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Gaza

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

486 c501-16 

Session

2008-09

Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Israel (UK Strategic Export Controls)
Tuesday, 21 April 2009
Written statements
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Marquess of Lothian | 486 c508 (Link to this contribution) Who does the Foreign Secretary expect to pay for the reconstruction of the non-military targets that...

David Miliband | 486 c506 (Link to this contribution) I admire my hon. Friend's ingenuity in asking those questions. Of course, he is right to say that th...

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David Miliband | 486 c506 (Link to this contribution) As I said in my statement, we want Hamas to put a definitive end to its rocket attacks, and a six-da...

Malcolm Rifkind | 486 c506 (Link to this contribution) Does the Foreign Secretary share my concern that Hamas, unlike the Israelis, has committed itself on...

David Miliband | 486 c507-8 (Link to this contribution) Of course, the hon. Gentleman is right that both the crossings and the rocket attacks need to be add...

Ed Davey | 486 c506-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Foreign Secretary for his statement and totally agree with him that the two key prioriti...

David Miliband | 486 c508 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an important point. He will know that there are detailed applications of the l...

Jeremy Corbyn | 486 c508 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary ensure that investigations take place immediately into the use of illegal...

David Miliband | 486 c508 (Link to this contribution) In a way, it is good that the financing arrangements have not been the centrepiece of the focus of c...

Gerald Kaufman | 486 c508 (Link to this contribution) In welcoming the increased aid from the UK to Gaza, may I ask my right hon. Friend to clarify the lo...

Speaker | 486 c505 (Link to this contribution) Order. Many hon. Members are hoping to catch my eye. May I ask that single questions be put as brief...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 486 c503-4 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Foreign Secretary for his statement. Of course, in common with him, we welcome the cease...

David Miliband | 486 c501-3 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr. Speaker, I would like to make a further statement to the House on Gaza. From t...

Mike Gapes | 486 c505 (Link to this contribution) Unilateralism is not enough. Does the Foreign Secretary agree that however welcome these temporary c...

David Miliband | 486 c515 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will know that the EU-Israel trade agreement is matched by an EU-Palestine trade agre...

Chris Mullin | 486 c515 (Link to this contribution) I thought you would never ask, Madam Deputy Speaker. How can we possibly justify allowing the Israe...

David Miliband | 486 c516 (Link to this contribution) Yes. I assure my hon. Friend that I am doing everything in my power, as are my right hon. Friend the...

Andrew Love | 486 c516 (Link to this contribution) May I seek some reassurance from my right hon. Friend regarding the opening of border crossings to a...

David Miliband | 486 c516 (Link to this contribution) It must be right that matters that are subject to international negotiation, such as the 2005 agreem...

Neil Gerrard | 486 c515-6 (Link to this contribution) If this ceasefire is to be more than just a temporary lull in the cycle of violence, must not the Go...

Louise Ellman | 486 c514 (Link to this contribution) The humanitarian situation in Gaza is horrendous, but there are reports that Iran has stated that it...

David Miliband | 486 c515 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, we would deplore such a statement or such an intent. The measures are designed precisely ...

Rob Marris | 486 c514 (Link to this contribution) In the past year, Hamas has launched repeated rocket attacks. Will my right hon. Friend tell me, tod...

Speaker | 486 c515 (Link to this contribution) I call Chris Mullin.

David Miliband | 486 c513 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend has made an important point. We should continue precisely to make the case that...

Andrew Pelling | 486 c513-4 (Link to this contribution) In answering questions, the Foreign Secretary has spoken with confidence to suggest that the strong ...

David Miliband | 486 c514 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps my hon. Friend has a particular case in mind, given how she chose her words at the end. I am...

Diane Abbott | 486 c514 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary will be aware that of the 1,200 Palestinians killed in the recent conflict, a ...

David Miliband | 486 c512 (Link to this contribution) I said last week in this House that, although the immediate trigger for the crisis was the upsurge i...

Jim Sheridan | 486 c513 (Link to this contribution) May I welcome the Government's early and consistent call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, and may...

