✈️ Just landed back in #Brussels after seeing situation on ground in #Beirut. 🇮🇱 Israel are now collapsing residential buildings in central #Beirut, a city of over 2m people. This is the Gaza playbook. Again, @vonderleyen is silent.

@BarryAndrewsMEP @vonderleyen @fiannafailparty @RenewEurope Honestly what are you even doing there? You’re supposed to be representing Dublin on EU matters. Neither party in this war are even EU member states. This is way beyond the scope of your role as our MEP.

@BarryAndrewsMEP @JohnOBrennan2 @vonderleyen @fiannafailparty @RenewEurope Did you ask Hezbollah to put down their weapons and become a political party as per previous agreements? If not why not?

@BarryAndrewsMEP @vonderleyen @fiannafailparty @RenewEurope EU parliament should condemns the Israeli war crimes and suspend the Association agreement with Israeli government immediately

@BarryAndrewsMEP @vonderleyen @fiannafailparty @RenewEurope You fucking moron, thats a controlled demolition.

@BarryAndrewsMEP @vonderleyen @fiannafailparty @RenewEurope Here’s why

@BarryAndrewsMEP @vonderleyen @fiannafailparty @RenewEurope Were you posting when Hezbolla were tossing rockets at Jews and Druze and Israeli Arabs? I thought not…. Why are you so surprised?

Your post from Beirut gives a very selective snapshot, completely skipping the reason this conflict is happening right now: Hezbollah’s open aggression against Israel. On March 2, 2026, Hezbollah—officially designated a terrorist organisation by the EU—fired the first projectiles into northern Israel since the 2024 ceasefire, hitting a missile defence site south of Haifa and openly escalating in solidarity with Iran’s attacks. In the days since, they’ve launched hundreds of rockets, drones and missiles at Israeli military bases, civilian neighbourhoods and infrastructure, including barrages that struck residential areas in Nahariya and injured civilians. This isn’t self-defence; it’s terrorism dragging Lebanon—most of whose people want no part of this—into another war. As for UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 war: Hezbollah has systematically violated it for nearly two decades. They never disarmed, they stockpiled well over 150,000 rockets, they built military positions inside civilian homes, schools and hospitals south of the Litani River, and they have repeatedly harassed and obstructed UNIFIL peacekeepers trying to enforce the resolution. The Lebanese government and much of the international community, including parts of the EU, have allowed this to continue for years. Israel, facing constant existential threats from an Iran-backed militia that refuses to abide by international agreements, is left with no realistic option but to act in self-defence. The strike in Bashoura on March 18 targeted a building the IDF identified as linked to Hezbollah’s financial arm, Al-Qard Al-Hassan, which is accused of laundering and moving funds to support the group’s military operations. An advance evacuation warning was issued via social media and other channels so residents could leave before the precision strike. That’s standard procedure when dealing with a terrorist group that deliberately embeds its assets in densely populated civilian areas. Your “Gaza playbook” line is just a cheap rhetorical jab. The tactical similarity exists because the problem is the same: Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon both use civilian neighbourhoods, apartment blocks, schools and hospitals as cover for command posts, weapons caches and launch sites—classic human-shield tactics that violate international law and force Israel into difficult defensive operations. The civilian suffering that follows is tragic, but the primary moral and legal responsibility lies with the terrorist groups that choose to fight from inside civilian populations. Your X timeline tells the story clearly: endless criticism of Israel, repeated sympathy posts about Gaza (including use of the word “genocide”), but almost no serious condemnation of Hezbollah’s rocket barrages, 1701 violations, or their role in starting and prolonging these cycles of violence. As an MEP you have a platform—yet you consistently give a pass to the designated terrorist organisation while portraying Israel’s self-defence as the sole problem. If you genuinely want peace and fewer civilian deaths, start demanding that Hezbollah finally comply with Resolution 1701: disarm, withdraw weapons north of the Litani, and stop turning southern Lebanon into an Iranian forward operating base. Until that happens, Israel will continue to protect its citizens the way any sovereign state would when facing daily rocket attacks from a terrorist army on its border. Time to drop the selective outrage and deal with reality.

@BarryAndrewsMEP @vonderleyen @fiannafailparty @RenewEurope So nothing to do with comfortably-Lebanon-based Hezbollah attacks on Israel?

