Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Irish Government has consistently raised this issue at the EU and the UN Security Council. Everybody in the House should raise the issue with those who have influence over Israel. There is increasingly institutionalised discrimination within the West Bank and the occupied territories. That is not acceptable. I hope Sinn Féin would do likewise when it meets representatives in the United States, for example. I hope it has been as strong as it is here in the context of the Palestinian question when it meets Members of the US Congress on Capitol Hill. I do not know whether the Deputy has got any feedback from her discussions with those representatives on that. The murder of Shireen Abu Akleh has to be condemned in the strongest possible terms. What happened subsequently at her funeral must also be condemned. There has been increasingly aggressive activity in the occupied territories in recent times.

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