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... 23/06/2025 | 17:27:35 Yes. Thank you. Thank you, Madam President. Allow me to address you today with the ongoing war in Gaza. The suffering in Gaza today is beyond politics. It's a moral test for all of us. Over 55 000 Palestinians have been killed, the majority women and children. More than 80% of Gaza's population has been displaced. Entire neighbourhoods, hospitals, schools lie in ruins. This is not a conflict, it is a catastrophe. Gaza today is unlivable. Food insecurity has reached famine level. Access to... 10/04/2025 | 16:11:34 Thank you, Mister President. The humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip resembles depictions of Dante's Inferno. Statistics of victims of indiscriminate bombings, destruction of medical, educational, water, electricity, welfare infrastructures, and the near famine experienced by thousands of Gazans all speak to the hellish conditions under which the population of Gaza lives today. This war targets Palestinians because of who they are. The recent indiscriminate killings of medical personnel... 28/01/2025 | 17:14:36 Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. I'm sorry for this. We, the Palestinian delegation, commend the report of Ms Saskia KLUIT of the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development. I think this has been a labor of seriousness to consider the effects of war and destruction, since 7 October 2023, on the people of Gaza. At the same time, allow me to say, we in the Palestinian delegation are very pleased with the ceasefire, and we hope for the release of all hostages and for our people... 01/10/2024 | 19:09:47 Thank you, Mister President and esteemed members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Let me start with wisdom. There is no victor in war, and all are winners in peace. And when we speak about the current state of affairs in the Middle East, it's the result of an ongoing war and unresolved conflict between Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel. The humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is catastrophic. 155 000 expecting mothers have been and continue to go through hell... 27/06/2024 | 18:40:07 Thank you, Mister President. There is no way that anyone can whitewash the entirely man-made disaster created by Israel in its war on Gaza. Whether it is the Interim Report of Damage issued by the Word Bank in March or the recent CNN story of yesterday 26 June 2024. The statistics of devastation cry out for all those with some conscience in this hall and elsewhere. The total destruction, and devastation of Gaza have resulted in the destruction of 70% of housing units. The economic loss is...