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Mr Bernard SABELLA (Palestine)

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Representative
Representative
FATEH

Palestinian Legislative Council
PS - - Ramallah
Palestine

Working language: English

Mandates

In the political groups

In the Assembly

  • since 20/04/2022 Representative - Palestine
  • from 10/05/2021 to 23/01/2022 Representative - Palestine
  • from 21/01/2013 to 24/01/2021 Representative - Palestine
  • from 23/01/2012 to 20/01/2013 Representative - Palestine

In the committee(s) and sub-committee(s)

Interventions

Last speeches

23/04/2026 | 11:47:36 Dear Madam President, Esteemed colleagues, The Middle East region is not facing a series of isolated crises, but a web of interconnected wars and conflicts, as Ms Dora BAKOYANNIS's outlined report clearly demonstrates on the situation of the Middle East. At the centre of this lies the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which continues to embolden extremism, fuel proxy wars and destabilise the region as a whole. It is within this context that the recent Israeli law introducing the death penalty... 29/01/2026 | 12:13:10 Thank you. Allow me to address the Middle East in a historic concept. Previously, the Middle East was known to be the Fertile Crescent, including Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Israel, modern-day Israel, Jordan, Lebanon. And the communities, different communities, what I call the geography of religious, ethnic, national communities, learned how to live side by side. Then came the colonial powers. And the colonial powers did a wonderful job at dividing people into different communities. And yes, in... 28/01/2026 | 17:23:28 Thank you, Chair. I'm sorry it took me some time, but let me say this. If we are to ask ordinary, average Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, 'What do you want' – ordinary Palestinians – the answer will be 'We want to be treated as human beings, period'. I am inspired in this by nothing other than the Jewish Torah, which was the first to say that all people are created in God's image. All people, not only Jewish people, but all Muslims, Christians, atheists, whoever. So today... 02/10/2025 | 11:31:20 Thank you, Mister President, Distinguished colleagues, Together with the devastation of the Gaza Strip and its population, the latest figures released by the Committee to Protect Journalists in New York say 195 journalists were killed. Now, the outcry and condemnation that rightly followed the dreadful attack of 7 October 2023 by Hamas should not prevent the moral outcry against what has been happening in Gaza since. The Palestinian National Authority welcomed the latest peace initiative by... 25/06/2025 | 16:30:02 Mr President, Distinguished colleagues, As a Palestinian parliamentarian, I speak today not only with deep concern, but with deep pain. For over 20 months now, Gaza has endured unimaginable suffering. Entire families erased, hospitals turned to rubble, children pulled from the ruins, some alive, many not. Over 55 000 lives lost. This is not a statistic. It's a collective wound on the conscience of humanity. And yet we Palestinians often feel invisible. Our pain, our narrative, our rights, too...

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