End the Forced Starvation in Gaza

Division held on 9 September 2025. The Motion Was Carried

Decision type
Simple Majority
Method
Lobby Division
Result
The Motion Was Carried
Debate
Gaza: Action to End Forced Starvation

The motion voted on

Motion (Private Members' Motion): End the Forced Starvation in Gaza

That this Assembly notes with deep concern the declaration of famine in Gaza by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) with half a million people, a quarter of Palestinians in Gaza, suffering from famine; further notes the IPC's assessment that this situation is entirely man-made and the assessment by the Head of Emergency Relief at the UN that it is a result of systematic obstruction by Israel; condemns Israel's use of starvation as a weapon of war; further condemns the targeting and killing by Israeli forces of hundreds of Palestinians desperately trying to access aid through the discredited, US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation; and calls for an immediate ceasefire, an end to ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing, the immediate and unconditional supply of all required humanitarian aid to Gaza, the release of all hostages and the upholding of human rights and international law.

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Tabled by: Mr Declan Kearney, Mr Pat Sheehan, Ms Emma Sheerin

Totals

Votes by community designation, as published
DesignationAyesNoesAbstentions
Nationalist3100
Unionist1300
Other1300
Total45300

How each MLA voted

Alliance Party: 12 Aye, 0 No
MLAVoteDesignation
Ms Kellie ArmstrongAyeOther
Mr Stewart DicksonAyeOther
Mr Danny DonnellyAyeOther
Ms Connie EganAyeOther
Mrs Michelle GuyAyeOther
Mr David HoneyfordAyeOther
Mr Andrew McMurrayAyeOther
Mr Peter McReynoldsAyeOther
Mr Nick MathisonAyeOther
Mr Andrew MuirAyeOther
Ms Sian MulhollandAyeOther
Mr Eóin TennysonAyeOther
Democratic Unionist Party: 0 Aye, 23 No
MLAVoteDesignation
Mr Maurice BradleyNoUnionist
Mr Phillip BrettNoUnionist
Mr David BrooksNoUnionist
Ms Cheryl BrownleeNoUnionist
Mr Keith BuchananNoUnionist
Mr Tom BuchananNoUnionist
Mr Jonathan BuckleyNoUnionist
Ms Joanne BuntingNoUnionist
Mr Trevor ClarkeNoUnionist
Mrs Diane DoddsNoUnionist
Mr Stephen DunneNoUnionist
Ms Diane ForsytheNoUnionist
Mr Paul FrewNoUnionist
Mr Paul GivanNoUnionist
Mr Harry HarveyNoUnionist
Mr William IrwinNoUnionist
Mr Brian KingstonNoUnionist
Mrs Emma Little-PengellyNoUnionist
Mr Gordon LyonsNoUnionist
Miss Michelle McIlveenNoUnionist
Mr Peter MartinNoUnionist
Mr Gary MiddletonNoUnionist
Mr Alan RobinsonNoUnionist
Independent: 1 Aye, 0 No
MLAVoteDesignation
Ms Claire SugdenAyeUnionist
People Before Profit Alliance: 1 Aye, 0 No
MLAVoteDesignation
Mr Gerry CarrollAyeOther
Sinn Féin: 24 Aye, 0 No
MLAVoteDesignation
Dr Caoimhe ArchibaldAyeNationalist
Mr Danny BakerAyeNationalist
Mr Cathal BoylanAyeNationalist
Mr Pádraig DelargyAyeNationalist
Mrs Linda DillonAyeNationalist
Miss Jemma DolanAyeNationalist
Mrs Sinéad EnnisAyeNationalist
Mrs Ciara FergusonAyeNationalist
Ms Aoife FinneganAyeNationalist
Miss Órlaithí FlynnAyeNationalist
Mr Colm GildernewAyeNationalist
Miss Deirdre HargeyAyeNationalist
Mr Declan KearneyAyeNationalist
Mr Gerry KellyAyeNationalist
Ms Liz KimminsAyeNationalist
Mr Declan McAleerAyeNationalist
Mr Philip McGuiganAyeNationalist
Mr Maolíosa McHughAyeNationalist
Mrs Cathy MasonAyeNationalist
Miss Áine MurphyAyeNationalist
Ms Michelle O'NeillAyeNationalist
Ms Aisling ReillyAyeNationalist
Mr Pat SheehanAyeNationalist
Ms Emma SheerinAyeNationalist
Social Democratic and Labour Party: 7 Aye, 0 No
MLAVoteDesignation
Mr Mark DurkanAyeNationalist
Mr Daniel McCrossanAyeNationalist
Mr Patsy McGloneAyeNationalist
Mr Colin McGrathAyeNationalist
Ms Sinéad McLaughlinAyeNationalist
Mr Justin McNultyAyeNationalist
Mr Matthew O'TooleAyeNationalist
Traditional Unionist Voice: 0 Aye, 1 No
MLAVoteDesignation
Mr Timothy GastonNoUnionist
Ulster Unionist Party: 0 Aye, 6 No
MLAVoteDesignation
Dr Steve Aiken OBENoUnionist
Mr Andy Allen MBENoUnionist
Ms Diana ArmstrongNoUnionist
Mr Doug Beattie MCNoUnionist
Mr Mike NesbittNoUnionist
Mr John StewartNoUnionist

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