Thomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am sharing time. What should have been a proud and nice day, when this State recognised the Palestinian state, has lost a lot of that with what happened on Sunday and the horrific atrocities and war crimes carried out by the Israeli state. We look at the photographs and videos that come from there and we heard people screaming as the Israeli Government burned men, women and children alive, and the world stands by while 35,000 men, women and children, including 15,000 children, are slaughtered.

The genocide that is happening is unbelievable. A child was left with no head and the Israeli Government said it was a mistake. I hope Benjamin Netanyahu burns in hell, just as those children and their families burned. I hope that when his God finally brings him, his generals and his far-right government in Israel to their resting place, they will burn in hell. Not only is what is happening now apartheid, an atrocity and a war crime; it is horrific. Where are their souls? Where are the souls of the Israeli people who allow their government to do this to children? Where is the humanity of the Israeli people, after everything the Jewish people have suffered over the decades, that they would allow their government to do this to other human beings? They may not be human beings in the eyes of Netanyahu and his far-right Israeli Government, but Palestinians are human beings. Today, the Irish people say we recognise Palestine and we recognise they are human beings, just like every one of us. Shame on Israel and what it has done. It will never be forgotten.

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