Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the need for the Government to respond to the latest illegal Israeli military incursion into Nablus in the Palestinian West Bank by enforcing emergency economic sanctions on Israel. The latest assault, which commenced last Sunday and was heightened yesterday, has involved some 120 military vehicles, bulldozers and armoured jeeps entering the town, piling up rubble to block roads, besieging three hospitals, actively preventing Palestinian ambulances from approaching the hospitals, placing many thousands of Palestinian civilians under curfew and forcing schools and universities to close. Israeli occupying forces killed and wounded Palestinian civilians and forced young Palestinians to act as their human shields.

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