Irish Foreign Minister Micheál Martin stressed that the situation in the Gaza Strip amounts to blatant violations of international law.

Martin stressed the need for the violence in Gaza to end, adding that his country demands an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the safe and unhindered entry of humanitarian aid.
The population of Gaza, especially in the Gaza and northern governorates, is on the verge of famine in light of the severe scarcity of food, water, medicine and fuel supplies.
A number of Palestinian civilians were Monday dawn killed and injured in a series of Israeli airstrikes and artillery shelling that targeted areas of the central and southern Gaza Strip on the 185th day of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, which has entered its 7th month.
Health sources in the Gaza Strip said that at least seven people were killed, and others were injured, in an occupation bombing in the center of the Gaza Strip and Shujaiya camp.
WAFA correspondents said that the occupation warplanes targeted the city of Rafah and its surrounding areas with a series of violent raids, targeting homes, facilities, and agricultural lands.
He added that an Israeli occupation airstrike targeted Al-Brahma area in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, while similar raids targeted the vicinity of Al-Kuwaiti Hospital and areas northeast of the city.
The occupation aircraft also launched two raids targeting the north of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
A number of citizens were killed and others were injured on Sunday evening after the occupation targeted various areas in Nuseirat camp and in Rafah in the Gaza Strip, where medical sources said that six people were killed and a number of others were injured with various injuries after the occupation warplanes targeted a commercial facility housing displaced persons in towers of Ain Jalut, south of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
In Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, at least a young man was killed and a number of others were injured, after Israeli warplanes bombed citizens in the town of Al-Nasr, north of Rafah.
Medical sources had announced that the death toll in the Gaza Strip since the start of the occupation aggression had risen to 33,175, the majority of whom were women and children, while about 75,886 others were injured, while thousands were still missing under the rubble and on the roads.