Category: Media Release

As states prepare to gather in New York on 17 June 2025 for the so-called “High-level Conference on the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine,” the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) has joined dozens of Palestinian civil society organisations across the globe to endorse a unified call for justice for Palestine. That justice must be rooted…

The Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) has welcomed the Australian government’s decision to impose sanctions on Israeli ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich – two of the most extreme figures in Israel’s far-right government. But while this marks a small step in the right direction, it is profoundly inadequate. These sanctions come 613 days after…

The Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) strongly condemns the unjustified, unprovoked and illegal actions by Israeli forces against the humanitarian aid mission to Gaza aboard the Madleen. This blatant violation of international law and humanitarian principles is an affront to justice and human rights. Earlier today, Israeli forces intercepted the Madleen, a vessel on a…

The Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) expresses deep concern at the University of Melbourne’s decision to expel two students and suspend two others for their participation in a protest in October 2024. The protest drew attention to the university’s ongoing ties with Israeli institutions complicit in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and its illegal occupation and…

The Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) welcomes Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s shift in tone in his statements condemning Israel’s ongoing blockade of aid for Palestinians in Gaza, but urges immediate Australian action to end these war crimes. This morning, the Prime Minister acknowledged that Israel’s blocking of life-saving aid is “completely unacceptable” and an “outrage,” and that…

With Palestinians being deliberately starved by Israel in Gaza, the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) has joined more than 760 Palestinian civil society and global human rights organisations to urge all states – including Australia – to form a global humanitarian convoy to accompany aid trucks waiting to enter the besieged territory. Israel has prevented…

The Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) condemns, in the strongest terms, Israel’s continued genocidal assault on Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Israel’s Occupation Forces have killed at least 436 Palestinians, including 183 children, since it broke the so-called ceasefire on Tuesday.  This violence is also compounded by Israeli Prime Minister and accused war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu’s…

The Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) welcomes the new joint statement by the governments of the UK, France and Canada as a rhetorical step forward in recognising Israel’s violations of international law, including its ongoing genocide in Gaza and illegal settlement expansion, and in pledging to take concrete action. We note that third states are already obliged…

Today marks 77 years since the Nakba – the catastrophe – the ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Palestinian people that paved the way for the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. On this day and every day, APAN stands in solidarity with Palestinian people everywhere as together we continue our struggle for…

The Australia Palestine Advocacy Network calls on the Australian government to take urgent and decisive action to prevent the realisation of the ongoing Nakba, as Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza reaches catastrophic levels. Israel’s ongoing genocide, its complete blockade on the essentials of life, and its declared intentions to “conquer” Gaza and “move the population south” signal…