• 'I joined the Oireachtas Israeli and Palestinian friendship groups — but I'm no longer involved', says junior minister

    The junior minister says it has been portrayed on social media that she only joined the Israeli group.

  • Israeli settlers kill two Palestinians in West Bank, officials say

    Violence is reported to have escalated after a 14 year old Israeli shepherd went missing in the West Bank on Friday Israeli settlers have killed two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian officials, after a weekend of escalating violence across the territory.The Palestinian health ministry named the victims of the attack near Nablus as Abdulrahman Maher Bani Fadel, 30, and Mohammed Ashraf Bani Jame, 21, according to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa. Continue...

  • Palestinians call for release of thousands of people detained in Israeli jails without trial

    Conditions for prisoners have deteriorated since Hamas’ 7 October attacks against Israel, according to Human Rights Watch.

  • Israeli Settlers Kill Two Palestinians in Occupied West Bank, Mayor Says

    CAIRO (Reuters) - Israeli settlers killed two Palestinians on Monday in the occupied West Bank province of Nablus, Salah Bani Jaber, the mayor of Aqraba, told Reuters."About 50 settlers, a large number of them armed, attacked the residents of Khirbet al-Tawil village east of Aqraba in the province of Nablus. They opened fire on the youth and this led to the death of two of the youth and the injury of others,” the mayor said.Tensions have been running high across the occupied West Bank since...

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    Israeli military tells Palestinians not to return to north Gaza after witnesses say troops killed 5

    DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military renewed warnings on Monday for Palestinians not to return to northern Gaza, a day after witnesses and medical officials said Israeli troops opened fire and killed five people among throngs of displaced residents trying to walk back to their homes in the devastated area. Hundreds of []

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    Israeli military tells Palestinians not to return to north Gaza after witnesses say troops killed 5

    DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military renewed warnings on Monday for Palestinians not to return to northern Gaza, a day after witnesses and medical officials said Israeli troops opened

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    Israeli military tells Palestinians not to return to north Gaza after witnesses say troops killed 5

    DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military renewed warnings on Monday for Palestinians not to return to northern Gaza, a day after witnesses and medical officials said Israeli troops opened fire and killed five people among throngs of displaced residents trying to walk back to their homes in the devastated area. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were driven from the north after Israeli forces first launched their offensive there soon after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel....

  • Iranian foreign minister says it will not escalate conflict and mocks Israeli weapons as ‘toys that our children play with’

    Iran's foreign minister on Friday refused to acknowledge that Israel was behind the recent attack on his country and described the weapons that were used as more like children's toys. "What happened last night was not a strike," the foreign minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, said in an interview with NBC News' Tom Llamas. "They were more like toys that our children play with – not drones." Amirabdollahian, who spoke to NBC News in New York where he was attending a U.N. Security Council session,...

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    Over 100 people arrested as NYPD breaks up pro-Palestinian protest at Columbia University, law enforcement source says

    More than 100 people were arrested by New York Police Department officers on a preliminary charge of criminal trespass, according to a law enforcement official, as police entered Columbia University on Thursday to disperse a pro-Palestinian protest that began a day earlier as the university’s president testified before a House committee about the school’s response to antisemitism. The individuals were detained with no resistance, and the university is named as the complainant since the incident...

  • Minister unable to say whether airline found for Rwanda scheme - but says flights should take off 'within weeks'

    A cabinet minister was unable to say whether an airline has been found to send asylum seekers to Rwanda - despite suggesting the scheme will be running "within weeks". Health Secretary Victoria Atkins told Sky News's Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips: "We want them (flights) to take off as quickly as possible We very much plan to have it within weeks." Asked whether the government has a carrier yet, Ms Atkins said: "The Home Office is working on this, and so believe you me, the Home Office is...

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