Occupied Territories Bill: Ireland set to become first EU country to curb trade with Israel

Ireland could become the first EU state to restrict trade from Israeli settlements under a renewed Occupied Territories Bill

Mourners at the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City gather around the body of 10-year-old Ghazwane Hamdan who was killed in an Israeli army airstrike on Monday May 26. Picture: Jehad Alshrafi/AP

Ireland is set to become the first EU country to limit trade with Israel as the reworked Occupied Territories Bill is brought to Cabinet by Tánaiste Simon Harris.

Mr Harris will today ask Cabinet to approve the drafting of the general scheme of a bill to ban the importation of goods from illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.