Julia Irwin (Fowler, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

to move:

That the House:

(1)

notes the 60th anniversary of the Nakba or “Catastrophe” which followed the partition of Palestine in 1948, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of Palestinians and the expulsion of 700,000 Palestinian refugees;

(2)

notes that 60 years later, more than 7 million Palestinian people suffer as a result of their dispossession, displacement, exile and occupation; and

(3)

recognises that the consequences of the Nakba continue to this day and must be taken into account in any peace settlement.

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