# Gaza

All time

Coveney calls for Israeli restraint after 16 Palestinians killed in clashes

Thousands of Gazans marched near the Israel border yesterday where Palestinian officials state Israeli soldiers opened fire.

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Mar 31st 2018, 5:59 PM

# Tension

12 dead after clashes erupt as thousands of Gazans march near Israel border

More than 1,200 were wounded by various means by Israeli forces.

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Mar 30th 2018, 7:44 PM

# Fatalities

Two Palestinian teenagers killed by Israeli fire, medics say

Four soldiers were also wounded in an apparent bomb attack on the border.

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Feb 18th 2018, 12:00 PM

Voices

Simon Coveney: 'Gaza is slightly smaller than County Louth but nearly 2 million people live in it'

While in Gaza I saw the pressures on food, water and electricity, writes Tánaiste Simon Coveney.

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Jan 13th 2018, 7:00 AM

# UNRWA

Ireland pledges an additional half a million euro to Gaza refugees

The additional funding will be channelled through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).

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Dec 1st 2017, 10:30 PM

# romantic holiday

British couple's message in a bottle reaches Gaza

They had thrown the bottle into the sea during a romantic holiday on the Greek island two months earlier.

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Aug 27th 2017, 9:30 AM

# Palestine

Young footballers from Gaza arrive in Cork for Mardyke Arena game

The Gaza football academy struggles due to a lack of facilities, equipment and safe places to play.

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Aug 3rd 2017, 6:20 AM

# Solidarity

Warm welcome for children from Gaza ahead of football tour around Ireland

The Gaza Kids to Ireland project aims to show solidarity with Gaza and raise awareness of the current climate in Palestine.

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Jul 29th 2017, 10:43 AM

# the strip

After 10 years of Hamas rule, Gaza deals with blackouts, poverty, and the constant threat of conflict

The Islamist movement marked 10 years in power in Gaza on Thursday, 15 June.

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Jun 17th 2017, 8:45 AM

# Qatar

Hamas has significantly 'softened' its stance on Israel

The Palestinian organisation launched a new policy document today in which it steps back from calling for Israel’s ‘destruction’.

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May 1st 2017, 9:49 PM

Voices

Christmas in Gaza: 'Mortars and missiles fly overhead; from Gaza into Israel, from Israel into Gaza'

Holiday cheer is tough to come by when you live in an open-air prison, writes Eoghan Rice.

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Dec 23rd 2016, 8:00 AM

# West Bank

Abbas: Those who speak of a two-state solution should recognise Palestine as a state

Israeli and Palestinian leaders clahsed at the UN today.

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Sep 22nd 2016, 8:50 PM

# Israel

Palestinians are outraged at a donkey sale planned by the Israeli army

Palestinians say the army is trying to sell back the very animals it seized from them in the occupied West Bank’s Jordan Valley.

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Aug 6th 2016, 8:45 AM

# Gaza

Two Israelis jailed for life for burning Palestinian teen alive

16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir was snatched from the street and killed in 2014.

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Feb 4th 2016, 12:07 PM

# Palestine

EU says products made in Jewish settlements can no longer have 'Made in Israel' label

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the EU should be ashamed, comparing the move to Nazi-era pratices.

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Nov 12th 2015, 8:23 AM

# Beersheba

Israel tensions rise after soldier shot at bus station

Police said a man, thought to be Palestinian, entered the bus station armed with a pistol and knife, killing the soldier and wounding 10 other people.

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Oct 19th 2015, 7:56 AM

# third intifada

Israel kills six Palestinians as Hamas leader declares new war

The deaths come after several Israelis were stabbed earlier this week.

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Oct 9th 2015, 11:58 PM

# three wounded

West Bank: Man rams car into pedestrians before being shot by Israeli troops

Elsewhere, four members of the same family have been killed in Gaza after a bomb from last summer’s war exploded.

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Aug 6th 2015, 4:39 PM

# Night in Gaza

"An onslaught, not a conflict": One year on, Dr Mads Gilbert on operating under siege in Gaza

“I don’t want to be muted. I want to speak up…”

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Jul 8th 2015, 8:20 PM

Voices

Our silence over Gaza is taken as complicity

The Israeli bombardment of Gaza that started a year ago today – on 8th July – killed 2,200 Palestinians, including 556 children.

