{"id":251275,"date":"2025-12-25T19:58:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T19:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/251275\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T19:58:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T19:58:16","slug":"ireland-joins-international-condemnation-of-new-west-bank-settlements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/251275\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland joins international condemnation of new West Bank settlements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Minister for Foreign Affairs<\/strong> has co-signed a statement with 13 other countries condemning new <strong>Israeli settlements<\/strong> in the <strong>West Bank<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In the joint statement issued on Wednesday evening, Helen McEntee and her counterparts said the actions of the Israeli security cabinet \u201cviolate international law but also risk fuelling instability\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A number of EU countries signed the statement along with Canada, Japan and the UK.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">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?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 24, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>They say the decision of Israel to back 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank is \u201cpart of a wider intensification\u201d of settlement policies and risks \u201cundermining\u201d the Gaza peace plan and \u201clong-term peace and security across the region\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The statement \u2013 also signed by Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Iceland, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway and Spain \u2013 calls on Israel to \u201creverse this decision, as well as the expansion of settlements\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The governments say: \u201cWe are resolute in our support of Palestinians\u2019 right of self-determination\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Minister for Foreign Affairs has co-signed a statement with 13 other countries condemning new Israeli settlements in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251276,"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-251275","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\/115781979979903970","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251275","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=251275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}