Artist
@emmaleneblake
putting the final touches to a mural of Hind Rajab, the 6-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed in Gaza, along with several family members and paramedics.
A Palestinian man who was a baby when his family fled their home in Jaffa during the 1948 Nakba is in Dublin today to support his granddaughter who is playing in the national Palestinian women’s team against
@bfcdublin
.
Palestinian players have travelled from the occupied West Bank via Jordan, as well as from Israel, Lebanon, Germany, Sweden, the United States and Canada to play in a sold-out charity match against
@bfcdublin
in Dublin tonight.
🎉 Exciting News! 🎉 We're thrilled to announce the shortlist for the Humanitarian Journalism Excellence category! 🌍 Please welcome:
1.Jade Wilson
2.Hannah McCarthy
3.Shamim Malekmian
Each story has inspired, educated, and moved us. 📰 Tomorrow, we'll reveal the winner who truly
“ According to sources, the machine gives almost every single person in Gaza a rating from 1 to 100, expressing how likely it is that they are a militant.”
The casualties were treated by Irish medical personnel at the Irish base camp at At-Tiri who coordinated the evacuation of one patient (believed to be Chilean) by helicopter to Beirut.
@irishpolbatt
A drone hit a UN vehicle this morning carrying three UN observers and a Lebanese translator outside of Rmeish in southern Lebanon near the border with Israel.
Can't help but notice that RTÉ has only sent male reporters to Israel-Palestine and Lebanon since the war began in October. I assume at least one other female reporter in RTÉ has hostile environment training?
Last week in Istanbul Irish activists met with Nelson Mandela's grandson who remembered the work of Irish activist Mary Manning and the Dunnes Stores workers protest against apartheid in South Africa.
I wrote about one of the Palestinian Bedouin communities forced from their homes in the West Bank by a violent attack Nera Ben-Pazi was involved in last year.
The U.S. just announced sanctions against Neria Ben-Pazi and Moshe Sharvit, two Israeli settlers I recently wrote about for the New Yorker. These are two very dangerous men, but the sanctions conspicuously avoid targeting their Israeli state sponsors. Some thoughts and details:
Irish-Palestinian man Zak Hania has arrived in Dublin today, six months after Israeli authorities denied him permission to leave Gaza for Ireland with his family in November.
Palestinian players have travelled from the occupied West Bank via Jordan, as well as from Israel, Lebanon, Germany, Sweden, the United States and Canada to play in a sold-out charity match against
@bfcdublin
in Dublin tonight.
Former Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy has set up his own media platform called the "Israeli Civilian Spokesperson's Office". An Israeli official confirmed that Eylon Levy does not represent the Israeli government.
Last night, the Islamic regime in Iran launched over 300 ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and suicide drones at Israel from Iranian soil.
Iran has been attacking Israel every day since October 7—last night, it stopped hiding behind its proxy armies.
A drone hit a UN vehicle this morning carrying three UN observers and a Lebanese translator outside of Rmeish in southern Lebanon near the border with Israel.
The Israeli government has received indications from senior legal officials that the International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan is considering issuing arrest warrants for Israeli officials, including PM Benjamin Netanyahu, according to Israel’s Channel 12.
Children lay listlessly on beds, some breathing heavily, others sprawled with arms pierced by catheters funnelling intravenous fluid into them when Jamie McGoldrick, the UN Humanitarian Co-ordinator for Palestine, visited the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza last Thursday.
I spoke with the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Palestine Jamie McGoldrick about what he saw on his latest trip to Gaza for
@IrishTimes
. The Scottish-Irish official painted an appalling scene of starvation mired in avoidable logistical problems.
Some analysis on why the focus on Netanyahu’s support for the war distracts from the fact that the majority of the Israeli public support how the IDF has conducted the war in Gaza.
For
@ForeignPolicy
I wrote about how focus on Netanyahu is a convenient distraction from the fact that the war in Gaza is not Netanyahu’s war, it is Israel’s war.
At least 444 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces or settlers across the West Bank since the war in Gaza started on October 7, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
Her grandmother’s eldest brother Zachary was 18-years-old when he died in Ramla from a gun shot wound inflicted by Jewish militias during the 1948 Nakba. “The football team is a team of refugees,” she says. Full story to follow on
@TheNationalNews
“The most senior IDF commander dismissed for his role in the drone strike which killed seven aid workers in Gaza is a settler who signed an open letter in January calling for the territory to be deprived of aid”
@Telegraph
“famine is classified by three conditions: when at least 20 percent of households have an extreme lack of food; at least 30 percent of children suffer from acute malnutrition…”
Israel has denied striking the area which is a 15 minute drive from the Irish peacekeepers' main base at At-Tiri in southern Lebanon. (No Irish believed to be in the convoy according to early/unconfirmed reports.)
