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Debate: Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need to reach a ceasefire and the risks of regional escalation
Date: TUESDAY, 16 JANUARY 2024
Speaker: Javi López
Political group: S-D
Country: Belgium
Language: ES

Señor presidente, señor comisario, el mundo vive impotente ante una catástrofe humanitaria de magnitud descomunal en la Franja de Gaza. Una tragedia que no puede justificarse por los atroces ataques cometidos por Hamás el pasado 7 de octubre y que este Parlamento ya ha condenado con firmeza. Hoy somos testigos de bombardeos indiscriminados por parte de Israel sobre población civil, de ataques sobre hospitales e infraestructuras críticas, de una grave hambruna, de la escasez de medicamentos o del desplazamiento forzoso de dos millones de ciudadanos que están atrapados en el infierno. Por eso, este Parlamento hoy tiene que exigir un alto el fuego permanente, en línea con lo ya demandado por una abrumadora mayoría de los miembros de la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas. Una solución política, que pase por dos Estados, mediante una conferencia internacional de paz que acabe con el círculo vicioso, sin fin, de violencia y sufrimiento y un apoyo firme a los trabajos de la Corte Internacional de Justicia, porque las guerras también tienen normas y nadie está exento de cumplirlas. Hoy no solo está en juego la estabilidad en la región en Gaza, también está en juego la credibilidad de Europa como actor global.
Debate: Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need to reach a ceasefire and the risks of regional escalation
Date: TUESDAY, 16 JANUARY 2024
Speaker: Sophia in 't Veld
Political group: Renew
Country: Poland
Language: EN

Mr President, I wish that we could see the suffering and trauma through the prism of our humanity. The images of children in particular are unbearable. And this is not a matter of being on one side or the other. It’s human suffering. Human trauma. We need an immediate and lasting ceasefire, and long-term peace and security will not be ever achieved without a two-state solution. That is an illusion.  I would like to highlight two specific points. One is the fate of journalists. A record number of journalists have been killed, injured, assaulted or arrested in this conflict. And that means that we get less and less information about the situation on the ground. Israel must do everything. It must do much more to protect journalists. And allegations of targeted violence and killing of journalists by Israeli forces must be urgently investigated by an independent body. And finally, Europe and the US have criticised calls by senior government ministers for voluntary emigration from Gaza. But criticism is not enough. Government ministers are not random bystanders and if Netanyahu does not dismiss them, his claim of self-defence sounds even more hollow.
Debate: Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need to reach a ceasefire and the risks of regional escalation
Date: TUESDAY, 16 JANUARY 2024
Speaker: Ciarán Cuffe
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Ireland
Language: EN

In Northern Ireland, 3 500 people died over the 30 years of our conflict. In Gaza, that number have died in a little over the last two weeks. So many innocent civilians; most are women and children. Netanyahu must go. He, and his government, must pay the price for breaching international law. The relentless bombing is preventing precious aid and medical supplies from getting into Gaza. Children are being operated on without anaesthesia. It is time for concrete EU actions, including economic sanctions and banning the sale of Israeli settlement goods. Diplomatic pressure to end human rights abuses and redoubling efforts to release the hostages and achieve a ceasefire. We cannot look away.
Debate: Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need to reach a ceasefire and the risks of regional escalation
Date: TUESDAY, 16 JANUARY 2024
Speaker: Tonino Picula
Political group: S-D
Country: France
Language: EN

Mr President, the humanitarian situation in Gaza continues, and we must keep this urgent topic on our agenda. Along with our strongest condemnation of the events on 7 October, we reiterate our calls to Hamas to realise to release all the remaining hostages.  The ongoing conflict has become regional, accompanied with even more significant global implications. These will mostly be to the detriment of the European Union. Humanitarian aid cannot be part of political games. Instead, it must be based on clear conditionality rules that are being respected. Further to the facilitation of humanitarian aid, we need a political solution and the ceasing of the series of military actions that continue causing civilian victims. Every country, including Israel, has the right to defend itself within the limits of international law. The only viable, hopefully feasible solution is for two sovereign and democratic states living side by side in peace and security. The European Union should mobilise all its efforts to achieve it.
Debate: Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need to reach a ceasefire and the risks of regional escalation
Date: TUESDAY, 16 JANUARY 2024
Speaker: Salima Yenbou
Political group: Renew
Country: Spain
Language: FR

