this action breaks the rules of international humanitarian law, Said PM Leo Varadkar

“Israel is under threat. They do have a right to defend themselves, but they don’t have the right to breach international humanitarian law,” the Irish PM said in an interview with broadcaster TVE.

Varadkar also said that Hamas should release all hostages. He believed that Israel’s actions were a response to the threat they saw from Hamas in Gaza.

“It is carrying out the massive, indiscriminate bombing of Gaza, so civilians are suffering… 1,200 have been killed already in the last few days,” she said, adding “I do not know how many injured, on top of that. There is the siege blocking food and fuel and electricity and water,” Leo Varadkar further said.

Former Irish president Mary Robinson shared similar views, calling Israel’s response to the Hamas attack an act of collective punishment.