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Debate: War in the Gaza Strip and the need to reach a ceasefire, including recent developments in the region
Date: TUESDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Maria Walsh
Political group: PPE
Country: Austria
Language: EN

Madam President, over 30 000 lives have been lost over the last 143 days. The citizens of our European Union have spoken continuously, sharing their activism on the streets, speaking out on their social media platforms and leading. And they have been looking for you and I, their political leaders, particularly in the Commission and Council, in the European Union, to lead them. And what are we doing? The consistent and brutal violation of fundamental rights needs to end, and it’s obvious to us all that the violence will not end without USA, EU and UK intervention.  In the name of the Palestinian women and children killed, we demand a permanent ceasefire in the name of the Palestinian women and children killed, we demand immediate humanitarian assistance, in particular food and medical supplies. In the name of the Palestinian women and children, I re-echo the Irish Government’s call to immediately review – may I add, end – the EU-Israel Association Agreement? We are witnessing a genocide. We must lead with our hearts, our humanity...
Debate: War in the Gaza Strip and the need to reach a ceasefire, including recent developments in the region
Date: TUESDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Javi López
Political group: S-D
Country: Belgium
Language: ES

Señora presidenta, señor comisario, en el transcurso de los últimos cuatro meses, en la Franja de Gaza ha habido más asesinatos de periodistas, personal médico y personal de Naciones Unidas que en ningún conflicto hasta la fecha. La devastación de toda la infraestructura en la Franja es absoluta: veinticinco mil fallecidos —el 1 % de la población total— y se ha cortado el acceso a los servicios básicos de toda la población civil. Y no solo eso, sino que ahora se está utilizando el hambre como arma de guerra. Medio millón de gazatíes viven en una situación de falta grave de nutrición. Ante esta situación, no solo insoportable y espeluznante, sino también contraria de forma flagrante al Derecho internacional, reclamamos un alto el fuego inmediato, la liberación de los rehenes y el cumplimiento de las medidas cautelares impuestas por la Corte Penal Internacional —que obviamente tienen que afectar a la exportación de armas a Israel—, el uso del Acuerdo de Asociación como forma para presionar a Israel y la imposición real de una solución política de dos Estados, que va a ser la única solución viable en la región.
Debate: War in the Gaza Strip and the need to reach a ceasefire, including recent developments in the region
Date: TUESDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Klemen Grošelj
Political group: Renew
Country: Hungary
Language: SL

Gospa predsednica, spoštovane kolegice in kolegi! Tragedija, ki smo ji priča v Gazi, po mesecih spopadov nima vojaške rešitve in skrajna stališča, tako pogosto zagovarjana v preteklosti, tudi danes ne prinašajo rešitve ne za Palestince ne za Izraelce.  Ob vsem trpljenju, kateremu smo priča, je prišel čas za diplomatsko rešitev. Doseči moramo takojšnjo prekinitev spopadov, izpustitev vseh talcev, zagotoviti dostop humanitarne pomoči v Gazo. Vzporedno s tem moramo zagnati politično diplomatski proces, začet v Oslu, ki naj vodi do rešitve bližnjevzhodnega vprašanja skladno z načelom dveh držav glede na meje iz leta 1967, ki sobivata v miru in ne ogrožata ena druge. To od obeh strani zahteva, da spremenita svojo politiko.  Izrael mora prekiniti politiko segregacije in gradnje naselbin, Hamas pa mora brezpogojno priznati Izraelu pravico do obstoja in se odreči vsem oblikam terorja in nasilja, odreči se mora tujim pokroviteljem, kot je Iran, ki ne prinaša ničesar dobrega ne Palestincem in ne regiji. In tak se lahko aktivno in v dobri veri vključi v politično-diplomatski proces pomiritve in vzpostavitve dveh držav.
Debate: War in the Gaza Strip and the need to reach a ceasefire, including recent developments in the region
Date: TUESDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Alessandra Moretti
Political group: S-D
Country: Spain
Language: IT

