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The UK and four allies have criticised Israel's decision to launch a new large-scale military operation in Gaza - warning it will "aggravate the catastrophic humanitarian situation" in the territory.
The foreign ministers of Britain, Australia, Germany, Italy, France, Canada, Austria, Norway, and New Zealand said in a joint statement that the offensive will "endanger the lives of hostages" and "risk violating international humanitarian law".
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/ireland-intends-to-pass-trade-ban-with-israeli-settlements-amid-pressure-from-us-congress/a1427650724.html
relandโs coalition of Fine Gael, Fianna Fail and a group of independents committed to passing a ban on goods from the occupied Palestinian territories in its programme for government completed in January.
A cross-party committee recommended that the government pass the bill and the prohibition of imports from the Palestinian Occupied Territories should be extended to include trade in services.
Mr Harris said Ireland was not alone in wanting to ban trade with the occupied Palestinian territories.
โPeople in Ireland, people in Europe and people right across the world feel extraordinarily strongly about the genocidal activity that weโre seeing in Gaza, about the starving children and we will use all tools at our disposal,โ he told reporters on Friday.
โItโs not a surprise that some seek to distort or misrepresent our proposed actions.
โRemember, Ireland isnโt alone in relation to this; this week we also saw Slovenia take action in relation to trade from the occupied territories, I expect Belgium are likely to do the same and we intend to advance with our legislation.
โOf course weโll continue to engage and explain and never allow our position to be misrepresented.โ