‘No evidence’ of Irish citizens being blocked from leaving strip due to State’s stance on conflict, Tánaiste says
Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence Micheál Martin is pictured at the Fianna Fáil ardfheis in Dublin on Saturday. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
He said dense urban areas cannot be bombed without civilians and children being put at serious risk and that the Israeli actions have been “disproportionate by any measure”.Will Ireland’s technical recession morph into a real one? During Sunday’s interview, Mr Martin was asked if Irish citizens were being held back by Israel as punishment for the country’s position on the war.“We’re not on the list. We weren’t on the list the last number of days. That’s just a fact. But we will work on a continuing basis to get our citizens out.”
Israeli ambassador to Ireland Dana Erlich and Palestinian ambassador Dr Jilan Wahba Abdalmajid attended Fianna Fáil’s ardfheis on Saturday, as did several others from the foreign diplomatic corps.“The idea of expelling the Israeli ambassador which Sinn Féin have proposed makes no sense in terms of a conflict of this enormity where we’re trying to get citizens out, where it’s absolutely critical that we maintain communications links...
The German embassy in Dublin has in recent days shared a link on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, to comments by vice-chancellor Robert Habeck, who said of the reaction to events in the Middle East that “anti-colonialism must not lead to anti-semitism”.
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