Today in Parliament, Abigail gave notice of a motion condemning Israel’s continued military assaults, alleged ceasefire violations, humanitarian aid restrictions and mass civilian deaths in Gaza and the occupied territories.

Abigail said:

I give notice that on the next sitting day I will move: 

(1) That this House notes that:

• since the commencement of the supposed ceasefire on 10 October 2025, Israeli government bombardment and military aggression has continued largely unabated, killing more than 586 Palestinian civilians and injuring 1,558 through attacks by air, artillery and direct shootings;
• the Israeli government has violated the ceasefire agreement at least 1,620 times from 10 October 2025 to 10 February 2026 through the continuation of near-daily attacks, according to the Government Media Office in Gaza;
• on 9 February 2026, Israeli forces killed at least four Palestinians and wounded several others with an airstrike launched on a residential building sheltering displaced people in Gaza City, and just hours after this a further three Palestinians were killed in another airstrike on central Gaza; 
• over 30 Palestinians were killed in the space of hours on 31 January 2026 when Israeli forces carried out the heaviest airstrikes in weeks on displacement camps in Gaza City and Khan Younis; 
• the state of Israel continues to use and withhold life-saving aid  as a weapon of war, preventing humanitarian deliveries from reaching civilians including essential and nutritious food items, medical supplies and equipment, baby bottles and formula and shelter materials; 
• in late December 2025, two months after the supposed ceasefire agreement that was meant to end the physical destruction of Gaza and bring a significant increase in desperately needed aid, the Israeli government announced it was suspending the work of 37 humanitarian aid organisations, including some of the most well-established across occupied Palestine. United Nations experts have said that the ban on life-saving aid groups is a flagrant violation of the law and will create conditions that force Palestinians into chronic deprivation, threatening their very survival as a group and further violating the Genocide Convention;
• restrictions imposed on freedom of movement within Gaza has ceased to be a temporary ‘security measure’ and has become a tool of control and collective punishment, with road closures, strict permits and guarded land crossings now a daily reality for Palestinian civilians in Gaza who are trapped between a health system in ruins and a closed border; 
• over two years of relentless assault on the collective Palestinian population Israeli forces have destroyed or damaged 92 percent of Gaza’s housing stock, displaced millions of Palestinians and destroyed all mosques and cultural institutions and nearly all hospitals and universities; 
• human rights advocates warn that the Israeli government is replicating its strategy currently implemented across Lebanon, where it is continuing to commit periodic air raids and other attacks despite agreeing to a supposed ceasefire with no intention of stopping. The Israeli government has violated the supposed ceasefire agreement with Lebanon over 10,000 times with aerial and ground strikes since it came into effect in November 2024, according to the UN Interim Force in Lebanon; 
• meanwhile, raids, arrests and attacks by Israeli forces and settlers continue to be a regular occurrence across the occupied West Bank; 
• after years of denial the Israeli government has reportedly accepted that the Gaza Health Ministry’s toll of over 71,000 people killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023 is in fact accurate, with a senior military official admitting that this figure does not include those buried beneath the rubble, those who were starved to death as a result of the blockade on food and clean water, or the indirect deaths from disease, hypothermia and treatable health conditions caused by the blockade on medical equipment and the frequent and deliberate bombing of hospitals; 
• the Israeli government has for years labelled the death tolls recorded by the Gaza Health Ministry as misleading, unreliable, propaganda, overblown or fabricated by Hamas, despite the United Nations having verified the accuracy of the figures as well as multiple comprehensive scientific studies estimating that the true death toll may in fact have exceeded well beyond 100,000; 
• we cannot know for certain how high the death toll actually is until the Israeli government stops bombing Gaza and stops unlawfully restricting media from being able to independently and freely report from inside Gaza; and 
• the Israeli government has publicly pledged to not allow a Palestinian state, emboldened by the support of the United States government through ongoing large-scale arms transfers and diplomatic backing to Israel, as well as the complicity and inaction of nations worldwide including Australia.

(2) That this House calls on the Australian government to do everything in its power to put an end to Israel’s occupation and the 18 year long siege of Gaza and the people of Palestine, including by enforcing a  total arms embargo, demanding the arrest and surrender of wanted fugitives to the International Criminal Court, and imposing immediate sanctions against those responsible for Israel’s war crimes, illegal settlements and atrocities amounting to crimes against humanity of extermination and genocide. 

11 February 2026