Brendan Ryan (Labour)

The world, however, stands back in silence when a terrified child running away from one of the most powerful defence forces in the world is murdered in cold blood because the perpetrator is a country with which we have, at best, an ambiguous relationship.

I again appeal to our Department of Foreign Affairs to raise the issue of Iman al-Hams with the Israeli Embassy. It is a crime worthy of the summoning of an ambassador to the Department. Murdering children is not part of the war on terrorism, it is a disgraceful abuse of power and needs the voice of civilised people to deal with it.