Irish Daily Mirror

Waters backs Palestine Bill in the Seanad

- BY CILLIAN O’BRIEN

Roger Waters PINK Floyd frontman Roger Waters has backed a Seanad proposal regarding illegal settlement­s in Palestine.

On stage in Dublin last week, he urged fans to support Independen­t Senator Frances Black’s Occupied Territorie­s Bill 2018. It is due to be voted on in the House on July 11.

The legislatio­n would ban trade in goods produced in illegal settlement­s in occupied territorie­s – including those of Israel in the West Bank.

Senator Black said: “While the Government criticises the ‘relentless progress’ of settlement expansion, empty rhetoric simply has not worked.

“Palestinia­n homes are still being demolished and land confiscate­d.”

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