She referred to the IPC determination of famine in Gaza City and surrounding areas on Friday.

“This is a famine engineered by Israel, and it is a weapon of war used by Israel to escalate this genocide,” Nasser said.

Israel denies it is committing genocide and denies it’s imposing a policy of starvation in Gaza.

A young girl waves the Palestinian flag during a pro-Palestinian rally in Sydney. Source: AAP / Bianca De Marchi

High-profile journalist Antoinette Lattouf, who won an unlawful dismissal case against the ABC this year, addressed crowds at the protest too, discussing the killing of over 180 journalists in Gaza, and the impact of the war on reporters.

She spoke of death notes left by journalists Fatimeh Hassouna and Anas Al Sharif.

“Journalist Wael al Dahdouh was live on air when he learnt that his wife, children and relatives had been killed in an Israeli air-strike,” Lattouf said.

“He broke down on air and continued working.”

She said newsrooms should not buckle to lobbyists pressure and said should demand access to Gaza, where foreign reporters are banned from independent reporting.

“To newsroom leaders I say, history is watching. It will not forgive stenographers of apartheid and genocide.”

Former Australian of the Year Grace Tame called on people who were too afraid to speak on the war, to do so.

There is another force that power power responds to and it is public pressure,” she said.

“All of us here today, except for maybe some Zionists hecklers, do not need to be convinced of the truth. If we can get 300,000 to lock the bridge we can get 3 million, we can get more.”

— Rashida Yosufzai