Jim Walsh (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am on my second last question. The risk associated with DAISH has been raised. Many people, including representatives of non-governmental organisations that are involved in human rights, say that Fatah is losing public support because it does not seem to be able to make progress with negotiations with Israel. Hamas is also losing support because of what it has done, which has attracted the bombing. Some people are concerned that this could create circumstances in which the radicalisation of young Palestinian people becomes the focus of DAISH and others. A far more serious situation would arise in such circumstances.

I will conclude by saying I do not understand why the Palestinian authorities are reluctant to go to The Hague to invoke the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court with regard to the war crimes that have been committed in Palestine.