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Amid the humanitarian crisis in Palestine, Israel is blockading a long list of items including incubators, fridges, and water tanks

Micheál Martin speaking with Lotfy Gheith of the Red Crescent who showed the Tánaiste some of the items that Israel is blocking from import into Palestine as purportedly 'dual use'. 

Elaine Loughlin’s front-page article on Micheál Martin’s visit to Rafah makes for grim reading. The list of essential humanitarian items being banned by Israel defies all logic, from a country that Benjamin Netanyahu says is not a “banana republic”.

However, it is “chocolate croissants” that have been stopped from entering Gaza, because they are deemed a “luxury item”, that hit me the most. Who makes these rules for God’s sake, when people are starving before our very own eyes?