<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>About 50 protesters have taken to Parliament House in Canberra, leading to police and security shutting down the main entrance.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The pro-Palestine group knelt on the marble foyer with their hands bound behind their back to replicate the </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/itamar-ben-gvir-australia-penny-wong-condemns-actions-israeli-minister-video-taunting-pro-palestine-flotilla-prisoners/fac8f3d9-e610-4ffb-8dc3-217a33ef886f" rel="" target="_blank" title="video of detained members of a flotilla"><span>video of detained members of a flotilla</span></a><span> that was flaunted by Israeli national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir last week.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Two of the 11 Australians who were detained, Zack Schofield and Surya McEwen, were also part of today's protest.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/liddell-power-station-chimney-stack-demolished/4acfe7bf-a89b-4f0c-b789-a05962b38eb8" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Famous chimney stacks reduced to rubble in massive blast</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In a statement, the pair said they wanted to show Prime Minister Anthony Albanese the extent of their injuries and treatment as the group called for more government action.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"The Prime Minister has said that he can't respond without knowing our circumstances. I left Israeli prison with a fractured cheekbone, a fractured rib, a contusion of my lung and a concussion, after I was kicked and punched so many times I lost count," McEwen said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Until Albanese ends diplomatic relationships with this state charged with genocide, none of us can be proud to be Australian," Schofield said.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/aussies-detained-by-israel-join-dozens-of-protesters-at-parliament-house/55c1e067-566c-48cd-9ca6-2af86f4554ce" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>There was a minute's silence before security and police began escorting the group out.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Protesters could be heard yelling "free Palestine" and "sanction Israel" as they were led to the basement.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>They have been banned from Parliament House for 12 months. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The commotion led to the front entrance of Parliament House being closed. Other entrances remained open.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/royal-commission-minns-admits-giant-intelligence-failure-led-to-bondi-terror-attack/ffeb9365-4492-4b3a-bbdd-187b6f7074f6" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Minns admits 'giant intelligence failure' led to Bondi terror attack</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In a Labor party room meeting this morning, a member questioned the government on when it would increase sanctions on Israel and referred to Israel's treatment of the 430 flotilla activists.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The government reaffirmed it would take a principles-based approach and every word and action would be scrutinised.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Ben-Gvir was criticised by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the United Nations and Australians after he shared a video of officers grabbing and throwing a woman to the floor after she yelled, "free, free Palestine", and prisoners being handcuffed and being forced to kneel on the ground.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Ben-Gvir yelled in Hebrew, "Welcome to Israel, we are your landlords!" while waving an Israeli flag.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Foreign Minister Penny Wong labelled his actions as completely unacceptable.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"The images we have seen are shocking and unacceptable," she said in a statement last week.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We condemn the actions of Israeli Minister Ben-Gvir - who Australia has sanctioned - and the degrading actions of Israeli authorities towards those detained."</span></div></div>