This year marks the 25th anniversary of the murder of the crusading South African journalist, Henry Nxumalo, a man whose pioneering reporting helped to document the horrors of apartheid South Africa. Nobody was ever held accountable for his death. It is obvious why Mr. Nxumalo was murdered. It is equally obvious why another apartheid regime, Israel, last week murdered the brilliant Al Jazeera journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, as she helped to document in detail the atrocities carried out by that regime. Her protective flak jacket was marked with the word "Press" and she was standing with other journalists but she was murdered in cold blood. She joins a long list of journalists and other members of the media murdered by the Israeli military. Israel is not listening to the words of the international community. Decisive action is needed. Will the Taoiseach indicate what are the next steps in the context of holding Israel to account?

The Irish Government has consistently raised this issue at the EU and the UN Security Council. Everybody in the House should raise the issue with those who have influence over Israel. There is increasingly institutionalised discrimination within the West Bank and the occupied territories. That is not acceptable. I hope Sinn Féin would do likewise when it meets representatives in the United States, for example. I hope it has been as strong as it is here in the context of the Palestinian question when it meets Members of the US Congress on Capitol Hill. I do not know whether the Deputy has got any feedback from her discussions with those representatives on that. The murder of Shireen Abu Akleh has to be condemned in the strongest possible terms. What happened subsequently at her funeral must also be condemned. There has been increasingly aggressive activity in the occupied territories in recent times.