'Appalling failure of diplomacy': President Higgins denounces Israeli ban on UN aid agency

Taoiseach Simon Harris called on the EU to 'find the moral courage' to act in relation to this latest move by Israel saying it should review trade relations at an EU level

FILE - Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli strike on a school run by UNRWA, the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees, in Nuseirat, Gaza Strip, May 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)

There has been unified condemnation across the Irish political spectrum in the wake of Israel's bill banning all Unrwa activity in Israel and the Palestinian territories.

President Michael D Higgins has called on all EU member states, and those in the United Nations, to make their support for the UN agency clear.