Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
Dail Éireann — 2023-12-05
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Ruairí Ó Murchú (SF), Louth

We have all seen the failure to extend the ceasefire and to introduce a permanent ceasefire. In the long-term, peace is needed to deliver a negotiated settlement that provides real self-determination for the Palestinian people. Unfortunately, Benjamin Netanyahu's regime has done what it threatened to do and has gone back to its abject slaughter of Palestinians. We can only take the lessons from the information the Israelis are providing, namely, that they do not particularly care how many civilians are killed and that the only solution, from their point of view, is to remove the Palestinian people from the Gaza Strip. I cannot see anything else is in their plans. This is a regime that abjectly failed to defend the Israeli people.
The Taoiseach stated the Government does not see anything magical it can do to deliver a ceasefire. We all accept that.

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