Palestine

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

US warns nations against attending UN conference on two-state solution

Washington says recognition of Palestinian state would be seen as acting against US interests

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

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

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

A Breton in Ireland: ‘My wife calls me a culchie, which I completely embrace’

At 18, Charlie Le Brun travelled to Ireland, determined to meet his musical idol, The Chieftains’ Matt Molloy. After a memorable few months of playing the flute in a Westport pub, he knew he’d be back

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

Irish pro-Palestinian activist detained in West Bank faces July hearing in Israel

‘D’ Murphy claims she was denied access to lawyer before court appearance in Israel where she is challenging deportation order

Almost 400 Irish writers sign statement calling for immediate ceasefire in Israel-Palestine conflict

Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann statement calls for release of hostages and protection of the lives and human rights of all innocent people

Maybe what the world needs right now is another Anthony Bourdain

Chef, TV star, rhetorician and more, he proved the truth of a culinary universal language

Gaza aid group halts distribution due to civilian safety concerns after dozens killed seeking aid

Israeli military warns Palestinians not to move in areas leading to aid distribution sites as they are ‘combat zones’

The Encampments review: Taut, disciplined documentary about Palestine protests at Columbia University

Kei Pritsker and Michael Workman’s film may win over few hostile to the college occupations, but it offers an important record of how the campaign developed

Gaza doctor whose nine children were killed in Israeli strike dies from wounds from same attack

Hamdi al-Najjar’s son Adam (11) remains in hospital following bombing of family home

Israeli attack in Gaza saw tank open fire at thousands of people en route to get aid, medics say

Israeli attack in Rafah near aid distribution point kills at least 31 people

Trump envoy Witkoff dismisses ‘unacceptable’ Hamas response to US ceasefire proposal

Palestinian group offered to release 10 hostages and 18 bodies in exchange for prisoners

Israel blocks Ramallah meeting with Arab ministers, official says

Delegation included representatives from Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia

‘I walked through the fire all by myself’: An image of a child lays bare barbarism in Gaza

Gaza, long viewed as a gigantic open air prison, is now a kind of vast black site, where everyone is deemed guilty, where anything can be done to them without recourse to any justice

Israel approves biggest expansion of settlements in West Bank in decades

Move to build 22 new Jewish communities in occupied territory criticised by Israeli human rights groups

Occupied Territories Bill: what’s in it, how it has changed and what the implications might be

Even without some of the provisions contained in Senator Frances Black’s original Bill, it could face opposition

Seeing Israel use hunger as a weapon of war is monstrous to me as someone with a Holocaust legacy

Deliberate starvation of an entire people is a monstrous strategy, openly endorsed by cabinet members - horrifying, illegal and counter to Jewish morality and collective memory

Renewed political pressure to expand opposition to Israeli assault on Gaza

Tánaiste Simon Harris secures Cabinet approval to begin drafting legislation

Dáil suspended as pro-Palestine protesters disrupt proceedings

Mary Lou McDonald describes speech by Paschal Donohue dismisses as ‘utter, utter disgrace’

Desperate Palestinians storm US-backed aid centres despite concern over checks

UN insists humanitarian aid should be distributed independently of the parties to the conflict

Almost all of Gaza’s farmland rendered unusable as famine risk rises, finds UN report

‘What once provided food, income and stability for hundreds of thousands is now in ruins,’ says senior UN official

Why are Kneecap facing consequences when Israel is not?

When protesting is policed, but the legitimate reasons for protest are not, then people lose trust

Lebanon begins drive to defang militant groups

Push to demilitarise Palestinian factions seen as precursor to far tougher bid to disarm Hizbullah

Israeli use of Palestinian human shields in Gaza is widespread, detainees say

Israeli soldiers say practice has become ubiquitous over 19 months of war

Diary of a widowed Gazan mother of nine and her family’s descent toward starvation

Widowed mother of nine Mervat Hijazi (38), living in a Gaza City tent, says she feels ‘ashamed’ for not being able to feed her children

Why is Trump attacking South Africa over an imaginary genocide?

The intention could hardly be more transparent; the motivation could hardly be more abject

Tánaiste open to campaigners’ push for bill banning services in Occupied Palestinian territories

Online letting firms would be affected if legislation passes, but Government is divided by legal and economic concerns

Bernie Sanders: Senator has ‘no apologies’ for his position on Israel’s attack on Gaza

Veteran US senator, who is visiting Ireland this week, has been criticised by Palestinian supporters

Lone suspect charged with murdering two Israeli embassy staff in shooting near Jewish museum in Washington

Suspect (30) yelled ‘free, free Palestine’ after he was arrested, police said

Humanitarian agencies warn aid still not getting into Gaza

Taoiseach calls for EU to suspend preferential trade deal with Israel

Pressure builds on Israel to stop military offensive in Gaza

UN humanitarian chief says 14,000 babies at risk of dying in Gaza in next two days

Ramaphosa to face into a storm when he meets Trump, whose list of grievances against South Africa is long

US president unhappy at plight of Afrikaners, Pretoria’s court case against Israel and its ties with ‘rogue’ states like Iran

If you want to see how democracies cede to autocracies, watch as US universities bend to Trump

If a rich and famous institution such as Columbia doesn’t stand up for itself, what chance have millions of ordinary people?

Israel’s plan to ‘take control’ of Gaza, explained

In the News podcast: Sky news correspondent Alistair Bunkall on the intensifying violence in Gaza and Israel’s latest ground offensive

Will we use those empty words ‘we did all we can’?

Those with influence over Israel must urgently use their political and economic leverage to stop the instrumentalisation of aid

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