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Suspending EU-Israel trade deal may be only way to end Gaza war in Gaza, junior minister says

Joe O’Brien said Israel had carried on in its ‘disregard for international law’

Joe O’Brien, junior minister of rural and community development, at the Irish embassy in Brussels

Suspending all or part of the EU-Israel trade deal may be the only way to end the war in Gaza, a junior minister has said.

Joe O’Brien said Israel had “carried on in terms of their disregard” for international law.

“The old way of doing things with Israel, in terms of persuasion and diplomacy, I think it’s beginning to hit a wall,” O’Brien told the Business Post in Brussels, where he is meeting with international ...