Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The consequences are an investigation that is being carried out by the International Criminal Court, a body we support and to which we have provided additional funding as a meaningful action, precisely so that it can carry out the investigation it wants to carry out into activities in the occupied territories, by Israel, of course, but also by other militant groups, like Hamas, that may also have committed war crimes. That is the work the court is doing and we should support it in that work. It is why we have provided additional funding for the ICC to do exactly that.

In terms of further actions and further sanctions, I am strongly of the view that they can only happen on a multilateral basis. The whole point of imposing sanctions, and we have imposed sanctions on many countries for different reasons, is that they do more harm to the country being sanctioned than the country imposing the sanctions. That is why they only work when they are done on a multilateral basis, and we are nowhere near that point yet at European level or international level. I have said at European meetings, and I will say it again, that we cannot continue to aid Palestine and trade with Israel in the way we have done in the past. That is going to have to change in some way.

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