Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation
Dail Éireann — 2022-05-11
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Paul Murphy (PBP), Dublin South-West

I want to raise the murder of a female Al Jazeera journalist by Israeli troops in a Palestinian refugee camp earlier today. A photographer from the French media company, AFP, has reported that Shireen Abu Akleh was wearing a press flak jacket and standing with other journalists when she was shot and killed by Israeli troops. The Israeli Defense Forces ignored the jacket and shot her in the head in what has been described as a cold-blooded assassination. Another journalist reports that the "army did not stop firing even after she collapsed.", and goes on to say, "The army was adamant on shooting to kill." What action will be taken against this apartheid state?

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Sitting date: 2022-05-11