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Donald Trump’s Gaza plan piles pressure on his ‘favourite dictator’
Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has sought to kill proposal to expel population while preserving good relations with US president
Israeli military says review into killing of Gaza aid workers found ‘professional failures’
Commanding officer is to be reprimanded and deputy commander dismissed
Recovering Pope Francis appears on basilica balcony for Easter message
Pontiff did not preside over the Vatican’s Mass for Easter but appeared after for blessing and message
Thousands of protesters rally against Trump across US
Demonstrators oppose US president’s policies on deportations, government firings, and wars in Gaza and Ukraine
Maia Dunphy: ‘I really do want people to like me, even if it’s at the expense of my own wellbeing’
The writer and broadcaster on the beauty of Dublin in the sun, the horrors in Gaza, and the importance of fun
Tensions rising in Germany amid criticism of Israeli government
Growing conflict in Berlin, with state politicians and police facing off against pro-Gaza protestors, is seeping slowly into German federal politics
Israeli strikes on Gaza kill more than 90 people in 48 hours, say Palestinians
Toll includes people who were ‘sheltering in a designated humanitarian zone’
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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
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
Latest Israeli air strikes in Gaza kill 17 as mediators work to restore ceasefire
Hamas rejects Israeli ceasefire offer that it said fell short of its demand to agree a full end to the war
Israeli strikes in Gaza kill dozens as UN raises alarm over food blockade
Israeli attack in city of Khan Younis kills five children, four women and a man from one family
No plans to allow any aid into Gaza, says Israeli minister
Médecins Sans Frontières says enclave is becoming a ‘mass grave for Palestinians’
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
Destruction of Gaza hospital supported by Dublin diocese ‘an outrage’, says senior Irish cleric
Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin and Glendalough Michael Jackson says bombing of Al-Ahli Arab hospital tore at his heart
Israeli missiles strike Gaza hospital, forcing patients to evacuate as attacks intensify across the Strip
Airstrike ‘destroyed part of last functioning hospital in city’, reports say
Efforts to expel two Irish citizens symptom of a growing exhaustion in Germany
Germany is grappling with a dilemma over what its postwar vow of ‘Nie wieder’, or never again, means in practice – is it a universal commitment to human dignity and human rights, or an exclusive promise to the Jewish people and Israel?
I’ve never thought of myself as a natural-born opinion columnist, I just say what I see
In a sane world no one would ever again believe, or pretend to believe, the lies told by the Israeli government to cover and distract from its crimes against Palestinians
Richard Boyd Barrett on his cancer treatment: ‘It is going to be very difficult to eat. That is what worries me most’
The People Before Profit TD has been heartened by a flood of kind messages from all shades of the political spectrum
Gaza humanitarian situation ‘hell on Earth’, Red Cross president says
Water, electricity, food scarce and field hospital will run out of supplies within two weeks, Red Cross says
Fighter pilots call on Israel to prioritise release of Gaza hostages, even if war must stop
Almost 1,000 retired and active reservist Israeli pilots say Gaza war now ‘mainly serves personal and political interests’
Israeli strike kills 29 people in Gaza City house, medics say
Nine other Palestinians killed in separate Israeli military strikes, say authorities
Israeli air force chief warns reservists against signing letters opposing Gaza war
One letter calls for immediate end to fighting so as to secure release of hostages and says war ‘primarily serves political and personal interests’
UN chief rejects new Israeli plan to control Gaza aid
No aid delivered to Palestinian enclave since March 2nd, as Israel says it will not allow entry of supplies until Hamas releases hostages
Gaza’s ‘death zone’: Israeli soldiers describe demolition of infrastructure to create buffer
One told right group ‘everything gets mowed down’ and that after demolitions area looked like Hiroshima
Eyewitnesses recount deadly Israeli attack on medics in Gaza
Bodies of 15 rescue workers killed by Israeli military were found in mass grave, UN says
Israeli forces seen building positions in Gaza as they take more ground
Evacuation warnings issued to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in renewed offensive
Gaza: 100 children killed or injured every day since Israel resumed offensive says UN agency
Unrwa chief calls Gaza conflict's child death toll ‘a stain on our common humanity’
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
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