Monsieur le Président, 1 139 Israéliens tués dont 36 enfants. 24 000 Gazaouis tués dont 8 000 enfants, et plus de 60 000 blessés, presque tous privés de soins. Des milliers de Gazaouis disparus, 100 journalistes tués, 1 million de déplacés, plus de la moitié des hôpitaux de Gaza à l’arrêt, 70 % des habitations endommagées ou détruites par les bombardements, 136 otages israéliens toujours disparus, une famine imminente selon l’ONU et un risque d’escalade et de propagation du conflit sur toute la région à son paroxysme. Ce désastre s’est déroulé sous nos yeux en seulement 100 jours. C’est un drame absolu et nous ne pouvons pas nous résoudre à attendre que l’armée israélienne termine bientôt sa phase intensive, comme annoncé. Nous appelons à un cessez-le-feu immédiat pour mettre un terme à la destruction de Gaza et du peuple gazaoui, pour venir en aide aux civils et aux blessés, pour la libération de l’ensemble des otages, pour stopper l’embrasement de cette région et pour enfin construire les fondements d’une solution de paix durable par la création d’un État palestinien selon les frontières de 1967 avec Jérusalem comme capitale partagée. «
Debate: Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need to reach a ceasefire and the risks of regional escalation
Date: TUESDAY, 16 JANUARY 2024
Speaker: Sergey Lagodinsky
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: France
Language: EN

Mr President, we are mourning for countless Palestinian innocent victims. So many children. So many civilians. We are mourning for Israeli victims of Hamas pogroms. Baked babies, women raped to death again and again. Committed by a criminal organisation now hiding behind Palestinian children. Shooting missiles on Israeli civilian cities. We need to ask ourselves where our responsibility lies, for more humanitarian aid, more pressure on Israel to make this humanitarian aid accessible for more restraint of Israel and more humanitarian law respect. Our responsibility for being too passive in any attempts to reach a durable and just two-state solution. During the last years, our responsibility for tolerating Hamas, a leadership in Gaza with a genocidal ideology, and our responsibility today to help Palestinians, but not by pouring fuel into fire by using unverified figures, with populist TikTok diplomacy, which helps to get more likes rather than more help for Palestinians. We must engage immediately in the region for a durable two-state solution, instead of projecting our own demons on victims of our own European genocides.
Debate: Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need to reach a ceasefire and the risks of regional escalation
Date: TUESDAY, 16 JANUARY 2024
Speaker: Barry Andrews
Political group: Renew
Country: Ireland
Language: EN

Madam President, Commissioner, colleagues. We should never tire of condemning Hamas and the way in which they have conducted this war with no regard whatsoever for the civilians in Gaza.  However, I want to focus on the humanitarian situation. Israel has blamed variously the United Nations, the Egyptian authorities, NGOs and Gazans themselves for the failure to deliver humanitarian aid, blaming – and I quote – ‘the capability of the international organisations inside Gaza to receive this aid’. The facts on the ground do not bear this out. Israel operates a dual-use list that it has not published, and no humanitarian organisation has had sight of. Trucks previously cleared for entry can be turned back arbitrarily if a single item is rejected. For example, absurdly, a tent pole in an Irish aid consignment, the entire consignment has to go back and be unloaded and reloaded.  There are those who say, ‘let’s talk positively’, ‘what are the positive proposals’? But Israel has repeatedly rejected calls to internationalise the inspection process. It is therefore impossible not to conclude that Israel is deliberately frustrating the distribution of humanitarian aid. We need a ceasefire immediately.
Debate: Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need to reach a ceasefire and the risks of regional escalation
Date: TUESDAY, 16 JANUARY 2024
Speaker: Tomislav Sokol
Political group: PPE
Country: Italy
Language: HR

