Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

Any indiscriminate firing towards a civilian population is utterly taboo. However, they have not killed anybody, thankfully, but nearly 200 Palestinians have died.

Is it not incredible that a State that is supposedly democratic and civilised and is put forward as such by the European Union and United States believes it is okay to massacre innocent relatives - women, men and children - when targeting a police official? If the European Union believes any of what it says about standing for civil and human rights worldwide, must it not take very strong action on this matter?

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