It is with relief that I rise today to commend Israel and Palestine for agreeing to a ceasefire, as well as Egypt for mediating the truce. The violence and loss of life that we have seen in Jerusalem and Gaza is tragic, and the rocket attacks against civilians are...
In the last fortnight, nearly 60,000 Palestinians have been displaced by Israeli air strikes. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, almost half of them children. There is never any righteousness in targeting children. The cycle of tension, escalation, provocation...
The core of the problem is that Palestinians do not live in freedom and dignity. To live under apartheid-type rule is inexcusable. This week Palestinians commemorate Nakba—in 1948 the Jewish military depopulated and destroyed Palestinian cities, towns and farming...
What is happening defies the international community and the resolutions endorsed by the United Nations; punishes, through draconian measures, a population exercising their basic human rights in East Jerusalem, recognised as Palestine’s capital under...
People often say, ‘Do you condemn all acts of violence?’ Of course we do, but let’s not pretend the escalation didn’t come from somewhere. The escalation we’ve seen is directly connected to the settlement movement, innocently called...
