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crianças e os reféns em Gaza A Deputada Edite Estrela participou no debate com a seguinte intervenção: Thank you, Mister President,

I thank the rapporteur for this important report.

Dear colleagues,

After more than a devastating year of war

between Israel and Hamas, a ceasefire has finally

been reached.

This truce included an exchange of prisoners

and allowed much-needed humanitarian aid to

reach affected areas.

Until when? I don't know, but I know that

Palestinians need peace to rebuild their lives and

their homes. I know that women and children of

Palestine have a right to live in peace. Enough of

bombs and violence! Enough destruction and

death! Enough of the useless suffering!

The war in Gaza following the terrorist attack on 7 October 2023 has escalated into a devastating

humanitarian crisis.

The continuous bombing and ground operations have caused countless civilian deaths and have left the

population without access to basic humanitarian services or safe refuge. These actions represent a grave

violation of international humanitarian law and children’s rights.

Entire cities have been reduced to rubble, and hundreds of thousands of people were forced to flee their

homes.

A sustainable resolution to this conflict must address the root causes, including decades of displacement,

systemic inequality, and the denial of self-determination. Peace cannot be achieved without justice, and justice

cannot be served without a commitment to human rights and the rule of law.

The international community must also ensure that organisations like the United Nations Relief and Works

Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East are not hindered in their vital work.

The ceasefire did not end the humanitarian crisis. Children continue to be left without access to education,

without access to health care, without food, without a home and without a family. Children will suffer the

consequences of this war for many years, various consequences, physical and psychological consequences. In

many cases, most probably, they will suffer throughout their lives the effects of this war, of the many

deficiencies, of what they saw, they heard and suffered.

Thank you.

A Deputada Jamila Madeira (PS) estava inscrita no debate, mas devido ao elevado número de oradores

inscritos não teve oportunidade de apresentar a sua intervenção, que ficou registada na ata da sessão:

At the moment we signal the passage of the 80th anniversary of the end of the holocaust we must ensure

no one will in no way pass through that again. That’s part of the past that we must remember, so that we may

never repeat it again.

Having said this, I would like first of all to thank Saskia Kluit for bringing this relevant report at such a

symbolic moment to be debated here. This report shows a deep concern about reestablishing peace,

humanitarian aid and rule of law.

This report is based on an approach to deliver to the world the end of this conflict without delay and end the

suffering of all civilian and innocent people.

The trigger to the escalating of this level of aggression was the terrorist attack that was made by Hamas on

the 7th October 2023 that we reiterate to condemn.

Innocent people were killed and made hostages and subject to clear violations of human rights and human

dignity. We must loudly condemn and by no means tolerate. Hostages of both sides must urgently be released.