SDLP Leader Boycotts White House St Patrick's Day Event Over US Response to Gaza Conflict

Colum Eastwood criticizes international community's 'heinously deficient' response, plans to send delegation to Washington to advocate for end to violence.

• SDLP leader Colum Eastwood has declined an invitation to the White House's St Patrick's Day celebrations, citing the US's response to the Israel-Gaza conflict as the reason.
• Eastwood described the international community's response to the conflict as 'heinously deficient', and the US administration's response as 'particularly atrocious'.
• Eastwood plans to send a delegation to Washington to 'make the case for an end to violence'.
• More than 26,000 Palestinians have died in Israel's retaliatory attacks, according to Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry.
• The International Court of Justice ruled that Israel must take all measures to prevent genocidal acts in Gaza, but stopped short of ordering an immediate ceasefire.

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