Motion or amendment: End the Forced Starvation in Gaza

Motion or amendment by Mr Pat Sheehan on 2 September 2025.

MLA: Mr Pat Sheehan
Party at the time: Sinn Féin
Date: 2 September 2025
Type: Motion or amendment
Business: Motion · Private Members' Motion
Heading: End the Forced Starvation in Gaza
Assembly identifier: Document 447763

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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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