Taoiseach conveys Ireland's 'unbreakable support' of the people of Palestine to country's president

Simon Harris with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in New York in September. President Abbas told the Taoiseach that 50 people have died and 100 have been injured in Gaza every day in 2024. 

The Taoiseach has spoken to the Palestinian president to express the "solidarity and unbreakable support of the people of Ireland to the people of Palestine".

A statement from the Taoiseach's office said he had told Mahmoud Abbas that the heartbreaking conditions and loss of innocent life in Gaza this year "weighs heavily on the minds of many Irish people as they gather with their families for Christmas this week".