Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 September 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade

Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte

2:00 am

Mr. John Whyte:

I was going to make that point. We still in a sense have a collective memory of this, however many years on. You can only imagine that, with something like this and given the intensity of what has happened there in such a short space of time, it will be very hard to find a way back for these generations. It is very easy to imagine that they would be radicalised, particularly in the absence of any sense of justice for their plight and the absence of a political horizon. What life choices will they expect? How can anyone rebuild a life after this easily? This war has been an exercise in obliterating the conditions for life.

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