Middle East
Dail Éireann — 2024-01-25
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Gino Kenny (PBP), Dublin Mid-West

That is welcome. There seems to be intensification of the oppression in the West Bank. Of the 358 people who have been murdered by Israelis, 100 were children. What have they done to the Israeli state? Some of the footage is unbelievable - children on streets just being shot dead. It is arbitrary. It is not just a policy of arbitrary detention, arbitrary killing and arbitrary destruction; it is about the arbitrary reoccupation of the West Bank. This is ongoing. Since October 2023, some 5,000 people have been imprisoned by the Israelis in the West Bank. People who were just going about their business were detained. A man named Anas Abu Srour, who is executive director of the Aida Youth Center in Bethlehem, visited Dublin last summer with a number of children from the centre. He was arbitrarily detained for six months as he was going about his business. I raised his detention in a parliamentary question. Hopefully, the Tánaiste can bring his case to the attention of the Israeli ambassador.

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Sitting date: 2024-01-25