Ghahraman GolrizGOLRIZ GHAHRAMAN (Green): Thank you Mr Speaker. I rise to speak in support of this motion both as the Green spokesperson for foreign affairs but also as a former international criminal lawyer but most importantly as a Middle Eastern child who lived under bombs at some point in my life. I just want to stress and to bring into this Chamber that feeling that we have in some parts of the world as those bombs are falling that our lives matter a little bit less. So I want us to know that each time a Minister moves a motion like this it matters. It matters that our Government has finally said that word ceasefire". It matters that until now both the caretaker Government and our incoming Prime Minister have failed to call for a lasting ceasefire.A humanitarian pause while a bit of rice and water is brought in and two days later the bombs begin again feels like that blackout that I and my family felt when the Iran and Iraq war was going on—that feeling that there are those around the world who don't care and that there are those as we know today in relation to Palestine who might be profiting from wars that happen that cause our loss of life our loss of land our loss of access to the most basic amenities. I want to hold as our Green amendment holds that incredible loss of life that disproportionately has impacted the children of Gaza—7000 that we know of. That's not counting those who have not been extracted from under the rubble. I want to hold in noting that number and introducing it into the motion that each one of those children would have had their favourite toy their favourite subject at school. They might have been a little bit loud or a little bit quiet or naughty. They would have been somebody's everything that they're not just numbers and that it matters—it matters—that our leadership speaks for peace.We are a Five Eyes nation; we are an English-speaking Western member of the Commonwealth. We are a member of a beautiful Pacific neighbourhood many of whom did not vote for ceasefire at the United Nations in each of those groups. So it matters that we show leadership. We're not just some small island nation; we have relationships and we have always been at our best when we have led as an independent principled voice on the world stage. It matters that our Prime Minister and that our foreign Minister push back on that line of diplomacy that says we have to walk hand in hand with our allies and trading partners as they fail the children of Gaza.So I seek on behalf of those who are struggling under that blanket blind ban on social media or even power and water that we keep using our freedom to show that leadership to keep standing for peace not just through this motion not just today but to keep holding our allies to account. Because the world is failing Gaza right now and it feels dark and it is not what the people of New Zealand expect of us. Those people out there are watching and they expect leadership. So in supporting this motion and in supporting our colleagues here in Te Pāti Māori I do want to ask and leave the House with the question of "What next?" Because every 10 minutes one of those kids—somebody's everything—is killed in Gaza. So this can't be the end of it."