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The Embassy of Israel to Ireland has warned that calls to break trade links between Ireland and Israel fail to consider the impact on Irish businesses, “as well as any possible reciprocal measures that might be implemented as a result”.

Calls for Ireland to break trade links with Israel have been growing louder, as the conflict in the Middle East rages on.

On the same day that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described blocked relief trucks on Egypt’s side of the Gaza border “a moral outrage”, Labour leader Ivana Bacik told her party’s conference: “Now is the time for Ireland to break diplomatic and trade links with Israel.”

A spokesperson for the Israeli embassy said: "Attempting to disrupt trade between our two democratic states does nothing to help to stop the conflict or promote calm but instead has the effect of stimulating further division while targeting uninvolved parties.