Barry why are you deliberately misleading the entire population of Ireland? Firstly, the reason Gaza is flattened is because almost half of the buildings were rigged with explosives by Hamas. This isn't hearsay, it's documented fact. Hamas booby trapped every building with access to their terrorists tunnels. Given that almost half the buildings were blown up by Hamas explosive devices, proves there were a LOT of tunnels! Second, the Gaza war was instigated by the bloodiest attack on civilians in modern history by Islamic terrorists and their civilian supporters. The war wasn't a spontaneous action by Israel and the IDF, it was a response. And it wasn't a response against a population - it was a response against the terrorists that lead them. That needs to be made clear in all statements relating to the Gaza war. You fail to do it, repeatedly. Third, if Israel wanted to "collapse residential buildings in Central Gaza" they could have collapsed ALL of them on Oct 8th. They didn't. Why? Because flattening buildings was not the objective. Eradicating terrorists was. Instead, Israel fought an urban war, over a period of two years, with one of the lowest civilian to terrorist ratios ever recorded, that cost them the lives of over 470 young men and women in ground offensives alone. Over 1100 soldiers were lost during the Gaza war. That is a lot of unnecessary death if all they wanted to do was "flatten residential buildings"! Fourth, your greatest omission by far and your most egregious misinformation tactic, is your decision not to mention the terrorist group Hezbollah in your post. They and their murderous Iranian IRGC bosses are the reason for ALL strikes in Lebanon. Israel is not at war with Lebanon or the Lebanese people, it is at war with the terrorist group that has held Lebanon hostage for over 40 years, Hezbollah! I can educate you on the parallel structures Hezbollah have inside Lebanon - their armies, hospitals, clinics, schools, social welfare system, justice system (sharia of course), security systems and tax systems. Basically how they run a state within a state, but this is not the post for that. I can show you Gallup polls where 79% of Lebanese want Hezbollah disarmed. Where 86% of the population oppose conflict with Israel. Where 73% of the Shia population (Hezbollah core base) do not trust Hezbollah to lead them. Where almost all Christians, Sunnis and Druze inside Lebanon overwhelmingly and emphatically reject Hezbollah and want them gone. But as an MEP, I'm sure you're already aware of them. I can post statements from Lebanons Prime Minister Nawaf Salam who declared a "total ban" on all of Hezbollah's military and security activities, describing them as illegal. Where he emphasizes that the decision of war and peace rests exclusively with the state of Lebanon. Where he calls on the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and security agencies to "immediately and firmly" implement the disarmament plan using all necessary means, to prevent missile/drone launches, and arrest the violators. The Lebanese President Joseph Aoun echoes his sentiments warning Hezbollah against using Lebanon as a "platform for proxy wars". He categorically condemns Hezbollah for dragging Lebanon into this conflict and sees their disarmament as a necessary process to avoid collapse and civil war in his country. But you don't want to give Ireland that information, do you Barry? You don't want Irish people to know how deeply imbedded Hezbollah are within the civilian population of Lebanon. You don't want Ireland to know about the thousands of rockets, drones and missiles fired into unarmed civilian Israeli neighborhoods. You don't even want them to know that Hezbollah operates with impunity under the direction of the Iranian regime. You want to keep Irish men & women in the dark to further your narrative and your willing to use propaganda to do it. That's the Andrews Playbook and it's nothing but unadulterated, anti Israel hate!

@BarryAndrewsMEP @vonderleyen @fiannafailparty @RenewEurope Before striking a Hezbollah building in Beirut, the IDF calls Lebanese Civil Defense to confirm civilians are out. Israel does all it can to assure civilians are evacuated. Who else has done this?? x.com/i/status/20339…

@BarryAndrewsMEP @vonderleyen @fiannafailparty @RenewEurope Typical of an irish politician to hate Israel and Jews. Still loving the connection between your IRA and other terrorist organizations?

Dude, focus on your country and make it great. Stop projecting your hatred at Israel onto Middle East affairs. You're irrelevant. Focus on the Irish people who actually pay your salary: - You've presided over the most expensive hospital in world history (€2.5bn+). It's 5 years late, has missed 17 deadlines, and Irish kids are waiting for beds. - ​A record +17,000 people are homeless in Ireland right now (including over 5,300 children). ​- Hundreds of patients are rotting on hospital trolleys every single day because you can't manage a basic health service. And all you've got to be obsessed with is Middle East?!!!!!!

