Israel-Hamas conflict

Stories relating to the conflict between Israel and Hamas militants

Gaza on brink of unprecedented human catastrophe, warns Irish Red Cross

Aid agency says vital services for Palestinians are weeks away from collapse

‘It was a massacre’: At least 51 Palestinians killed in Gaza while waiting for food trucks, say medics

Israeli tanks fired shells at crowds along main road in Khan Younis, residents say

People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy freed again by Egyptian authorities

Dublin TD first detained while attempting to march to Gaza to deliver aid for the enclave

Amount of aid getting into Gaza ‘minuscule’, Doctors Without Borders chief says

Gaza has been turned into ‘graveyard of shattered hospitals, mass graves and destroyed neighbourhoods’, medical aid chief says

Israel and Iran continue to exchange attacks as death tolls and calls for de-escalation grow

Tánaiste warns against travel to either country as Irish embassy staff work with citizens actively seeking to leave them

Ireland’s grocery prices are still soaring. How can that be?

The cost-of-living crisis is still being felt painfully in the weekly shop, yet the consumer protection watchdog has found no evidence of price gouging

Israel and Iran escalate strikes, killing and injuring hundreds

Trump vetoed Israeli plan to take out Iran’s supreme leader, US officials say

President Higgins has ‘no intention’ of remaining silent while democracy ‘under threat’

Michael D Higgins uses last Bloomsday speech in office to denounce treatment of people in Gaza and decry ‘dangerous authoritarianism’ in US

Government wants to pass Bill banning trade with occupied Palestinian territories ‘this summer’

Timeline for passage of Bill has been subject of much political scrutiny

Israeli fire kills at least 41 people in Gaza, local health authorities report

Several Palestinians killed in near-daily mass shootings while trying to reach Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites

Israel and Iran launch more attacks on each other late on Saturday

Air defence systems firing in Iranian cities, signalling possible start of another Israeli attack, according to state television

Israeli fire and air strikes kill at least 35 Palestinians in Gaza

At least 15 people were killed as they tried to approach a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation site

Genocide in Gaza: three new books take stock

Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine by Avi Shlaim; Catastrophe: Nakba II by Fintan Drury; and The Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective by Gilbert Achcar

Most Israelis view a nuclear Iran as an existential threat

Already speculation that a successful outcome for Israel could prompt Binyamin Netanyahu to call early election

The great tragedy is there’s no political pendulum to restrain Israel’s Cromwellian impulses

What was deemed politically unacceptable by British imperialists a century ago is permitted today at hideous cost to the people of Gaza

Humanity might yet prove the species that was too stupid and greedy to save itself

In Ireland, we call it “mé féinism” - but now it’s everywhere. Could people power save us?

Hamas accused of attack on bus that killed eight Gaza food aid workers

At least 30 Palestinians killed by Israeli airstrikes and gunfire in Gaza

Israeli strike on Iran is unlikely without green light from Trump

Washington-Tehran nuclear talks scheduled to continue as US deadline for deal expires

I’m no Greta Thunberg fan, but dismissing the Madleen as a ‘publicity stunt’ is brain-dead

A group of pro-Palestine activists tried to deliver food to a starving Gaza. It was a clever, social-media literate protest

Dozens of Irish people to join ‘March to Gaza’ from Cairo to Rafah in protest at Israel

About 2,500 people from more than 50 countries are expected to take part in pro-Palestinian walk to Egypt-Gaza border

Israeli strikes kill at least 60 in Gaza, many at aid site, say health officials

Total of 163 already killed trying to reach US-backed Gaza aid foundation’s sites since operations began two weeks ago

Netanyahu under pressure as ultra-Orthodox parties threaten to dissolve parliament

Israel's Knesset set to vote on disbanding in first step to possible election

Israelis slowly begin to confront morality of war in Gaza

After 20 months of fighting against Hamas, mainstream debate has started to consider the plight of Palestinians

Britain and allies sanction two Israeli ministers as Gazan authorities say gunfire kills dozens at food aid site

Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich will face a travel ban and see their assets frozen

Convoy of activists on way to Gaza to demand an end to Israeli hostilities

Fleet of vehicles travelling from Tunis is expected to swell as it journeys through Libya and Egypt

Protest planned in Israel at marriage of Netanyahu’s son

Big police operation scheduled to enable wedding to take place without disruption

Three dead after Israeli forces fire on Palestinians near food distribution site in Gaza

Greta Thunberg deported from Israel after Gaza-bound aid ship seized

More than 160 academics call for ‘immediate halt’ to trade with Israel over conflict in Gaza

Signatories from 11 universities describe response to October 7th, 2023 attacks by Hamas as ‘a well-televised genocide’

Seized Gaza-bound aid boat with Greta Thunberg on board being towed to Israel

Greta Thunberg and other pro-Palestine activists on the Madleen expected to return to their home countries, Israeli foreign ministry says

Gaza health ministry reports 14 dead after Israel-linked attack near aid site

Local gunmen appeared to be allied with the Israeli military, witnesses say

Inside the tunnel underneath Gaza hospital where Hamas commander allegedly met his death

Israel claims Mohammed Sinwar’s last hiding place is proof Hamas is using civilian infrastructure as shield for military activity

Five killed by Israeli fire near aid point, Palestinians say

Israeli military claims it fired warning shots at people approaching its forces

Despite the politics, Ireland is Israel’s second-biggest export market for goods

Figures from UN’s trade database Comtrade highlight Ireland’s compromised political position as EU takes harder tone on Gaza

From relief to horror: Gazans met with gunfire at aid sites

Eight Palestinians speak about their attempt to reach the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation site in western Rafah over the past week

Body of Thai hostage retrieved from Gaza as Israeli air strikes kill 45

Nattapong Pinta was abducted during the Hamas attack that triggered the war in Gaza in 2023

The beaches here in Israel are full. Just an hour’s drive away Palestinians are starving

Worldview: There is a pattern my conversations with Israeli friends about Gaza as they deny, dismiss and eventually tell me I’m not qualified to criticise

The Irish Times view on Israel’s international reputation: sliding ever downward

A poll this week showed support for the country in western Europe at its lowest ever level

Gaza aid ship with Greta Thunberg on board rescues four refugees from Mediterranean

Madleen, run by Freedom Flotilla Coalition, changed course after receiving distress call about sinking raft with 30-40 Sudanese on board

President Higgins criticises £1.5bn UK arms investment announced by Keir Starmer

Michael D Higgins calls on UN to use ‘exceptional powers’ to ensure aid flows to Gaza

Israel confirms it is arming ‘clans’ in Gaza to combat Hamas

Netanyahu says reports army has given guns to crime families are true after opposition warns scheme could backfire

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