Hopes rise that Government will finally enact bill to ban trade with Israel

One campaigner to have the Occupied Territories Bill passed believes it is ‘no longer a question of whether, it’s a question of when’

The aftermath of Israeli air strikes in Rafah, Gaza, earlier this year. The public have been left disgusted and dismayed by the level of death and destruction that has been wrought on the Palestinian people by Israel. File photo: Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images

The ball is now firmly back in the Government’s hands in relation to Ireland’s future trading relationship with Israel.

The Government had long maintained that there was nothing it could do about trade with Israel — citing the established rules of the EU that the bloc was the primary arbiter on international trade.