One of the players said this is the second time Dalymount has sold out for a women’s match and a Boh’s official said the majority of ticket holders are women tonight.
From the new report by International
@CrisisGroup
on "Stopping Famine in Gaza":
1) "Israel’s approach to aid distribution, especially in the north, has been a fiasco."
""Just this week, two prisoners had their legs amputated due to handcuff injuries, which unfortunately is a routine event," the physician said in the letter. He said inmates are fed through straws, defecate in diapers, and are held constant restraints."
Despite Biden’s pledge to support a two-state solution, leaked White House cables argue that Palestine should not be granted U.N. member status (a vote on which is due at the UN Security Council tomorrow), reports
@theintercept
Zomi Frankcom, a 43-year-old Australian aid worker who was killed by an alleged Israeli airstrike last night in Gaza.
Australian PM says: "This is completely unacceptable. Australia expects full accountability for the deaths of aid workers."
Someone left a copy of Paul Lynch’s “Prophet Song” in a bag at the book exchange in
@AaliyasBooks
in Beirut, accompanied with a fairly brutal three word review: “West-Centric”, “Conflict-Plagiarism” and “unprintworthy”.
I made the dangerous decision to bring my mum to the awards ceremony at the
@RCPI_news
. Within breakneck speed she located a portrait of the doctor who delivered me. Dr John Murphy, wherever you are, this award is for you 😎👉
The Gaza Civil Emergency Service has estimated that the bodies of a further 10,000 Palestinians are under the rubble of hundreds of destroyed buildings in the Gaza strip.
The foreperson of the jury in the historic Trump trial is from Ireland.☘️🇮🇪 The juror now lives in NYC, is married, works in sales, previously was a waiter and likes spending spare time outdoors.
@bbcnews
@BBCWorld
#Irish
#IrishinAmerica
There are concerns in the humanitarian community that Israel has co-opted the US pier plan, with one aid official telling the
@guardian
that the project was in danger of becoming a “smokescreen” for the planned invasion of Rafah.
The IDF's early explanation re the killing of the World Central Kitchen team is in - per "security sources" speaking to Haaretz. Before we get to the putative pretext for the attack, they also disclose a harrowing detail - the drone bombed the convoy THREE TIMES in succession..
A Palestinian detainee from Gaza described the IDF using a nail gun on his knee in a new UN report on the detention and alleged ill-treatment of detainees from Gaza during the Israel-Hamas war.
The UN worker killed when their vehicle was truck by Israeli fire in Rafah this week was the first international UN staff member killed. Over 190 UN staff have been killed in Gaza since the war began.
A State Department panel recommended months ago that Secretary of State Antony Blinken disqualify multiple Israeli military and police units from receiving U.S. aid after reviewing allegations that they committed serious human rights abuses.
@propublica
At least four people, including a paramedic, have been killed in an Israeli air strike that hit a rescue team in Beit Hanoon in northern Gaza today.
@AJEnglish
GAZA: 5 aid workers, including 4 foreigners, were killed in an Israeli air strike in Deir el-Balah.
Among the foreign aid workers were Polish, Australian, Irish and UK passport holders.
The humanitarians were working for World Central Kitchen.
Several Israeli outlets reporting today that Hamas is prepared to accept the latest proposal from Israel, with assurances from the US that there will be a “sustainable cessation” of the war.
@UNIFIL_
"We are investigating the origin of the explosion. The targeting of peacekeepers is unacceptable. All actors have a responsibility under international humanitarian law to avoid targeting non-combatants, including peacekeepers, journalists, medical personnel, and civilians."
"“Every person who wore a Hamas uniform in the past year or two could be bombed with 20 [civilians killed as] collateral damage, even without special permission,” A. continued. “In practice, the principle of proportionality did not exist.”
A pro-Israel agitator standing in the centre of an anti-war protest at a campus in Boston shouted ‘Kill the Jews' which resulted in the protest getting shutdown and some 100 student arrests, according to
@Tori_Bedford
+
@thedailybeast
I did hear "kill the Jews," said by a counter-protester holding an Israeli flag, seemingly as a provocative joke in response to the group's pro-Palestine chants. Not sure if that's the specific incident
@Northeastern
leadership is referring to
"Among voters who rely on social media, Trump led by four points. Among voters who rely on cable news, Trump led by eight. Voters who get their news from YouTube and Google favor Trump by 16 points. And voters who don’t follow political news at all favor Trump by 26 points."
Statement from
@UNIFIL_
:"This morning, four UNTSO military observers on a foot patrol along the Blue Line were injured when a shell exploded near their location, and they have now been evacuated for medical treatment. UNTSO observers support UNIFIL in implementing our mandate."
