Ngarewa-Packer DebbieDEBBIE NGAREWA-PACKER (Co-Leader—Te Pāti Māori): Kia ora. Tēnā koe e te Pīka. I arrive at this debate for urgency with a different context having come from Taranaki where certainly people have been persecuted for who they are and what their cultural and spiritual beliefs were. So our belief as Te Pāti Māori is all violence—all violence—is wrong and all hostages everywhere and anywhere should be returned.This House has an opportunity before it to take seriously and make some serious recommendations that align with what a lot of our citizens across the House out in Aotearoa have been doing for some months. They have been rallying on weekends for some months. There have been tens of millions of stories and videos shared on social media. There have been petitions handed over—thousands; there have been signatures. There have been continual examples of families that have been killed and the 32000-plus those who have been maimed those who have been targeted including media—media and their families that we have seen. In fact it has been so brutal I can't remember any time in my life and certainly my pāpā who's 82 has shared the same. It's the kind of activity going on in the world that has generations within my household stunned by where the Government and this House has been. And to be really honest certainly from the communities that I come from there has been a deafening silence on both sides of this House not taking away the fact that there have been varying degrees of ceasefire called for.This House and this Government and all Governments have the ability to trigger levers and for some I've been stunned by how fast that can happen. We saw it in COVID through a pandemic. This is a crisis and an urgency like humans have never seen before. And there have been analogies and references back to our history when they've seen this type of behaviour. What we have is an opportunity to really seriously talk to each other about what is it that we need to be saying to the country to the world to the victims and to those who are trying to live through this revolting crisis.And I also want to take on board that there have been—you know we come unstuck on the basis of whether there are truly war crimes or not. We come unstuck I think in the House. And certainly in Aotearoa what we are seeing is there is only one side experiencing the disproportionate scale of death and maiming and the complete displacement. There's only one side—Laura Trask: Have you seen the Hamas video attacks? Have you seen it?DEBBIE NGAREWA-PACKER: —one side disproportionately. No one else is getting 32000—and anyone that wants to heckle that really needs to have a conscience prick.Also what we have is—and we know that there's war crimes going on because there's been ethnic violence there've been woman and children affected there have been people with disabilities affected and there's been trafficking of people. Again there's only one side that's committing that scale and that disproportionate side of violence. And there's only one side that we see now that have gone way beyond the starvation of any human peoples that we should be able to consciously go to sleep and think about.This House has influence; it has the influence to end violence. Stop getting caught up in who's right or wrong. There is disproportionate killing of innocent women and children going on and history will mark where we stood in this—I'm a result of that. We read what happened in Parihaka. We read how this House justified what it did. It justified the decisions it made and it then had to err and apologise for the scale of the decisions that it turned its whole face away from. I urge that we get over ourselves and we apply some type of sanction that forces a peace and forces the end of this violence.We have a nation's army and military force showing and humiliating victims going into their homes. We know this because they are sharing their videos. They are sharing and promoting how proud they are of how they're humiliating starving and killing people in a way that we could never expect any other group of refugees to have to suffer. We are seeing it because we have one side that is so righteous and so sure of what it's doing that these other human people don't matter. I support that we do something urgently in this House.