DUBLIN (Dispatches) – Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar says that there is “double standards” from the EU and some Western powers in relation to the Zionist regime and Palestine.
Varadkar made his comment during an interview with Irish radio station RTE, adding that neither Shannon Airport, nor any other Irish airport, was being used by the U.S. military to support the Zionist regime.
“No. You have to receive express permission to bring munitions through any airport in Ireland and they have to be signed off on by the Department of Transport and the Minister for Transport, and that’s not happening,” he told RTE.
The Taoiseach stressed that when it comes to international humanitarian law, it has to apply across the board.
Meanwhile, Pakistan’s caretaker Prime Minister, Anwaarul Haq Kakar, on Monday, drew a parallel between the ongoing spree of children’s killing in Gaza and one of the West’s few red lines, the Holocaust, Anadolu Agency reports.
We are witnessing a holocaust of Palestinian children in Gaza. This appalling and atrocious children holocaust must stop immediately
Kakar said, while addressing a World Children’s Day ceremony in the capital, Islamabad, state-run Pakistan Television reported.
Denouncing the “senseless” killing of children in Gaza, Kakar said Palestinian children have emerged as the prime victims of the Israeli actions in the besieged enclave.
A professional army, he noted, never targets unarmed citizens and children during a war.
“We are trying, along with our global partners from the platform of the OIC (Organisation of Islamic Cooperation) and others, to pressurize the western hemisphere, led by the United States, that some sort of sanity must prevail,” he went on to say.
Pakistan has witnessed a host of huge protest demonstrations in support of Palestinians since 7 October.