Mentions:
1: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) Over 4,000 Palestinians have been killed in this conflict. - Speech Link
2: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) Where Palestinians are forced to flee, they must not be permanently displaced from their homes. - Speech Link
3: Mohammad Yasin (Lab - Bedford) Over a million Palestinians have been displaced, and many more are suffering without access to food, - Speech Link
4: Zarah Sultana (Lab - Coventry South) Let me ask the Prime Minister this: how many more Palestinians must die before he condemns Israel for - Speech Link
5: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) around £24.5 million would be available to provide protective security at mosques and Muslim faith schools - Speech Link
Written Evidence Dec. 18 2023
Inquiry: The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North AfricaFound: The blockade remained and 2.3 million Palestinians were denied their freedom.
Dec. 29 2023
Source Page: Many more will die from attacks, disease and famine if we do not stop the humanitarian catastrophe: UK statement at the UN Security CouncilFound: For those injured and surviving, nearly two thirds of homes and schools are damaged or destroyed.
Mentions:
1: Margaret Hodge (Lab - Barking) We see it in our schools, in our universities and in our workplaces.The Bill will not help Israel as - Speech Link
2: Michael Ellis (Con - Northampton North) Of course, that hurt Palestinians as well as everyone else. - Speech Link
3: Nicola Richards (Con - West Bromwich East) Boycotts harm Israel, they harm Palestinians, and they harm any prospect of peace. - Speech Link
4: Richard Graham (Con - Gloucester) There will be buildings and basements of schools and hospitals and so on that Hamas are using, but that - Speech Link
5: Layla Moran (LD - Oxford West and Abingdon) This hateful antisemitism has no place in our society, and that is not up for debate.On Palestinians, - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) He does not know any schools where kids no longer turn up, and he does not understand what it is like - Speech Link
2: Caroline Ansell (Con - Eastbourne) Draft schools guidance to support gender-questioning children was published just before Christmas and - Speech Link
3: Rushanara Ali (Lab - Bethnal Green and Bow) Since the outbreak of war in Gaza, over 23,000 Palestinians have been killed, including 10,000 children - Speech Link
4: Andrew Percy (Con - Brigg and Goole) “Palestinians are dying whilst the Zionists are laughing their lives away.” - Speech Link
Written Evidence Dec. 18 2023
Inquiry: The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North AfricaFound: agencies have noted in the five wars that Israel has fought with Hamas, Israel has regularly targeted schools
Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) Both Israelis and Palestinians have a right to live in peace and security.We have moral clarity over - Speech Link
2: Lisa Nandy (Lab - Wigan) Has he raised the protection of hospitals, schools and refugee camps with his Israeli counterparts, and - Speech Link
3: Rob Butler (Con - Aylesbury) Many constituents have raised concerns with me about the humanitarian crisis faced by Palestinians in - Speech Link
4: Zarah Sultana (Lab - Coventry South) More than 10,000 Palestinians have been slaughtered in Israel’s assault, nearly half of them children - Speech Link
5: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) It is very important to make clear that Hamas is not the Palestinians. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) Funding has been made available for security at Muslim schools and mosques. - Speech Link
2: Lord Palmer of Childs Hill (LD - Life peer) understand what is sometimes behind many of the people on the marches which take place—a horror at the Palestinians - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) This extends to our schools, colleges and universities. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Palmer of Childs Hill (LD - Life peer) Others perceive BDS as simply supporting the rights of Palestinians. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bryan of Partick (Lab - Life peer) The written evidence from Jews for Justice for Palestinians, submitted in August 2023, points out that - Speech Link
3: Baroness Deech (XB - Life peer) Churches should instead help Palestinians build democratic institutions and invest in their economy, - Speech Link
4: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) The Minister, in a throwaway remark, talked about schools and nursery schools, and any body that receives - Speech Link
Found: UN agencies report significant infrastructure damage , including to schools and hospitals, a shortage