Ireland moves to ban trade with Israeli businesses in occupied Palestinian territories

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The government of Ireland will plan to ban products with Israeli business in the occupied Palestinian regions this week, the first EU country to take this national action.

Foreign and Commerce Minister Simon Harris said the planned law came in response to an enhancement of the way the country called “war crimes”. GazaThe

Harris will launch the process of law draft after most of the EU states on Tuesday Review the trade agreement of the block with IsraelThe The move has come up in legal debate as to whether a trade bill such as AirBNB can be included in trade bills.

Harris told the Financial Times, “It is clear that war is a crime, the children are starving and are being used as a weapon of war,” Harris told the Financial Times. “The world has not done enough and we need to act.”

Ireland business imports from the Israeli business in the occupied territory of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. However, the Dublin government, which last year Palestine recognizes the state Together with Spain and Norway, the European countries want to follow its leadership.

“The target of this nature has never been aimed at the EU stage,” Christian Aid Ireland’s policy and lawyer chief Conor O’Neill said, who sponsored an independent senator and co-operated in the previous occupied territory bill in 2018.

“The main thing is whether the government will provide completely restrictions on all trade with illegal settlements in both dates and orange, but also unstoppable services like tourism and IT.”

The Palestinian products of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, such as Zaitune Olive Oil, will be exempted.

More than 400 Irish academics and lawyers say Open letter The services that were not included in the services last week were “Irish, EU or international law did not have any inevitable obstacles”, said that it would respect to do A suggestive opinion last year By the International Justice Court. The letter echoes another opinion by experts in EU law.

O’Neill says such a move can prevent AirBNB from the rent list in the regions because the US company has European headquarters in Dublin, which is subject to Irish law, O’Neill.

AirBNB refused to comment. In 2019, This is the opposite course After settling the litigation, the plans to enroll the property in the occupied areas and say that it will grant profit to the support agencies from those lists.

The Irish government has blocked the 2018 bill in the wake of the EU trade rules for years. However, Harris said: “Because of the scale and gravity of what we are now seeing, we are now looking at the assistance and the Gaza bombing. … This is a suitable way to accept it.”

He said that last week he included the services in the bill “there is no policy disagreement. …

The European Commission has refused to comment. In their letter, Irish educators and lawyers urged the government to publish its legal advice.

International Judicial Court gave a consultative opinion last year that the UN member states should take steps to resist ” Commercial Helps in Israel’s maintenance ” Six decades old occupation.

Harris expects the bill to launch a parliamentary investigation in June. “We want to do something dominant … but the European Union will have a much more profound impact by acting together,” he added.

Ireland imported only $ 685,000 products, including fruits, vegetables, furniture and cosmetics from the regions occupied between 2020 and 2024.

Bill supporters say that Ireland took a similar position in banning products from South Africa in the decade of Ireland, which other countries followed.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjasin Netanyahu reviewed his trade connection with Israel in his aggressive light in Gaza and strongly criticized the allies.

Last week he told the UK, French and Canadian leaders that they were “the wrong side of humanity and The wrong side of history“Palestinian Chitmahal demanded that his country be ended with military operations. Israel rejected the comparison with the former South African racist rule.

The central bank of Ireland also supervised the sale of Israeli bonds. The main opposition party, Sin Sin Faine, has proposed a bill – set for debate next week – whose goal is to say that Gaza is aggressively funding the sale of Debt.

Extra Report of Andy Bounds in Brussels and James Shoter in Jerusalem