Ireland has become the first EU country to formally designate Israeli settlement expansion as "annexation" of Palestinian land.
The Irish parliament, the Dáil, said so in a motion passed unanimously on Wednesday (26 May).
"The scale, pace, and strategic nature of Israel's actions on settlement expansion and the intent behind it have brought us to a point where we need to be honest about what is actually happening on the ground ... it is de facto annexation," Irish foreign minister...
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