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Seanad: Europe Day: Statements (9 May 2024)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...genocide. There are some notable exceptions to this and I count Ireland, Spain and Belgium among those who have not left their strategic interest or misguided sense of guilt and loyalty towards Israel to colour their approach to the humanitarian catastrophe, which, similar to the horrors of the Holocaust, history will continue to judge. There is time for the EU to change course in its...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Feb 2024)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...they were told they would be safe in a UN enclave in a war zone. In July 1995 the Serbian army overcame both the UN troops and the town and massacred 8,000 men. Despite increasing pressure on Israel from the international community to stop the ethnic cleansing in occupied Palestine, Israel has escalated the slaughter of innocent people over the weekend in Rafah. The bombardment of Rafah...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: ...According to reports in the past six hours, trapped Palestinian people are digging mass graves inside Al-Shifa hospital to bury the bodies of those people who have been killed and murdered by the Israeli bombardment.Some 2.3 million people, half of whom are children, are trapped in Gaza and the most common age among those who have died is just five. Those five-year-olds are not members of...

Seanad: Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Rebecca Moynihan: It is against the backdrop of an unfolding humanitarian horror in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories that we are here today. Ireland was among the first to clearly come out to say that Israel could not act and respond outside of the remit of international law, when the initial response from the EU was to cut off aid to Palestine and the misjudged and outrageous visit of Ursula...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Oct 2023)

Rebecca Moynihan: I move that motion No. 127(7) not be taken today. That is the motion on Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. Senator Flynn is going to second my amendment to the Order of Business. I do not wish to do this to be contrarian. The House should discuss this issue and the motion. However, the time slot allocated is too short and we have not had enough time to consider the amended...

Seanad: Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Motion (18 Oct 2023)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...on the international stage. There was potential for us to speak with one voice across all parties in condemning the horror attacks on innocent civilians by Hamas and the brutal response by the Israeli Government, which has signalled that it plans to break international law with collective punishment, spun under the guise of terrorists using civilians and hiding by infrastructure, to...