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https://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/2023/10/09/statement-from-the-green-party-on-the-israel-gaza-conflict/
Responding to the unfolding horror in Israel and Gaza, Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay said:
"Our first thoughts are with the hundreds of innocent victims and their families who are faced with the devastating and escalating violence - most of whom have an overriding desire to live in peace.
“The Green Party calls for an immediate end to the violence in Israel and Palestine. The targeting of civilians is an outrageous breach of international law and is unacceptable under all circumstances.
"We urge the international community to take immediate steps to protect civilian life and infrastructure from attack, and to launch immediate humanitarian relief efforts.
"The long absence of a meaningful political dialogue and peace process has created a vacuum, which those who offer violence as a solution fill. The pathway to ending these waves of violence and bringing about a long term political settlement must begin with an end to illegal occupation.
"The UN Security Council, of which the UK is a permanent member, must act to prevent the spread of the conflict to neighbouring states such as Lebanon and Iran. They have so far failed to agree any new political initiative to address the fundamental causes of these latest acts of violence. For the sake of thousands of people on both sides in this conflict, they urgently need to do so.”
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Caroline Lucas:
'Violence is never the answer. I condemn Hamas for targeting civilians, the brutal Israeli military response, the illegal occupation of Palestine & siege of Gaza.The international community must hold all to account for human rights abuses & renew push for just political settlement' - https://nitter.net/CarolineLucas/status/1710686907829493762#m
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Sian Berry:
'Deeply saddened at violence in Israel-Palestine. Attacks on civilians are never justified.
The international community must take urgent steps to hold Hamas & IDF to account
The path to ending violence and long-term political settlement must include an end to illegal occupation.' - https://nitter.net/sianberry/status/1711340355486884280#m
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Whelps, they tried non-violence - it didn't work. This is all they've got left. I also take issue with the depiction of Israeli civilians as 'innocent'. Can you live as an illegal settler on somebody else's land, drinking their water, eating their food, making money off the spoils of occupation, protected by the armed goons of the Israeli gangster state while the original inhabitants are kept in enforced poverty in a prison subject to regular genocidal attack - and still be considered 'innocent'? It's patronising bullshit to insist on nonviolence from the Palestinians from the safety of the imperial centres (also benefiting from the subjugation of Palestine). Worse: it's an attempt to put them back in their box when they might have found a strategy that finally works for them - though this remains to be seen...
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