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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Air Traffic Control Services (15 May 2024)

Tom Clonan: ...horrific soft-tissue injuries, decapitation, limb separation and the shrapnel effects are equally horrific.Shrapnel effects are equally horrific. We, as a State, have shown great leadership in condemning Israel's disproportionate response in Rafah and Gaza. However, we must not make a financial contribution to the delivery of such weapons that result in the killing of, at this point,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)

Tom Clonan: ...that airport, which is a large logistics hub for the US military. There is also the overflight of aircraft. Hundreds of US military aircraft are passing through our airspace carrying weapons for Israel. They are exempt from any en route air traffic control charges, which are then passed on to the taxpayer and paid by the Department of Transport to the Irish Aviation Authority. We, as...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Apr 2024)

Tom Clonan: I wish to raise the prospect of Israeli retaliation against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Three individuals - Yoav Gallant, Benny Gantz and Benjamin Netanyahu - have presided over genocidal retaliation against the people of Gaza for the reprehensible attack on 7 October in which more than 1,000 Israeli citizens - innocent men, women and children - were butchered by Hamas. Israel's response...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Mar 2024)

Tom Clonan: ...we understand what forced starvation is. It is a weapon of war. It is not a famine in the received sense. I again commend the Taoiseach and Tánaiste on their very clear statements on this. Israel is committing the most appalling war crimes and genocide. We must speak out.

Seanad: Situation in the Middle East: Statements (20 Feb 2024)

Tom Clonan: ...Stáit. I thank him for coming. I think we have reached an inflection point in relation to what is happening in Gaza. The forced expulsion at gunpoint of the civilian population is a war crime, and Israel has done this twice. It has forced Gazans to endure a forced expulsion from Gaza city to Khan Younis and then from Khan Younis to Rafah. Rafah is their final refuge. There are...

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

Tom Clonan: ...want to echo the concerns about what is happening in Rafah. We have approximately 1.8 million Palestinians trapped in Rafah. It is their final place of refuge along a line between Kerem Shalom in Israel through Rafah out to the Mediterranean. Based on the reprehensible calculus used by Benjamin Netanyahu, it is likely, if this assault continues, that one in ten Palestinians will either...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Dec 2023)

Tom Clonan: I welcome the resolution by the UN General Assembly calling for an immediate ceasefire. It should come from both sides. Hamas continues to indiscriminately fire at civilian targets in Israel. This is a war crime. Hamas has threatened to execute the remaining 137 Israeli hostages. This is a war crime and must be condemned. However, the Israelis are now on day 47 of their ground campaign...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Nov 2023)

Tom Clonan: ...ago, two children like Emily have lost their lives. I should not say "lost their lives" because that is a passive expression. They have been killed in a predetermined and calculated manner by the Israel Defense Forces who, as I have outlined before, are operating weapons systems in a densely populated urban environment with foreseeable consequences for innocent Palestinian men, women and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Oct 2023)

Tom Clonan: I wish to talk about, and put on the record of the House, the situation that confronts the people of Gaza this morning. The Israel Defense Forces, IDF, has assembled a force of 300,000 troops on the border with Gaza and Gaza is 360 sq. km. To put that in context, the United States invaded Iraq, a country the size of France, with just over 120,000 troops. Israel is proposing to saturate the...