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

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Government or any of the Opposition parties but it is very much in line with the view of the overwhelming majority of Palestinians. What it attempts to convey is the truth about the nature of the Israeli regime, which is not a legitimate actor or a normal state. It is a terrorist state and an apartheid state. It is a state that has been built from its inception, on the day in, day out...

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

John Brady: ...again, words fail to convey the sense of anguish and frustration that is felt not just here in Ireland but globally at the tragedy that is befalling the Palestinian people. The butcher's bill for Israel's ongoing campaign against Gaza continues to rise. To date, we can add the names of UN workers, journalists, nurses and doctors, and children to those thousands of Palestinians who...

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

Matt Carthy: ...innocent civilians in the most callous and inhumane manner and its actions have been rightly condemned by right-thinking people around the world. We should also be very clear, however, that Israel has breached international law, not just every day since 7 October, but virtually every single day for decades. Israel occupies Palestinian land, blockades Palestinian territory, builds and...

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

Ivana Bacik: As Deputy Howlin has said, over the past 11 days, we have all been shocked and horrified to watch the unfolding violence in Israel and Gaza. Indeed, it has shocked the world. Last week, we in the Labour Party condemned the horrific killing by Hamas of so many Israeli civilians, including women and children and, of course, the Irish citizen, Kim Damti, and the young daughter of an Irish...

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

Imelda Munster: .... That is a war crime. The people of Gaza have nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. To add to the torture of knowing that each moment could be their last as bombs rain down upon them, the Israeli blockade now means that Palestinians are left thirsting for water, hungering for food, suffering with no medicines and huddling in the dark with their electricity cut off. It is simply terror...

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

Mick Barry: The Israeli ambassador has been expelled from Colombia; the Israeli ambassador should be expelled from Ireland too. Some 15,000 people across this island marched in protest last weekend. Let us see 150,000 this weekend. The Dunnes Stores workers boycotted apartheid goods from South Africa in the 1980s. Any Irish worker who boycotts goods from apartheid Israel during this invasion must...

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

Seán Haughey: The sudden escalation in violence in the Middle East on 7 October began with the horrific attacks by Hamas in Israel resulting in the deaths of over 1,400 people. I condemn these attacks unreservedly. The brutal Hamas attacks involved the deliberate targeting of civilians and the taking of hostages including children and displayed utter disregard for human life. It is hard to believe that...

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

John Paul Phelan: Deputy Murphy did not say it. Others have said it. Israel has that right. It is the primary function of any nation to defend its citizens from attack. On this question, as on many others in debates on Israel and Palestine, we have no debate. We have no media scrutiny in Ireland. Everyone screams on one side as if it is a one-sided, simple, populist issue to which an answer can be found.

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

Mark Ward: The killing of civilians in Israel by Hamas was unjustifiable and was rightly condemned. In the brief time I have, I will focus on my real-life lived experience in Palestine last year. This time last year I spent some time in the West Bank. We could not go to Gaza as Israel imposed a ban on visiting the area. I witnessed at first hand the apartheid regime that Israel imposes on the...

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

John Paul Phelan: ...over the past ten days, the Members opposite, with whom I agree on some aspects, could at least be respectful of the memory of the two individuals. Emily's offence was to live in a kibbutz in southern Israel with her mother and Kim's offence was to be a 22-year-old at a music festival, a music festival where up to 300 people were slaughtered. Many will have seen the images of the people...

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

Brendan Howlin: Deputy Bacik will take the last two minutes of my time. We have witnessed a level of ongoing savagery and brutality in Israel and Palestine in the past two weeks that has shocked the world. The savage attack on Israeli men, women and children on 7 October and the taking of 250 hostages by Hamas are inexcusable and deplorable. The response by Israel, in the bombardment of Gaza, the levelling...

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

Thomas Byrne: ...xe1; an ceart aige faoi sin. Deputy Gannon is absolutely correct to say that Ireland should be a lighthouse for peace. I would strongly argue that is exactly what the Government has done in the past week but also over many decades in regard to Israel and Palestine. We have our own example here of how seemingly hopeless conflict can be resolved through mediation and can continue to be...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: I remind our Government that the recitation of all our interventions and charitable acts for the Palestinian people does not relieve it of its primary responsibility to hold Israel accountable to the world for its acts of impunity and violation of international law. We in Ireland know all too well the pain and tragedy of colonisation, occupation and dispossession. We have known conflict and...

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

Paul McAuliffe: I express my condolences to all those who have died in recent weeks in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. I join in the growing chorus of Irish voices inside and outside this House who cherish the principle that attacks intentionally directed against a civilian population or against individual civilians who are not taking part in hostilities are wrong. They are unacceptable....

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

Gino Kenny: ...Nobody wants to see anybody die, regardless of whether they are Jewish, Muslim, Christian or of no religion at all, but decades of brutal oppression and of the international community overlooking Israeli impunity and apartheid have led us to this situation. What does it take to conclude that Israel is not a normal state? Its very existence sees it exist in perpetual conflict that...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: The people of the world are witness to a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. Israel has unleashed the weight of its military might upon a beleaguered refugee population. It rains its arsenal of missiles down upon 2 million impoverished people hemmed into an area half the size of County Louth. This indiscriminate mass slaughter of innocent men, women and children is carried out in full sight...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Like other Deputies present, I have been watching the images, night after night, of the people of Gaza being subjected to a brutal aerial bombardment by the Government of Israel. Thousands of civilians, including hundreds of children, lie dead. As other Members have mentioned, vital public infrastructure, including hospitals and schools, have been destroyed. Vital supplies of food and...

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

John Paul Phelan: If it gives warning and if you say Israel has the right to defend itself-----

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

Ruairi Ó Murchú: The Palestinian people of Gaza are under an unmerciful onslaught that includes carpet bombing of civilian infrastructure and civilians. Israel has cut off food, water and energy. What it is offering is bombs, starvation and 1 million people being displaced within Gaza. In other places and at other times, this would be called genocide and ethnic cleansing. Then we listen to what this...

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

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...handing over to the Tánaiste I want to say that for 75 years the area has been unstable and has witnessed countless brutal and inhuman attacks on the civilian populations in both Palestine and Israel. I want to join my colleagues in utterly condemning the barbaric attack on Israel's citizens by Hamas, on innocent men, women and children, on 7 October. I fully accept that Israel as a...