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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: Reinhard Bütikofer
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Italy
Language: EN

Mr President, HR/VP, colleagues, I will try to follow your advice, Josep Borrell, and talk without emotions. There’s a lot that I would criticise or do criticise about the way in which the Netanyahu government conducts this self-defence against Hamas, but I think it is not right to put so much of the blame just one-sidedly on Israel. You said, and I quote you, ‘Israel refuses a political solution’. Now, I have two questions there. Number one: do you have an idea of how to solve the issue of Hamas terror politically? Second: has Hamas offered a political solution? Why just put the blame on Israel? Then people have said here Israel is sowing the seed of hate. Somebody else said terror is now spreading in Gaza. Has that terror not come from Gaza? Let’s not talk as if all the blame could put on Israel. I think that will not make us a partner in solutions.
Debate: Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution
Date: TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2023
Speaker: Joachim Stanisław Brudziński
Political group: ECR
Country: Germany
Language: PL

Panie Przewodniczący! W obliczu tej kolejnej odsłony tego biblijnego konfliktu między synami Abrahama, między potomkami Izaaka i Izmaela wiemy dziś jedno, że reakcja Unii Europejskiej na te wydarzenia powinna być, moim zdaniem, trojaka.  Po pierwsze, należy wezwać Izrael do przestrzegania prawa międzynarodowego i międzynarodowego prawa humanitarnego. Po drugie, wezwać do kolejnej trwałej przerwy humanitarnej w działaniach wojennych. Po trzecie, zwiększenie niezbędnej pomocy humanitarnej dla ludności Strefy Gazy.  Jako Unia Europejska musimy zapewnić ochronę rozwiązania dwupaństwowego i spróbować ożywić proces polityczny. Inicjatywa  I na koniec maksymalistyczne cele Izraela, takie jak unicestwienie Hamasu, są trudne do osiągnięcia, szczególnie jeżeli już dzisiaj wiemy o tych wielomilionowych transferowanych środkach via Katar ze strony właśnie Izraela na potrzeby Hamasu, aby walczyć i rozgrywać Autonomię Palestyńską, władze w Ramallah kontra władze Hamasu w Strefie Gazy.  Wkrótce będziemy musieli zmierzyć się z rzeczywistością, gdy w Strefie Gazy nie pozostanie nic, a dwa miliony ludzi zostanie zepchnięte do granic z Egiptem. Już na sam koniec. Panie Wysoki Przedstawicielu! Nikt w tej Izbie nie mówi o tym „innym czynnym szatanie”, który doprowadził do eskalacji tego konfliktu. Tym szatanem jest Putin na Kremlu. To on kontaktował się z..., to on zdestabilizował Bliski Wschód...
Debate: Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution
Date: TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2023
Speaker: Niyazi Kizilyürek
Political group: The Left
Country: Croatia
Language: EN

Mr President, we Europeans are in front of a historical challenge, and we have huge responsibilities towards Jews and Palestinians alike. We should never forget that anti-Semitism was mainly a European malady, that the Jews were for centuries despised, humiliated, eventually exterminated
Debate: Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution
Date: TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2023
Speaker: Gilbert Collard
Political group: NI
Language: FR

Monsieur le Président, mes chers collègues, dans les larmes qu’on verse sur l’horreur, quelle que soit l’horreur, il est bien évident que tout le monde est considéré comme de bonne foi. Mais il y a l’horreur initiale, celle du 7 octobre, où des femmes, des enfants, des vieillards ont été assassinés, égorgés, violés. L’auteur: le Hamas. Derrière le Hamas, les Frères musulmans. Si on veut la paix, et on a le droit de vouloir la paix, pour tout le monde, il faut ce corollaire: le courage. Dire que le Hamas est une organisation terroriste et décréter ici, dans ce Parlement, que les Frères musulmans constituent une organisation terroriste et que celles et ceux qui leur donnent la main sont des complices. C’est à ce prix qu’on aura enfin la paix.
Debate: Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution
Date: TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2023
Speaker: David Lega
Political group: PPE
Country: Germany
Language: EN