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Jul 8th 2015, 4:30 PM

# Palestine

'I want to learn how to swim like a fish': Gaza children take photos of their life inside the city

Children from refugee camps were given cameras to document their day.

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Jul 7th 2015, 5:08 PM

# BREAKING THE SILENCE

Israeli soldiers' testimony: 'The instructions were clear in Gaza - shoot anyone you see'

A group has published dozens of testimonies from Israeli soldiers who fought in Gaza, but the military is sceptical of the report.

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May 4th 2015, 10:19 PM

# Reconstruction

"Empty words": Despite promises of help, 100,000 are still homeless in Gaza

A new report by 46 agencies lays bare the current situation.

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Apr 13th 2015, 6:18 AM

# Legend

A conversation with Robert Fisk

The world-renowned war correspondent was in Ireland this week. He spoke to TheJournal.ie about matters Irish and international, and why Vladimir Putin is his dream interviewee.

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Mar 21st 2015, 10:30 AM

# Dublin

You'll be seeing billboards and bus ads about the State of Palestine from today

TDs from four main parties have supported the action.

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Feb 25th 2015, 10:26 AM

# Frozen

Israel has punished Palestine by freezing bank accounts, leaving people penniless

Palestine applied to join the International Criminal Court, angering Israel.

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Jan 22nd 2015, 7:00 AM

# Gaza

'The Gaza blockade is radicalising young men'

Trocaire says that rebuilding after Operation Protective Edge has not begun.

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Jan 15th 2015, 6:15 AM

# 50 day war

Palestinian gets 3 life terms for murder of Israeli teenagers

Their deaths sparked a 50-day conflict in Gaza, in which more than 2,000 people were killed.

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Jan 6th 2015, 10:10 PM

# War Crimes

Israel warns of 'retaliatory steps' as Palestine signs up to International Criminal Court

Benjamin Netanyahu called Israel’s soldiers “the most moral army in the world”.

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Dec 31st 2014, 8:25 PM

# Peace Deal

Palestinian resolution on Israel withdrawal rejected by UN Security Council

France and Luxembourg supported the Palestinians.

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Dec 31st 2014, 7:05 AM

# pics of the year

The 33 photographs that took our breath away this year

From Leaving Certificate students to George Clooney, here are the most striking photographs from 2014.

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Dec 28th 2014, 9:00 PM

# loaded term

RTÉ wrong to describe killing of four boys on Gaza beach as "murder"

Someone complained to the BAI that use of the term was unfair.

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Dec 18th 2014, 6:30 AM

# recognise

Ireland could soon be the latest country to recognise the State of Palestine

Sinn Féin want the Government to change the State’s official position.

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Dec 8th 2014, 3:23 PM

# news wrap

Today's top stories in 6 seconds

Don’t have time to mull over the news? Here’s everything you need to know.

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Dec 5th 2014, 1:02 PM

# Palestine

Israel won't let Gerry Adams into Gaza

The Sinn Féin president was denied access by Israeli authorities.

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Dec 5th 2014, 11:44 AM

# Mavi Marmara

No prosecution for Israel over flotilla raid despite 'reasonable belief of war crimes'

Israeli commandos stormed the ship in 2010, killing ten people.

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Nov 6th 2014, 6:20 PM

# War Crimes

Amnesty accused of being a "propaganda tool for Hamas" by Israel

The group says Israel showed a “shocking disregard for Gaza civilians”.

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Nov 5th 2014, 5:33 PM

# holy land

Hit and run rampage in Jerusalem leaves two dead in religious violence

A Palestinian man driving the van was shot dead by police.

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Nov 5th 2014, 2:01 PM

# initiative

Football can provide an escape for kids growing up in parts of the world ravaged by war and poverty

Former Irish football manager Brian Kerr is hoping Irish people get behind the Gaza Kids to Ireland project

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Nov 2nd 2014, 10:00 AM

# Inspiration

Malala Yousafzai donates $50,000 prize money to help rebuild 65 schools in Gaza

The 17-year-old won the Nobel Peace Prize this month.

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Oct 29th 2014, 10:43 PM