Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Israeli onslaught on Gaza continues. What Israel offers is bombs and starvation. We have all heard the figures at this stage - 5,791 Palestinians killed, including 2,360 children, and 704 Palestinians killed in the last 24 hours. There is nothing else this can be called but a war crime and forced displacement. It can be called ethnic cleansing. We dread to think what a land invasion will look like. We dread to think about the disparity of power we are dealing with. Many of us have called out what Ursula von der Leyen and others have done in greenlighting these types of war crimes. I have asked the Taoiseach before about what engagements we intend to have. If we have allies we can deal with, we need to push them. We also need to push ourselves forward more as regards condemnation. If we cannot get agreement at a European level, we will need to get some agreement, perhaps at a reduced level, among those allies on calling out what are Israeli war crimes and the fear of what is to come. We need to ensure there is no element of greenlighting provided by any element of the European Union. I ask the Taoiseach to detail the pushback that has happened in relation to those who seem to be a lot more pro-Israeli than this State.

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