Mr President, High Representative, I call again: from the river to the sea, all hostages must be free. Three weeks ago, I proclaimed in this house the urgent need to free all hostages, Israeli as well as Palestinians brutalised by Hamas, terrorists who oppress the people of Gaza, terrorists who want to wipe Jews from the land, who choose tyranny and war over peace. Thankfully, some of the Israeli hostages are now free, but so many are not. Step one: hostages freed. Step two: Hamas crushed. The Abraham Accords have shown us that there is hope for a third step. But the hope of two states living in peace next to each other is impossible as long as Hamas prevails. Iran’s puppet, Hamas, is not only keeping Israeli and Palestinian people hostage, they’re also keeping the hope for a prosperous Middle East at peace hostage. There is a better way when Hamas is defeated.
Debate: Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution
Date: TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2023
Speaker: Evin Incir
Political group: S-D
Country: Hungary
Language: SV

Herr talman! Det finns ingen annan beskrivning av situationen i Gaza än just helvetet på jorden förkroppsligat. Även på Västbanken och i östra Jerusalem har våldet mot palestinier ökat. Hamas vidriga terroristattacker och barbariska handlingar mot civila israeler fördömdes med rätta och måste fortsätta att fördömas. Vi ska samtidigt kunna fördöma Israels folkrättsbrott. Varken Israel eller Hamas står över folkrätten.  Jag är förskräckt och jag måste säga att jag skäms över hur internationell rätt har blivit körsbärsplockning. Hur i hela fridens namn kan vi ha en tondöv kommissionär som ungraren Olivér Várhelyi, som har gjort det till sin plikt att ge sig på fredsaktörer i Palestina och som får fortsätta att härja vilt? Trots att den senaste EU-revisionen visat att det inte finns belägg för att pengar gått till vare sig Hamas eller andra terroristorganisationer.  Hur kan vi ha tondöva medlemsstater som den svenska sverigedemokratiskt ledda, och den moderata utrikesministern, som gör samma sak fast i Sverige? Hur kan vi ha tondöva institutioner och aktörer i EU som vägrar att förstå att vi måste säkerställa att en  För den som på riktigt tror på en tvåstatslösning är det inte svårt att kräva att Hamas friger alla israeliska gisslan och upphör med sina vidriga terroristattacker och att Israel upphör med sina brutala attacker mot civilbefolkningen i Gaza, men också våldet mot palestinier på Västbanken och i östra Jerusalem. Krigsförbrytarna på båda sidorna måste ställas inför Internationella brottmålsdomstolen. Utdöm sanktioner mot bosättningarna på illegal mark och, slutligen, erkänn Palestina, precis som vi sedan länge har erkänt Israel.
Debate: Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution
Date: TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2023
Speaker: Abir Al-Sahlani
Political group: Renew
Country: Sweden
Language: EN

Mr President, Mr Commissioner, let’s not choose sides. Let’s choose principles, always principles first and foremost. Let us choose international law. Let us choose the humanitarian law. Let us choose democracy and democratic values and rule of law. When I look at Binyamin Netanyahu, I see how his government, his policies have been for years feeding the movement towards Hamas. When I look at Hamas, I see how they have been using civilians as shields. When I look at us as Europeans in this House, when I look at the US, I see how we justify the killing of innocent civilians, children in the thousands in overcrowded refugee camps. Talking about that, there is another people’s right, to defend themselves. Let us not believe in that narrative that the Israelis’ safety is built upon Palestinian blood, because it is not. It is only together. It is absurd and shameful, and shameful that we are living in a time where the word ‘ceasefire’ has become dirty and controversial. Let us stop fighting over the words. Let us use all our tools to stop the fighting and start the peace negotiations. Let us get personally invested in that and see to a two-state solution where both Palestinians and Israelis are safe living …
Debate: Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution
Date: TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2023
Speaker: Ciarán Cuffe
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Ireland
Language: EN

Mr President, High Representative Borrell, Netanyahu’s army is bombing civilians with impunity. Meanwhile, President von der Leyen is silent. Europe has failed to show leadership. However, it’s not too late. The EU must take action to ensure a lasting ceasefire now. The EU-Israel trade agreement must be suspended. Violent West Bank settlers should be sanctioned. Humanitarian aid must enter Gaza unhindered. Europe must attend or host a peace conference with Palestinian statehood on the table. Without question, I condemn the abhorrent actions of Hamas, and of course all hostages must be released immediately. But with tens of thousands of innocent civilians dead – children, academics, journalists – so many injured, so many lives destroyed, there is no time to lose in preparing for peace. The first step must be a 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: Veronika Vrecionová
Political group: ECR
Country: Poland
Language: CS

