Gaza and Lebanon debate
Mary Lou McDonald raised the war in Gaza and events in Lebanon, warning of danger to peacekeepers and urging time for debate on the Middle East. The Chair cut her off for time.
On the Order of Business, I wish to raise the issue of the ongoing genocide in Gaza and events as they have unfolded in Lebanon. We are now one year into this absolute catastrophe. Hell still reigns down on innocent civilian and refugee populations. We are now in a situation in which our own peacekeepers are really in the way of danger. The Taoiseach has left the Chamber. He will meet with President Biden in Washington. I can only hope he will say to him directly that the United States must stop arming and funding Israel's war machine-----
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-----as we witness an ongoing genocide. He is not here to answer that.
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I put it to the Chief Whip and the Government that we need time to discuss what is happening in the Middle East, not least the situation of our own peacekeepers.