Palestine

Palestinian activist Omar Barghouti prevented from travelling to speak at Dublin festival

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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

More than €10m of Irish State funds invested in Israeli companies with links to occupied territories

Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe discloses that direct investment by the State in business with direct links to illegal settlements has fallen to €1.25 million

‘Dedicated to the oppressed, refugees and marginalised’: How Pope Francis is remembered in Middle East

Late pontiff visited nine countries in the region and north Africa, cultivating ties between Christians and Muslims

Education infrastructure another casualty of Gaza war, TUI conference hears

Teachers’ union passes motion condemning Israeli government’s actions in Gaza

Israeli air strikes kill 10 in school where displaced families were sheltering, medics say

Children’s hospital in Gaza City is damaged in separate attack

Israeli military says review into killing of Gaza aid workers found ‘professional failures’

Commanding officer is to be reprimanded and deputy commander dismissed

Poll shows Ireland’s attachment to neutrality is strong but nuanced

Neutrality has, in effect, meant whatever the government of the day says it means

Irish Times poll: Current model of neutrality backed by 63% of voters

Irish Times/Ipsos B&A poll finds wealthier voters and women are most likely to support current model of neutrality

Book reviews in brief: Six new works take readers on journeys through tradition, spirituality, culture, fantasy and fantastical reality

Brief reviews of new books by Ben Okri, Philip Marsden, Myozan Ian Kilroy, Funmi Fetto, Mahmoud Muna/Matthew Teller and Ama Ata Aidoo

Hamas rejects ceasefire proposal as Israeli strikes kill at least 47

Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich urges Netanyahu to ‘open gates of hell’ in Gaza

Berlin court sentences man to three years over anti-Semitic attack on German-Jewish student

Ruling comes amid protests against efforts to expel four pro-Palestinian activists from Germany, including two Irish citizens

A mother rescued from Gaza: ‘I’m happy to be here in Ireland – no violence, no air strikes’

Najwa Alsabbagh, one of 23 Gazans who arrived in Dublin on Friday, is reunited with her daughter after 17 months and an odyssey through five countries

Gazan hospitals, needed more than ever, are back in the firing line

UN secretary general ‘deeply alarmed’ at Sunday’s strike by Israeli forces on the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital

No breakthrough in Gaza truce talks

Hamas sticking to its position that any agreement must lead to an end to the war in Gaza, Palestinian and Egyptian sources say

US immigration judge rules Palestinian Columbia student Khalil can be deported

USA-TRUMP/COLUMBIA (UPDATE 3, PIX):UPDATE 3-US immigration judge rules Palestinian Columbia student Khalil can be deported

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