Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has called on the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs to strongly protest Israel\u2019s mass murder\u00a0of Palestinian civilians today in Gaza by expelling Israeli diplomats from Ireland.<\/p>\n
Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe brutality of the Israeli Army has once again been laid bare for the world to see.\u00a0At least 41 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza today and more than 1,700 others wounded after the Israeli army fired live ammunition and tear gas at protesters who assembled to protest the US Government\u2019s decision to relocate the US Embassy to Jerusalem.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe demonstrations are also part of weeks-long commemorations for the 70th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of the Nakba and protests calling for the right of return for Palestinian refugees to the areas they were forcibly expelled from in 1948.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince the protests began on 30 March, Israeli soldiers have killed at least 90 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded more than 9,400. Without International sanction or diplomatic retribution I fear that many more innocent civilians will be killed in the coming days.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is time for the Irish Government to give a strong and unambiguous statement that there can be no impunity for Israel\u2019s mass killing of Palestinians citizens and its continued illegal occupation of Palestine.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Irish Government should move to expel the Israeli Ambassador in protest at these latest killings and act on the Oireachtas motion urgently that calls for Ireland to recognise the State of Palestine.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has called on the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs to strongly protest Israel\u2019s mass murder\u00a0of Palestinian civilians today in Gaza by expelling Israeli diplomats from Ireland. Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said: \u201cThe brutality of the Israeli Army has once again been laid bare for the world to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,48,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","category-israel","category-palestine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3468,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions\/3468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}