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Debate: Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution
Date: TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2023
Speaker: César Luena
Political group: S-D
Country: Italy
Language: ES

Señor presidente, señor alto representante, es verdad que estamos posiblemente en el peor momento desde 1948. Y este debate —decía un colega del PPE— debería aportar soluciones.  La primera, que se consolide este cambio, este giro de la Unión Europea, que ha sido posible gracias a la actitud del señor Borrell, en nombre del Consejo y de la Comisión, pero también de Pedro Sánchez en la Presidencia rotatoria, que ha sido mucho mejor que aquel papelón que hicieron Roberta Metsola y Ursula von der Leyen. Y, después, creo que hay algunas evidencias que el Parlamento tiene que decir de forma más clara. La evidencia del cese del fuego total, del alto el fuego total. Esa evidencia tendríamos que decirla más claramente. Al igual, por cierto, que la de la liberación indiscutible de todos los rehenes.  Creo que el fondo de esta cuestión es que tiene que haber un Estado palestino. Pero no solamente un Estado palestino: tiene que darse el fin de la ocupación y no solo en Gaza, sino también en Cisjordania, que es lo que la sociedad europea demanda y lo que este Parlamento debe decir alto, claro y fuerte.
Debate: Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution
Date: TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2023
Speaker: Barry Andrews
Political group: Renew
Country: Ireland
Language: EN

Mr President, High Representative/Vice-President, in the early 2000s, I was a member of the board of the Holocaust Education Trust in Ireland, dedicated to the fight against antisemitism and learning the lessons of the past. Since then, it’s a source of enormous sadness for me to see Israel drift away from the principles that underpin the Oslo Accords, to see Israel drift away from the path towards a two-state solution, and to see Israel contribute to the erosion of its own constitutional balance, with protests on the streets of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. The events of 7 October of course deserve utter and unambiguous condemnation, including sexual violence. But we have arrived at a situation where Israel’s need has become a moral code, separate and distinct from international humanitarian law and the rules of conflict. The Irish Government has been absolutely clear that there must be an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. I fully support this call. If the EU will not lead, Member States must.
Debate: Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution
Date: TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2023
Speaker: Mounir Satouri
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Germany
Language: FR

Monsieur le Président, chers collègues, je vous le demande sincèrement: qu’est-ce qu’on attend pour demander le cessez-le-feu? Faut-il plus de morts? On en a déjà 17 000. Est-ce qu’il en faut deux fois plus? Trois fois plus? Quatre fois plus? Faut-il encore plus affamer les habitants de Gaza? Ils ne reçoivent déjà plus d’aide, et l’UNRWA n’a plus les moyens. Faut-il plus de journalistes tués? On en a déjà 80. Il en faut combien? Deux fois plus? Trois fois plus? Quatre fois plus? L’Europe des droits de l’homme ne peut pas rester aveugle, muette face aux violations flagrantes des droits de l’homme. Au nom de quoi regarde-t-on, sans rien faire, les violences des colons en Cisjordanie et à Jérusalem-Est? Au nom de quoi laissons-nous Israël défier à ce point le droit international? Si l’Europe tient la solution à deux États, elle doit agir et elle a les moyens de le faire, comme les États-Unis, en demandant des sanctions contre les colons extrémistes. Gelons leurs biens! Il faut mettre l’Europe en conformité avec le droit international sur les produits issus des colonies. Il faut soutenir l’enquête de la CPI. Voilà ce qu’on a à faire de manière urgente, tout de suite, maintenant.
Debate: Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution
Date: TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2023
Speaker: Chris MacManus
Political group: The Left
Country: Austria
Language: EN

Mr President,  It is time the European Parliament shouted ‘Stop!’ We need an immediate ceasefire now. We need the immediate release of all hostages now. We need the international community to intervene and bring all to the negotiating table. We need to sit down for real and meaningful talks that can deliver a two-state solution built on peace and trust. Only then can there be a just and durable peace in the region with a free and sovereign Palestine.
Debate: Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution
Date: TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2023
Speaker: Eugen Tomac
Political group: PPE
Country: France
Language: RO

