The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs

Ireland Foreign Affairs Committee Concemns Violence in Lebanon



The fact that over 600 civilians, including many children have died in Southern Lebanon and in Israel in recent weeks; The damage done to civilian infrastructure in Lebanon on such a scale as to render over 750,000 people homeless; The indiscriminate attack on a United Nations outpost in South Lebanon, involving the deaths of four UN Peacekeeping personnel; Recognising the important role of Unifil and the Irish Defence Forces’ contribution to that body; Appalled at the most recent slaughter in Qana over the weekend just passed …