David Miliband | 486 c513 (Link to this contribution) I hope that my hon. Friend understands that I shall not comment directly on the implications for the...

Lord Beith | 486 c513 (Link to this contribution) Is the harsh reality not that those two unilateral ceasefires are extremely vulnerable unless the in...

David Miliband | 486 c513 (Link to this contribution) Yes. The drive for an end to the stateless tragedy of the Palestinians and the insecurity of the Isr...

Ann Clwyd | 486 c513 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend knows that the people of Gaza made Hamas their elected choice in what were desc...

Clare Short | 486 c512 (Link to this contribution) First, may I remind the Foreign Secretary that there was a ceasefire before, and the consequence was...

David Miliband | 486 c512 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to confirm that. People all over the country have become engaged, and have focused on the...

Laura Moffatt | 486 c512 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend rightly says that the ferocious violence has reverberated around the world. Man...

David Miliband | 486 c512 (Link to this contribution) They are very limited; that is the answer. The hon. Gentleman will know that Gaza airport has been c...

Andrew Turner | 486 c512 (Link to this contribution) I was going to ask a similar question. What kind of ports and harbours are there on the coast to the...

Frank Dobson | 486 c511 (Link to this contribution) Following the point made by the hon. Member for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy (Mr. Llwyd), as the Navy will...

David Miliband | 486 c511 (Link to this contribution) I take my right hon. Friend's point very seriously. If there is any way for the Royal Navy to play a...

Elfyn Llwyd | 486 c511 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome the Government's offer of naval patrol boats as part of an EU force. Will the Se...

David Miliband | 486 c511 (Link to this contribution) The vast bulk of humanitarian aid will go overland, or by air. Certainly, the purposes of the Royal ...

Brian Iddon | 486 c511 (Link to this contribution) When I was in the Gaza strip on 14 April last year, the first thing that we came across, just inside...

David Miliband | 486 c511 (Link to this contribution) Yes, and my hon. Friend did not have time to mention that 13 medical personnel have been killed in t...

David Miliband | 486 c510 (Link to this contribution) Yes, of course—through the processes that are very well developed and taken very seriously by the Go...

David Miliband | 486 c510-1 (Link to this contribution) Those in the UN are the best people to tell hon. Members about the situation on the ground. There wa...

Peter Bottomley | 486 c510 (Link to this contribution) The only thing that seems to be balanced is opinion in Israel, where 41 per cent. of people appear t...

David Miliband | 486 c509-10 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend knows that some very deep legal questions are engaged in the phrases that he has used...

Alistair Carmichael | 486 c510 (Link to this contribution) Surely, it is not by casualty figures but by the scale of the force that we determine whether action...

David Miliband | 486 c510 (Link to this contribution) We should certainly not issue export licences for internal repression or external aggression, and we...

Andrew Dismore | 486 c510 (Link to this contribution) The aid that my right hon. Friend has announced for humanitarian purposes to the Palestinians is ver...

David Miliband | 486 c508-9 (Link to this contribution) It is not least because of those statistics that we have said from the beginning that the response w...

Lord Swire | 486 c509 (Link to this contribution) Getting fresh water into Gaza and dealing with the sewage problems must be a priority, and should be...

David Miliband | 486 c509 (Link to this contribution) We certainly want to play a leading role in the reconstruction effort, and the presence of the Depar...

Martin Linton | 486 c509 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend's efforts to achieve a ceasefire, and I hope that he will put equal e...

Speaker | 486 c506 (Link to this contribution) Order. I have made a request for short questions to the Foreign Secretary.

David Miliband | 486 c504-5 (Link to this contribution) I will go through the three sets of specific questions that the right hon. Gentleman raised. Before ...

David Miliband | 486 c514 (Link to this contribution) That sounded like the sort of question to which my hon. Friend has the answer. I do not want to gues...

David Miliband | 486 c514 (Link to this contribution) I have said repeatedly that we have a clear policy. When there is a clear risk that arms or their co...

Subjects

Armed conflict Borders Humanitarian aid United Nations Israel Palestine Middle East Peace negotiations Gaza Hamas League of Arab States Ceasefires

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