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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
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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—...
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 ...
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
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