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Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Motion (21 Feb 2024)

Frances Black: ...and condemns: - the killing of over 28,000 Palestinians in Gaza in recent weeks; - that over 11,500 of those killed have been children, over 17,000 children have been left unaccompanied because Israeli attacks have killed their entire families; - that the number of children killed in Gaza in recent weeks has surpassed the annual number of children killed across the world’s...

Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Motion (21 Feb 2024)

Frances Black: ...bodies of their dead children out of the ruins of their family homes. Entire families are being wiped out and multiple generations murdered in an instant by 2,000-pound bombs. It is beyond belief. Israeli bombing has levelled entire Gazan neighbourhoods. Most of Gaza's buildings have been damaged. Mosques, ambulances and bakeries have been targeted. Hospitals are ceasing to function...

Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Motion (21 Feb 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...their community and their culture. We see such systemic policies - and they are policies and that is why individual sanctions against individual settlers are so meaningless - being pursued by the Israeli Government in respect of its actions in Gaza and we are also seeing almost a culture of cruelty that seems to be occurring within that. I refer to the individual cruelty it takes for...

Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Motion (21 Feb 2024)

Lisa Chambers: ...country, for being so strong and for sometimes remarkably being in the minority. Many of us cannot understand why other countries are finding it difficult to call it what it is and to call out what Israel is doing in Palestine as simply wrong, murderous and barbaric. I am conscious that while we are debating a motion that is solely focused on Palestine, it is always important to...

Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Motion (21 Feb 2024)

Róisín Garvey: ...to talk to everybody about this. It is really good we called out Ursula von der Leyen because she does not speak for us. It is really ironic because she is German and the Germans are selling weapons to Israel, which is just despicable. That is something else we have to call out here as well. We only have one voice each and we are small but we are mighty, as a country. We always have...

Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Motion (21 Feb 2024)

Regina Doherty: ...days and I am embarrassed to say I have not been able to respond to all of them. I am pleased to be able to stand here tonight and support the Palestinian people. I have no notion as to what the Israeli people felt like after 7 October. They probably were enraged and suffering from shock, grief, horror, anger and everything. What we have seen over the past number of months is a people...

Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Motion (21 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: I welcome the decision of the Taoiseach to call on the European Commission to urgently review the EU-Israel association agreement, but I argue that real action would be to trigger Article 82 to immediately suspend the association agreement while a review is being conducted. It is worth comparing this with the actions in respect of UNRWA and the allegations relating to 12 UNRWA workers. That...

Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Motion (21 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: ...birth. There are thousands of children in starvation and malnourishment. To be honest, I am not sure words matter anymore. Since 7 October, we have all issued thousands of words appealing to the Israeli Government, pleading with it to immediately cease its war and genocide on the Palestinian people, but it is not listening. The Israeli Government has not been forced to listen....

Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Motion (21 Feb 2024)

Barry Ward: ...many times, has identified in the motion a series of comprehensive actions that this State can and should take. I wish to focus in particular on the suggestion that we trigger Article 82 of the EU-Israel association agreement. That is a key aspect of this. Twenty-five percent of Israeli external trade is with the European Union. This is an area in which we can have a very strong impact...

Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Motion (21 Feb 2024)

Eileen Flynn: ...She lost her mother, father, brother and two sisters, who were killed.She was left badly injured and had to have her leg amputated. This is an 11-year-old child now living in Rafah, which will be Israel's next target. If more than 28,000 Europeans had been killed in recent weeks, including more than 11,000 children, would the global response be so slow? I think we all know the answer to...

Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Motion (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Gavan: ...a ceasefire and there is a unified call from here this evening for an immediate ceasefire. There are two main obstacles to that: the first is the far right, disgusting, apartheid Government in Israel; equally, we must be clear, and it has been made clear by others, about the US's responsibility in this regard. It voted against a call for an immediate ceasefire yesterday for the third...

Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Motion (21 Feb 2024)

Seán Fleming: ...and the Tánaiste have undertaken extensive engagement at EU and international level over the past weeks, and this will continue. Tomorrow, the Attorney General will present Ireland's analysis of Israel's occupation of Palestine to the International Court of Justice. I continue to work closely with my EU and international counterparts to press for increased humanitarian and...

Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Motion (21 Feb 2024)

Frances Black: ...organisation, a wonderful women's group, asked: “Why has the international community abandoned us?” Those words stay with me every time I look at social media and every time I see what the Israelis are doing. Why has the international community abandoned the people of Gaza and allowed them to be murdered on an hourly basis? To see those children is just horrific. I am so...