Varadkar: Israel's actions 'indefensible and unacceptable'

He was speaking in the Dáil amid calls for Israel’s ambassador to Ireland to be expelled and sanctions to be applied.

Smoke rises following Israeli airstrikes on a building in Gaza City today. The Tánaiste Leo Varadkar said: "We will be using our position on the UN Security Council and in the EU to advocate for further action and joint action." Photo: AP/Hatem Moussa

The actions of the Israeli Government in recent days are indefensible and simply unacceptable, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has said.

Annexation, expulsion, plantation and the killing of civilians, deliberately or in terms of collateral damage, is not the behaviour of a democratic state in the 21st century and it is simply unacceptable that such a state or any state should behave in this way, he said.