Signora Presidente, onorevoli colleghi, sono state uccise più di 30.000 persone nella Striscia di Gaza da ottobre ad oggi. Abbiamo più volte ribadito che il diritto di Israele di difendersi non può essere vendetta, assedio, massacro di civili innocenti in spregio al diritto internazionale umanitario. La reazione di Israele non può trasformarsi in genocidio, perché anche la guerra ha le sue regole e il governo Netanyahu le ha calpestate tutte.  Dobbiamo continuare a chiedere il cessate il fuoco immediato e incondizionato, che permetta ai civili di ricevere assistenza umanitaria e la liberazione dei 130 ostaggi ancora nelle mani di Hamas. Scendiamo nelle piazze con il coraggio di quei giovani italiani che hanno gridato il loro dolore per la guerra e che, in risposta, hanno subito le manganellate delle forze dell'ordine.  Violenza e manganelli rappresentano il fallimento della politica, dello Stato di diritto, dei governi di destra che, come quello di Netanyahu, anziché lavorare per il dialogo e la pace, hanno sempre seminato odio, intolleranza e violenza.  L'Europa continui a restare il modello di democrazia e libertà capace di proteggere i suoi valori e di portarli nel mondo come segno di civiltà e giustizia.
Debate: War in the Gaza Strip and the need to reach a ceasefire, including recent developments in the region
Date: TUESDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Leszek Miller
Political group: S-D
Country: France
Language: PL

Pani Przewodnicząca! Panie Komisarzu! Nie możemy się spodziewać, że Izraelczycy i Palestyńczycy spotkają się w najbliższym czasie na dwustronnych negocjacjach pokojowych bez silnego zaangażowania i pośrednictwa instytucji międzynarodowych. Stąd też odpowiedzialność, która spoczywa na podmiotach zewnętrznych, takich jak nasza Unia Europejska.  Jest to o tyle uzasadnione, że Międzynarodowy Trybunał Sprawiedliwości orzekł w styczniu tego roku, że Izrael musi podjąć wszelkie niezbędne środki, by zapobiec aktom ludobójstwa w Strefie Gazy. Trybunał przesądził tym samym, że mamy do czynienia z ludobójstwem. Stąd też poważne wyzwanie dla unijnej dyplomacji. Mam na myśli zatrzymanie rozlewu krwi i pomoc dla obu stron w sprawie odbudowy zaufania do siebie i budowy dwu państw w pokoju. Uważam też, że wstrzymanie finansowania UNRWA jest niedopuszczalne.
Debate: War in the Gaza Strip and the need to reach a ceasefire, including recent developments in the region
Date: TUESDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: César Luena
Political group: S-D
Country: Italy
Language: ES

Señora presidenta, yo creo que este debate nos ayuda a sacar algunas conclusiones claras. Creo que debemos centrarnos en exigir la liberación de los rehenes, garantizar la ayuda humanitaria y la presencia del UNRWA —ojo, que Netanyahu está detrás, como sabemos, de retirar esa ayuda— e impedir el alto el fuego inmediato. Esas son las tres conclusiones que creo que podemos sacar, comisario, de este debate. Pero hay otras tres ideas de fondo que creo que son muy importantes. Primero, revisar de verdad el acuerdo de asociación con Israel y, si procede su suspensión, incluso adoptar sanciones. Es decir, le pido que haga caso a la carta que le han mandado los Gobiernos de España y de Irlanda. En segundo lugar, es necesario imponer sanciones a la actitud radical de los colonos. Y, por último, ¿cuál es el problema de fondo? El problema de fondo es la ocupación ilegal de los territorios palestinos. Si de verdad decimos cuál es el fondo de la cuestión es ese y lo que se deriva, que es el verdadero  Por tanto, creo que buscar desde la Unión Europea la solución a fondo, de verdad, de los dos Estados es la única solución que tenemos en este momento.
Debate: War in the Gaza Strip and the need to reach a ceasefire, including recent developments in the region
Date: TUESDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Carina Ohlsson
Political group: S-D
Language: SV