The Irish activists has gathered in the Turkish capital hoping to board the freedom flotilla carrying aid to Gaza. The journey was thwarted when the international ships register in Guinea Bissau withdrew permission for two ships to sail under its flag.
UNIFIL has confirmed that the observers were from UNTSO not UNIFIL and has not confirmed the nationality of those involved, as families have not yet been informed.
I believe the first member of the Abrahamson family to attend Trinity was Leonard Abrahamson who was born in Odessa, where his family were forced to flee anti-Jewish pogroms.
"In addition to Netanyahu, these investigations could lead to arrest warrants being issued for Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi."
@AJEnglish
The remaining three patients from the UN convoy that was attacked were transported by Irish troops to a hospital in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre using an armoured ambulance and armoured personnel carriers.
Four international aid workers believed to be from the UK, Poland and Australia, as well as the Palestinian driving their vehicle were reportedly killed in an Israeli strike last night after they helped to deliver aid to central Gaza.
*And clarification from UNIFIL that the convoy was hit when a shell exploded near their location rather than a drone attack, as was reported initially.
5) "It directs aid to big families who agree to embrace its agenda, while targeting those who refuse, risking damage to Gaza’s social fabric in a way that a U.S. official noted is reminiscent of Mogadishu in the early 1990s."
A similar flotilla to Gaza in 2010 ended when Israeli forces killing 10 Turkish activists and crew after raiding their ship with what the UN called “excessive and unreasonable" force.
US officials say Israel presented a plan to move 1.4 million civilians over several weeks from Rafah to tents north of the city but proposal did not include plans for addressing sanitation needs or an assessment of how much food/water would be required...
Not long after, Pearse was executed by British forces for his role in the 1916 Easter Rising which galvanised Irish support for independence from Britain. Abrahamson later switched to medicine and went on to become the President of the College of Physicians of Ireland.
Palestinian diplomat's view on the wording of the US draft resolution re Gaza and a possible ceasefire that failed to pass at the UN Security Council yesterday.
Many of you were confused by the vote yesterday on the US draft resolution in the security council. While the resolution showed a significant evolution of the US position and contained many important elements on the future of Gaza including a rejection of any demographic or
Let’s take an inside look at how your
@NYPDnews
officers safely & professionally restored order at
@Columbia
&
@CityCollegeNY
yesterday, after school officials requested our assistance in dispersing unlawful encampments on their campuses & persons barricaded inside their
He initially studied Irish & Hebrew at Trinity, where he was a scholar, but was almost expelled for inviting the Irish nationalist leader Patrick Pearse to speak to the college's Gaelic society - which was suspended for hosting the event with Pearse.
In early April, Hamas hit two aid convoys organised by the Palestinian Authority that were brought into northern and southern Gaza, according to reports in Palestinian media outlets.
I visited the Gaza solidarity camp at Columbia yesterday and wanted to share a few
very brief observations.
First, it's one of the most highly organised student protests I've ever seen. They have media and de-escalation training, a nutzone to protest students with allergies.
I spoke to two Irish women in Lebanon - one a fintech entrepreneur and another a travel influencer - about life there with an escalating war on its doorstep.
"“This is not only an attack against WCK, this is an attack on humanitarian organizations showing up in the most dire of situations where food is being used as a weapon of war. This is unforgivable,” said World Central Kitchen CEO Erin Gore."
When the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Putin last year, the Irish DOJ said that he would be arrested on charges of war crimes in the unlikely event he sets foot in Ireland.
@WCKitchen
says that the number killed in last night's aid convoy strike is in fact seven, from Australia, Poland, United Kingdom, a dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada, and Palestine. No Irish citizen confirmed in the group.
Four international aid workers believed to be from the UK, Poland and Australia, as well as the Palestinian driving their vehicle were reportedly killed in an Israeli strike last night after they helped to deliver aid to central Gaza.
4) "It has tried to work around the international aid system and its protocols for famine prevention and response, doling out assistance on an ad hoc basis in hopes of building a network to administer Gaza on its behalf after the war."
3) "It has attacked civilian police, citing links to Hamas, and compelled their retreat, which leaves supplies vulnerable to plunder, whether by profiteers or the desperately hungry."
Former senior US diplomat Richard Haass calling for conditional arms exports to Israel and trade sanctions on exports from illegal
West Bank settlements.
CFR's Richard Haass: "I'm sorry it's come to this - but we have to have some sanctioning - not just stuff at the UN. Its gotta be conditioning arm deliveries and some trade sanctions, for example goods from the West Bank."
Wadi al-Seeq is now a ghost town, and I ran into Ben-Pazi there, living comfortably. He got a new road. Minister of Heritage Amichai Eliyahu spent the night there and tweeted that Ben-Pazi was “the first line of defense against the enemy.”