Domnule președinte, domnule Înalt Reprezentant, nicio crimă nu poate fi, sub nicio formă și în niciun fel, justificată vreodată, însă se împlinesc aproape trei luni de la acest atac sângeros comis de o grupare teroristă căreia nu-i pasă de ceea ce se întâmplă în Israel și nici în Gaza. De aceea, cred că este foarte important să nu deformăm realitatea și să privim cu luciditate la ceea ce se întâmplă acolo. Cei care au provocat acest atac barbar sunt responsabili și de consecințele lui. Vor pace? Toți vrem pace, dar nu se poate în orice condiții și oricum, dintr-un motiv foarte simplu: pentru că acolo sunt încă oameni nevinovați care așteaptă să fie eliberați și trebuie să fim alături de ei pentru a ajuta Israelul în acest moment delicat.
Debate: Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution
Date: TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2023
Speaker: Brando Benifei
Political group: S-D
Country: Italy
Language: IT

Signor Presidente, onorevoli colleghi, a Gaza, in Israele e in Cisgiordania il sangue, il terrore e il caos continuano a essere i veri protagonisti. Serve un cessate il fuoco immediato! Più di 18 000 vittime a Gaza, 137 persone ancora ostaggio di Hamas, ospedali al collasso ovunque. L'85 % della popolazione di Gaza, 1,9 milioni di persone, è sfollato e la città di Rafah, al confine con l'Egitto, è un enorme campo profughi. Regna l'incertezza, manca un impegno chiaro per una via d'uscita. Il veto americano al Consiglio di sicurezza dell'ONU è stato un errore: servono oggi sanzioni contro Hamas, ma anche contro i coloni israeliani responsabili di violenze contro la popolazione palestinese. Alto rappresentante Borrell, non possiamo lasciare Gaza ad Hamas e non possiamo lasciare i suoi abitanti senza una terra. Come Lei ha dichiarato, è arrivato il momento di passare dalle parole ai fatti. L'Europa sta giocando un ruolo importante, ma deve essere ancora più protagonista per riportare al centro la soluzione dei due popoli per due Stati con un piano credibile.
Debate: Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution
Date: TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2023
Speaker: Izaskun Bilbao Barandica
Political group: Renew
Country: Slovakia
Language: ES

Señor presidente, dedicar las más contundentes condenas a los ataques de Hamás del 7 de octubre —espoleta de la penúltima y más grave crisis que se vive en Gaza y Cisjordania en los últimos años— obliga a rechazar con la misma contundencia la ilegal respuesta de Israel para reprimirlos.  Por eso, desde el Derecho, la Corte Penal Internacional debe activar, con la misma celeridad que en Ucrania, su maquinaria de investigación para depurar responsabilidades por acciones que son claramente crímenes de guerra.  Por eso, desde lo político, hay que defender las Resoluciones de las Naciones Unidas y la solución de los dos Estados.  Por eso, desde el plano ético y moral, debemos exigir un alto el fuego inmediato y la liberación de todos los rehenes. Y defender una receta de paz y palabra para detener la escalada. Se trata de reconocer, rechazar y renunciar a la barbarie. Basta con dejar de utilizar la crueldad del otro para justificar la propia.  Así se fraguó la Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos, que cumplió esta semana 75 años.
Debate: Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution
Date: TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2023
Speaker: Ana Miranda
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Italy
Language: PT

Senhor Presidente, «se eu tiver de morrer, quero que vivas para contar a minha história (...) se eu tiver de morrer, que dê esperança, que seja uma história», palavras do poeta de Gaza Refaat Alareer, assassinado por Israel, em 7 de dezembro. O inferno na terra está na Faixa de Gaza. Esta crise de humanidade é insustentável. A realidade é que o genocídio de Israel em Gaza é terrorismo de Estado. A Europa deve anular, Senhor Comissário Borrell, os acordos com Israel e aplicar o embargo de armas. Israel deve ser sancionada por esta guerra. Quanta hipocrisia!  Impedir o acesso à água, destruir hospitais, alimentos e eletricidade vai contra o direito internacional. O direito internacional morreu na Faixa de Gaza. Há que apelar a um cessar—fogo imediato. Há que apelar a um
Debate: Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution
Date: TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2023
Speaker: Mick Wallace
Political group: The Left
Country: Germany
Language: EN

