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Middle East: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: I welcome the O'Regan family from Dublin via Cork and thank them all for coming to the Gallery. It is good to see them. We are speaking about the Middle East which is obviously a complex issue, as outlined by Deputy McGrath. The Government has done a huge amount of work internationally, from a diplomatic perspective, and has put a huge effort into discussing and raising the issue in a...

Middle East: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: We have seen horrific scenes of the destruction of people in Palestine. It is difficult to pick any single moment but I was struck by a Palestinian paediatrician, Alaa al-Najjar, who fell to her knees with the pain and devastation of witnessing her own children arriving into her emergency department. Her nine children were killed by an Israeli airstrike. They were between the ages of two...

Middle East: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: As so many speakers have said, the war and the scenes taking place out there are horrific. Nothing hits an Irish person more than to see millions of young people, or any person, facing starvation. It could not hit a deeper note in the mind of any Irish person because we have had this in our own history. It is something that will never be forgotten in the history of this country and what is...

Middle East: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: So far today, over 40 Palestinians have been slaughtered by Israeli airstrikes. In the past two days, over 250 Palestinians have been killed. A large number of these people were murdered while seeking aid from aid stations. Even Israeli media is reporting accounts from soldiers operating near these stations that they are being ordered to shoot civilians seeking aid. In the West Bank,...

Middle East: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

John McGuinness: Over the last few weeks, I have been looking at the emails and telephone messages I have received from constituents. A lot of the names would be familiar to me. I have never heard from them previously and never thought they would be as animated about this issue as to come forward and to put in two pages of an email what they felt about it, but they did. Over time, those numbers have grown...

Middle East: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: To echo what all the speakers have stated today, the ongoing genocide in the Middle East is abhorrent. Innocent civilians are being starved to death. Parents have no baby formula for their infants. This is happening in our world today. While I acknowledge the Government's work so far, we need to keep the pressure on. I hear from concerned people every day across counties Carlow and...

Middle East: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I have only two minutes so I hope I will pick my words effectively and usefully. Since dawn this morning, 43 Palestinian people have been killed by Israeli attacks. On Monday, 74 people were killed, 30 of them at a seaside café used by journalists, activists and local residents. More than 600 starving Palestinians have been killed like moving targets at a fairground. Some 4,186 were...

Middle East: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: "War is a relic of barbarism only possible because we are governed by a ruling class with barbaric ideas." That was said by James Connolly as he looked at the conflagration that was the First World War. How apt it is now. We have been here previously. People are saying this is something new but, unfortunately, it is a feature of history, including the world wars, the Holocaust,...

Middle East: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: Yesterday, I took part in the pre-legislative process for the Government's occupied territories Bill, or the OTB-lite. Like others, I focused on the Government's exclusion of services from the current draft. The officials from the Department of foreign affairs were able to give me a clear answer on one point I raised. One of the conclusions in the ICJ opinion, delivered last year, was that...

Middle East: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Brian Stanley: The terrorist state of Israel continues its campaign of horror, genocide, starvation and every war crime imaginable. Civilians queuing for food because they are desperate and starving are being slaughtered. Refugees in tents are being bombed. Only one of more than 20 hospitals is now able to operate, and with great difficulty. Water supplies are being cut. Medics and journalists are...

Middle East: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Pat Buckley: I came across a quote today that said a sane state did not wage war against civilians and did not kill babies as a hobby. That is a very strong statement. What has been happening, particularly in Gaza, over the past number of painful months has been atrocious. It makes me nervous that people in the western world - in the whole world - are looking at what is happening Gaza and war and death...

Middle East: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is another week of unspeakable horror in Gaza, with scores of people killed every single day, many of them - maybe most of them - while queuing for food. Another week of aid being used as a weapon of war against starving Gazans by the Israeli, US-backed, so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Another week of distraction, reframing and excuses by most of the western establishment who...

Middle East: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Cormac Devlin: Like many colleagues in the House, I rise today with a heavy heart. The situation in the Middle East, particularly in Gaza and the West Bank, is an ongoing humanitarian disaster that demands our attention, our compassion and, critically, our action. Let me begin by recalling the horrific events of 7 October, the appalling attacks and murders of innocent people. I reiterate what the...

Middle East: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: The situation in the Middle East, specifically in Gaza and across the occupied Palestinian territories, is beyond tragic; it is catastrophic. Ireland must speak with moral clarity and courage. As I have said before, and as many people in this House have said, what is happening is clearly genocide. Ireland has long supported the two-state solution and advocated for peace but peace...

Middle East: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: I echo my colleagues' sentiments and statements on this. The people of Gaza do not have time left for this Government's dithering and delaying on the implementation of the occupied territories Bill. Seventeen thousand children have been murdered in Gaza by the Israeli genocidal regime. Right now, millions of people in Gaza are being starved to death. They are being shot and murdered while...

Middle East: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Martin Daly: The ongoing conflict in Gaza risks igniting a much wider regional war, an outcome that would be profoundly tragic and destabilising. Gaza remains an open wound festering and poisoning relations, not just between Israel and Palestine, but also between Israel and much of the international community. Ireland has made the situation in the Middle East a central foreign policy priority and we...

Middle East: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: Every day without fail when we turn on our televisions or open our social media accounts, we are met by death on a horrific industrial scale, inflicted by the IDF on the people of Gaza, including on children, healthcare workers and UN workers. There is no line it has not crossed or hospital it has not bombed. The Irish State has been stronger than most. It has verbalised our horror, tried...

Middle East: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: There were two speakers in that slot. One speaker indicated. With the consent of the House I will let that speaker come in later. We will preserve the seven and a half minutes that has not been used. Rachaidh mé ar ais arís go dtí Sinn Féin. Glaoim an Teachta Denise Mitchell.

Middle East: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Denise Mitchell: When it comes to the Middle East, we cannot allow a nuclear-armed rogue state to spread chaos throughout the region. That is why Israel has to be stopped. Chants from a music festival are not the story, the daily mass murder of civilians by Israel is the story. Since Tuesday morning, more than 100 Palestinians have been murdered by Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip. Yesterday, Israel...

Middle East: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I was lucky enough to be in Roe River Books in Dundalk on Friday night. If it were not for the subject matter, I would say Fintan Drury provided a great show. He was there to talk about his new book, Catastrophe - Nakba II. It starts with a quote from Benjamin Netanyahu on 29 December 2022: "The Jewish people have an exclusive and unquestionable right to all areas of the land of Israel ......