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

I certainly can. As I said in my reply, what is happening in the West Bank is unacceptable. I was there in September. The Palestinian Authority has made it very clear that it is pursuing a non-violent path towards a Palestinian state yet Israel continues to undermine the Palestinian Authority. The Israeli Government strategy is impossible to comprehend. There is no justification for administrative detention, the level of arrests of children and young people, the wanton killing of young people and the support of elements of the IDF for violent settlers in the displacement of many Palestinian communities and the threatening and intimidation that happens in the approach taken by violent settlers to quite a number of Palestinian communities. When I was there in September, I met a young child from a Palestinian school. The child outlined to me how the school was attacked by settlers while the children were in the school and how many local small communities were told to get out of the area because of the pursuit of a fundamentalist religious perspective, which is reprehensible.

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