Middle East
Dail Éireann — 2024-05-09
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Matt Carthy (SF), Cavan-Monaghan

I am sure the Tánaiste agrees that it is impossible to imagine what parents, children, men and women in Rafah are going through right now, considering all they have come through in the past seven months. In many instances, they have been moved up to six times already and are living in a situation that can only be described as depraved, and now they have the anxiety of wondering when the next barrage will come. I set that out because, while I am sure they are not listening to Oireachtas debates or debates in multilateral forums, if they could hear the timeframes being set out, they would wonder what the world is doing. Everything is sometime in the future. There is nothing in the ICJ's rules that prevents Ireland from intervening now and setting out a clear case that it is our belief that Israel is in breach of the Genocide Convention. It is in gross violation of international law. I implore the Tánaiste to do so.

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Sitting date: 2024-05-09