Fru talman! Den humanitära situationen i Gaza är djupt ovärdig. Människor svälter och tvingas äta djurfoder och ogräs för att överleva. Fler än 30 000 palestinier har dödats: 12 300 barn och 8 400 kvinnor. Över 70 000 personer har skadats och 7 000 personer är fortsatt saknade. Antalet civila offer i Gaza, med mycket hög andel barn, är oacceptabelt.  Hamas fruktansvärda terrorattack den 7 oktober inledde Israels oproportionerliga militära svar, och landet utreds nu för det grövsta folkrättsbrottet: folkmord. Respekt för internationell humanitär rätt är absolut ett måste och inte förhandlingsbart. Detta är ett budskap som EU konsekvent har förmedlat till Israel, och Hamas måste ovillkorligen släppa gisslan.  Nu behövs det en omedelbar och permanent vapenvila. Den israeliska ockupationen måste upphöra, och en tvåstatslösning är oundviklig för långsiktig fred i regionen.
Debate: War in the Gaza Strip and the need to reach a ceasefire, including recent developments in the region
Date: TUESDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Milan Zver
Political group: PPE
Language: SL

Spoštovana gospa predsedujoča! Tudi jaz bi se pridružil kolegom, ki sprašujejo, kje je danes gospod Borrell, visoki predstavnik za evropsko varnostno in zunanjo politiko.  Večkrat sem že omenil in obsodil napad Hamasa na izraelsko državo, danes to ponavljam. Jaz mislim, da moramo tudi poudariti pravico Izraela do samoobrambe. Ampak tukaj gre za še en problem, in to je UNRWA, katere osebje je sodelovalo v terorističnih napadih na Izrael. Jaz sem eden tistih, ki meni, da ne smemo financirati te organizacije, te agencije Združenih narodov, dokler ni preiskava zaključena. Mi moramo to agencijo osvoboditi Hamasa, jo narediti neodvisno in šele takrat financirati. Mislim, da je tudi slovenska vlada naredila napako, ko je prehitro že za letos izdatno financirala agencijo Združenih narodov.  Skratka, najprej bo potrebno razčistiti stvari znotraj agencije in šele potem lahko ponovno financiramo – ali pa prevzame kakšna druga agencija – to nalogo.
Debate: War in the Gaza Strip and the need to reach a ceasefire, including recent developments in the region
Date: TUESDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Milan Brglez
Political group: S-D
Country: France
Language: SL

Navkljub temu Izrael očitno še naprej izvaja kolektivno kaznovanje nad palestinskimi civilisti, otroki in ženskami ter je pripravljen izvesti ofenzivo na Rafo, kar lahko zaradi nesorazmernosti razumemo kot izvajanje vojnih zločinov, zločinov proti človečnosti in genocida. Mnoge države, ki mu pri tem pomagajo in ga podpirajo, so soodgovorne za izraelske zločine. Soodgovorne so in bodo tudi številne vlade, ki so ustavile finančno podporo Agenciji Združenih narodov za pomoč palestinskim beguncem in s tem ohromile njeno humanitarno delovanje.  Zato smo danes na točki preloma. Evropske unije kot projekta miru ni in ne bo več brez polnega spoštovanja mednarodnega prava ter humanitarne pomoči Palestincem.
Debate: War in the Gaza Strip and the need to reach a ceasefire, including recent developments in the region
Date: TUESDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Billy Kelleher
Political group: Renew
Country: Denmark
Language: EN

