'No business as usual in face of Genocide', Taoiseach tells world leaders as Benjamin Netanyahu sees mass walkout before his UN speech

""All members of this United Nations must reflect on what they can do, and I especially call on those who have influence to use it urgently to maximum effect," he said. "I call on those who have provided and who continue to provide Israel with the means necessary to prosecute this war to reflect carefully on the implications of their actions and the consequences for the Palestinian people," he said. "There cannot be business as usual in the face of genocide," he said."

""We are witnessing hunger being used as an instrument of war. Babies starving to death while aid rots at the border. People shot while desperately seeking food for their families. The deliberate targeting and destruction of schools, hospitals, mosques, cultural institutions," he said."

Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a reduced UN audience after delegates staged a mass walkout and he arranged loudspeakers so his speech could be heard across Gaza. Mr Martin urged UN member states and nations supplying Israel with military means to act urgently to prevent genocide, citing a UN Human Rights Commission report that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. Mr Martin described hunger being used as an instrument of war, babies starving while aid rots at the border, people shot while seeking food, and the deliberate targeting and destruction of schools, hospitals, mosques and cultural institutions. He demanded that influence be used to its maximum effect and warned that there can be no impunity.

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