Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)

It is important to point to the modus operandi of Hamas and Hezbollah. In so far as he has influence in Iran and Syria, the Minister should use it to influence these groups to stop their terrorist attacks. We received a brief from some Israeli parliamentarians who were at pains to point out that the campaign in Gaza was targeted at Hamas, but what we saw when we went out on the ground was in conflict with what we had been told. Deputy Breen and I saw the American International School where US Senator John Kerry was photographed. There were no Hamas people in the school. The idea was just to bomb the education system, infrastructure and industrial parks vacated in the last days of the campaign and obliterated. Will the Minister use his influence with his counterparts in the European Union and visit Gaza and the West Bank to try to push for movement on what everybody knows is the only solution?

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