Pane předsedající, všichni víme, že tato poslední eskalace konfliktu na Blízkém východě začala odporným teroristickým útokem Hamásu na neozbrojené izraelské civilisty. Část z nich byla brutálně zavražděna, část z nich byla předtím bestiálně mučena, ženy byly znásilňovány a část z nich byla za značné podpory obyvatel Gazy odvlečena jako rukojmí.  Relativizování těchto odporných zločinů nebo snaha je rozpustit v nějakém kontextu, což se bohužel děje i na půdě Evropského parlamentu, je něco naprosto zavrženíhodného. Všichni si přejeme, aby konflikt ukončilo příměří, ale nemůže to být takové příměří, které pouze umožní Hamásu se opět vyzbrojit. Trvalé příměří je možné jen tehdy, pokud budou bezpodmínečně propuštěni všichni zbývající rukojmí, Hamás se vzdá a dojde k totální demilitarizaci Pásma Gazy. Jen tak je možné ochránit civilní obyvatelstvo v Izraeli. Jen tak je možné ochránit civilní obyvatelstvo v Pásmu Gazy.
Debate: Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution
Date: TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2023
Speaker: Idoia Villanueva Ruiz
Political group: The Left
Country: Czechia
Language: ES

Señor presidente, 18 000 palestinos han sido asesinados bajo las bombas, y la mitad de ellos son niños y niñas. Todos los días, ahora mismo. Sesenta y tres periodistas y más de cien trabajadores de la ONU, un millón y medio de civiles desplazados. Esto no es legítima defensa.  Israel se ha propuesto incumplir hasta el último renglón de la Convención de Ginebra y convertir la Franja de Gaza en un campo de exterminio. Y, ante ello, no basta pedir con una pausa humanitaria. Hay que actuar, llamando las cosas por su nombre y utilizando todas las herramientas disponibles.  La Unión Europea puede suspender hoy mismo el Acuerdo de Asociación con Israel, decretar un embargo de armas, adoptar sanciones contra los responsables e impulsar ante la Corte Penal Internacional la detención e investigación de los crímenes. Nuestra ciudadanía nos lo está reclamando en las calles.  Dejen de ser cómplices de la barbarie, porque no habrá solución sin justicia ni solución sin descolonización, ni habrá proyecto europeo sin credibilidad. No callaremos hasta que llegue el fin de esta barbarie. Desde luego, un genocidio no se pausa; un genocidio se para.
Debate: Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution
Date: TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2023
Speaker: Idoia Villanueva Ruiz
Political group: The Left
Country: Czechia
Language: ES

Esto sí, señor Bütikofer, es un genocidio planificado y sí, señor Bütikofer, es ahora mismo un campo de exterminio. Como vuelvo a decir, si queremos tener un proyecto europeo, lo mínimo que tenemos que tener es credibilidad.
Debate: Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution
Date: TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2023
Speaker: Alexander Alexandrov Yordanov
Political group: PPE
Country: Bulgaria
Language: BG

Г-н Председател, трябва да помогнем на Израел да унищожи Хамас. Хуманитарното примирие и освобождаването на заложниците са само елемент от изпълнението на тази задача. Мирните граждани бяха призовавани и имаха достатъчно време да напуснат територията на бойните действия. Защо не го направиха? Кой ги спря? Мирни преговори с терористи не се водят. Някога нацистите скриваха своите престъпления. Днес палестинците открито се радват и гордеят с извършените от Хамас убийства. Те не протестират срещу Хамас, затова и проблемът не е дали трябва да имат своя държава, а каква ще бъде тя. Тя не трябва да бъде терористична. Палестинците имаха възможност да направят от Газа привлекателно място за туризъм, бизнес, за живот, но вместо това копаеха тунели и сееха смърт. На света има много народи, които нямат своя национална държава. С какво палестинците заслужават да имат такава държава?
Debate: Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution
Date: TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2023
Speaker: Isabel Santos
Political group: S-D
Country: Hungary
Language: PT