Mr President, this debate calls on Hamas to release all hostages. What about Israel, who have been locking up Palestinians like nobody’s business since 7 October? Israel holds over 7 000 political prisoners, 2 000 of which are held in administrative detention without a time limit, without trial, and without committing an offence. They are hostages. The Israelis must also release all Palestinians held hostage in administrative detention. The US veto at the United Nations Security Council made it perfectly clear that they don’t care how many war crimes they participate in. There will also be no ceasefire until their geostrategic objectives are achieved, namely the India-Middle East-Europe economic corridor that will enter the Mediterranean through northern Gaza. The US effort to counter China’s Belt and Road has been inaugurated and christened in the blood of Palestinian children. As for the two-state solution, it is dead, it is a fig leaf for doing nothing and letting Israel’s terrorist apartheid state continue doing as they do, as we facilitated for years. Only one state with full human rights and equal rights for Palestinians and Israelis will be compatible with international law. We need a permanent ceasefire, not a humanitarian...
Debate: Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution
Date: TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2023
Speaker: Sara Skyttedal
Political group: PPE
Country: Spain
Language: EN

Also, this is a war that started because of terrorism: a war between a democratic state and a terrorist group. But in your upside-down world, you are calling the democratic state the terrorists and not even mentioning the atrocities committed by Hamas. This, my dear colleagues, is a clear example of the batshit-crazy left that does not belong in any elected chamber, let alone this one.
Debate: Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution
Date: TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2023
Speaker: Mick Wallace
Political group: The Left
Country: Germany
Language: EN

Israel is not a democratic state. Stop telling that lie. Jews all over the world are horrified at the Zionist State of Israel at the moment and the Jews all over the world are gathering...
Debate: Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution
Date: TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2023
Speaker: Eleni Stavrou
Political group: PPE
Language: ES

Señor presidente, señorías, he visto la brutalidad de la guerra de Hamás contra los territorios de Israel durante mi visita reciente a la zona de guerra y puedo decir a todos con certeza: hay que eliminar esta organización terrorista. Hamás abrió la caja de Pandora el 7 de octubre y, por desgracia, el drama desde entonces ha sido enorme en Oriente Medio, con un enorme coste humano para la población civil de ambos lados.  Tenemos que proteger a los niños que no tienen la culpa. En medio de todo esto, están también los rehenes inocentes retenidos en los túneles subterráneos que los terroristas han construido. Pedimos la liberación inmediata de todos los rehenes y la rendición de los criminales de Hamás, responsables de esta guerra.  De este modo, cesarán las hostilidades y podremos alcanzar el objetivo de una solución pacífica.
Debate: Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution
Date: TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2023
Speaker: Alex Agius Saliba
Political group: S-D
Country: Malta
Language: MT

Sur President, qabel nibda xtaqt inwassal messaġġ illi talabni nwassal Patri Dijonisju Mintoff, il-fundatur tal-Laboratorju tal-Paċi f’Malta. Il-paċi hija possibbli.  Kif jista’ dan il-Parlament, quddiem ġenoċidju li għaddej fl-Istrippa ta’ Gaża, jibqa’ sieket? Tmintax-il elf ruħ, f’perjodu ta’ ftit ġimgħat, ġew imbiċċra, ġew maqtula. Kif jista’ dan il-Parlament jibqa’ sieket, meta għandek 70% ta’ dawk imbiċċra, dawk maqtula, meta ġew ibbumbardjati kampijiet tar-refuġjati, meta ġew ibbumbardjati sptarijiet, 70% minnhom nisa u tfal innoċenti? Dawn mhumiex Ħamas. Kif jista’ dan il-Parlament jibqa’ sieket, meta fil-West Bank, meta l-iskuża tal-Ħamas jiġru mas-saqajn ma teżistix, kellna mijiet ta’ ċivili Palestinjani li saħansitra ġew maqtula hemmhekk ukoll?  U allura dan il-Parlament għandu jkun kuraġġuż u llum qabel għada jitlob għall-waqfien mill-ġlied b’mod immedjat. Ma nistgħux naħdmu għall-paċi, jekk fl-aħħar mill-aħħar ma nkunux kuraġġużi u nitolbu għal dan il-waqfien mill-ġlied mill-aktar fis possibbli.
Debate: Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution
Date: TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2023
Speaker: José Ramón Bauzá Díaz
Political group: Renew
Country: Spain
Language: ES

