‘This land is wonderful for wine’: Israeli settlers strengthen grip on West Bank From wineries to Airbnbs, settlers are expanding their footprint in the occupied territories as Palestinians face deepening restrictionsThu Sept 11 2025 - 13:00
Israel’s targeting of journalists is an attack on truth and historyJournalists’ lives are not more important than those of other civilians, but when you attack journalists you stop the world from learning about what is happeningWed Aug 27 2025 - 06:00
‘There’s nobody left’: Israeli offensive forces exodus from West Bank refugee camp Two years ago, the UN said nearly 14,000 people were living in Nur Shams camp. Now, it is practically emptyThu Aug 21 2025 - 12:00
‘We have no choice’: Palestinian women reveal exploitation working in Israeli settlementsWorkers describe harsh conditions and sexual harassment but say economic collapse leaves them with few optionsMon Aug 18 2025 - 19:08
Journalists protest over press death toll in Gaza amid accusations of Israeli ‘media blackout’ strategyAt least 190 media workers killed amid calls for investigation into actions of Israeli governmentSat Aug 16 2025 - 06:00
Teaching Gaza’s children online: ‘A student said: ‘I’m wounded in hospital but I want you to send me homework’’Through a virtual school, Ayda Elsayed Ahmed has taught 480 students in Gaza onlineThu Aug 07 2025 - 05:00
Palestinian children detained by Israeli forces: ‘They put on music and colourful lights and started dancing over us ... They had their feet on our backs’Two Palestinian teenagers from the occupied West Bank describe suffering and seeing systematic abuses while in Israeli detention Sun Aug 03 2025 - 05:00
From a viewing platform in Israel, observers watch Gaza’s destruction through binoculars While children starve, tour groups at a viewing point in Sderot pay to view the smoke-filled ruins of the enclaveSun Jul 27 2025 - 09:00
‘They are very weak, they’re thin, their minds have stopped’: Stranded fathers’ anguish over children in Gaza Separated from their families by war and closed borders, Gazan workers describe life in limbo — haunted by hunger, loss and the voices of children they can no longer protectThu Jul 24 2025 - 18:00
‘Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die’: News agency staff warn journalists face starvationAFP journalists suffer malnutrition and exhaustion as human rights groups warn mass starvation spreading across enclaveWed Jul 23 2025 - 07:55
‘This is an unimaginable nightmare’: Residents gather to mourn two Palestinians -including US citizen - killed in Israeli-occupied West BankFlorida-born Sayfollah Musallet was beaten by Israeli settlers, according to families and witnessesMon Jul 14 2025 - 18:00
‘Hanging on by a thread’: Two days with activists protecting Palestinians from being forced off their landIn the occupied West Bank, life is constantly under threat with illegal Israeli settlements rapidly on the riseFri Jul 11 2025 - 17:00
‘This is the homeland of Jesus’: Palestinian Christians plead for end to attacks by West Bank settlersReligious leaders warn of serious threat from worsening land grabs, harassment and settlement expansionThu Jul 10 2025 - 14:36
Palestinians in occupied territories on what Irish Bill would mean for them: ‘It could have a big impact’Residents throughout the occupied West Bank describe the fear and deprivations they endure amid the expansion of Israeli settlements Mon Jul 07 2025 - 15:38
Gaza death toll passes 57,000 with little clarity on potential ceasefireUS Senator says Occupied Territories Bill would cause Ireland ‘self-inflicted economic harm’Wed Jul 02 2025 - 21:30
‘Going backwards’: Landmine treaty enters increasingly perilous territory as key states pull outFinland, Poland and Ukraine have all moved recently to exit the 1997 Ottawa agreementMon Jun 30 2025 - 15:22
‘Everyone is digging for gold now’: Desperate Syrians resort to scouring ancient sitesSecurity vacuum after Assad downfall has led to plundering for Greek, Roman and Byzantine artefactsSat Jun 28 2025 - 11:00
‘Everybody can feel the pain’: Middle Eastern views on the present and futureA Syrian, a Palestinian, an Iranian and an Israeli give their views on how better times might be reached where they liveSat Jun 28 2025 - 06:00
Iran fires missiles at key US base in QatarDoha appears to have had advance warning of attack which followed US bombing or Iranian nuclear sitesMon Jun 23 2025 - 21:35
Growing concern about fate of Iranian political prisoners during conflict with Israel Dublin-based Iranian woman says contact has been lost with her brother Fri Jun 20 2025 - 14:27
Demining in Syria: ‘People are desperate to go back to their houses... In their mind the main threat is gone’There have been more than 900 mine-related injuries or fatalities in Syria since the fall of the Assad regime Thu Jun 19 2025 - 06:00
Iran enters near total internet blackout as Trump remains cryptic over potential US strikesIsraeli attacks on Tehran kill an estimated 585 people by Tuesday, while Iran’s supreme leader calls US president’s rhetoric ‘absurd’Wed Jun 18 2025 - 20:30
Israel-Iran latest: Trump says US won’t assassinate Iran’s supreme leader ‘at least not for now’Israel-Iran conflict: Trump says Macron ‘publicity seeking’ after French leader said US president had made ceasefire offerTue Jun 17 2025 - 19:36
Syrian refugees say they are homeless after resettlement flights to Ireland from Lebanon cancelled‘All we want to know is a date so we can plan our life and ... be taken outside this country’ Tue Jun 17 2025 - 19:05
Israel and Iran continue to exchange attacks as death tolls and calls for de-escalation growTánaiste warns against travel to either country as Irish embassy staff work with citizens actively seeking to leave themMon Jun 16 2025 - 06:00
