Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Yesterday, 40 Israeli jets took part in a bombing operation in Gaza that claimed the lives of three senior officials from the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad and nine civilians, including three children. This comes on top of the most deadly year in decades in the West Bank where, day in, day out and week in, week out, Israel has launched military raids into Palestinian territory, towns, refugee camps and so on. Nothing is done. The European Union does nothing. The Government calls for nothing to be done. We moved immediately on sanctions against Russia, and say repeatedly that we need them, for what it has done in Ukraine. Indeed, we call for the Ukrainian army to resist an illegal occupation of its territory but we say nothing about the right of Palestinians to resist, day in, day out and week in, week out, illegal occupation of their territory, illegal military raids, illegal bombing raids, and a siege of Gaza. The list of Israel's crimes goes on. When will there be some consistency in the foreign policy of this Government or the European Union?

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