@BarryAndrewsMEP @vonderleyen @fiannafailparty @RenewEurope Israel’s North Still Empty after Hezbollah attacked on 8/10/2023. Northern mayors are warning: don’t come back yet because of continued attacks. At one point 500,000 Israelis evacuated. Still not able to return to some of the Kibbutzs or north of Israel x.com/i/status/19940…

@BarryAndrewsMEP @vonderleyen @fiannafailparty @RenewEurope Funny you failed to mention Hezbollah operating my those areas. I guess being a terrorist is a bad idea.

Barry facts are important, so let me post the facts about this building. The Israeli military (IDF) issued an evacuation warning around 4 a.m. local time, stating that the building and adjacent areas contained "a facility belonging to the terrorist group Hezbollah" that they intended to target. They described it as a Hezbollah-affiliated site or infrastructure. The strike caused the entire building to collapse completely (after it had been hit in prior strikes earlier in March, such as around March 12). Lebanese authorities and media reported No immediate large-scale deaths were reported inside from this particular collapse in some accounts, likely due to the prior evacuation order. Israel's stated rationale for such strikes in Beirut (including this one) has consistently been to hit Hezbollah military or related infrastructure such as command elements, financial networks (e.g., branches of Hezbollah-linked Al-Qard Al-Hassan in nearby areas), weapons storage, or facilities used by the group even when embedded in or near civilian/residential zones. Barry maybe cal Hezbollah and suggest they surrender if they refuse send them a picture of Gaza. Hezbollah or any other group including Hamas cannot think they can carry out acts of terror and there is no sanction for this. The big question is who did you meet in Beirut ? You might let us know or we can send a FOI Brussels for your meeting and travel itinerary in relation to this trip as you as Chair of the European Parliament's Development Committee, traveled to Beirut, Lebanon, as part of your official duties to assess the humanitarian situation on the ground amid the ongoing Israel-Hezbollah conflict and related regional escalations. We would like to know who you met on this trip >

@BarryAndrewsMEP @vonderleyen @fiannafailparty @RenewEurope 👍 it seems to be ONE network, right?

@BarryAndrewsMEP @vonderleyen @fiannafailparty @RenewEurope

@BarryAndrewsMEP @vonderleyen @fiannafailparty @RenewEurope You saw how the Lebanese were suffering and decided to abandon them and return to your comfortable home in Europe rather than stay to help?

@BarryAndrewsMEP @vonderleyen @fiannafailparty @RenewEurope It seems the intent is to flatten Lebanon just like Gaza, yet the world won't act. With the US shielding them at the UN and EU gridlock preventing trade bans, the system is rigged for inaction. At what point do we admit that money and power matter more than people's lives?

@BarryAndrewsMEP @RueDaungier @vonderleyen @fiannafailparty @RenewEurope It’s a pity that these two Irish politicians and their Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael parties , are actively financing this, and blocking all help to the Christians and Muslims who are the victims of this Genocide.

@BarryAndrewsMEP @qipharma @vonderleyen @fiannafailparty @RenewEurope

@BarryAndrewsMEP @pmoni13 @vonderleyen @fiannafailparty @RenewEurope #Netanyahu #IDF Shameless

@BarryAndrewsMEP @vonderleyen @fiannafailparty @RenewEurope For what reason is a building used by Hezbollah not a legitimate military target?

@BarryAndrewsMEP @ElaineNiddery @vonderleyen @fiannafailparty @RenewEurope

@BarryAndrewsMEP @malonebarry @vonderleyen @fiannafailparty @RenewEurope The amount of Israeli-run, fake Irish accounts that are replying to you with Israeli propaganda points and abusive language, shows the Israeli gov isn’t happy that you are criticising their biggest enabler in the EU or for reminding people of their genocide and war crimes

@BarryAndrewsMEP @vonderleyen @fiannafailparty @RenewEurope Why don’t you get on to your boy in Kiev? He seems to have all the answers. For a small fee naturally.

@BarryAndrewsMEP @vonderleyen @fiannafailparty @RenewEurope

@BarryAndrewsMEP @vonderleyen @fiannafailparty @RenewEurope Von der Leyen stays mute while Israel commits war crimes in broad daylight. EU complicity in this barbarism is disgusting.

@BarryAndrewsMEP @vonderleyen @fiannafailparty @RenewEurope x.com/i/status/20342…

@BarryAndrewsMEP @mickmca32 @vonderleyen @fiannafailparty @RenewEurope The EU should be added to the charge of complicity x.com/i/status/20346…