Poštovana predsjedavajuća, sto dana je prošlo otkad je teroristička organizacija Hamas počinila najveći zločin u povijesti Izraela, a još uvijek dobivamo informacije o kontinuiranim terorističkim napadima koje oni izvode. Unatoč tome, glasni su oni, a to čujemo i danas ovdje, koji relativiziraju zločine koje je počinio Hamas i žele izjednačiti krivnju za rat na koji je Izrael prisiljen. Ovu raspravu stoga trebamo iskoristiti da bismo još jednom oštro osudili Hamasove zločine i pozvali međunarodnu zajednicu da pruži jasnu i nedvosmislenu podršku Izraelu i njegovom pravu na samoobranu. A treba biti potpuno jasno: nema opstanka i sigurnosti za Izrael bez potpunog uništenja Hamasa i svih njegovih pristalica. Naravno, potrebno je činiti sve da se izbjegnu civilne žrtve, ali isto tako moramo jasno reći da je krivac za te žrtve Hamas, koji se uporno skriva iza žena i djece. Međutim, ono što posebno zabrinjava je jačanje radikalnog islamizma ovdje u Europskoj uniji i njezinim metropolama. Neugodno iznenađuje toleriranje koje iskazujemo prema takvim skupinama koje se, iskazujući mržnju, slobodno okupljaju i marširaju europskim gradovima. Stoga pozivam na nultu toleranciju prema okupljanjima radikalnih islamističkih skupina u Europskoj uniji koje šire mržnju i… (
Debate: Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need to reach a ceasefire and the risks of regional escalation
Date: TUESDAY, 16 JANUARY 2024
Speaker: Maria Arena
Political group: S-D
Country: Belgium
Language: FR

Madame la présidente, chers collègues, la situation tragique qui se déroule aujourd'hui sous nos yeux à Gaza depuis plus de 100 jours est une situation qui peut être qualifiée au mieux de punition collective à l'égard de la population, au pire de risque de génocide. Comme je l'ai dit, bien sûr, nous devons condamner le Hamas pour les actes qu'il a commis le 7 octobre, et nous l'avons fait d'ailleurs dans le cadre de ce Parlement. Mais la réponse militaire disproportionnée d'Israël à l'égard du peuple gazaoui est inacceptable et en violation totale du droit international.  Et par conséquent, nous devons soutenir la Cour de justice internationale pour que tous ces crimes, tous, ne puissent rester impunis. Nous devons demander le cessez-le-feu permanent pour que les otages puissent être libérés, pour que l'aide humanitaire puisse arriver et pour que l'escalade s'arrête. Et enfin, nous devons utiliser nos instruments qui sont les accords d'association. Nous avons un accord d'association qui est basé sur l'article deux avec Israël et qui dit qu'Israël doit respecter les droits de l'homme. Aujourd'hui, nous en sommes loin et nous avons la possibilité d'activer cet article deux pour cesser cet accord d'association.
Debate: Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need to reach a ceasefire and the risks of regional escalation
Date: TUESDAY, 16 JANUARY 2024
Speaker: Billy Kelleher
Political group: Renew
Country: Denmark
Language: EN

Madam President, we must continue to condemn Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran. Israel claims to be a democratic country acting in self-defence, but at this stage, 24 000 Palestinians lie dead in Gaza. We have done nothing to condemn what is happening there. We can’t even agree to a ceasefire in this particular Chamber. We can’t even get humanitarian aid to those that are suffering. There is now potential famine, hunger, disease, no access to basic medications. And we still cannot condemn Israel’s actions of massive proportions against the civilian population of Gaza. Let us be very clear: what happened on 7 October was appalling. But what has been happening to the Palestinian people for decades is appalling and is a crime against humanity. Again, the European Union and the Member States have never, ever held Israel to account in its breach of the Oslo Accords, its breach of establishing a two-state solution and its breach of ensuring that ...
Debate: Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need to reach a ceasefire and the risks of regional escalation
Date: TUESDAY, 16 JANUARY 2024
Speaker: Stelios Kouloglou
Political group: The Left
Country: Sweden
Language: EN

Madam President, I am surprised that some people are only crying about the Israeli victims – correctly, they are crying – but they are saying nothing about the massacres of thousands of Palestinians.  But this is not my point right now. The point is that the European Union is losing another opportunity to play a role in international affairs by not following the United States, by not supporting or tolerating this war criminal, Netanyahu – who is staying in power as long as the war is continuing, because if the war stops he will be judged for corruption.  So let’s support South Africa, which brought the case of genocide to the International Court of Justice, and let’s ask for an immediate ceasefire.
Debate: Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need to reach a ceasefire and the risks of regional escalation
Date: TUESDAY, 16 JANUARY 2024
Speaker: Fabio Massimo Castaldo
Political group: NI
Country: France
Language: IT