Madam President, there’s calls in this house for funding to be suspended from UNRWA, and there is proof that maybe up to five people were some way complicit with the attacks on 7 October. Yet, the Israeli Defence Forces and its government are in Gaza at the moment, pillaging and plundering and murdering people, according to the International Court of Justice, according to international law and according to humanitarian law and just a basic human decency. And yet we have people in this House calling for funding to be cut from UNRWA, which is supporting and maintaining the lives of ordinary citizens in Gaza. And at the same time, we have a trade association with Israel with favourable conditions and nobody – nobody – is questioning whether or not we should maintain that link. It is shameful that this House cannot even condemn what is happening! And then we go along and with spite call for the withdrawal of funding from UNRWA. We sincerely owe an awful lot more to the people of Gaza. And I hope that everybody in this Chamber will support the reintroduction of funding to UNRWA, so that children and those that are most vulnerable in Gaza at the moment have their basic access to humanitarian aid.
Debate: War in the Gaza Strip and the need to reach a ceasefire, including recent developments in the region
Date: TUESDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Marc Botenga
Political group: The Left
Country: France
Language: FR

Madame la Présidente, au téléphone avec les secours, la petite Hind, fille palestinienne de six ans, est terrifiée: «J’ai tellement peur. S’il vous plaît, venez, venez me chercher. Vous allez venir me chercher?» En voiture avec sa famille, ils fuient les bombes israéliennes. Ils ont croisé un char israélien. Son oncle s’est mis de côté, mais les soldats israéliens ont quand même tiré et Hind se retrouve alors coincée dans la voiture, au milieu des corps de sa famille tuée. Puis l’appel est interrompu. Son corps sera récupéré quelques jours plus tard. Je n’oublierai jamais la voix au téléphone de Hind. Sa mort illustre à elle seule le caractère génocidaire de la guerre qu’Israël est en train de mener. Et je n’oublierai pas non plus que cette maison, cette Union européenne, n’a pas appelé à cesser les exportations d’armes vers Israël. Quelle complicité, quelle honte inhumaine!
Debate: War in the Gaza Strip and the need to reach a ceasefire, including recent developments in the region
Date: TUESDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Margrete Auken
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Denmark
Language: DA

Fru formand! Jeg vil sige, at det har været en rigtig god debat i dag, hvor så mange har givet støtte til, at massakren i Gaza skal stoppe nu, og at vi skal i gang med en tostatsløsning. Men én ting har været skræmmende, og det er, hvor få der har talt om, at der kom så klar en dom fra Den Internationale Domstol for en måned siden – meget klar – med et krav om, at bombardementerne skulle stoppe – hvis man altså kunne læse – med et krav om, at der straks skulle meget mere hjælp ind i Gaza. Og det var tydeligt, at det her, det var jo nærmest en enstemmig dom. Og så at opleve, at det er som om, at man tager det som et bidrag i debatten, at der er kommet sådan en dom fra Den Internationale Domstol – vores allervigtigste instrument i folkeretten. Altså, det er en trussel, som er nok så alvorlig imod os alle sammen, hvis man ignorere Den Internationale Domstol. Og det er jo med til at bidrage til, at vi i det globale syd i øst bliver set som nogle hyklere, der reelt ikke selv tager folkeretten alvorligt. Jeg håber, at der straks sker noget fra EU's side og fra vores medlemslandes. Mit eget er ikke bedre.
Debate: War in the Gaza Strip and the need to reach a ceasefire, including recent developments in the region
Date: TUESDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Lefteris Nikolaou-Alavanos
Political group: NI
Country: Germany
Language: EL