Senhor Presidente, senhor Comissário, no início deste conflito, na Comissão de Assuntos Externos, tivemos a oportunidade de trocar impressões sobre o alto grau de letalidade que esta guerra ameaçava e também o alto nível de destruição. Passados dois meses, vemos a UNRWA a dizer que está no limite daquilo que é possível em termos de ajuda humanitária. Estamos a chegar a um ponto sem retrocesso: falta de água, de alimentos, de eletricidade e até falta de sítio para onde fugir, porque mais de 85 % da população da Palestina está, neste momento, deslocada – mais de 80 % da população da Faixa de Gaza – e, no Sul, assistimos, durante esta noite, à intensificação dos bombardeamentos. São essas as notícias que nos chegam. Para onde fugir? Para lado nenhum. A ajuda humanitária é possível debaixo de bombardeamentos? Não. Então, o que se impõe fazer já e agora: pararmos com divisões e unirmo—nos a si e a António Guterres no apelo a um cessar-fogo, para que, depois, se possa construir uma solução definitiva de dois Estados.
Debate: Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution
Date: TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2023
Speaker: Ilana Cicurel
Political group: Renew
Country: Slovakia
Language: FR

Monsieur le Président, en tant qu’Européens, nous sommes porteurs d’une promesse. Nous avons su construire la paix entre des nations ennemies après avoir fait usage de la violence nécessaire pour défaire le nazisme. Demain, cet objectif de coexistence doit devenir l’horizon des Israéliens et des Palestiniens. Mais cela ne sera possible que s’il est mis un terme aux atrocités que le Hamas prépare, habité par une haine destructrice et obsessionnelle. Au-delà de la diplomatie, comment pouvons-nous œuvrer pour faire advenir cette paix? Nous, le premier bailleur de fonds dans les territoires palestiniens, nous pouvons agir en particulier sur l’éducation. On ne prépare pas la paix quand, dans les manuels palestiniens, on désigne les Juifs comme intrinsèquement menteurs, escrocs et corrompus, quand on glorifie une femme martyre ayant tué treize enfants en appelant les élèves à s’en inspirer, quand un exercice de mathématiques de fin de primaire invite les élèves à compter les cercueils des martyrs ou qu’on illustre la loi de Newton par un enfant lançant une pierre sur un soldat israélien.  Monsieur le Commissaire, nous devons demander et accompagner la refonte du cursus national palestinien. Il s’agit d’assurer la sécurité des Israéliens et d’offrir un avenir aux jeunes Palestiniens.
Debate: Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution
Date: TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2023
Speaker: Evin Incir
Political group: S-D
Country: Hungary
Language: EN

However, the European Union have the Georg Eckert Institute report, which is clear that the Palestinian textbooks adhere to Unesco standards. Would you be prepared also to ask for the same revision of the Israeli textbooks? Because it would be very good to have both the revision of Israeli and the Palestinian textbooks to ensure that we put the same requirements on both.
Debate: Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution
Date: TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2023
Speaker: Margrete Auken
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Denmark
Language: DA

Hr. formand! Også tak til Borrell for hans tale. At EU nu skal kræve våbenhvile med stop for sønderbombningen af Gaza, løsladelse af alle gidsler og fri adgang for humanitær hjælp, bør ikke være til diskussion. Det er allerede tusindvis af dræbte for sent. Men perspektiverne for to-statsløsningen er mudrede, hr. kommissær. Ja, reelt forstærker EU de ulovlige bosættelser og røveri af land. Den måde EU implementerer sine egne love på, er aktiv, substantiel støtte til koloniseringen. I alle medlemslande er det forbudt at handle med produkter, der stammer fra stjålet land. Der skal ikke nye love til, men respekt for dem vi har! Og jeg tror, at hvis Israel indser, at EU vil leve op til sine love, og at Israel ikke kan tjene på bosættelserne, bliver to-statsløsningen også en god chance for dem. 67-grænsen giver Israel 78 % af historisk Palæstina. Der er plads. Samtidig må Østjerusalem sikres til Palæstina. Sådan er den oplagte vej til fred for både Palæstina og Israel.
Debate: Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution
Date: TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2023
Speaker: Michiel Hoogeveen
Political group: ECR
Country: Sweden
Language: EN

