Gaza Strip

Binyamin Netanyahu to meet Donald Trump in Washington as Israel continues to pound Gaza

This will be the Israeli prime minister’s second White House visit since Trump’s return to power

Israel detains two British MPs in ‘unprecedented step’

Labour MPs Yuan Yang and Abtisam Mohamed are flying back to UK after being denied entry

Israel says its account of 15 rescue workers killed in Gaza was partly ‘mistaken’

Video shows ambulances and fire truck were clearly marked and had emergency signal lights on when Israeli troops fired on them

Video emerges of aid workers killed in Gaza under gunfire barrage, with ambulance lights on

Video contradicts Israel’s version of events, which said the vehicles were ‘advancing suspiciously’ without headlights or emergency signals

An Irishman in Israel: Is it better for my Israeli daughters to grow up in Tel Aviv or Dublin?

World View: The grim milestone of 50,000 Palestinian deaths passed almost without comment in Israel

IDF conducts ground operations in Shujaiyeh neighbourhood of Gaza city

Health authorities in Gaza say Israeli forces killed at least 27 in an airstrike on a school building where displaced families were sheltering

Israeli blockade causing shortage of food and medical supplies in Gaza, say aid agencies

UN dismisses as ‘ridiculous’ Israeli military agency claim that enough food in enclave to last extended period

Israeli troops expand ‘security zone’ in northern Gaza

Israeli air strike on a school building in Gaza City killed at least 27 people, authorities say

Strip-search of protesters is a scandal of unadulterated hypocrisy

Oonagh Peters says she was led to a cell by a woman garda, told to remove her jeans, pull down her knickers and lift up her bra

Hundreds of thousands flee as Israel seizes Rafah in new Gaza ‘security zone’

Israel’s military says it is conducting an investigation into the deaths of 15 Palestinian aid workers found buried in a shallow grave

Hungary says it is withdrawing from International Criminal Court as Netanyahu visits

Israeli prime minister was invited to Budapest the day after ICC issued arrest warrant in November

‘I’m here! Can you hear me?’ One family’s story of death in Gaza

‘We never thought such massive attacks would happen again ... We thought the fighting had exhausted both sides’

‘We are begging for help to bring them here’: Mothers of sick Palestinian children plead with Government for loved ones to join

Lack of electricity and phone connection in Gaza means the women rarely speak to family

Garda defend treatment of Gaza protesters outside Leinster House and deny ‘cavity search’ allegation

Protesters’ claims about searches by gardaí were raised in Dáil by Richard Boyd Barrett

Air strikes kill 53 in Gaza as Israel steps up its offensive

More than 140,000 people have been displaced again since end of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, UN estimates

Palestinian paramedics shot by Israeli forces had hands tied, eyewitnesses say

Accounts add to an accumulating body of evidence pointing to a serious war crime

Women protesting outside Leinster House strip-searched, one subjected to cavity search, Dáil hears

TDs protest at Garda treatment, Taoiseach did not understand ‘necessity for any strip-searching’

‘I have no plans to go home’: the Irish citizens fighting deportation from Germany

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Irish surgeon returns from Gaza: ‘Every night there were more children brought in dead’

Irish surgeon returns from six-week humanitarian mission in Gaza

Israeli court extends detention of Netanyahu advisers

Two men were arrested in case focused on links between Qatar and prime minister’s office

Hizbullah official among four killed in Israeli air strike on Beirut suburb

Attack tests unsteady ceasefire between Israel and Hizbullah

Two Irish citizens ordered to leave Germany over pro-Palestinian protests despite no convictions

Lawyers say the move undermines civil liberties for EU citizens

Weapons flights exemptions have increased almost 70% in a decade

Recent increase coincides with Israel’s invasion of Gaza after October 7th, 2023, and Ukraine’s defensive war against Russia

Residents begin fleeing Rafah in their thousands as Israel readies fresh offensive

Netanyahu says Israel will take charge of security in Gaza after the war and implement Trump proposal to resettle Gaza’s population

Israel to step up pressure on Hamas and enable Trump’s ‘voluntary emigration’ plan, Netanyahu says

Israeli prime minister’s comments come after Hamas said it had agreed to a ceasefire proposal

The little boy in Gaza lost his entire family. He does not cry; he just sits there, staring at the wall

Those of us who are willing to see what is under our noses know very well that what is happening now in Gaza is an ongoing project of ethnic cleansing

Hamas agrees to ceasefire proposal it received from mediators, its leader says

Five Israeli hostages ‘could be freed every week’ under the deal

Israel admits firing at ambulances in Gaza after Palestinians say rescuers missing in Rafah

Troops ‘opened fire toward Hamas vehicles and eliminated several terrorists’, military says

Steve Wall: ‘When Bono was offered the medal, I tweeted: Surely he won’t accept that. I didn’t know he already had’

The Stunning and The Walls musician and actor on honesty, activism and a life in the arts

Israel flouting international law with forced evacuations in Gaza, UN says

Israel is not taking measures to provide accommodation for the evacuees, nor ensuring the evacuations are conducted in satisfactory conditions, UN says

Israel strikes Beirut for first time since agreeing ceasefire with Hizbullah

Attack on Lebanese capital ‘unjustified’, says French president Emmanuel Macron

Militants threaten to punish anti-Hamas protesters in Gaza

First major rallies against Gaza war and Hamas spring up in coastal enclave

Israeli parliament passes law increasing political control over the appointment of judges

Critics describe the Bill as an attempt by the government to seize control over the judiciary

‘You could die trying to reach this treatment’: how Israel’s war on Hizbullah has shattered healthcare in south Lebanon

With a fragile ceasefire in place, medics look to repair hospitals and care centres to get services running again

Hostage families protest in chamber as Israeli parliament approves budget

Israel kills at least 23 in air strikes across the Gaza strip, health authorities report

Egypt makes new truce offer as Israeli strikes in Gaza kill 65, say local officials

Cairo’s plan calls for Hamas to release five Israeli hostages each week, according to security sources

Israel reinstating military rule in Gaza would have big implications

Such a plan is backed by far-right Israeli government coalition members who ultimately aim to restore Jewish settlement in Gaza while encouraging local population to emigrate

Israel’s Iron Wall operation has displaced tens of thousands in the West Bank

Almost 1,900 incidents of violence by Israeli settlers in the occupied territory have been logged, says UN body

Gaza Strip: ‘More than 50,000 Palestinians’ have been killed in Israel-Hamas conflict

Israeli strikes kill at least 26 in Gaza, including senior Hamas leader

Six killed as Israel hits back at Lebanon after rocket attack

Irish peacekeepers in Lebanon are ‘safe’, Tánaiste Simon Harris says amid escalation in violence

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