PSNA Joins With NZ Māori Council For Call To Action On Gaza

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.

“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.

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