An Israeli Government official’s suggestion Palestinians should ‘go to Ireland or the desert’ does not represent official policy - Ambassador.
Israel Ambassador on government minister's 'to Ireland or the desert’ comments: “He's not representing the policy of the Government"An Israeli Government official’s claim that Palestinians should ‘go to Ireland or the desert’ does not represent the country’s policy, the Israeli Ambassador to Ireland has toldLast week Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu said the Palestinian people “can go to Ireland or deserts”, adding, “The monsters in Gaza should find a solution by...
In an interview with the Times of Israel, he said that anyone who waves a Palestinian or Hamas flag “shouldn’t continue living on the face of the earth”.He also suggested that dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza was one of the possibilities open to his government and defended the restriction of humanitarian aid to Gaza by saying: “We wouldn’t hand the Nazis humanitarian aid. There is no such thing as uninvolved civilians in Gaza.
When it was put to her that the comments caused anger and upset in Ireland, Ms Erlich said: “Again, it's not something that I try to focus on”. “His remarks were completely … we objected that, we said that that does not represent Israel and I think that focusing on that is dividing us or talking about the real issue and this is what Hamas is doing to us and to the Palestinians in Gaza.”'The conflict is edging closer’ – Irish people warned to leave Lebanon
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