PSNA and the NZ Māori Council are jointly publishing
advertisements today in the Post, Press and Waikato Times
calling on the government to end its silence and take action
on the Israeli genocide and ethnic cleansing in
Gaza.
The Israeli blockage on all food, fuel and other
essential supplies entering Gaza is now into its third
month.
PSNA
Co-Chair John Minto says, during the first year or so of the
Israeli genocide in Gaza, Foreign Minister Winston Peters
had been making statements warning Israel that it must not
break the rules of international humanitarian
law.
“Israel went ahead and flattened all of Gaza,
displaced most of the people in the region and is now
starving them. Israeli forces have killed tens of thousands
– mostly civilians. It has attacked an international aid
convoy in the western Mediterranean. It is bombing Syria
again. These are all clearly war
crimes.”
“Our government’s response
has been to stop saying anything. It is giving licence to
Israel to do anything it
wants.”
“Since our advertisement was
signed off, Israel has announced it will intensify its
attacks on Gaza, openly declared its plans to cleanse the
Palestinian population and that its forces will remain in
Gaza indefinitely, leading to a return of Israeli
settlements there.
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“Added to the increasing rate of
ethnic cleansing in the Occupied West Bank, Israel has
clearly signalled it intends to finish the job of
depopulating Palestine of Palestinians which it began in
1948,” Minto says.
In the UK parliament MPs
from across the house have united in condemning Israel’s
actions but not a peep from our government.
We
expect the media to hold this government to account for its
silent complicity with Israel’s heinous
crimes.
