Senate debates
Wednesday, 24 June 2026
Questions without Notice
Palestine
2:16 pm
Mehreen Faruqi (NSW, Australian Greens) | Hansard source
My question is to Minister Wong. Minister, a new independent UN report has found Israel consistently, directly and intentionally targeted individual children across Gaza. It documents the use of torture and inhumane and degrading treatment, including sexual and gender based violence against Palestinian children—children, Minister! These were children used for target practice by Israeli soldiers—a 15-year-old killed while carrying a white flag, a 10-day-old baby shot in the head while being breastfed, a three-year-old shot dead in the arms of his father just last Sunday. More than 20,000 children—dead. It is a wonder that you can look parents in the eye while Australia trades parts and weapons with the perpetrators of these horrors. Minister, why won't the Albanese government end the arms trade and impose comprehensive sanctions on Israel, just like we do against Russia?
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