Signora Presidente, onorevoli colleghi, mentre noi discutiamo in quest'Aula a Gaza si consuma una tragedia da 23 000 morti: civili palestinesi, donne, anziani, bambini. Come definireste dover operare bambini da amputare senza anestesia, se non un crimine contro l'umanità? Gaza oggi è un inferno dove non esistono diritti, dove non c'è diritto neanche alla speranza. I nostri 125 milioni di assistenza umanitaria sono una misera goccia in un mare di sofferenza. Sì, il terrorismo di Hamas va combattuto senza quartiere, così come le violenze dei coloni e ogni forma di punizione collettiva, che è un crimine. Non basta quello che stiamo facendo, non può bastare per lavare le nostre coscienze! Serve lavorare senza tregua per un cessate il fuoco immediato. Hamas deve liberare tutti gli ostaggi in cambio del ritiro delle truppe israeliane dalla Striscia. Solo allora potremo costruire un tavolo negoziale credibile, che escluda i primi nemici del popolo israeliano – cioè Hamas – e avere due nuove leadership, da un lato e dall'altro, legittimate finalmente ad affrontare le cause profonde di decenni di violenza e di sangue, a ottenere finalmente uno Stato palestinese che possa vivere in pace insieme a quello israeliano. Il costo della non-azione sarebbe drammatico e inaccettabile non solo per la tragedia umanitaria, ma per la possibile deflagrazione regionale: Libano, Yemen, Mar Rosso, forse intero Medio Oriente... (
Debate: Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need to reach a ceasefire and the risks of regional escalation
Date: TUESDAY, 16 JANUARY 2024
Speaker: Eleni Stavrou
Political group: PPE
Language: EL

Κυρία Πρόεδρε, μας τσακίζουν οι απώλειες αμάχων, οι οποίες πρέπει να περιοριστούν όσο το δυνατόν περισσότερο. Οφείλουμε να στηρίξουμε την παροχή ανθρωπιστικής βοήθειας για τον αθώο πληθυσμό της Λωρίδας της Γάζας, μέχρι να απαλλαγεί από τον ζυγό των τρομοκρατών της Χαμάς. Την ευθύνη για τις απώλειες των αμάχων που μαυρίζουν τις καρδιές μας φέρει η Χαμάς, που ενορχήστρωσε τις φρικτές επιθέσεις στις 7 Οκτωβρίου. Αυτές οι επιθέσεις προκάλεσαν την αντίδραση του Ισραήλ, που έχει κάθε δικαίωμα να υπερασπιστεί τη χώρα του και την ασφάλεια των πολιτών του. Ακόμη και σήμερα 136 άνθρωποι παραμένουν όμηροι στα ατέλειωτα τούνελ που οι τρομοκράτες έκτισαν κάτω από τη Γάζα. Το Ισραήλ προσπαθεί να καταστρέψει την απάνθρωπη αυτή ιδεολογία που καλεί τους ακόλουθούς της στο σκότος και το θάνατο και που εποφθαλμιά την ελευθερία των σύγχρονων κοινωνιών μας, με στήριξη από τον γνωστό άξονα του κακού, το Ιράν, τη Ρωσία και την Τουρκία.
Debate: Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need to reach a ceasefire and the risks of regional escalation
Date: TUESDAY, 16 JANUARY 2024
Speaker: Milan Brglez
Political group: S-D
Country: France
Language: SL

Spoštovana predsednica! Sem na strani mednarodnega prava. Po mojem bi morala to biti tudi Evropska unija in Evropski parlament. Zato podpiram tožbo Južne Afrike proti Izraelu pred Meddržavnim sodiščem glede uporabe Konvencije o preprečevanju in kaznovanju zločina genocida v Gazi, zahtevo Generalne skupščine Združenih narodov za svetovalno mnenje Meddržavnega sodišča o pravnih posledicah, ki izhajajo iz izraelskih politik in praks na okupiranih palestinskih ozemljih, vključno z Vzhodnim Jeruzalemom, ter vse postopke pred mednarodnim kazenskim sodiščem, ki potekajo zaradi izraelskih in Hamasovih zločinov. Že večkrat sem povedal, da eni zločini ne morejo opravičevati drugih in da moramo vse zločince preganjati in kaznovati. Južna Afrika pa v tem trenutku pravno brani čast človeštva, ker zahod dopušča Izraelu nesorazmerno zlorabo samoobrambe. Z zahodom mislim, zlasti Združene države Amerike, pa žal tudi Evropsko unijo. Vsekakor se moramo humanitarno postaviti na stran palestinskih žrtev in izraelskih talcev in jim pomagati ter sankcionirati zločince.
Debate: Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need to reach a ceasefire and the risks of regional escalation
Date: TUESDAY, 16 JANUARY 2024
Speaker: Mick Wallace
Political group: The Left
Country: Germany
Language: EN

