Dáil debates
Tuesday, 31 January 2023
Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions
Middle East
10:15 pm
John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
On 24 November last year, Israel demolished Masafer Yatta school in south Hebron. That was one of more than 9,257 Palestinian structures that have been demolished illegally by Israel since 2009, displacing more than 13,345 Palestinians from their lands. This is a policy of destruction, demolition, displacement and dispersal of Palestinians to the smallest parcels of land, similar to the Bantustans in apartheid South Africa. The Minister referenced the application by the West Bank Protection Consortium. That has now been going on for the past four years and not one penny in compensation has been paid. Again, words of condemnation and compensation claims are not having an effect. What is the Tánaiste prepared to do to ensure that the illegal demolition of Palestinian structures stops, and stops immediately?
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