When

12:00pm Saturday 24 August

Where

Forrest Place

Perth WA 6000

Australia

Why

40,000 deaths have been recorded in Gaza; tens of thousands more Palestinians lied dead, buried beneath the rubble. Two thirds of those killed are women and children.

On 5 August, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said “it may be just and moral” to starve two million Gaza residents until Israeli hostages are returned, but “no one in the world would let us.”

The reality is that Western governments have not only let Israel kill and starve Palestinians, they have aided and abetted them.

To date, the Australian government, like those of the US, Britain and the European Union, has failed to impose any meaningful sanctions on the State of Israel, despite the finding of the International Court of Justice that Israel is illegally occupying the Palestinian territories and that there is a plausible case Israel is committing genocide. Instead, the Australian government has imposed sanctions on a handful of extremist Israeli settlers.

Stand with us to demand an end to Israel's genocide. We call on the Australian government to:
• impose an immediate two-way arms embargo on Israel and urge other states to do the same
• break diplomatic ties with Israel, including expelling the Israeli ambassador from Canberra and recalling Australia's ambassador in Tel Aviv
• ban entry to Australia from all Israeli government representatives and illegal settlers guilty of war crimes
• impose trade sanctions on Israel, beginning with a complete ban on the import of all products made in illegal Israeli settlements.