Taoiseach says he doesn't know how Netanyahu 'sleeps at night' after UN address

After UN General Assembly address, Micheál Martin said: 'There can be no continuation of the collective punishment... There's no moral justification for the continuation of this war whatsoever'

Responding to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address at the 80th session of the UN General Assembly, Taoiseach Micheál Martin said he does not know how Mr Netanyahu sleeps at night. Picture: Stefan Jeremiah/AP

The Taoiseach has said he does not know how Benjamin Netanyahu "sleeps at night", as he has hit out at countries that are "complicit" in the genocide in Gaza and that "doing nothing is not neutrality".

Speaking at the UN General Assembly in New York, Micheál Martin said that there "could not be business as usual in the face of genocide" and called "on those who have influence to use it urgently to maximum effect".