Now, the government will not vote on the amendment. If the amendment is passed, it will expel the Israeli ambassador to Ireland and impose sanctions on Israel.

The Irish government supports a parliamentary motion condemning the Israeli authorities for “de facto annexation” of Palestinian land, which it says is the first use of the phrase by an EU country relative to Israel.

Irish Foreign Secretary Simon Coveny said on Tuesday that the motion proposed by the opposition party Sinn Finn “clearly shows the depth of the feelings of the whole of Ireland.”

“The scale, pace and strategic nature of Israel’s actions in expanding settlements and the intentions behind them have brought us to a point where we need to be honest about the actual situation. …in fact, it’s a merger,” Coveney of the center-right Fine Gael party told parliament. .

“This is not me, or in my opinion this house is an understatement. We are the first EU country to do so. But this reflects our deep concern about the intentions of these actions, and of course their impact.” He says.

If passed, the amendment will require the government to expel the Israeli ambassador to Ireland and impose economic, political and cultural sanctions on Israel.

Most countries believe that the settlements established by Israel in the territories occupied in the 1967 war are illegal and an obstacle to peace with the Palestinians.

Kovini, who represented Ireland in the UN Security Council debate on Israel in recent weeks, insisted on condemning the Palestinian organization Hamas’s recent rocket attack on Israel before agreeing to the government’s support for the motion.

Some Irish MPs wear masks with Palestinian flags or checkered keffiyeh patterns.

The left-leaning Sinn Finn party refused to support the government amendment condemning the Hamas attack.

Members of the Irish Parliament wear masks with Palestinian symbols to show their solidarity with Sheikh Jala and Palestine. #SaveSheikhJarrah ???? pic.twitter.com/SbM2Atgb7L

-Abed?#SaveSheikhJarrah (@Abd_HajYahia) May 25, 2021

The motion came a few days after the ceasefire ended, which ended the worst fighting in years between Israeli and Palestinian armed groups and lasted 11 days.

The violence triggered massive pro-Palestinian protests in Dublin.

According to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, at least 253 Palestinians were killed, including 66 children, and about 2,000 were injured. At least 12 people were killed in Israel.

The Irish Parliament (Dáil) will debate the “profit-making” amendment to Sinn Fein’s private MP’s motion on Wednesday, and a vote is expected later.

Credit to @sinnfeinireland Make a motion, but tell it has the support of the entire Dáil-around. There is a growing consensus that Israel should be held accountable for decades of occupation, deprivation and ethnic cleansing.

-Ronan Burtenshaw (@ronanburtenshaw) May 25, 2021

Some people welcome Ireland’s actions on social media.

“Ireland has become the first EU country to admit that Israel violated international law and actually annexed Palestine,” Ronan Burtenshaw, editor of the British Socialist Tribune, tweeted. “On the road to segregating apartheid countries, as we did in the 1980s, this is a milestone. Next stop: boycott, divestment and sanctions.”

Sinn Fein politician John Brady tweeted: “We have forced a major shift in the Irish government’s position. They say that Israel has actually annexed Palestinian land. Ireland is the European Union. The first country to declare that Israel’s actions violated international law. These actions #FreePalestine must have consequences.”

The man before the profit, Richard Boyd Barrett (Richard Boyd Barrett) described the upcoming vote on Wednesday as “historic.”

A total of more than 5,200 people signed Barrett’s petition, which called on the Irish government to “publicly declare the State of Israel guilty of war crimes.”