Κυρία Πρόεδρε, 30 000 νεκροί, μεταξύ τους 13 000 παιδιά, 70 000 σακατεμένοι· 30 μέρες χωρίς ανθρωπιστική βοήθεια, σύμφωνα με την UNRWA: ο τραγικός απολογισμός της ισραηλινής θηριωδίας στη Γάζα. Οι κατοχικές δυνάμεις έχουν περικυκλώσει τη Ράφα, καταφύγιο πάνω του ενός εκατομμυρίου αμάχων, και ετοιμάζονται να χτυπήσουν. Βομβαρδίζουν πλέον και στον ανατολικό Λίβανο, επεκτείνοντας τη δίνη του πολέμου.  Για πάνω από 140 μέρες που διαρκεί η γενοκτονία, η Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση, κυβερνήσεις και το Ευρωπαϊκό Κοινοβούλιο στηρίζουν ξεδιάντροπα το κράτος-δολοφόνο του Ισραήλ. Αρνούνται οποιαδήποτε αναφορά σε άμεση, άνευ όρων κατάπαυση του πυρός. Μαζί με τις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες, τη Βρετανία και το ΝΑΤΟ προετοιμάζουν στρατιωτική επιχείρηση στην Ερυθρά Θάλασσα, εγκυμονώντας νέους κινδύνους για γενικότερη ανάφλεξη, με την Ελλάδα συντονιστή, κατά κοινή απαίτηση της Νέας Δημοκρατίας, του ΣΥΡΙΖΑ και του ΠΑΣΟΚ.  Οι λαοί της Ευρώπης με την αλληλεγγύη τους δίνουν δύναμη στον παλαιστινιακό αγώνα για τη μόνη πραγματική διέξοδο: τον τερματισμό της σφαγής και της ισραηλινής κατοχής, ένα ανεξάρτητο παλαιστινιακό κράτος με πρωτεύουσα την ανατολική Ιερουσαλήμ στα σύνορα του 1967.
Debate: War in the Gaza Strip and the need to reach a ceasefire, including recent developments in the region
Date: TUESDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Mick Wallace
Political group: The Left
Country: Germany
Language: EN

 Madam President, over 12 000 Gazan children murdered in a few months. UNICEF warns that the Gaza Strip is about to see an explosion in preventable child deaths that will compound the already unbearable level of child deaths in Gaza. We have been warning for weeks that the Gaza Strip is on the brink of a nutrition crisis. Food deliveries are drastically inadequate. UN experts said last week that Palestinian women and girls continue to be raped, tortured and executed by the Israeli military in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Women and children are being arbitrarily executed by the IDF. The Israelis are brazenly ignoring the binding ICJ court orders to halt the threat of genocide against the people of Gaza. Israel is failing to comply with its obligations under the Genocide Convention and yesterday the EPP won a vote to take the reference to the ICJ ruling off the agenda. The European Parliament is engaging in genocidal denial. We are watching the total destruction of place, designed to obliterate past, present and future for Palestinians. This is pure evil and a genocide.
Debate: War in the Gaza Strip and the need to reach a ceasefire, including recent developments in the region
Date: TUESDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Clare Daly
Political group: The Left
Country: France
Language: EN

Madam President, on 26 January, the International Court of Justice ruled that there’s a plausible risk of genocide in Gaza. It ordered Israel to stop killing civilians. Israel continued. The legal obligations on EU Member States are very clear. The genocide conventions require states to avoid complicity, the EU common position on arms exports bans exporting arms where there’s a clear risk they’ll be used to violate international law, and the UN has warned that such transfers must cease. Yet, France dissembles, hiding behind secrecy and Israeli assurances, while Germany has increased its exports tenfold last year, 90% since 7 October. Ireland doesn’t even ask Butcher Biden what’s coming through Shannon Airport from the US on the way to the Middle East. What sort of people are ye?  In 1982, arch-conservative, pro-Israelis Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan stopped arms to Israel during a war. But in 2024, European Greens, Social Democrats and Liberals are arming a genocide. Shame on ye! International law and humanity requires lethal arms to Israel must stop now.
Debate: War in the Gaza Strip and the need to reach a ceasefire, including recent developments in the region
Date: TUESDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: João Pimenta Lopes
Political group: The Left
Country: Romania
Language: PT

