Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The European Union makes clear its determination to stand against Putin's barbaric actions in Ukraine. I fundamentally disagree with the alliance that they wish to advance with NATO but we all are horrified about what Putin is doing. Then we look at what is happening today or in the last few days in Gaza. Four schools were attacked with 29 people killed in just one attack on a school. As we speak, Israel is issuing evacuation orders for the whole of Gaza City again. Everybody has been told to get out. In front of the world, Israel is saying "We are doing ethnic cleansing". It is a crime and they do not even pretend. They just do it. The determination Europe displays when it comes to action in Ukraine is sadly missing when this has been going on for nine months in Gaza with schools being blasted. The report in The Lancet is terrifying. The Lancet has said that when we consider the devastation to schools, to power, to water and to electricity, the real death toll is likely to hit in the region of 186,000 people. There are famine conditions and ethnic cleansing but no actions, just words. At what point do we give up and say that the European Union is hypocritical, is riddled with double standards and has no intention whatsoever of doing anything to stop Israel, which it could do? Europe is Israel's biggest trade partner. Weapons flow to Israel from Europe. Many other states give political support to it. When is Europe going to use the power at its disposal to deter this genocide?

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