Catherine Connolly in Syria with group including Saed Abd Al-Aal, who led a pro-Assad armed group responsible for killing and starvation in a refugee camp
Presidential candidate Catherine Connolly has been accused of making “misleading” statements about meeting “Palestinians” in Syria after photographs emerged of her in the company of a militia leader linked to war crimes against Palestinian refugees.
Ms Connolly is pictured with other members of an Irish delegation in the company of Saed Abd Al-Aal, who led a pro-Assad armed group responsible for killing and starvation in a refugee camp in Yarmouk, a southern district of the Syrian capital Damascus.
Her June 2018 visit, with former MEPs Mick Wallace and Clare Daly and then TD Maureen O’Sullivan, took place just a month after Syrian governm
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