Charles Ward (Donegal, 100% Redress Party)

Some 14,000 babies in Gaza will die if aid trucks do not reach them in the next couple of days. Just think about that. We cannot help but question where the humanity is in this world today. Israel is carrying out a blatant, deliberate genocide for the world to see. What are we doing about it? How can we allow this to go on? We are seeing shocking images of dead and dying children every single day in Gaza. We are hearing reports about children who are so malnourished that the doctors cannot even tell what age they are. No child, no matter what and no matter who they are or where they are from, should be starved to death by a government. We have to intervene. If we continue to do nothing, we will continue to facilitate the atrocities. What Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli Government are doing is a crime against humanity. We continue to do nothing about it. We must enact the occupied territories Bill, yet the Irish Government continues to delay it and water it down. We have never seen anything like this in our lifetime. We must do all we can to save 14,000 children within the next 48 hours, the 48 hours after that, and the 48 hours after that. Stop the genocide.

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