Verbatim report of proceedings

Tuesday, 7 October 2025 - Strasbourg

The EU’s role in supporting the recent peace efforts for Gaza and a two-state solution (debate)

  Lynn Boylan, on behalf of The Left Group. – A Uachtaráin, the legacy of the Palestinian genocide, the systematic failure of political leadership and, in some cases, the EU's act of complicity will have ramifications for decades. First and foremost, the profound trauma of mass displacement, of the loss of multiple generations of families, of tens of thousands of orphans, of forced starvation will be catastrophic.

Palestinians may never be able to forgive the Western and Arab world, but it is not just Palestinians. Across Europe, young and old have taken to the streets in ever increasing numbers. They have been beaten and criminalised for standing up for international law. More than 100 civilians, EU civilians and three Members of this House were illegally abducted by Israel for trying to do what their governments should have been doing, which was to end the illegal blockade, and neither the Council nor the Commission thought to mention them today.

How is this that a small, oppressive foreign regime built on racism and violent ideology has been able to infiltrate our institutions and dominate our foreign and domestic policy to create a situation where the freedoms, interests and wishes of our own citizens have been trampled on?

We absolutely need the killing to stop, but this peace plan is colonialism. Gaza does not need a viceroy, and certainly not one who prosecuted an illegal war in Iraq. Gaza needs to be free from occupation, and Palestinians need to be treated with respect and given the autonomy for their own future. International law is the only framework for peace. Palestinians need more than EU money. They need justice.