Two other EU countries to also move toward recognition
A demonstration organised by Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign makes its way over O’Connell Bridge in Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
It is understood two other European Union countries, who have not been identified, will also move toward recognition. He was speaking after a report that a diplomatic row has arisen surrounding a phone call between Mr Harris and Israeli presidentThe move comes amid ongoing conflict in Gaza and shortly after the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court sought arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas’s leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, for war crimes
“In order to see a two-state solution, and to help bring one about, you have to recognise the very existence of two states. And in the coming days, Ireland intends to do just that,” Mr Harris said.
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