War in Middle East 'deliberate assault on international law', says President Connolly

The UAE’s defence ministry said it had intercepted 16 missiles on Sunday, while a 17th fell into the sea

Missiles launched from Iran are seen in the sky over central Israel (Ohad Zwigenberg/AP)

President Catherine Connolly has said events in the Middle East are “deliberate assaults on international law” and must be called out “without euphemism and without equivocation”.

It comes as US president Donald Trump and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to press ahead with the nine-day-old campaign, which has rippled across the region and appears to have no end in sight.