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Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor George Galloway (Labour), on Monday, 15 October 1990, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 36 members in total.

Massacre in Jerusalem

That this House, deeply shocked by the massacre of more than 20 unarmed Palestinian demonstrators on the Temple Mount, Jerusalem, conscious that a great many other Palestinians were wounded and maimed in the incident, aware that in the more than 1,000 days of the Intifada the Israeli Defence Forces have killed almost 1,000 Palestinians, mainly children and young teenagers and have wounded and maimed tens of thousands, again mainly children and young people, unreservedly condemns the killings in Jerusalem; deplores the continuing 'iron fist' policy of the Israeli occupiers; demands the release of the Palestinian leaders, including Feisal Husseini, held in prison after the massacre; and demands the United Nations Security Council convene itself as the International Peace Conference awaited so long and start the process of Israeli withdrawal from the territories acquired by force, the foundation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, and thus demobilise this the greatest threat to peace and stability in the Middle East.

Amendments

The Early day motion has received 2 amendments.

1398A1
Leave out from 'House' to end and add 'regrets the tragic deaths of Palestinian rioters in Jerusalem, but also expresses its sympathy to all other victims of violence in Israel and its administered territories such as the peaceful Jewish worshippers at the Western Wall celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles who were stoned by an Arab mob, or Amnon Pomerantz who was brutally murdered by Arabs in Gaza, or the hundreds of Arabs who have been murdered or beaten up by other Arabs since the beginning of the violence described as the Intifada; notes the total inactivity of the United Nations over the daily slaughter of scores of people in Lebanon, let alone the previous deaths a few years ago of hundreds of people at the Holy City of Mecca or at the Golden Temple of Amritsar; recalls that no nation has a better record of protecting access to holy places than Israel; and calls upon Israel's neighbouring Arab countries to follow the example of Egypt and negotiate peace directly with the democratically-elected government of Israel.'.
1398A2
leave out from 'demands' to end and add 'Israeli withdrawal from the territories acquired by force, the foundation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, and a socialist and federal future which would guarantee the rights of all minorities in the region'.

Secondary information

Type
Early day motion
Reference
1398 
1398A1 
1398A2 
Session
1989-90
Other sponsors
Ernie Ross
Jim Hood
John Cummings
Robert Hicks
Lord Hughes of Woodside
Subjects
Death Armed conflict Israel Civil disorder Palestine Occupied territories
Link
View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk