Tuiono TeanauTEANAU TUIONO (Green): Thank you Mr Speaker. Over 32000—that's how many people have been killed in Gaza with 13000 of those people being children and around 8400 being women. We are talking about people. We are talking about people's mothers and fathers grandparents uncles aunties brothers and sisters and sons and daughters and the scale of the death the scale of what is happening there and the scale of the atrocity is appalling. Of those children that have survived more than 13000 of them are orphans. These are the things that we need to focus on as a House. We need to focus on it to end what is happening in Gaza and end what is happening in Palestine. I want to acknowledge the connections that many people have with our Palestinian community. I live in Palmerston North where we have some Palestinian whānau living there with us some of whom have approached me to try to get their children out of Gaza—to get their relatives out of Gaza. So yes it might be on the other side of the world but we are all connected and it is important for this House to remember that. I want to acknowledge the presence of Justice for Palestine who are with us in the gallery today and the work that they have been doing to raise awareness about the connections with the Palestinian struggle here within Aotearoa. The question was asked about what the Government can do and I agree with speakers—particularly with our friends in the Labour Party—who have called on the Government to do more because more needs to happen. We need to use all diplomatic avenues to achieve a ceasefire but this is something that the Minister of Foreign Affairs should do and that includes supporting UN Security Council Resolution 2728—which was passed yesterday and was accepted as legally binding on Israel—and includes reporting back to this House on what concrete steps the Government is taking to hold Israel to account under the resolution. I note that this is the resolution that even Israel's sole ally the United States of America did not veto and block—and acknowledging the role that the US has played in particular in funding the military machine in Israel. What this House and this Government also need to do is to increase humanitarian aid including maintaining aid for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. That's important. They are on the ground and that work needs to be supported. We need to also join the case in the International Court of Justice brought by South Africa against Israel under the Genocide Convention. More countries are joining South Africa in that case and it would be in line with our principled place in the world to also do so and to stand with South Africa in this important moment in history. We also need to use all avenues of influence to ensure breaches of international humanitarian law are prevented investigated and prosecuted including by pushing for an independent and impartial investigation by the International Criminal Court to investigate the war crimes being committed in Gaza. We also need to urgently create a special visa for Palestinian New Zealanders to bring their families to safety and to back this up with diplomatic support to get them out of Gaza. I reflect on some of the questions that were asked in this House last week about why the Government hadn't done that and the response was that Canada had done it and they only got 14 people out. Fourteen is better than nothing—14 is better than nothing. In our having a special visa category set up so that when people can get out and they can that is enabled to happen. Many of these people have whānau here in Aotearoa New Zealand. They are New Zealanders—they are Palestinians but they are New Zealanders as well. These are important points and important initiatives that this Government can do and should do to step up—to step up—to support the Palestinians in Gaza and the Greens will continue to bring in the voices of the people on the streets here into this House even if this House doesn't want to hear it. This is so important and I support this resolution by the UN but more needs to be done by this House and more needs to be done by this Government. Thank you Mr Speaker.