Member's statement: Israel-Palestine War: Situation in Gaza
Member's statement by Mr Declan Kearney on .
- MLA
- Mr Declan Kearney
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 13 February 2024
- Type
- Member's statement
- Business
- Members' Statements
- Heading
- Israel-Palestine War: Situation in Gaza
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4206135
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Text
Ba mhaith liom cúrsaí reatha sa Phalaistín a léiriú sa ráiteas seo.
This is the 130th day of Israel's war in Gaza: 37,000 Palestinians are now dead or lying lifeless under the rubble of Gaza, and 1% of all Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip have been killed. In the space of one month, the equivalent of two Hiroshima bombs have been dropped on the Gaza Strip. Currently, 1·5 million Palestinians, who have been forcibly displaced from their homes in Gaza, are being pushed into Rafah — a place that is normally home to just 250,000. This is an existential atrocity taking place in real time. I appeal to political and community leaders across our society to support the demand for an end to the war, to support an immediate and permanent ceasefire, to ensure that the medical and humanitarian relief being denied to the Palestinian people is provided and to demand that Israeli forces are withdrawn immediately from Gaza and the West Bank. It is time to end the war and to end Israel's illegal occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. It is time finally to enforce international law, not simply to speak about it, and it is time finally to recognise the state of Palestine.
208 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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