Israeli desecration of graves in Gaza includes damage to New Zealand war graves from WW1

PSNA is asking on the federal government to research experiences that the Commonwealth Struggle Cemetery in Gaza – which has 23 New Zealand graves from the First World Struggle – has been broken by Israel in its struggle on Gaza.

The Guardian newspaper experiences:

“The injury has additionally included an historical Roman cemetery and the Commonwealth struggle cemetery, the place greater than 3,000 British and commonwealth troopers are buried after dying in battles in the course of the first and second world wars”

There are 23 graves of New Zealand troopers within the cemetery.

Earlier experiences present appalling and deliberate injury and our bodies desecrated in a minimum of 16 different cemeteries throughout Gaza and Canada reported injury to the struggle cemeterywhere Canadian troopers lie alongside New Zealanders.

In line with a CNN report:

Cemeteries are given protections as “civilian objects” below worldwide regulation and are afforded particular protections, with restricted exceptions.

“Israel has all the time flouted worldwide regulation and the desecration of cemeteries provides to the lengthy checklist of its struggle crimes in Gaza” says PSNA Nationwide Chair John Minto.

“We’re asking the federal government to research this report of harm to our troopers’ graves as we proceed to name on the federal government to talk out towards different Israeli struggle crimes reminiscent of collective punishment of Palestinians and the credible threat of genocide in Gaza as dominated by the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice”

The land for the cemetery was gifted by the folks of Palestine.