441-02418 (Foreign affairs)

Whereas:

• Within the past 3 months, the media has brought attention to the killing of over 25,000 Palestinians.

We, the undersigned citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the House of Commons in Parliament assembled to:

• Support the case South Africa has filed against Israel at the International Court of Justice (Canada being a signatory to the Genocide Convention);

• Acknowledge the deliberate starving of the civilian population of water, food, and electricity amounts to collective punishment which is clearly forbidden under international humanitarian law;

• Uphold its responsibility to prevent and punish genocide wherever it occurs; and

• Put its full support behind South Africa's case and bring an end to the carnage in Gaza.