Victorian Labor MPs – including federal ministers – have been targeted with fake dead bodies dumped outside their electorate offices.
Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles, Immigration Minister Andrew Giles and Government Services Minister Bill Shorten were targeted by the protests.
Fake bodies outside Labor MP Peter Khalil’s electorate office in Coburg in Melbourne’s north.Credit: Twitter
Fake corpses were also placed outside the offices of Cooper MP Ged Kearney, Jagajaga MP Kate Thwaites and Wills MP Peter Khalil.
Signs saying “End the occupation” and “Free Palestine” were also stuck to their office windows across Melbourne and in Geelong.
In Tasmania, similar fake corpses were placed outside the electorate office of Housing Minister Julie Collins.
A group called No More Bodies in Gaza claimed responsibility for the actions on a new Instagram account that published its first post on Wednesday.
This masthead has contacted the group.
In the Instagram post, the group called on the federal government to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and to withdraw diplomatic and economic support for the state of Israel along with the supply of arms.
“The bodies we have laid at the offices of the parliamentarians are equal to the number of Palestinian deaths per hour in Gaza,” the group said in a statement.
“These deaths are not just numbers – these were living, breathing human beings with families and aspirations...
“A ceasefire alone will not end the occupation, and without an end, the cycle of violence will continue as it has done for the last 75 years.”
The group’s statement said activists would not stop rallies, actions, letters and phone calls until the federal government responded to their requests.
Foreign Minister Penny Wong has called for steps towards a ceasefire in Gaza, which the Israeli government has bombed in response to Hamas’ terror attack on October 7.
About 1200 people died when Hamas fighters attacked sites inside Israel.
More than 10,000 people have died in Gaza since the bombings began.
About 100 pro-Palestine protesters last month called for a ceasefire outside Khalil’s electoral office.
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