Israel 'outright rejects' Dáil's de-facto annexation declaration

Israel has fired hundreds of air strikes against targets in Gaza, while Hamas has returned more than 4,000 rockets towards Israel, with more than 250 people killed in total. Children look through a gap in a wall after an airstrike destroyed the building during an 11-day war between Gaza's Hamas rulers and Israel. Photo: AP/John Minchillo

Israel's foreign ministry has said it "outright rejects" a motion by the Dáil to declare the building of Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories as a de facto annexation.

A spokesman for the ministry said that Ireland's "outrageous and baseless" motion "constitutes a victory for extremist Palestinian factions".