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Ireland will move forward with restricting trade with Israel over its occupation of Palestinian territories and will not wait for the rest of Europe to suspend the free trade agreement, its taoiseach said on Tuesday. Ireland, which alongside Spain is one of the bloc’s fiercest critics of Israel’s brutal military campaign in Gaza and the West Bank, previously said it would seek legal advice on whether it can review its trade ties with Israel unilaterally. The EU-Israel Association Agreement is a legal agreement that sets out the political and economic relations between the two entities. A suspe…

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