Question for short debate on Wednesday, 21 January 2009, in the House of Lords, led by Baroness Northover. The answering member was Lord Malloch-Brown.
Israel and Palestine: Gaza
Lords question for short debate on what steps they are taking to address the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
Secondary information
- Type
- Parliamentary proceeding
- Reference
- 706 c1728-44
- Session
- 2008-09
- Department
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- Chamber / Committee
- House of Lords chamber
- Proceeding contributions
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Baroness Northover | 706 c1728-31 (Link to this contribution) To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to address the humanitarian situation in ...
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Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale | 706 c1731 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we all welcome the large increases in aid from the UK, both financial and in kind, that ha...
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Lord Eden of Winton | 706 c1731-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hope that countries outside the immediate area which are giving money for practical huma...
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Earl of Sandwich | 706 c1732 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is hard to see why Israel has got it so wrong again or why it has to make so many enemi...
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Lord Judd | 706 c1733 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as a former director of Oxfam I thought it would be sensible to seek from it an update of ...
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Bishop of Manchester | 706 c1732-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Council of Christians and Jews, which I chair, has made clear its distress at the desp...
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Lord Sheikh | 706 c1734 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I care about humanity and I would like to express my serious concern and sense of disturba...
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Baroness Tonge | 706 c1733-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, Tzipi Livni, the Israeli Foreign Minister, said that Israel would go wild in Gaza. They ce...
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Baroness Williams of Crosby | 706 c1735 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall not try to equal the heart-rending eloquence of Members of this House on the subje...
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Lord Morris of Handsworth | 706 c1734-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the humanitarian cost in Gaza is now clear: more than 1,000 dead; hundreds of homes destro...
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Lord Steinberg | 706 c1736-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, when I spoke on the Statement on Gaza on Monday, I may inadvertently have said something t...
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Lord Ahmed | 706 c1736 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, even the horrific pictures from Gaza and the terror imposed on the children of Palestine b...
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Lord Janner of Braunstone | 706 c1737 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I deeply regret the suffering of so many ordinary Gazans, and I greatly hope that the situ...
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Baroness Morris of Bolton | 706 c1738 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the military operation has had a devastating impact on the children of Gaza. Hundreds are ...
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Lord Woolf | 706 c1737-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I commence by declaring an interest as a member or officer of a number of organisations, b...
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Lord Malloch-Brown | 706 c1741-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like all noble Lords, I rise to my feet with a sense of sadness and tragedy about what has...
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Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 706 c1740 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, next Tuesday we will debate the wider issues but tonight we are here to debate the humanit...
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Lord Mitchell | 706 c1739-40 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, last week over 20 prominent Muslims denounced recent anti-Semitic attacks in Britain and c...
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Lord Alderdice | 706 c1739 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not think that anyone who looks at what has happened in Gaza over the past few weeks—...
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Lord Watson of Invergowrie | 706 c1738-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, Gaza is a humanitarian catastrophe—1,300 dead, a third of them children, only one in 25 a ...
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Lord Astor of Hever | 706 c1741 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the number of speakers from all sides of the House tonight reflects the depth of real conc...
- Subjects
- Access Armed conflict Closures Bombings Buildings Development aid Casualties Civilians Borders Humanitarian aid United Nations War crimes Israel Palestine Middle East Reconstruction Peace negotiations Gaza Hamas White phosphorus Ceasefires
- Contains statistics
- Yes
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