Madam President, 100 days of international inaction. 100 days of double standards. 100 days of Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians. Over 24 000 innocent civilians dead, over 10 000 of them children, many thousands still under the rubble – and youse are wondering if this is a genocide? Almost 2 million displaced and still being bombed. Hospitals, churches, mosques, bakeries, apartments bombed – and you’re still wondering if this is a genocide? Not one EU country stood by South Africa. Germany is said to have committed the first genocide of the 20th century in Namibia. Namibia’s president has denounced Berlin’s shocking decision to reject South Africa’s indictment. What’s happened to Germany? I’ve admired Germany most of my life. Now they’ve lost the plot. They’ve been the cheerleaders for fuelling the war in Ukraine, at great cost to their own economy. Now they’re the cheerleaders of the settler colonial Zionist project, and supporting a genocide. Has Germany learnt nothing from its own history?!
Debate: Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need to reach a ceasefire and the risks of regional escalation
Date: TUESDAY, 16 JANUARY 2024
Speaker: Janez Lenarčič
Language: EN

First, on the humanitarian front, the EU is the leading provider of humanitarian funding for Gaza and for Palestinians in general. This shall remain so. And we shall not tire of calling for respect for international humanitarian law, in particular protection of civilians, unconditional release of hostages and unfettered provision of humanitarian aid throughout Gaza to all people who need it. Second, the EU is committed to playing an active role to prevent the escalation of this conflict region-wide. I would like to recall that earlier this month, High Representative Borrell travelled to the region precisely with this ambition. Third, the EU is also committed to playing an active role in pursuit of lasting peace in the region based on a two-state solution, and we are already working on the scenarios for the day after. But let me underline one particular point. It would help us and increase our leverage if there were one voice with which the European Union would speak, including the strong voice of this House. That would increase our leverage, that would facilitate our playing an active and effective role in this region. We do hope that it would also bring closer the so-called day after. It is clear that for the day after, there shall be no place for Hamas to rule in Gaza or anywhere else. And for the day after, there should be a reinvigorated Palestinian Authority able to take over Gaza. We’ll continue to engage with our regional and international partners on all that, and we do remain committed to a lasting and sustainable peace based on a two-state solution and we are ready to reinvigorate all efforts to revive the Middle East peace process.
Debate: Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need to reach a ceasefire and the risks of regional escalation
Date: TUESDAY, 16 JANUARY 2024
Speaker: Hadja Lahbib
Language: EN

In parallel, and as and as I said in my introduction, we will step up our work on alleviating the suffering of civilians in Gaza and elsewhere. We will renew our efforts to prevent further escalation and finding a way out of the current crisis. We will prepare the ground for a lasting and sustainable regional peace, and the only way for that is a two-state solution based on international parameters.  We take note of South Africa’s application to the International Court of Justice, instituting proceedings against the State of Israel concerning alleged violations by Israel of its obligations under the 1948 Genocide Convention in relation to the Palestine Palestinian people in Gaza. The ICJ is currently holding public hearings on South Africa’s request for the indication of provisional measures. The EU cannot be a party to, or intervene in, a contentious case before the ICJ. The EU is firmly committed to the rules-based international order. As a principal judicial organ of the United Nations, the ICJ is a pillar thereof and has a vital role to play in the peaceful settlement of disputes.  La situation au Moyen-Orient était déjà une priorité essentielle de la présidence belge avant l’attaque du 7 octobre, et elle figure désormais plus que jamais en tête de nos priorités du Conseil. La Belgique devait accueillir à Bruxelles l’initiative «Peace Day Effort» proposée par la Ligue arabe, l’Union européenne, l’Arabie saoudite, sous le patronage de l’Égypte et de la Jordanie. Nous espérons qu’une telle initiative verra le jour bientôt à Bruxelles et que les conditions seront réunies pour relancer un processus de négociations politiques. Nous comptons sur votre soutien pour nous aider à atteindre cet objectif. Dans ce conflit, le plus difficile, pour notre Union, est d’être unis et de parler d’une seule voix, la voix du droit international, la seule voie possible pour la paix.
Debate: Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need to reach a ceasefire and the risks of regional escalation
Date: TUESDAY, 16 JANUARY 2024
Speaker: Heidi Hautala
Country: Poland
Language: FI

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