Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-10-10-Speech-3-136"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-10-10"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:The humanitarian situation in Gaza2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20071010.18.3-136"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-10-10-Speech-3-1372
lpv:speaker	lp:Eija-Riitta Korhola2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3,3 member; Temporary Committee on Climate Change (2007-05-10--2009-02-04)3,3 member; ENVI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3,3 unknown; Kansallinen Kokoomus (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3,3 substitute; ITRE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3,3 member; DROI (2007-01-31--2008-07-08)3,3 member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3,3 substitute; CONT (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, there is human suffering in Gaza. The humanitarian crisis there has in the last few months indisputably grown into a catastrophe. No longer is it a matter of just a shortage of basic food. The Palestinian economy has collapsed and it has become harder to conduct business. People’s everyday lives have been shattered and the relief organisations cannot operate in the region. The people who live there are caught up in a blockade, and as the Commissioner said, on the West Bank the same problems loom. The residents of Gaza are the victims of a failed policy by each of the parties in the crisis. It is one thing to speak about Hamas as the enemy and a terrorist organisation; it is quite another to declare the whole of Gaza enemy territory. It is one thing to speak about Israel as the enemy; it is quite another to refuse to cooperate with providers of basic services and international organisations. Although the parties in the crisis have reached deadlock, they both have responsibility for fundamental humanitarian rights. The resolution by Parliament’s groups is an exceptionally straightforward expression of opinion on the crisis in the Middle East. It is stripped of any ulterior political motive. All that is left is Europe’s profound concern about the lives of the people in Gaza. I would like to remind everyone that this is the self-same concern we expressed earlier on this year. We cannot take either side and we cannot point a finger. The suffering of innocent people makes the desire to excuse and seek justification for the Gaza situation irrelevant. We demand just one thing: that the parties in the crisis allow us to help and that they should help themselves in particular, because this is a human crisis on a huge scale. Commissioner, I hope you will take this one demand by Europe regarding the situation in Gaza to the parties in the crisis, the Arab League and the Quartet."@en1

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