{"id":16063,"date":"2025-07-23T13:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T13:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/16063\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T13:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T13:45:10","slug":"labor-members-push-for-arms-embargo-over-gaza-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/16063\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor members push for arms embargo over Gaza war"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cBeyond this, we urge the Australian government to work with international partners to develop a practical plan for the establishment of a free and independent Palestinian State.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Wong said in a statement: \u201cMany Australians \u2013 including Labor Party members \u2013 are understandably distressed by the ongoing violence, including the deaths of so many innocent civilians.\u201d<\/p>\n

She defended Labor\u2019s policy record, including the provision of $110 million in humanitarian assistance for civilians in Gaza and Lebanon.<\/p>\n

Government sources stressed that Australia has not supplied weapons or ammunition to Israel since the Hamas-Israel conflict began and for at least the past five years.<\/p>\n

Pro-Palestine activists have targeted Australia\u2019s role in the global supply chain for F-35 jets used by the Israeli military, but the government says all its export contributions are non-lethal.<\/p>\n

Executive Council of Australian Jewry president Daniel Aghion, KC, said: \u201cNo one wants this war to end more than Israel, but that can only happen with the release of the 50 hostages and assurances that Hamas will not retain effective control over Gaza. There is immense suffering right now, which cannot be denied.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe solution is the permanent removal of the terrorist force that started this war and their release of all hostages.\u201d<\/p>\n

The branches\u2019 call came as the Senate passed a disciplinary motion rebuking Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi for holding up a sign about the war in Gaza during Governor-General Sam Mostyn\u2019s speech at the opening of parliament on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The motion, introduced by Wong, said Faruqi broke Senate rules by holding up a prop in the form of a sign saying: \u201cGaza is starving. Words won\u2019t feed them. Sanction Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi was rebuked for holding up a sign about the war in Gaza as Governor-General Samantha Mostyn addressed both houses.Credit: Dominic Lorrimer<\/p>\n

Faruqi criticised the motion, which bans her from participating in Senate delegations overseas, telling her colleagues: \u201cYou are all on the wrong side of history. Instead of sanctioning me, maybe you should think about sanctioning Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Albanese accused Faruqi of \u201cdisrespecting\u201d Mostyn during her speech to parliament, telling the ABC: \u201cThere is a place for demonstrations, and it\u2019s not the floor of the Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peter Moss, a co-convenor of Labor Friends of Palestine, said the flurry of motions being passed at branch meetings across the country represented a groundswell of support among the Labor faithful for tougher action against the Israeli government.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is immense frustration that Australia has been so slow to back strong words with strong actions \u2026 It\u2019s time for the government to listen to the large majority of Labor members, and the communities we represent,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cBeyond this, we urge the Australian government to work with international partners to develop a practical plan for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-16063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}