Children play among bones as Syria faces ‘enormous challenge’ of what to do about mass gravesSix months after the fall of Syria’s Assad regime, mass burial sites of the war’s victims are still not cordoned off or protectedSat Jun 14 2025 - 06:00
Iran retaliates with strikes against Israel as Netanyahu vows to continue for ‘as many days as it takes’New Revolutionary Guards’ chief warns Tehran would open ‘gates of hell … upon this child-killing regime’Fri Jun 13 2025 - 21:47
Dozens of Irish people to join ‘March to Gaza’ from Cairo to Rafah in protest at IsraelAbout 2,500 people from more than 50 countries are expected to take part in pro-Palestinian walk to Egypt-Gaza borderWed Jun 11 2025 - 21:00
Sally Hayden on We Came By Sea: Stories of a Greater Britain - ‘It feels comforting and right to have a writer of Clare’s skill turn attention to this topic’While Britons have been shown to be open to resettling refugees, years of demonisation has led to a mostly negative view of those crossing the ChannelMon Jun 09 2025 - 04:33
Lebanon complains of ‘one-sided ceasefire’ after Israeli air strikes on BeirutIDF says Thursday’s wave of bombings, more than six months after truce agreement, was targeting Hizbullah drone-making facilities Fri Jun 06 2025 - 10:07
Climate change adds to Syria’s problems as Damask rose harvests fadeSyria’s harvest has shrunk as a result of climate change-related drought, further complicating the country’s economic recovery Wed Jun 04 2025 - 05:00
Exhibitions open in Damascus remembering suffering and sacrifice under Syrian regimeHundreds attend the first gallery show openings since fall of Bashar al-Assad, honouring former detainees and disappeared peopleThu May 29 2025 - 16:14
Celebrations in Damascus after Donald Trump’s sudden announcement of end to sanctions on SyriaEconomic embargoes to be lifted as country struggles to rebuild after 13 years of warWed May 14 2025 - 16:23
Syrians celebrate end of US sanctionsSyrians in Damascus celebrate after US president Donald Trump announced plans to ease sanctions on Syria and normalise relation. Video: Sally HaydenWed May 14 2025 - 14:50
In Lebanon I eat lunch and listen for the thrum of planes, the blasts of bombsBeirut Letter: I am unused to the sudden contrast between joy and violence, and feel a deep disquietMon May 12 2025 - 05:00
Voicenotes from Gaza: ‘I can’t bear to see my children fighting over a loaf of bread’Messages from Gaza reveal distressing stories of hunger, crime and a mental health crisisSun May 11 2025 - 06:00
‘So much gratitude in West Bank for Irish solidarity’: How Nobel Prize-winners are raising Palestinians’ plightDelegation of women hears of ‘system of violence and impunity’ on visit to territory occupied by IsraelThu May 08 2025 - 15:00
Humanitarian response in Gaza ‘on verge of collapse’, say aid agenciesThousands more deaths in Gaza Strip are imminent, humanitarian agencies warnFri May 02 2025 - 18:33
‘We are nice people, but poor’: After Assad’s fall, economic problems are Syrians’ biggest concernWar, corruption and sanctions have taken a heavy toll on Syria, whose deepening poverty is ‘a dangerous accelerant in an already volatile environment’Sun Apr 20 2025 - 12:11
The ghosts of Khaldiyeh, a Homs neighbourhood devastated by Syria’s warKhaldiyeh, in Syria’s third-largest city, is a former opposition stronghold once under siege during the country’s long warMon Apr 14 2025 - 12:11
Lebanon marks 50th anniversary since outbreak of its civil warCall for anniversary to be ‘a turning point, and not just a moment of remembrance’Mon Apr 14 2025 - 06:00
In Homs, efforts to rebuild but trauma haunts the streetsSyria’s new government is walking a tightrope, trying to state-build in a devastated country with a diverse and deeply divided societyFri Apr 11 2025 - 16:00
‘They destroyed this moment of joy’: On the frontlines of the Israeli incursion into SyriaDays after the fall of the Assad regime, Israeli forces entered southern Syria, where many locals now want protection from the UNSun Apr 06 2025 - 08:28
‘We try to make a new future now. You can speak, you can go out’Public spaces, some of them scarred by Syria’s conflict, host civilian and community-organised eventsMon Mar 31 2025 - 16:30
‘You could die trying to reach this treatment’: how Israel’s war on Hizbullah has shattered healthcare in south LebanonWith a fragile ceasefire in place, medics look to repair hospitals and care centres to get services running againThu Mar 27 2025 - 15:53
Israel’s Iron Wall operation has displaced tens of thousands in the West BankAlmost 1,900 incidents of violence by Israeli settlers in the occupied territory have been logged, says UN bodyMon Mar 24 2025 - 06:00
‘Dominoes to foreign interests’: a Christian town on the Lebanon-Israel borderUnlike much of southern Lebanon, Rmeish escaped the recent war relatively unscathedFri Mar 21 2025 - 09:28
Netanyahu vows to destroy Hamas following Israeli air strikes that killed more than 400 in Gaza Israeli prime minister says he ordered strikes because Hamas rejected proposals to secure extension to first phase of ceasefire deal that began in JanuaryTue Mar 18 2025 - 21:38
In a bunker with a woman battlefield commander in Syria: ‘To be under the control of a patriarchal husband? I prefer to be here’ Battle-hardened officer lives like a soldier ready for action to safeguard ‘the people’Mon Mar 17 2025 - 11:00
Camp Shamrock, Lebanon: ‘There was a lot of pressure put on us by the Israelis to withdraw from our locations’ Having come under extreme pressure on the front line of the recent war between Israel and Hizbullah, Irish Unifil soldiers far from home are getting on with the job of peacekeepingSat Mar 15 2025 - 06:00
