2025-03-262024/25:UU15 · p.7UUForeign affairs

Motions processed summarily

Simplified handling of motion proposals on the situation in Israel and Palestine

What's at stake: The point determines whether parliament will take a fresh position on a ceasefire, humanitarian access to Gaza, the West Bank settlements and the road to a two-state solution, or stick with the line already being pursued. It affects civilians in Gaza and the West Bank, the hostages and their families, and how forcefully Sweden acts within the EU and internationally.

Case texts and AI reasoning are AI-translated from the Swedish originals; the Swedish text is authoritative.

What the vote decides

The question is whether a large number of motion proposals on Israel and Palestine should be rejected in simplified form, because the committee holds that parliament and the government already pursue the line the proposals call for, or whether they should instead be examined on their merits and lead to new demands on the government.

Yes Yes — the committee proposal

The committee rejects the proposals in simplified form because the policy already being pursued matches what is requested. The committee welcomes the ceasefire that has begun in Gaza, which may point towards a more lasting end to the fighting and means that all hostages are released, and stresses that the agreement must be implemented, that the hostages must be freed and that humanitarian access must improve. It holds that a durable peace must rest on a negotiated two-state solution and that a ceasefire is a necessary first step. Israel has obligations under international law to ensure that humanitarian aid - food, medicine and other essentials - reaches the civilian population and to protect hospitals, medical supplies and patients; all crossings need to stay open and humanitarian staff must be able to move safely. The International Court of Justice's order on provisional measures of 26 January 2024 is binding and must be followed. The committee notes that the government, together with the other Nordic and EU countries, has consistently pressed the access question, and welcomes the re-establishment of the EU border assistance mission EU BAM Rafah at the Rafah crossing.

Summarised from the committee report. Party labels in the summary come from the report, not from the vote.

VSMPCLKDMSD
YesNoAbstainAbsent

What do the votes mean here?

Yes The committee proposal: Riksdagen avslår de motionsyrkanden som finns upptagna under denna punkt i utskottets förteckning över avstyrkta motionsyrkanden.

No Rejecting the committee proposal.

Abstain The party marks a position of its own that is not one of the two final alternatives.

What each plan points to — and how the party voted

For each party: the vote its own election manifesto and party programme point to in this case, next to how the party actually voted. A plan can only point to Yes or No; a party can also abstain.

PlanVoteConfidenceEvidence
V–Yes 20/0/0/4
S–Yes 93/0/0/13
MP–Yes 16/0/0/2
C–Yes 20/0/0/4
L–Yes 14/0/0/2
KD–Yes 17/0/0/2
M–Yes 60/0/0/8
SD–Yes 62/0/0/10

Committee proposal

The Riksdag rejects the motion demands listed under this item in the committee's register of rejected motion demands.

Original (Swedish)

Riksdagen avslår de motionsyrkanden som finns upptagna under denna punkt i utskottets förteckning över avstyrkta motionsyrkanden.

Riksdag decision: The Riksdag rejected approximately 150 proposals regarding the situation in Israel and Palestine and more. These deal with, among other things, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, aid to Palestine and UNRWA, as well as measures against settlers in the West Bank. The proposals were submitted during the general motion period in 2024.

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Source: The Swedish Parliament