes that during the nine-month period under review, Israeli forces committed acts prohibited under the Genocide Convention, namely killing, causing serious bodily or mental harm, and deliberately inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction. These acts were committed with the specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza.  

As the world watches, Israel’s relentless attacks are continuing with impunity, causing incessant loss of Palestinian lives while and the desperate humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza grows worse and worse. In light of the urgency of the situation and the findings of Amnesty International’s report, the genocide in Gaza must be stopped and impunity for Israel’s violations of international law must end. We therefore call on you to: 

  • Publicly recognise that Israel is committing the crime of genocide.  
  • Support efforts to investigate Israel for genocide. 
  • Take urgent steps to bring an end to all Israeli actions in Gaza which may amount to genocide, including by ensuring as a first step that Israel duly implements all provisional measures ordered by the ICJ since 26 January 2024.   
  • Immediately suspend the direct and indirect supply, sale or transfer, to Israel of all weapons parts and other military equipment or aid. 
  • Oppose any attempts by Israel to establish a permanent military and Israeli civilian presence in Gaza, alter its borders and demographic make-up, or shrink its territory, including through any expanded buffer zones or the construction of permanent checkpoints. 
  • Adopt adequate policies to ensure that private legal entities registered in your jurisdiction cease the provision of military services, technology and supplies used by Israel in its military operations in Gaza.   

Sincerely,

[Your name]