Results 1-16 of 16 for israel speaker:Joan Collins

International Court of Justice and Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2024)

Joan Collins: I welcome last week's provisional ruling by the International Court of Justice ordering Israel to take all measures to prevent a genocide. It has been clear from the start of Israel's assault on Gaza that it has instead been taking all measures to ensure a genocide. We have failed in our moral and legal obligation to do anything to stop it. The news of the ICJ case has been dampened by the...

Gaza and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2024)

Joan Collins: I thank the Social Democrats for introducing this important motion. It has been put to the House at a critical stage during the terror that is being imposed on the Gazan people. "Israel's military operations have spread mass destruction and killed civilians on a scale unprecedented during my time as secretary-general," are the words of the UN Secretary-General António Guterres. During...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Joan Collins: I am speaking on behalf of the Independent Group. As we speak, Israel is assaulting the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, a city it previously declared as a safe zone for refugees. This is not the first atrocity we have seen Israel commit since it invaded Gaza and it will not be the last. It is just one of the many atrocities against civilians we have witnessed, and will witness, as the...

Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)

Joan Collins: ...of the House. I welcome the announcement of a possible ceasefire and the release of hostages and for humanitarian aid to get into Gaza. I hope the people of Gaza can find some peace while the Israeli bombardment stops. Over the past few weeks, we have been watching a genocide unfold before our eyes. More than 14,000 people have been killed, including 5,000 children. More than 1.7...

Imposing Sanctions on Israel: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2023)

Joan Collins: ...than 100 children killed every day. This will just get worse. We will see more people die and more children killed in the days to come. This is an unprecedented act of ethnic cleansing by the Israeli state. It is already five times more deadly than the deadliest assault to date in 2014. It has seen more people displaced than the Nakba. The WHO has said that Al-Shifa Hospital is...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Nov 2023)

Joan Collins: ...than 4,000 of whom are children, a two-state solution looks further away than ever. Yesterday, Benjamin Netanyahu once again stated that the Palestinian National Authority would have no place in Gaza after Israel's current campaign or, as the Minister quite correctly called it, war on children. There is, then, no plan to build a unified Palestinian Authority and no plan for a two-state...

Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Joan Collins: .... It is a clear sign that when one side has the power to shut off the basic needs of the other, that is not a conflict; it is genocide. This is the continuation of a 75-year programme by the Israeli state to remove Palestinians from Palestine. That is genocide. Ireland needs to call this a genocide. If you are not against it, you are for it. We have seen more than 3,300 Gazans...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2023)

Joan Collins: First and foremost, I want to send my solidarity to the Palestinian people and all living under siege in Gaza now. What the State of Israel is doing now is a war crime. It breaks international law. I can think of no other words to describe it than ethnic cleansing. We are speaking on this issue later but I want to call again on the Government to condemn the Israeli state and to put...

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Statements (13 Jul 2023)

Joan Collins: First, I send my solidarity to the Palestinian people in the face of the latest onslaught by the Israeli state. At least 12 Palestinians have been murdered, including four children. More than 3,000 people have been forced to leave their homes over recent weeks as the Israeli army assaulted Jenin refugee camp. These people had already lost their homes and been forced to live in a refugee...

Matters Arising in RTÉ: Statements (4 Jul 2023)

Joan Collins: I start by sending my solidarity to Palestinians worldwide in the face of the Israeli State's campaign against the civilians of Jenin. Bombs are hitting the city and its refugee camp as we speak. I condemn the murder of 11 Palestinians, including two children, by the Israeli State. I fear that we will see many more civilians lose their lives over the coming days. This is a campaign of...

Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Joan Collins: ...yesterday. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the start of the Nakba. There have been 75 years of injustice, brutality and murder and of a programme of ethnic cleansing carried out by the Israeli state against the Palestinian people. The Nakba is not an historic event; it is an ongoing atrocity that has seen over 9 million refugees, Palestinians in the occupied territories facing...

Covid-19: New Measures: Statements (24 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: ...are having a big effect. If we were in this position this time last year, we would be devastated as a country and our people would be greatly compromised by the virus. We have evidence from Israel, which had 8,000 cases a day and 500 in hospital with serious problems in August and September. The booster roll-out has reduced this to 500 cases a day and 29 in hospital, with just 75 of the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: I want to come back to the question of the situation regarding Israel and the criminalisation of six human rights organisations. They are all vocal international groups. They have been to forums such as the EU, the UN and the International Criminal Court to push for accountability and justice. This move by Israel is absolutely abhorrent. The Minister cannot reply within a minute, but I...

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Joan Collins: ...particularly now that the vaccination programme appears very effective in stopping the rate of infection and it being passed on, although we do not have peer reviewed information. Recent reports from Israel suggest that the virus is not passed on to others after vaccination, but that will have to be reviewed after a period of time. It is stopping people getting ill and helping stop...

Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jan 2019)

Joan Collins: ...thank those campaigners outside the Dáil who put in a huge amount of work to highlight it. It is important to state what the Bill calls for. It has been and no doubt will be denounced by the Israeli embassy as anti-Israel, or even anti-Semitic, because any criticism of Israeli policy in the illegally occupied West Bank always is. The Bill calls for a ban on the importation of...

Palestine: Statements (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Joan Collins: I repeat the condemnation of Israel's brutal and murderous policy against unarmed protesters in Gaza. It is an outrage that should be met not just with outrage but with action. The moving of the US embassy to Jerusalem is a green light for the Israeli state's policy of Zionist expansion and colonisation. Israel claims that it is defending its borders from terrorism but these borders were...