Speaking at a press conference on Monday morning, the Bankstown MP and emergency services minister says his community is hurting and he calls for children to be spared.
It doesn’t matter where you’re from, everybody’s grieving at the moment.
Everybody’s feeling this. Everybody’s searching for a sense of humanity…
Everybody grieves and the loss of any innocent life is loss to humanity.
We’ve seen over the past three weeks some things that people really struggle with, people in my community are really struggling. I find it really worrying that communications blackout at the moment and given what we’ve seen over the past three weeks, we can only imagine the horrors that people are going to face.
Dib describes what is happening in Gaza as “collective punishment” because of the limiting of aid, food, water and safe evacuation routes.
He says:
I’m going to join with people all around the world who call for an immediate ceasefire on humanitarian grounds and the release of hostages.
Far too many innocent people have died. Where does it stop? Enough is enough.
We need as a humanity to find our humanity and do everything that we can to work towards this ceasefire and the release of hostages. There is nothing to be gained in the loss of more innocent lives.