Amnesty International chief slams 'fearmongering' after Ibec comments on Occupied Territories Bill

Amnesty International Secretary-General, Agnès Callamard, said: 'It cannot be ‘business as usual’ while Palestinians are starved and slaughtered while seeking aid or under relentless Israeli attacks in Gaza.' Picture: Wikimedia Commons

There has been “fearmongering” in attempts by some bodies to “derail” the introduction of the Occupied Territories Bill, the head of Amnesty International has said.

The organisation's secretary general, Agnès Callamard, has praised the Irish Government for its plans to ban trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.