The ACT Greens has defended promoting a pro-Palestine rally in the wake of horrific new details about the conflict between Hamas and Israel.
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Mr Rattenbury said the Greens' sharing of the event on social media did not amount to an endorsement of the views of people who might attend.
No Greens members of the Legislative Assembly will attend the rally, a party spokeswoman said.
The Greens on Tuesday shared a link to a Facebook event for a rally in Garema Place, organised by Palestine Action Group Canberra.
Chief Minister Andrew Barr did not condemn the Greens for promoting on social media the rally planned for Friday night in Canberra.
Mr Barr said in a later statement ACT Labor did not support the Greens' position.
Mr Rattenbury said the ACT Greens condemned the actions of Hamas, which controls the Gaza strip, in its recent attacks on Israel and sharing an event was not an endorsement of the views of those who may attend.
"We support peoples' democratic right to peaceful protest. We often share events and activities which may be of interest to our members," Mr Rattenbury said.
"As we all seek peace and end to the war crimes and fighting, there is no place for anti-Semitism or racism."
Opposition Leader Elizabeth Lee had earlier called on Mr Rattenbury to explain why his party promoted an event that "seeks to celebrate atrocities in the Middle East".
Ms Lee said similar events around Australia had celebrated Hamas, the Palestinian political and militant organisation that launched an attack on Israel this month, and the deaths of innocent people, while also promoting abhorrent anti-Semitic views.
"For the ACT Greens to promote and support a similar rally in Canberra is a disgrace," Ms Lee said.
"There is no room in the ACT for this type of behaviour. Shane Rattenbury must front up and explain why the ACT Greens are promoting any event that seeks to celebrate the atrocities we are currently witnessing in the Middle East."
Mr Barr did not condemn the Greens for promoting on social media the rally.
"Well that's a matter for the Greens political party. I don't think this is an issue in which people should be taking sides. No one should be bombing anyone. Simple as that," Mr Barr told the ABC on Wednesday morning.
Protest organiser Diana Abdel-Rahman said the group could not "predict who's going to turn up" or what they would say, but said anti-Semitism would not be welcome.
The event description calls on people to protest in solidarity with Palestine on Friday night.
"Israel has declared war on Gaza. Israel is launching a full scale war on Palestine for the humiliation it suffered today when Palestinians tore down apartheid walls at a Gaza border, and began to enter '48 land that is rightfully theirs," the event description said.
The ACT Young Greens shared the Greens' original post and said, "Come stand against apartheid, Palestine will be free."
The protest does not have a permit for Friday, and the government said police would not tolerate illegal behaviour.
The Greens has come under significant pressure as its politicians have supported pro-Palestine protests in recent days.
A police taskforce has been set up to co-ordinate responses to protest activity in NSW after a widely condemned pro-Palestine rally on the steps of the Sydney Opera House.
The Monday night rally was held as the NSW government lit the iconic venue in the blue and white of the Israeli flag in solidarity with victims of terrorist attacks by Islamist group Hamas.
The Palestine Action Group defended their right to protest in Australia, saying media coverage had focused on a tiny fringe of "vile anti-Semitic attendees".
But NSW police have said further requests to support further protests by the group would be rejected because of what happened on Monday.
"We can no longer say that that group is responsible for conducting peaceful protests," acting NSW police commissioner David Hudson said.
NSW Premier Chris Minns said the Monday protest was not consistent with Australia's multi-faith, multicultural community values.
"I thought it was abhorrent [for protesters] to occupy the Opera House and scream racial epithets at Jewish community members simply because they're Jewish," he said.
Federal Greens leader Adam Bandt condemned anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, while expressing concern over civilian deaths in Israel and Palestine.
"This war has brought pain and grief to so many, and there is no place to worsen that through hateful and violent racism and bigotry, including antisemitism and Islamophobia," Mr Bandt said.
"There is no place for anti-Semitism or Islamophobia in the push to end the occupation of Palestine and build a lasting peace."
Mr Bandt said lasting peace required an end to Israel's illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories.
"The premeditated targeting of civilians by Hamas is a war crime, as is the bombing of Palestinian civilians by the State of Israel," he said.
"All perpetrators of war crimes in this conflict must be held to account for their actions in accordance with international law. The Greens condemn the attacks and we condemn the occupation."
Israel has vowed to escalate its response to an attack by the Palestinian militant group Hamas with a ground offensive, while US President Joe Biden pledged support for Israel and issued a warning to anyone who might seek to take advantage of the situation.
Israeli air strikes razed entire districts and filled morgues with dead Palestinians on Tuesday, while across the barrier wall enclosing the coastal enclave, Israeli soldiers collected the last of Israel's dead.
On Saturday, Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip rampaged through parts of southern Israel, killing hundreds of people in the deadliest Palestinian militant attack in Israel's history.
United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres said he recognised "legitimate grievances" of Palestinians but "nothing can justify these acts of terror and the killing, maiming and abduction of civilians".
Mr Guterres called for an immediate cease of the attacks and the release of all hostages.
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Israel's embassy in Washington said the death toll from the weekend Hamas attacks had surpassed 1000. The victims were overwhelmingly civilians.
Gaza's health ministry said Israel's retaliatory air strikes had killed at least 900 people and wounded 4600 up to Tuesday.
Hamas militants holding Israeli soldiers and civilians hostage on Monday threatened to execute a captive for each home in Gaza hit without warning, but as night fell on Tuesday there was no indication they had done so.
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, speaking to soldiers near the Gaza fence, said: "Hamas wanted a change and it will get one. What was in Gaza will no longer be."
Israel withdrew troops from Gaza in 2005 after 38 years of occupation, and has kept it under blockade since Hamas seized power there in 2007. The siege it announced on Monday would keep out food and fuel.
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