US needs to stop giving Israel arms or it will lead to a 'forever war', says Mary Robinson

Mary Robinson: 'I wish for the Israeli people that they have a better future than this government is leading them to.' Picture: Michael McLaughlin

Israel is acting with impunity because it is not being restrained, former president Mary Robinson has claimed.

The world has watched as Israel has crossed all the red lines and as international humanitarian law has been "horribly transgressed", Ireland's president from 1990 to 1997 said.