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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (11 May 2021)
Mr. Ãamonn Meehan: I thank the committee for this invitation to present today. The government of Israel would have us believe that what has been happening in Sheikh Jarrah, for months now, is a real estate dispute between private individuals. This is not the case. It is the latest action by Israel in a decades-long project to remove Palestinians from East Jerusalem and from large parts...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (11 May 2021)
..., not about a real estate dispute, and not about expanding development in the city of Jerusalem. It is the condition against the ongoing nakba. We are witnessing the creation of new refugees. Israel's goal is to take as much Palestinian land, with as few Palestinians on the land as possible, and to concentrate the greatest number of Palestinians onto the least amount of land possible....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (11 May 2021)
Dr. Susan Power: I thank the committee for inviting me to speak. Yesterday, we saw the injury of 612 Palestinian civilians in Jerusalem and Israel's killing of 25 Palestinians, including three children, in the Gaza Strip, which really highlights the urgent need for the international community to intervene and address the root causes. These are Israel's colonisation of Palestinian lands,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (11 May 2021)
Dr. Noura Erakat: I will make three brief comments to close. The first is to emphasise the idea that Israel has an obligation to treat the Palestinians in the pandemic. Not only is there a blatant contravention of that obligation as Israel sends its excess vaccines across the world to curry greater diplomatic relationships with new allies, it is now before our eyes evicting Palestinians...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (11 May 2021)
John Brady: ...of the 25 innocent civilians in the Gaza Strip last night. I understand from various media reports that between six and nine of those murdered were children. I also condemn the provocation by the Israelis in terms of their actions in East Jerusalem, and the attack and assault on the al-Aqsa Mosque as well. The inaction of the international community has empowered and emboldened Israel...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (11 May 2021)
..., such as Humsa al-Fawqa, international aid has been received and Ireland has donated aid. Even those shelters and homes have been demolished again. There are continuous demolitions in areas that Israel is eager to rapidly colonise and settle. We have people who are doubly displaced and sometimes have been displaced a number of times and are living in precarious situations. It destroys...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (11 May 2021)
Dr. Noura Erakat: Thanks to Dr. Power, Ireland now has almost a buffet of options in how to respond. Ireland can approach this from a fully frontal position of unequivocal condemnation of Israel's annexation and intention to maintain an apartheid regime or instead it can approach it in a piecemeal fashion in an administrative way through politics of non-recognition and supporting...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (11 May 2021)
.... There are many references to this throughout. While we say de facto annexation, let me outline the main difference we are talking about. Having regard to the types of domestic legislation that Israel is passing, I do not believe we are actually going to see de jure annexation like we have seen in East Jerusalem, whereby Israel formally absorbs the territories. It is too easy to get...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (11 May 2021)
...demolitions and forced displacement, settlers' violence against our people in the West Bank and, in particular, the Sheikh Jarrah and East Jerusalem neighbourhoods as tensions further escalate, and Israeli settlers intensify their attacks against our civilians. Before I commence, I would like to clarify our leadership's position to postpone and not to cancel the election. The Palestinian...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (11 May 2021)
...Meehan: I will defer to Dr. Erakat and Dr. Power on de facto annexation and on providing more detail on the range of countermeasures. Perhaps Dr. Erakat might provide more detail on domestic Israeli politics. Israel has already annexed East Jerusalem and the Syrian Golande jure. From the perspective of the international community, it is clearly in breach of its international legal...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (11 May 2021)
...Dr. Jilan Abdalmajid: More than 300,000 cases of Covid-19 have been detected in Palestine and more than 3,000 people have died. For a period, the vaccination programme was problematic because the Israelis vaccinated their people. As Israel is responsible for the occupied territories, they have a legal responsibility over the vaccination of my people. However, Israel rejected all of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (11 May 2021)
...something to support Palestinian rights in Palestine. I refer to the issue of annexation. As Senator O'Reilly stated, there is no difference between de jure annexation and de facto annexation. Israel annexed the occupied territories in 1967 and has applied its law there since then. In terms of appropriating land, more than 60% of Area C on the West Bank has been annexed. As Deputy...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (11 May 2021)
David Stanton: ...mentioned, in particular the West Bank and Gaza Strip. We have heard various reports and I ask the ambassador to give us some up-to-date information on what exactly is happening and the impact. Israel has told us that it is opening up its economy and leads the world in having a vaccinated population. What is the vaccination situation for the Palestinian people? Mr. Meehan is a former...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (11 May 2021)
Mr. Ãamonn Meehan: The objective of the demolitions is to create space for settlers to move in to occupy those houses or build additional settlements in those spaces. All Israel wants to do is to remove these people. It has no concern for their welfare and does not care where they go so long as they move outside of the boundaries of East Jerusalem into one of the towns or cities in the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (11 May 2021)
Charles Flanagan: ...needs to be the promotion of dialogue in the immediate term. We will speak to the ambassador again in the context of our work. We will adjourn until 9.30 a.m. on Thursday when we will meet the Israeli ambassador to Ireland, Mr. Ophir Kariv, and representatives of the Ireland Israel Alliance. I thank the committee's members and our guests for their participation and I apologise again...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (11 May 2021)
Charles Flanagan: ...technical team for waving some magic dust to allow us to commence. I express my concern and pass on my condolences to those injured and killed by attacks on both sides over recent days in Gaza, Israel and East Jerusalem. I call on those with influence in the region to use that influence to stop the violence, end the indiscriminate attacks and say the best way forward must involve...