{"id":5199,"date":"2023-11-15T12:24:20","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T12:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=5199"},"modified":"2023-11-15T12:24:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T12:24:20","slug":"israel-must-end-its-war-on-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/israel-must-end-its-war-on-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel must end its war on children"},"content":{"rendered":"Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has called for an immediate ceasefire, the release of all hostages taken by Hamas, and for Israel to be referred to the International Criminal Court after the deaths of more than 11 thousand people in Gaza. <br \/><br \/>Speaking on a Sinn F\u00e9in motion in the D\u00e1il last night, Teachta Crowe said:<br \/><br \/>\u201cThe number of dead and injured in Gaza is so large that it almost defies our ability to comprehend. There are 11,180 dead, 4,609 of whom are children and 3,900 of whom are women. There are 28,200 injured and 2,700 trapped in rubble. By the time this debate ends, 12 more children will have been killed. <br \/><br \/>\u201cChildren are being wiped out by the murderous Israeli military, which is hell-bent on clearing Gaza of every last Palestinian, and which views hospitals, schools, and people queueing up for bread as legitimate targets.<br \/><br \/>No one could condone the attack on the Israeli civilian population on 7 October that led to this latest outbreak of ethnic cleansing by Israel, but that attack was not a spontaneous act of violence. We cannot see it in isolation or be blind to the oppression and policy of apartheid with which the Palestinian people have been subjugated for the last 75 years. <br \/><br \/>\u201cThe world turned its back on Palestine as its people were driven from their lands and into camps where generations of Palestinians now live. The US has provided financial, political, and military cover while hundreds of thousands of illegal Israeli settlers have steadily encroached and stolen more and more land in direct violation of internal law. Even now, under the cover of attacks on Gaza, settlers are visiting violence on the West Bank, where homes are being burned and destroyed. This is a blatant case of ethnic cleansing.<br \/><br \/>\u201cI wish the T\u00e1naiste, Deputy Miche\u00e1l Martin, well as he heads to the region this week. I hope he has success in advocating for peace. There must be an immediate ceasefire. All hostages must be released. Israel must be referred to the International Criminal Court.<br \/><br \/>\u201cI thank councillors of South Dublin County Council and my Sinn F\u00e9in colleague, Councillor Louise Dunne, for passing a motion of solidarity and agreeing to fly the Palestinian flag. And I want to end by calling for an end to this war on children.\u201d <br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has called for an immediate ceasefire, the release of all hostages taken by Hamas, and for Israel to be referred to the International Criminal Court after the deaths of more than 11 thousand people in Gaza. Speaking on a Sinn F\u00e9in motion in the D\u00e1il last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5200,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199\/revisions\/5200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}