Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris has urged the European Union to reconsider its partnership agreement with Israel due to the ongoing human atrocities against civilians in Gaza and elsewhere across occupied Palestine.
The Irish leader’s call comes against the backdrop of the deadly Israeli massacre carried out yesterday against displaced families at the Al-Tabi’in School in Gaza City, which resulted in hundreds of innocent civilians killed and injured.
“We have all been horrified by the many undoubted war crimes that have been committed in Gaza. There can be no impunity. Those responsible must be held to account,” he affirmed.
The Fine Gael leader said he is “particularly disturbed” by a confirmation from the United Nations that the number of aid deliveries reaching Gaza has halved, from a daily average of 169 trucks in April to fewer than 80 trucks a day in June and July.
“Some 490 of Gaza’s schools have been bombed or damaged since the start of the war, and this weekend’s images from inside al-Taba’een school are gut-wrenching. Ireland condemns outright such awful and wholesale loss of civilian life,” Harris said in a statement, quoted by the Irish Times.
He added, “The United Nations has also assessed that more than 80 per cent of the Gaza Strip has been placed under evacuation orders since October of last year… When people are told to leave, they have nowhere to go, so they often go to schools.”
Harris pointed out that “a ceasefire remains urgently needed, and all sides must immediately work in good faith to bring one about.”
Harris said that all the orders of the International Court of Justice must be implemented in full, which called for an end to its “illegal” occupation of the Gaza Strip. “Too many innocent lives have been lost in 10 months.”
Source: WAFA
