Greens leader Adam Bandt calls for ceasefire during pro-Palestinian demonstration outside Parliament House

Greens MPS joined hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters calling for a ceasefire during a confronting rally where white shrouds with red handprints were laid out on the front lawn of Parliament House to represent children killed in Gaza. 

About 400 protesters took part in the rally on Monday including activists, academics religious leaders and members of the Free Palestine movement.

Protesters set up a visual representation of the bloodshed occurring in the Israel-Hamas conflict. 

White cloths - each with a red child's handprint and the name and age of a child who has died in Gaza - were placed in bundles in between teddy bears and small shoes.  

The confronting display was arranged under a sign that read: 'Stop the genocide in Gaza. Ceasefire now'.  

One demonstrator also erected a Palestinian flag on one of the flag poles at Parliament House.

'Albanese you can't hide, you're committing genocide,' the protestors chanted.

Many Muslim and multicultural communities are becoming increasingly angered that the Albanese government has not formally joined calls for a ceasefire in the conflict, abstaining from a vote on a UN resolution about the issue in late October.

'Penny Wong, where are you? Where's your consciousness? Albanese, where are you?' the rally emcee said.

'You have blood on your hands, blood stained hands.'

Greens leader Adam Bandt and his party colleagues joined the protesters, many of who travelled from Sydney and Melbourne, in slamming the government's inaction.

Mr Bandt addressed the crowd and was met with loud cheers as he called for the government to immediately support a ceasefire to prevent further deaths in Gaza. 

'We now have over 11,000 civilians dead, over 4,000 of them children … We are witnessing a humanitarian catastrophe unfold in front of our eyes,' Mr Bandt said. 

'No food, no water, no fuel, people starving, dehydration, being bombed ... and yet still, Labor will not call for a ceasefire.

'Labor says that it is concerned about the rising number of civilian casualties - so I ask the Prime Minister, how high does the number need to grow before Labor will join France and the rest of the world in calling for a ceasefire? 

'How many more children need to die? How many more civilians need to suffer?'

Mr Bandt vowed to return 'day after day' in rallying support of the pro-Palestinian cause. 

'We will come back day after day after day to call for a ceasefire now and an end to the occupation because Palestinians are entitled to live in the same just peace and security as Israeli,' he said. 

Mr Bandt's rally speech comes after similar comments made by Foreign Minister Penny Wong on Sunday. 

Ms Wong called on Israel to 'comply and observe international humanitarian law' in regards to the government's attack on hospitals and civilians in the Gaza strip. 

'We know Hamas is a terrorist organisation. It has demonstrated it has no respect for international law, but Australia is a democracy and so too is Israel, and the standards that we seek and accept are higher,' Ms Wong told the ABC's Insiders program. 

'We need steps towards a ceasefire. It cannot be one-sided. We know that Hamas is still holding hostages, and we know that a ceasefire must be agreed between the parties.'

The death toll in Gaza has risen to 11,240 - including 4,630 and 3,130 women - since the start of the war on October 7, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.