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"Mr President, Israel’s attack on Gaza resulted in the killing of 2147 people, 503 of them little children. These were crimes against humanity under international criminal law and international humanitarian law.
Recently, 13 MEPs were refused access to Gaza because Israel did not want us to see destruction there that is comparable to World War II. On fact-finding in the West Bank, we MEPs witnessed the South-Africanisation of Palestine with its apartheid roads, walls and buses. Israel’s violations of international law have been well documented – on six occasions, in fact – by the UN Security Council plus the International Court of Justice. The clearest violations are the illegal transfer of 600 000 Israelis to live in illegal settlements in occupied Palestine, where 170 000 acres of Palestinian land have been confiscated since the Oslo Accord – 1000 acres last week alone.
International law imposes a duty on all members of the international community, including the EU, not to recognise as lawful or render aid or assistance in maintaining a situation created by a serious breach of international law. Allowing economic relations with Israeli illegal settlements and importing their products into the EU contributes to the prosperity of those settlements and assists in their development, all of which is contrary to obligations under international law.
Those who make the law must uphold it. The EU must not simply discourage business relations with firms established in illegal settlements and only insist on correct labelling of settlement goods, but must also halt all relations with Israel and prohibit imports of its goods. After all, what happened in Gaza over 51 days makes us look at Article 2 of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, which must be implemented. If it is implemented, that means that the Association Agreement must be suspended."@en1
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