Next Adelaide AFOPA/Students4Palestine/ACARF Rally

Sunday 12 January 2pm Parliament House Steps North Terrace Adelaide

As Israel savagely pounded Gaza daily over the Christmas and New Year period, killing untold numbers of Palestinians, obliterating the medical and hospital system, murdering journalists, medical staff, and anyone else under the American supplied bombs and in the sights of the Israeli quadcopters and snipers, our Government remained silent.

Silence from our government, as the Israeli military arrested Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, Director of the destroyed Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya in Northern Gaza on Friday 29 December and took him to the notorious Sde Teiman detention camp in Israel.

Silence, as babies died of cold in the bitter wet winter, as aid tents were flooded with pouring rain, where their families could not keep them warm or dry.

Silence, as Israel continued to strangle the movement of aid into Gaza, especially into the north, where people are starving.

Silence, as footage floods our social media of desperate packs of starving dogs eating the flesh of dead and wounded Palestinians lying in Gaza streets and ruins of bombed out buildings.

And continued silence from our government about its obligations to uphold international law in the face of calls from the United Nations' various agencies and the thousands of letters, emails and messages from ordinary Australians demanding that we act according to International Law.

WE DEMAND THAT OUR GOVERNMENT ENDS ITS SILENCE, THAT IT ACTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL LAW, AND ENACTS CONCRETE MEASURE AGAINST ISRAEL TO HALT THIS GENOCIDE!

See the Media Release of the Australian Centre for International Justice, 20 July 2024, detailing exactly what our government should be doing to pressure Israel to stop the genocide and adhere to international law.