Results 1-12 of 12 for israel speaker:Sorca Clarke

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (17 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 37. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will invoke the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in relation to the activities of Israel in Palestine since October 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1002/24]

Escalation of Violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion [Private Members] (14 Nov 2023)

Sorca Clarke: We must refer Israel to the ICC. Its actions have horrified those of us across Europe and the wider world who are graced with the protection of distance from these attacks. The deliberate targeting and killing of thousands of civilians, with the targeting and destroying of civilian infrastructure, hospitals and schools and the forced displacement of Palestinian civilians, is beyond...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (14 Nov 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 64. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to report on any recent meetings or communications he has had with the relevant EU bodies with regards to the situation in Israel-Palestine; and if there has been any meaningful outcome to these engagements. [49702/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Middle East (14 Nov 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 108. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to halt any transportation of weapons bound for Israel through Shannon Airport to ensure that Ireland plays no part in transporting these weapons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49698/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Hearts were broken for the Israeli lives lost on 7 October, and the horrific loss has been roundly condemned. In Israel's siege of Gaza we are bearing witness to human catastrophe on an unimaginable scale. Last week, the Dáil became one of the first parliaments in the world to call for a ceasefire. It was an important international signal that other parliaments should follow. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Priorities for 2023: Minister for Foreign Affairs (28 Feb 2023)

Sorca Clarke: ...Court to support its work in relation to Ukraine specifically. In the Minister’s opinion, should Ireland be open to providing additional funding to that entity if it were the case that Palestine and Israel were to become involved in that same forum?

Journalists in Conflicts across the World: Statements (24 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: ...rights violations and environmental issues. Ultimately the reason we are having this discussion today is because of the brutal and senseless murder of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. When covering an Israeli military raid on a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, she was shot dead. Eyewitnesses who were present at the scene said she was killed by Israeli forces. This killing has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Israel's Apartheid against Palestinians: Amnesty International (22 Feb 2022)

Sorca Clarke: ...agree with the witnesses that it brings an additional focus to an issue, regardless of what it may be. This committee has, as part of its remit, spent a considerable amount of time considering Israel and Palestine, and the various different wrongs that are happening. I cannot say that we have had a report quite like this to date. I again congratulate the witnesses on the work they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Israel's Apartheid against Palestinians: Amnesty International (22 Feb 2022)

Sorca Clarke: I have a follow-up question taking in the human rights aspect. The report indicates the geographic scope is essentially Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories but another piece of work was done by Amnesty International on Palestinian refugees in host countries. I believe it was in 2007. What reports have since been received on the position of refugees abroad, their perception of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Developments in Georgia: Engagement with Ambassador of Georgia (10 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the ambassador for his time this afternoon. As a newly elected Sinn Féin Deputy in the last election, I have had no correspondence from the Israeli Embassy. Perhaps, if the ambassador is open to it, I will give him my email address at the end of this session. I will certainly take him up on an invitation to meet outside of this setting. It will probably come as no surprise...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Developments in Georgia: Engagement with Ambassador of Georgia (10 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: ...be provided to members of the committee. Ambassadors do not have enough time to touch on every single aspect of things. It is something that stuck out to me as not being very reflective of Israel as a whole. It is not something we would hear spoken about very often.