Señor presidente, señor alto representante, hace dos meses, el 7 de octubre, terroristas de Hamás, a sueldo de Irán y con la colaboración de Hizbulá, perpetraron la mayor masacre en décadas contra inocentes civiles en Israel. Hemos visto —y yo personalmente he visto— las imágenes de la barbarie, de la brutalidad y del mal en estado puro grabadas por los mismos terroristas que asesinaban a familias enteras en los kibutz y violaban a mujeres y niñas y las paseaban por las calles como escudos y como trofeos humanos.  Hamás ejecutó un plan que lleva décadas planeando: aniquilar el Estado de Israel. Y, precisamente porque es una democracia, es por lo que podemos y debemos pedir y exigir a Israel que cumpla el Derecho humanitario. Sin embargo, algunos están intentando convertir en culpable a quien ha sido una víctima, y la Unión Europea no puede hoy exigir mesas de negociación cuando en los últimos años no ha querido siquiera apoyar o facilitar las conversaciones para la normalización de relaciones entre Israel y los Estados árabes, como los Acuerdos de Abraham.  La ayuda humanitaria es vital para paliar la situación en Gaza y la acción política es clave. Sin embargo, hemos tenido a la actual Presidencia rotatoria del Consejo (la española) y a la siguiente (la belga) tratando de ganar rédito político dando una rueda de prensa en plena tregua. Si queremos verdaderamente contribuir a la solución del conflicto entre Israel y Palestina, nunca puede ser ...
Debate: Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution
Date: TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2023
Speaker: Francisco Guerreiro
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Germany
Language: EN

Mr President, let me be clear: no military solution will solve a political problem, and the numbers show us that reality. More than 18 000 Palestinians were murdered in Gaza. Israel also killed more than 100 UN representatives and 60 journalists. But to achieve peace we need politics, not bombs. Therefore, we need an immediate ceasefire with an exchange of hostages, a political deal to a two-state solution, the end of the Israeli occupation in all Palestine and the sending of UN blue helmets to maintain future peace agreements. Moreover, the EU should establish a Palestine facility mechanism like we are negotiating for Ukraine to rebuild critical infrastructure such as houses, schools, roads and sanitation systems. Again, the solution is political, not militaristic.  To finish, let me send my gratitude to Bisan Wizard and Motaz Azaiza, who are freely reporting from Gaza. Without you and many others, the world would be blind to the crimes against humanity.
Debate: Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution
Date: TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2023
Speaker: Thijs Reuten
Political group: S-D
Country: France
Language: EN

Mr President, High Representative, dear colleagues, I must admit I am, and for a politician it’s strange, but I don’t know what to say anymore. With everything we are seeing. Gazans being told to go south, but even on the way going south, being bombed. People were told a couple of days ago to go west to a peaceful stretch of land at the sea. Where are they safe? How many times have governments from the US to the EU governments put on a critical, serious face, saying it all has to happen within the limits of international law? But who will be saying that it’s not? It’s not! If only for the excessive number of children being killed, if only for the humanitarian catastrophe. And let us remind that the people who were killed on 7 October will not come back. They will not come back. And it was a terrible attack. But this will not make Israel safer. This is not bringing the release of the remaining hostages closer. This is growing yet another generation without a future and without perspective. We need a ceasefire. We need to restart the peace process.
Debate: Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution
Date: TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2023
Speaker: Samira Rafaela
Political group: Renew
Country: Germany
Language: EN

Mr President, the reality of Gaza is that it’s only a strip roughly twice the size of Brussels, one that has been hermetically closed and isolated for almost two decades by sea, land and air. A strip that has seen 67 days of the heaviest forms of violence, trapping and displacing most of its 2.3 million civilians. A strip that is now referred to as the graveyard for children, a strip in which journalists saw their deadliest month ever. One where children have been robbed of their childhood innocence and their parents. Packed, panicked and pressed, people have been forced to flee from north to south and from the south only further south. These are all mass atrocities. It has been 75 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and 75 years since Palestinians have been robbed from basic freedoms. And let me be clear, I fully condemn the atrocious acts by terrorist organisation Hamas. But how will this military campaign free the hostages? How will violence on the West Bank, the expansion of illegal settlements and the imprisonment of children ensure durable peace for the people of Palestine and Israel? The only solution: ceasefire now.
Debate: Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution
Date: TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2023
Speaker: Carina Ohlsson
Political group: S-D
Language: SV