Mr President, on 6 October, there was a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas. On 7 October, Hamas decided to break it with a barbaric attack against peaceful civilians, including Europeans. Immediately, we saw the rise of bothsidesism and the victim of this brutal attack, the State of Israel, became the accused – also by some in this House. The accusations are coloniser, apartheid, state, war criminals, just to name a few. Let’s talk facts. Since 1947, up to five times a Palestinian state was offered but rejected by the Palestinians. In 2005, Israel unilaterally left Gaza for the Palestinians. Doesn’t sound like a coloniser. In Israel, 20 % of the population is Arab. They enjoy civil rights and protection under the rule of law. Doesn’t sound like an apartheid state. Before their precision strikes, the IDF spreads leaflets and sends messages to prevent casualties, making it one of the most moral armies in the world. Doesn’t sound like war criminals.  Hamas, on the other hand, is a terrorist organisation with explicit genocidal motivations against the Jewish people. They hide underneath hospitals and schools. They keep spreading anti-Semitism through their propaganda, because they know, they know that useful idiots will go along with it. Chair, there is no alternative. Hamas must be eliminated. We should support Israel now more than ever.
Debate: Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution
Date: TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2023
Speaker: Marc Botenga
Political group: The Left
Country: France
Language: FR

Monsieur le Président, chers collègues, l’Unicef parle d’une guerre contre les enfants. À l’heure actuelle, ce sont plus de 7 700 enfants palestiniens qui ont été massacrés par Israël. Quand la même chose se passait en Ukraine, vous parliez de génocide. Aujourd’hui, une série d’entre vous justifie Israël. Je ne vais pas vous répondre, parce qu’entre vous et moi il n’y a pas de divergence politique, il y a une différence d’humanité, tout simplement. Ceux qui aujourd’hui défendent Israël soit n’entendent pas ce que les dirigeants israéliens disent, parce que les dirigeants israéliens eux-mêmes disent que cette guerre est une guerre contre toute la population de Gaza. Ils veulent les chasser. Deux millions de Gazaouis doivent dégager de Gaza, et vous, vous applaudissez? Bravo! Bravo! J’espère qu’un soir vous arriverez encore à vous regarder dans le miroir sans honte sur votre visage.  Aujourd’hui, l’Union européenne reste complice parce qu’elle reste liée à Israël par un accord d’association. Elle continue de faire passer des armes à Israël, des armes qui, ensuite, effectivement, tueront des innocents à Gaza. Arrêtons cette complicité!
Debate: Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution
Date: TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2023
Speaker: Hildegard Bentele
Political group: PPE
Country: Germany
Language: DE

Herr Präsident, sehr geehrter Hoher Vertreter, liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen! Es ist sehr wichtig, dass wir in dieser Plenarsitzung über die Freilassung der restlichen – und zwar leider des großen Teils der – Geiseln sprechen und dass wir genau in der Reihenfolge und dem Wortlaut des Titels der Debatte darüber sprechen. ‘Need to release all hostages to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and the prospect of the two-state solution’.  Denn das Thema Geiselfreilassung ist schon wieder aus den Schlagzeilen verschwunden, und es gibt in der letzten Zeit nur wenige neue, Hoffnung machende Informationen zu Verhandlungen zur Freilassung weiterer Geiseln. Wir müssen das Thema auf der Agenda halten. Keiner darf in seinen Anstrengungen nachlassen, im Gegenteil, wir müssen sie verstärken. Heute haben wir Dschina Amini mit dem Sacharowpreis für ihren außerordentlichen Mut als Einzelperson geehrt. Für uns hat jeder Mensch eine angeborene Würde und das Recht auf Freiheit. Deshalb können wir uns nie zufriedengeben, solange nicht alle Geiseln freigelassen sind. Und zuletzt: Die Freilassung aller Geiseln ist aus meiner Sicht eine Bedingung für eine humanitäre Feuerpause. Es liegt an den Terroristen, eine Wende herbeizuführen. Jede Sekunde, jede Minute, jede Stunde könnten sie Geiseln freilassen. Warum werden sie weiter festgehalten? Um verurteilte Kriminelle freizupressen? Auch die palästinensischen Zivilisten könnten zu einer Wende beitragen. Auch sie könnten sich von Hamas distanzieren und ebenfalls die Freilassung fördern. Für uns als Europäer steht das Gebot der Menschlichkeit ganz oben. Wir müssen es von allen und für alle einfordern.