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TRÓCAIRE HAS strongly rejected criticism from an Israeli lawyer who attacked the development agency over the stance it took on the situation in the Gaza Strip.

Trócaire was one of a number of NGOs criticised at a stormy meeting of the Joint Committee on European Affairs at Leinster House by Anne Herzberg, legal adviser to the Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor organisation.