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- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (20 Mar 2024)
Thomas Pringle: .... Europe has been too weak and slow in showing its solidarity with Palestine and it is disappointing to see some countries still denying the fact that this genocide is taking place at the hands of Israel. This is despite the fact that reports show Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians. Denial of food constitutes a genocide. It is a war crime. I refer to the way 2.2 million...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (20 Mar 2024)
Chris Andrews: ...barred from participating in the Paris Olympics are Belarus and Russia. It is disgraceful that after the deaths of more than 30,000 Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, the IOC has not barred Israel from the Paris Olympics. Equally, FIFA must ban Israel from international competitions. It was disappointing that only one Government TD signed a letter calling for FIFA and UEFA to ban...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (20 Mar 2024)
Cathal Berry: ...from. I welcome the Taoiseach's balanced comments on the situation in the Middle East because it is very clear that Hamas has as little interest in a peaceful resolution to this as the current Israeli Government and I use the phrase "current Israeli Government" very carefully. I welcome political and diplomatic developments stateside over the past 72 hours. It is entirely correct...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (20 Mar 2024)
Bríd Smith: .... In February 2024, Hungary voted against an immediate ceasefire. Here is the record of very powerful European countries and leaders. Germany, for example, sent more than 1,000 tank engines to Israel. German-made diesel engines are used in the fighter vehicles that are produced in Israel. An Italian company has sold armaments worth almost €120 million to Israel in the past...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (20 Mar 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: .... António Guterres is right when he speaks about people facing catastrophic hunger, and that is even before the awaited ground invasion of Rafah. What would one expect from Netanyahu’s supremacist Israeli Government? It has told us what it is for. It has told us that it is absolutely against a Palestinian state. On some level, I think it is at times against the Palestinian...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (20 Mar 2024)
Gary Gannon: ...December European Council meeting, we lamented the post-Council conclusions and how they were divorced from the reality on the ground in Gaza. They condemned Hamas in the strongest terms and recognised Israel’s right to defend itself in line with international law. Only thirdly did the conclusions express the European Council’s grave concerns about the deteriorating...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (20 Mar 2024)
Cathal Crowe: ...are already in a famine situation and the other 50% are heading in that direction very quickly. The United States is, of course, pledging aid but that does not echo true when it is also supplying the Israel Defense Forces with the most advanced and vicious weaponry that exists on this earth. It cannot, on the one hand, allow another country to use its heavy war machinery to bombard a...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (20 Mar 2024)
Mairead Farrell: ...are the words of South Africa's foreign minister Naledi Pandor. Gaza is at the brink of famine. António Guterres has rightly said that such a famine would be entirely man-made. The people whom Israel has not managed to kill through its indiscriminate bombing and destruction of hospitals and basic infrastructure, it is now hoping to kill by starvation. We watched in horror as...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (20 Mar 2024)
Brendan Howlin: ...to bring about a halt to the killing. I commend the comments of the Taoiseach in the United States last week coming in tandem with the remarks of Senator Chuck Schumer, a long-standing ally of Israel. I hope they had an impact in the US but I feel they will have no impact on the Netanyahu government. This week Europe must do more. Even the most ardent supporters of Israel know that...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (20 Mar 2024)
Seán Haughey: ...We are aware that aid agencies are warning of an imminent famine in the region affecting the entire population of Gaza. It has to be said that this was an inevitable outcome given the actions of Israel since the brutal Hamas attacks last October. The international community, including the EU and the US, have been too slow to face up to this humanitarian catastrophe. Better late than...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (20 Mar 2024)
Matt Carthy: ...annihilated in their thousands, the people of Gaza now face disastrous famine and disease. UNICEF has warned that Gazan children are now dying a slow death due to hunger. Those Palestinians in Gaza who Israel has not managed to murder through gunfire, tank fire or air raid, it now seeks to extinguish through starvation. Israel is literally using starvation as a weapon of war. Oxfam...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (20 Mar 2024)
Leo Varadkar: ...in Gaza. I will continue to press the urgent need for an immediate ceasefire, the unconditional release of hostages, a massive scale-up in humanitarian assistance and a process that can lead to a peaceful and sovereign Israel and Palestine living side by side. In my recent speech in Boston, I was unambiguous that civilians in Gaza cannot be subject to collective punishment for the...