IRELAND HOPE FOR BACKING IN EU MUST

Countries expected to block Irish proposals

- BY LOUISE BURNE Political Correspondent

TAOISEACH Micheal Martin has said it is “incomprehensible Europe does not seem to be in a position to put pressure and leverage on Israel to stop this war in Gaza”.

He also suggested that Europe needed to follow other countries’ steps to sanction individual ministers, noting that the UK, Norway and Canada had further sanctions against settlers in the West Bank and against Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich.