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Ireland’s prime minister urges EU leaders to call for Israel-Gaza ceasefire

Ireland's Prime Minister Leo Varadkar speaks with the media as he arrives for an EU summit at the European Council building in Brussels, Belgium, on December 14 [Virginia Mayo/AP Photo]

A growing number of countries in the European Union have expressed support for a humanitarian ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war as Israel’s assault on Gaza plunges the Palestinian territory into a dire humanitarian crisis.

In remarks on Tuesday at an EU summit focused largely on Ukraine, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar urged his colleagues to take a firmer stance and call for an end to the fighting between Israel and the Palestinian armed group Hamas in the besieged Gaza Strip.

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