Israel may escalate Gaza assault after US envoy Steve Witkoff fails to break ceasefire deadlock
Steve Witkoff visits controversial aid distribution centre amid humanitarian crisis and killings of Palestinians seeking food
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‘What happened in Lebanon was not justice,’ says Natasha Rooney
An Irish surgeon in Gaza: I have seen tiny bodies ripped apart, children eating grass
A former colleague in Gaza is getting his children to lick salt before bed to stave off the hunger pangs. Even last spring, children were eating weeds and grass
Reform of ‘triple lock’ for overseas military missions to begin in autumn
Report argues for a strengthening of Oireachtas oversight of Defence Forces activities abroad if triple lock removed
Was Keir Starmer pushed on Palestinian statehood or did he wait for right moment?
Some of his MPs and ministers think British prime minister has responded too slowly to Gaza crisis
Irish soldier Seán Rooney: Man sentenced to death over killing in Lebanon
Taoiseach welcomes conviction of main defendant, but says it is unsatisfactory that the man is still at large
Tons of aid parachuted into Gaza as Israel announces military pause
Israeli fire kills 17 and wounds 50 waiting for aid trucks on Sunday, Gaza officials say
The Irish Times view on starvation in Gaza: the world cannot look away
The silence of some leaders is dangerously close to complicity
US says France’s decision to recognise Palestinian state ‘reckless’
Binyamin Netanyahu said decision by Macron ‘rewards terror’, Simon Harris welcomes the French move
Mrs Robinson review: Ireland’s first woman president deserves better than this often plodding film
Story of Mary Robinson is flattened out into a functional feel-good watch
Healthy environment is a human right, top UN court rules in landmark climate case
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Letters to the Editor, July 23rd: On the EU response to Gaza, planning nostalgia and taxing Ireland
Unremitting suffering of Palestinians is a blot on our collective humanity
Clashes in Syria ‘have killed 1,200 and triggered humanitarian crisis’
Violence ‘exacerbated by Syrian government intervention and Israeli air strikes’, says Human Rights Watch
Doctors and humanitarian staff fainting from hunger in Gaza, says Unrwa head
US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is ‘sadistic death trap’, says Philippe Lazzarini
Israel expands Gaza assault striking WHO staff residence and warehouse
130 Palestinians killed in 24 hours, one of the highest totals in recent weeks, says Gaza’s health ministry
Sinn Féin wants 111 changes to Bill reforming ‘triple lock’ Irish troop deployment
Oireachtas defence committee to meet this week to discuss its recommendations on the legislation
Israel sends tanks into Gaza’s Deir Al-Balah, where it believes hostages are
At least 19 people have died from hunger in Gaza since Saturday, say health ministry
Israel fire kills dozens more aid seekers in Gaza, medics say, as hunger worsens
Israeli military says it will expand operations in Gaza
At least 36 Palestinians killed trying to reach food distribution sites, health officials say
Two incidents occurred near hubs operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
Ireland needs ‘future generations tsar’ to enable long-term thinking, say 70 groups
Legislation is back on the Dáil agenda to support government decision-making in the interests of future generations
Ex-head of UN migrant office in Dublin ‘reassigned because of her behaviour in Ireland’
Bureau tells WRC it is invoking diplomatic immunity in response to constructive dismissal claim
Israel not yet fully implementing Gaza aid agreement, EU says
At least 875 killings within past six weeks at aid points in Gaza run by US
Ireland seeks to safeguard UN mission in Lebanon where 340 Irish troops serve
Tánaiste Simon Harris supports operation’s renewal amid concerns US may push to scrap it or scale it back
‘I’m remembering Srebrenica while Srebrenica is happening in Gaza’
More victims to be buried on Friday’s 30th anniversary of Serb massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims
Israeli strike kills children near Gaza clinic
Francesca Albanese critical of Israel’s military assault on Palestinians
‘Famine is spreading and people are dying’: UN urges Israel to allow fuel into Gaza
Shortages at blood banks, intensive care units, oxygen stations and water desalination plants are putting more Palestinian lives at risk, agency warns
‘It’s an honour to be able to send a warning’: Defiant Sarajevo a scarred survivor of Bosnia’s war
But critics of region’s ethno-nationalist politics condemn ‘corrupted and toxic’ system entrenched by 1995 peace deal
Israeli report accuses Hamas of sexual violence, urges legal action
Report lays out legal framework for prosecutions, even when ‘direct attribution to individuals is impossible’
‘Facing the past is still our biggest problem’: Bosnia divided 30 years after Srebrenica genocide
Bosnian Serb leader continues to deny genocide and threatens to secede from Muslim-majority Bosnia
Ireland should hold another referendum on women in the home, UN committee says
Government should assess reasons referendum failed and not give up on issue, according to CEDAW
Russia could block UN missions involving Irish personnel in Bosnia and Mediterranean, Harris warns
Tánaiste says renewal of mandates for these missions face potential challenges at UN Security Council
In Hiroshima, Martin voices concerns about ‘drift from international rules-based order’
Taoiseach hears testimony from a survivor of atomic bomb that killed 140,000 people 80 years ago
Defence Forces concerned about sensitive information being revealed at inquest of Private Seán Rooney
Pte Rooney (24) was killed in attack on peacekeeper convoy in Lebanon in 2022
Israel continues deadly attacks on Gaza as Trump awaits Hamas reply to ceasefire plan
Aid points are run by a US- and Israeli-backed group that largely bypasses the UN-led aid system
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