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Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: ...Africa’s case. Wait and see for what - the complete eradication of the Palestinian people from the face of this earth? The Government’s refusal to take any meaningful action on the atrocities Israel is committing in Palestine is an act of complicity - end of - which, given this nation’s history of occupation and subjugation, is shameful. The decision as to...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Jack Chambers: I thank all the Deputies for their interventions and their sustained interest and concern about the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory in Israel. I welcome this opportunity to address the House on the events of recent weeks and Ireland’s ongoing engagement. The escalation of violence and the effects on life in the region are appalling. The scale of the tragedy...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: Nearly 100,000 Palestinians have been killed, reported missing or wounded in Gaza since Israel began its military operation three months ago. Among that number are 25,000 people who have been confirmed dead, two thirds of whom are women and children. Eighty-five percent of the population has been displaced. The healthcare system has collapsed, and operations like amputations and Caesarean...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ..., regardless of the complexities of international law and optics. I condemn utterly the actions of Hamas on that fateful day in October. I unreservedly condemn the massive overreaction of Israel. It will not even listen to its allies in the United States. Now we have game-playing, with motions being brought forward and the South African situation. Goodness knows, they know enough...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Joan Collins: I am speaking on behalf of the Independent Group. As we speak, Israel is assaulting the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, a city it previously declared as a safe zone for refugees. This is not the first atrocity we have seen Israel commit since it invaded Gaza and it will not be the last. It is just one of the many atrocities against civilians we have witnessed, and will witness, as the...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I have to say that I am disappointed. We should be here today with one voice and one motion that should unequivocally condemn the actions of Israel. Of course, I am on the record as condemning Hamas, but we are way beyond that now. The figures have been mentioned already. Some 25,295 Palestinians have been killed. Just yesterday, four Palestinians were struck and killed as they were...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...of who caused this initial trouble. It was Hamas who went in and who raped, murdered and killed 1,500 people in cold blood. It had absolutely no mandate and no reason to do it. The reaction from Israel has been equally and just as bad as what Hamas did. I believe, and it is the Government's objective, that both Israel and Hamas must be held accountable for any and all violations of...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

John Lahart: Despite significant international pressure for a ceasefire, Israel continues to conduct intensive military operations in the Gaza Strip. The death toll, as we know, is in excess of 25,000 people, approximately, including many children and their mothers. While the sympathy of the international community sided universally with Israel following the horrendous events in October, Israel's...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...to uphold its obligation under the Genocide Convention. The Hamas-run authorities say 25,000 civilians and fighters have died. According to the UN, another 7,000 may lie under the rubble. Israel says it has killed 8,000 terrorists, but far too little water, food and medicine is reaching Gaza and there are truly no safe zones for civilians. Mr. Netanyahu is said to have no post-war plan...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: ...More than 10,000 children have been killed in those attacks. That is the equivalent of 416 classrooms of innocent children murdered in that time. Women and children have been the main victims of Israel's war, with more than 16,000 of them killed. It is estimated that two mothers have been killed every hour since the start of the war. Journalists and humanitarian staff have been killed...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: ...is not about the numbers, the method used or the time it takes to happen. Before the current brutal phase of this long conflict, we saw the brutality of the occupation, with settlement building by Israel in contravention of international law, land confiscations, land closures and house demolitions. We have seen a military occupation that is brutalising and dehumanising to Palestinians....

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Alan Dillon: ...actions to this end. Through the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste, the Irish Government is doing everything it can to bring about an immediate, durable and sustainable humanitarian truce between Israel and Hamas. The only way to achieve this or any resolution for communities in Israel and Gaza is immediate de-escalation through regional and international diplomacy. While Israel has...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...has been significant destruction of housing and infrastructure and famine is imminent. There is no doubt that, unfortunately and unacceptably, the international community has for decades allowed Israel's breaches of UN resolutions go unchecked. It is important to say that Ireland has never been party to that. Ireland's leadership on this issue is not being questioned internationally....

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Mairead Farrell: ...it was some kind of new and important statistic or one that reflected that the end was finally in sight, but because most people wondered how we could even know that the number of deaths is falling. Israel has bombed every hospital in Gaza. No hospital in Gaza is fully functional. The infrastructure of the Gaza health ministry has been completely and utterly demolished. More UN workers...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: ...first argument put forward by the Tánaiste relates to why should we boycott when it is clear the US is trying to end the conflict. Clear to whom? Biden has pledged $14.3 billion in military aid to Israel. As of Christmas Day, Israel had unloaded 230 planeloads and 20 shiploads of weapons from the US. The second argument implies that it would make no difference and that we have to...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Emer Higgins: ...sickening. We live in an era of misinformation and disinformation. Facts have never been more important. The facts are that 25,000 people in Gaza have been killed since the Hamas attack on Israel and 70% of them have been women and children. Today, the biggest concerns of NGOs like Sadaka – The Ireland Palestine Alliance, is Gaza's newest deadly threat, namely, starvation....

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Mark Ward: ...the 1948 genocide convention, to act to prevent the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. I note that the Government motion states that it will "strongly consider an intervention in the South Africa v Israel case at the ICJ ... following the necessary legal and policy analysis". Other Deputies and I would like to see what this “necessary legal and policy analysis" looks like. I have...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Before Profit tabled a motion in the Dáil through which we appealed to the Government to discharge its responsibilities under the convention, which I remind the Government are not about holding Israel accountable after the fact of a genocide, but about obliging us as signatories to prevent the commission of a genocide that is ongoing. The Government voted our resolution down. That...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Peter Burke: ...actions: an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, urgent and effective humanitarian access, the protection of civilians, and the release of all hostages. I utterly condemn the violence committed in Israel and Gaza since 7 October and the disproportionate response we have seen coming from the Israeli Government in the intervening period. Gaza is one of the most densely populated areas on...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...starvation or disease. These are atrocities. Whatever the provocation and however well-founded the anger, submitting entire populations to this level of barbarism cannot be justified either by Israel or by Hamas. Those perpetrating these actions will be harshly judged by history. I acknowledge the strength of feeling of the Irish people on this subject and their feelings of...