Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I remind the Minister that Ban Ki-moon has said the destruction of Gaza was "beyond description". The physical effect of Israel's attack on Gaza is beyond description. It is impossible to give it words, but I will make an effort. A total of 2,152 people were killed and more than 10,000 were injured during the 51-day war against Gaza. Families were killed in the most barbaric circumstances. Many of them were children. Indeed, the majority of them were children. Israel targeted UN facilities, hospitals, schools, children and families, residential areas, power plants and sewerage and water purification facilities. All of this was designed to collectively punish a people. I am asking the Minister how any understanding of the word "rigorous", or any understanding of the EU code of conduct on arms exports, can allow military list items to be exported from this State in the knowledge that they will end up in the hands of the Israeli Defense Forces for the purposes of the level of destruction to which I have referred. Will the Minister say that the Israeli Defense Forces will no longer be the end user of any of the military list items exported from this country?

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