Palestine supporters plan to occupy the offices of Labor MPs across the country on Friday in a national day of action over the war in Gaza.
Windows were smashed at the US consulate in Melbourne and red paint thrown at the electorate offices of federal and state Labor MPs in the early hours of Friday as part of a national day of action over the war in Gaza.
Vandals broke multiple windows at the US consulate on St Kilda Road and used graffiti to paint protest slogans, including “glory to the martyrs”.The offices of Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus, NDIS Minister Bill Shorten, Wills MP Peter Khalil and Northcote MP Kat Theophanous were among those targeted in the overnight attacks.
Pro-Palestine protesters allegedly vandalised the offices about 4am on Friday, ahead of planned protests throughout the day. They included a “die-in” at a defence industry event in Melbourne’s CBD that Victorian Jobs Minister Natalie Hutchins was addressing. Protesters marched down Collins Street on Friday morning in a bid to bring attention to the ongoing conflict. Demonstrators also gathered outside Khalil’s Coburg office on Friday morning, claiming the Labor government was funding war crimes in Gaza.
Khalil told Melbourne radio station 3AW the 40 protesters who had gathered outside his office had used stickers rather than paint and had left about 9am.“What I don’t support is when it crosses over into violence or damaging activity or kind of hatred towards a particular religious group or ethnicity or anything like that,” he said on Friday morning.
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