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Ireland will introduce a long-promised bill seeking to curb trade with settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank to parliament in the coming weeks, Foreign Minister Helen McEntee said on Thursday.

Ireland has been drafting the proposed legislation for the last year and has faced pressure from opposition politicians to include a ban on services as well as goods, while Israel and lawmakers in the United States want the bill scrapped.

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