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"Mr President, this is our first opportunity to react to the temporary ceasefire in Gaza and, perhaps even more importantly, our last chance to comment, eight days before the deadline to secure a permanent ceasefire and ensure there is no more violence. Today our Parliament must support the EU representative in insisting that there must be no return to the pre-war status quo in Gaza.
The humanitarian crisis started not with the 50 days of Operation Protective Edge but with the 2500 days of the blockade which preceded it. The EU must contribute humanitarian assistance, but it must now act politically too, so that we are not trapped inside the seemingly endless cycle of destruction and reconstruction. I encourage and welcome diplomatic engagement with other regional players, further efforts to build Palestinian reconciliation and renewed discussion about a new role for the EU Border Assistance Mission. However, after the failure to follow up on the Goldstone Commission, I hope the inclusion in the new UN investigation commission on war crimes of a lawyer due to be married to George Clooney means that its work will have more substance than the Hollywood dream factory.
Five hundred children died in the Gaza conflict and 63 000 people were forced to shelter in just 29 UN schools. The attacks on those schools were called ‘criminal’ by the UN Secretary General and ‘a war crime’ by Human Rights Watch. A child of six in Gaza has now lived through three wars.
We should uphold the Palestinian Authority and support it when it says it wants to see in Gaza ‘one authority, one gun, one law’. But, most of all, we should work with both Israel and the Palestinians towards the day when not even one gun is needed to preserve peace and security for all."@en1
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