{"id":249816,"date":"2025-12-24T21:12:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T21:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/249816\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T21:12:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T21:12:21","slug":"ireland-joins-countries-condemning-israeli-settlements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/249816\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland joins countries condemning Israeli settlements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland is one of 14 countries to condemn Israel&#8217;s decision to back the creation of 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>In a joint statement, the allies, including the UK, France and Germany, said the actions of the Israeli security cabinet &#8220;violate international law but also risk fuelling instability&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Israel&#8217;s support for settlements in the West Bank, part of the territory occupied after the 1967 war, is seen as undermining the prospects of a two-state solution as the land is intended to form a key part of a Palestinian state.<\/p>\n<p>A joint statement condemning the new settlements has been signed by Minister for Foreign Affairs Helen McEntee.<\/p>\n<blockquote align=\"center\" class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\">I, along with 13 counterparts have condemned the approval by the Israeli security cabinet of 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1qadMNLKwe\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/1qadMNLKwe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Helen McEntee TD (@HMcEntee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HMcEntee\/status\/2003891277478482405\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was also signed by Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway and Spain, said: &#8220;Such unilateral actions, as part of a wider intensification of the settlement policies in the West Bank, not only violate international law but also risk fuelling instability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They warned the step risks undermining the plan to end the war in Gaza, &#8220;harming prospects for long-term peace and security across the region&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are resolute in our support of Palestinians&#8217; right of self-determination,&#8221; the governments said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We reaffirm our unwavering commitment to a comprehensive, just and lasting peace based on the two-state solution in accordance with relevant UN Security Council resolutions where two democratic states, Israel and Palestine, live side by side in peace and security within secure and recognised borders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We reaffirm that there is no alternative to a negotiated two-state solution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland is one of 14 countries to condemn Israel&#8217;s decision to back the creation of 19 new settlements&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-249816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-world","21":"tag-world-news","22":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115776608173906765","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}