Irish PM Simon Harris says Israel's decision to shutter Dublin embassy 'regrettable'

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Israel announced on Sunday it would shut its mission in the Irish capital because of what Israel's Foreign Minister called 'extreme anti-Israel policies.'

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00:00Ireland's Prime Minister Simon Harris has called Israel's decision to close its embassy

00:06in Dublin deeply regrettable. But he also said his government wouldn't change its position

00:12on how the war in Gaza is being fought. Israel announced on Sunday it would close its mission

00:17in the Irish capital because of what officials called extreme anti-Israel policies.

00:22I will push back very strongly against any attempt by any country to misrepresent Ireland's

00:28mission. Ireland is not anti-Israeli, but Ireland is absolutely anti-disturbation of

00:35children, is absolutely anti-killing of civilians and is absolutely pro-peace, pro-international

00:42law and pro-human rights.

00:45Meanwhile, Israeli forces have continued to pound Gaza's largely isolated north as the

00:50Palestinian death toll approaches 45,000. One airstrike hit the Qalila Wada school in

00:56the town of Beit Hanoun and killed at least 15 people, according to nearby Kamal Adwan

01:01Hospital where casualties were taken. And in Gaza City, at least 17 people, including

01:06six women and five children, were killed in three airstrikes that hit houses sheltering

01:11displaced people.

01:13Israel's military said in a statement that it struck a terrorist cell in Gaza City and

01:17a terrorist meeting point in the Beit Hanoun area. The war in Gaza began after Hamas stormed

01:23southern Israel on the 7th of October last year, killing 1,200 people and taking around

01:29250 others hostage.

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