Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Zionist Government of Benjamin Netanyahu seems to believe that it can act with impunity, so much so that it has threatened Ireland, Norway and Spain with "dire consequences" for doing what we are doing today, what should have been done decades ago, what all states in the world should be doing as a minimum and what this Parliament agreed to do ten years ago. Most of the world's nations are looking on as Israeli forces are involved in continuous barbaric attacks on defenceless Palestinians and involved in genocide.

For decades, they have imposed a stranglehold on the region and, in revenge for Hamas's barbaric and unjustifiable attack on the music concert in Israel on 7 October last year, they have activated their murderous plans.

Thapaigh rialtas Benjamin Netanyahu an deis, tar éis ionsaithe mharfaigh Hamas ar Iosrael, scrios iomlán a dhéanamh ar Gaza agus an pobal atá ann a mharú nó a bhriseadh agus tuilleadh talaimh a ghoideadh ón Phalaistín ionas nach mbeadh aon seans go mbeadh Stát Palaistíneach beo beathach amach anseo. The Israeli Government is blatantly targeting the murder of men, women and children, having starved them, destroyed their homes and shifted them here, there and everywhere in a small enclave of Gaza as if they were cattle, before corralling them into kill zones where they drop precision bombs on them as they sleep in their tents or shelters pulled together from the rubble of their homes or surrounding buildings, bombed out of existence for over seven months in the modern-day carpet bombing of a city.

While within minutes many western nations rightly sought to impose sanctions on Russia and send aid to Ukraine and its beleaguered Government, the world has been very slow to act in defence of or aid the besieged, starving Palestinian population of Gaza. The message should go out loud and clear: sanctions now, boycott now. It is high time the human rights clauses of the European-Mediterranean agreement should be triggered in full.

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