Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

At this moment, the State of Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war. Its depraved action is provoking famine and every person, man, woman and child is a target of this assault on human life. Israel has targeted civilians and civilian infrastructure. It has decimated homes, hospitals and schools across Gaza. It has laid waste to Gaza, including its land, infrastructure and people, and has done so with impunity. Worse still, it does so with foreign money and weapons of war. We are not bystanders. Ireland can and should act in solidarity with the Palestinian people in defence of human rights and justice and holding Israel to account for its war crimes. It is time for the European Union to impose economic and financial sanctions on the State of Israel to ensure it pays a price for its war crimes. Will the Minister bring forward proposals to the next meeting of ECOFIN to this effect to hold Israel to account?

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