Gaza aid group halts distribution as Israel says roads leading to sites are ‘combat zones’
UN Security Council set to vote on demand for ceasefire between Israel and Hamas
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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
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
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
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
Francesca Albanese: ‘The struggle against the Mafia has marked me and my sense of justice’
UN special rapporteur on Palestine assesses Ireland’s stance on the Israel-Hamas conflict and says Trump is ‘wildly and fastly contributing to the dismantlement of the world order’
Ireland joins six other countries in calling on Israel to ‘immediately’ lift Gaza blockade
Amid a ‘man-made humanitarian catastrophe’ in Palestine, Taoiseach and six other European leaders urge Israel to ‘reverse its current policy’
Gaza’s starving children, their eyes growing bigger as the blockade grinds on, are not fake news
The BBC report carries a warning: 'Distressing content'. What luxury it is to be able to look away
Eurovision 2025: ‘Silent’ pro-Palestine protest to be held in Basle against Israel’s participation
Speculation mounting that Céline Dion, who won Eurovision in 1988, will appear at final on Saturday
Ireland says Israel is carrying out war crimes in Gaza. Now it must act
Beyond the Occupied Territories Bill, Ireland must prevent economic activity here, or involving Irish companies, which might support the illegal actions of the Israeli government
‘I no longer trust anyone speaking about humanity’: Palestinian exile learns of another neighbour’s death hours after arriving in Ireland
Palestinians in Ireland struggle to process scale of killing in Gaza as Israel signals expansion of its military offensive
‘Our future is gone’: Refugee camps in West Bank face unprecedented destruction
Israel’s campaign against the camps has displaced at least 40,000 people, the UN has said
Irish band The Murder Capital has German show cancelled over Palestinian flag
Singer says use of flag ‘isn’t just a political statement, it’s a humanitarian statement’
Eurovision: RTÉ gets ‘commitment’ from European Broadcasting Union to discuss Israel participation
Song Contest organiser confirms it will have ‘broader discussion’ with participating stations
‘So much gratitude in West Bank for Irish solidarity’: How Nobel Prize-winners are raising Palestinians’ plight
Delegation of women hears of ‘system of violence and impunity’ on visit to territory occupied by Israel
Netherlands backs calls for review of EU-Israel agreement
Israel aid blockage worsening ‘dire humanitarian situation’ in Gaza, Dutch minister tells EU foreign chief
‘Desperate, traumatised people’: Gaza faces wave of looting, theft and violence
Enclave is on the brink of catastrophe after two months of a total blockade by Israel, aid workers say
Taoiseach Micheál Martin accuses Israel of war crime over blocking of aid entering Gaza
Over 50 days since food and medicines have been allowed into besieged area
Former SDLP leader Colum Eastwood in court over pro-Palestinian rally in Derry
Foyle MP charged with taking part in an unnotified parade following protest in February
State must ‘stand by values’, Ministers to say at Government forum
Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Tánaiste Simon Harris and several Ministers to address Global Ireland Summit
‘Despicable and unconscionable’: Tánaiste says Israeli plans to seize all of Gaza ‘alarming’
Israeli authorities accused of aiming to ‘manipulate and militarise all aid to civilians’
Popemobile converted into mobile children’s health clinic in Gaza
Patients will get to sit in pope’s seat while being treated
Israeli ministers to vote on expanding Gaza fighting as Houthi missile strike targets Tel Aviv airport
Yemeni Houthi rebels claim responsibility for missile that landed near Tel Aviv airport
In The Settlers, Louis Theroux does something we have rarely seen him do in 30 years of TV
Louis Theroux has encountered such people before but they have tended to be fringe propositions with no real power. The Israeli settler movement is different
Ireland ‘out of step’ with United States on Israel, US ambassador nominee is told
Edward Walsh, who is Trump’s pick to be envoy to Dublin, pledges to build on relations between America and Ireland
Kneecap videos to be investigated by UK’s counter-terrorism police
Pogues, Fontaines DC and Lankum among Irish artists defending Kneecap against ‘political repression’
Unrwa calls on Israel to lift blockade on aid into Gaza as humanitarian crisis worsens
With farmland and grazing areas devastated, Gazans depend entirely on supplies from outside
Several killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza as mediators look to restart ceasefire
Ten killed by Israeli strike on Gaza City home, including five children
The Great Betrayal: The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in the Middle East by Fawaz A Gerges – engaging read for seasoned observers
The scope is perhaps too broad, and the prose a little dry, for this book to appeal to the general reader
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