Senhora Presidente, as Instituições da UE continuam impávidas, intervindo retoricamente enquanto assistimos à barbárie em Gaza. Cumplicidade, hipocrisia, cinismo. Tal é a gravidade da agressão, que a África do Sul apresentou uma queixa contra Israel no Tribunal Internacional de Justiça por risco de genocídio. Mais de 100 000 vítimas, na sua maioria mulheres e crianças, a destruição de todas as infraestruturas essenciais, a imposição de um criminoso bloqueio que impede a ajuda humanitária, que priva de bens essenciais a população palestiniana na Faixa de Gaza, impondo a mais de 2 milhões de deslocados a inanição, a doença, o sofrimento, a morte.  Valorizamos os 108 deputados que apelaram às Instituições da UE o reforço do apoio à UNRWA, cuja ação é tão mais urgente e importante. Os que lhe cortam apoios são cúmplices da atrocidade contra o povo palestiniano. O Senhor Comissário referiu a previsão de mais de 65 000 mortos, enquanto centenas de camiões humanitários se acumulam às portas de Rafah. De que estão, então, à espera para reforçar os apoios à UNRWA? Para exigirem um cessar-fogo imediato permanente e a garantia de ajuda humanitária? Para reconhecer o Estado da Palestina?
Debate: War in the Gaza Strip and the need to reach a ceasefire, including recent developments in the region
Date: TUESDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Alfred Sant
Political group: S-D
Country: Denmark
Language: EN

How Israel has done this, however, should be condemned. War has been conducted by the Israeli Government in a totally disproportionate manner against the Palestinian people living in Gaza, whom it has controlled in an authoritarian manner for the last decades. In breach of the rules of war, there has been a total disregard for civilian casualties, which have reached disastrous levels, with most being women and children. Israeli claims that civilian deaths are inevitable collateral damage or due to Hamas using civilians as buffers are not tenable. Indeed, they give credence to counter-claims that the Israeli strategy is defined by revenge and carries a genocidal intent, within the context of Israel having degenerated into an apartheid state. The attempt by Israel to blank UNRWA out of the situation heightens the credence of such statements. To be coherent with its proclaimed values, the EU should give concrete expression to a condemnation of Israeli actions by immediately suspending the Israeli-EU association agreement and advising Member States against the supply of war material to that country.
Debate: Corrigendum
Date: TUESDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Dita Charanzová
Country: France
Language: EN

I have a short announcement before we continue with the debates. Pursuant to Rule 241(4) of the Rules of Procedure, I would like to inform you that there was no request to put to the vote the corrigendum from the ITRE Committee, announced in plenary yesterday at the opening of the sitting. The corrigendum is therefore deemed to have been approved.
Debate: Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report
Date: TUESDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Dita Charanzová
Country: France
Language: EN

The next item is the debate on the report by Nacho Sánchez Amor, on behalf of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, on Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2023 (
Debate: Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report
Date: TUESDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Leopoldo López Gil
Political group: PPE
Country: Ireland
Language: ES

El declive del respeto de los derechos humanos acompaña al aumento de los conflictos globales e internos. Señalamos el conflicto entre Israel y Palestina o la agresión injustificada de Rusia a Ucrania. Ambos tienen en común el impacto sobre la población civil, en especial sobre mujeres, ancianos y niños. Particularmente sobre estos últimos, que ven su futuro completamente destruido y sin oportunidades en estas traumáticas circunstancias. Termino refiriéndome a una región con una importancia destacada para mí: América Latina. Esta región ha visto dramáticamente menoscabados sus índices democráticos en los últimos treinta años con un aumento de las autocracias reflejado en la destrucción de las garantías constitucionales de los ciudadanos, la desaparición del Estado de Derecho y la extinción de la independencia de los poderes judiciales. Esta situación social ha llevado a estos a esta región, que anteriormente era una de las más prósperas del mundo, a niveles desorbitados de pobreza, hambre y migración de sus poblaciones. Desde el Parlamento Europeo, seguiremos haciendo seguimiento de estas situaciones con los informes anuales de derechos humanos y democracia en el mundo solo para dar respuesta a estos acontecimientos con políticas que estén a la altura de estos retos. Ojalá lo podamos lograr.