AMUST News: October 20, 2023: While almost 5,000 people are confirmed dead, half of them children with tens of thousands injured and over a million internally displaced due to almost two weeks of indiscriminate bombardment of Gaza, the Israeli military is poised to invade the besieged strip anytime soon virtually amounting to genocide of Palestinians.
A number of Australian politicians including Muslim federal ministers Ed Husic and Anne Aly and senators Fatima Payman and Mehreen Fauqi as well as NSW state minister Jihad Dib and Liberal MP Tina Ayad have come out calling for Australia to support Palestinians facing a humanitarian crisis.
A number of Muslim community organisations including ANIC, AFIC, IFAM, LMA, ISRA and many others have written to the prime minister and NSW premier showing concern for policy-bias in total support for Israel against the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
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