Patricia Stephenson (Social Democrats)
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I thank Ms Ní Ghrálaigh. Last year, the ICJ in paragraph 229 of its advisory opinion also found "that Israel’s legislation and measures impose and serve to maintain a near-complete separation in the West Bank and East Jerusalem between the settler and Palestinian communities... [and this] ... constitute[s] a breach of Article 3 of" the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, CERD. We have also had inputs from the UN special rapporteur on Palestine on this issue of apartheid and racial discrimination. Ms Ní Ghrálaigh has spoken on this issue before. Could she speak a little bit more to it here now and the context and its implications?