Hamas will eventually be regarded as a partner for peace in the Middle East, Michelle O’Neill, the new First Minister of Northern Ireland, has said.
In an interview with Andrew Marr on LBC radio, Ms O’Neill, the Sinn Fein vice president, said the example of the Northern Ireland peace process proved how important dialogue was in ending conflict.
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She called for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war and declared Gaza a “graveyard for children”, saying: “Let it not be the graveyard for international law”.
Mr Marr asked Ms O’Neill: “A long time ago, the IRA was seen as a terrorist organisation that the British government and everybody else could not ever talk to, and yet we know what followed from that.
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