Herr talman! Förra veckan deltog jag i Europaparlamentets mission till Israel och Palestina. Besöket i kibbutzen Kfar Aza tydliggjorde hur civila israeler urskillningslöst och brutalt drabbades av Hamas terrorattacker. Vi kräver att Hamas omedelbart friger alla personer i gisslan. Vi träffade familjer till de som fortfarande har barn, syskon eller partners kidnappade. Det är berättelser som jag alltid kommer att bära med mig.  Från kibbutzen var det bara ett par kilometer till Gaza. Vi kunde tydligt se den tjocka röken och höra Israels bombningar. Israel har rätt att försvara sig i enlighet med folkrätten, men har också en skyldighet att säkerställa skyddet av civila liv. Nu är över 18 000 palestinier dödade och nära 50 000 skadade, många barn och unga. Carl Skau, vice direktör för FNs matprogram, säger att nio av tio människor i Gaza inte kan äta mat varje dag och att hälften av befolkningen svälter.  Den akuta hjälpen ska nå fram och då krävs det en vapenvila. En tvåstatslösning är också den enda realistiska lösningen på en konflikt som pågått alldeles för länge.
Debate: Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution
Date: TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2023
Speaker: Domènec Ruiz Devesa
Political group: S-D
Country: Malta
Language: ES

Señor presidente, gracias al alto representante, Josep Borrell, por haber mantenido desde el principio, ante este conflicto, ante esta escalada, una posición clara, también equilibrada.  Porque soy de la opinión —escuchando el debate que se ha mantenido— que no debería ser objeto de discrepancia entre nosotros el decir que, por supuesto, apoyamos a Israel en su objetivo de desarmar, de desarticular a un grupo terrorista como Hamás, que debe dejar, por supuesto, de controlar la Franja de Gaza, pero que, al mismo tiempo, esto tiene que llevarse a cabo de acuerdo con el Derecho internacional humanitario y, al mismo tiempo, eso quiere también decir que han de respetarse, por supuesto, las leyes de la guerra y evitarse todas las muertes de civiles inocentes en Gaza que se han producido. ¿Por qué esta posición resulta objeto de controversia y de debate por parte de algunos miembros de esta Cámara?  Yo añadiría una cosa: no es mejor amigo del pueblo judío ni del Estado de Israel aquel que jalea y condona los excesos de su Gobierno.
Debate: Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution
Date: TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2023
Speaker: Tomislav Sokol
Political group: PPE
Country: Italy
Language: HR

Poštovani predsjedavajući, nakon što je prije dva mjeseca počinila najveći zločin u povijesti Izraela, teroristička organizacija Hamas još uvijek drži više od 130 zatočenika otetih 7. listopada. K tome, Hamas ne posustaje u izvođenju terorističkih napada na Izrael, među kojima su i nedavni napad na civile u Jeruzalemu. Zato je sramotno da i danas u međunarodnoj zajednici, ali i u ovom Parlamentu, postoje oni koji relativiziraju zločine Hamasa i koji žele izjednačiti krivnju za zvjerske zločine koji su počinjeni.  Zato ovu raspravu trebamo iskoristiti da nedvosmisleno, bez fige u džepu, osudimo terorističke napade koje je Hamas izvodio i još uvijek izvodi te pružimo jasnu podršku Izraelu koji ima pravo i dužnost braniti se.  Dame i gospodo, miran suživot u kontekstu dvodržavnog rješenja neće biti moguć dokle god se ne otkloni kontinuirana teroristička prijetnja koja izraelskom narodu dolazi od strane Hamasa. Također, posebno zabrinjava jačanje radikalnih islamističkih pokreta koji ugrožavaju sigurnost građana u Europskoj uniji i koji diljem europskih metropola pružaju podršku terorizmu Hamasa. Pripadnicima takvih pokreta mjesto nije u Europi niti bi Europa takve pokrete trebala tolerirati.