Dáil debates

Thursday, 29 March 2012

1:00 pm

Photo of Pádraig Mac LochlainnPádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein)

One of the concerns one has reading reports during and after the recent attacks by the Israeli Army is the real sense the army had targeted and killed a militant in Gaza. Forces within Gaza then launched missile attacks on south Israel. None of them were part of Hamas. At least ten people were killed, a good number of whom were civilians. The concern in the region is that this may have been an attempt to provoke Hamas and undermine the partnership it has developed with Fatah which is critical in terms of achieving the unity of the Palestinian people, creating and sustaining a two-state solution and guaranteeing the security of both Israel and Palestine for which we all hope and pray.

Does the Tánaiste believe the initial actions of the Israeli Army in targeting somebody like that were reckless and wrong?

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