Employment Minister Tony Burke has thrown his support behind the decision of a council in his electorate of Watson to raise the Palestinian flag until a ceasefire is declared in the war-torn Middle East.
Canterbury-Bankstown Council this week unanimously voted to fly the red, black, white and green flag at Paul Keating Park and the Campsie Administration building.Mr Burke, whose electorate has one of the largest Muslim populations, said he supported the decision “completely” as a way to “truly represent the grief in the community”.
“From Belmore, Lakemba, where I live in Punchbowl, through to Bankstown, pretty much everybody knows somebody who has lost someone. “We can’t say we only grieve for certain people who are slaughtered. We can’t have a situation as a nation where we only formally acknowledge particular deaths.” “Hamas began this war with its slaughter of over a thousand civilians. And by preventing civilians from leaving northern Gaza, and by using civilian buildings for military purposes, Hamas is purposefully endangering civilian life in Gaza,” Mr Leibler told SkyNews.com.au.
Labor has simultaneously though called for a ceasefire to allow desperately-needed humanitarian aid into Gaza.
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