VIVA – Government Ireland on Tuesday in favor of a parliamentary motion condemning “annexation de facto “on the ground Palestine by the authorities Israel.
Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney, who has represented Ireland on the United Nations Security Council in debates over Israel in recent weeks, supported the motion, and condemned what he described as Israel’s “markedly unequal” treatment of the Palestinian people. .
But he also insisted, adding to the criticism of the recent rocket attacks on Israel by Palestinian militant groups Hamas before he agreed to government support for the motion, which had been put forward by the opposition Sinn Fein party.
“The scale, speed and strategic nature of Israel’s actions on settlement expansion and the intentions behind it have brought us to the point where we have to be honest about what is really happening on the ground. … This is a de facto annexation,” Coveney told parliament. .
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