# Middle East
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This week
24th March 2024 - 28th March 2024
Voices
Opinion: Israel's actions in Gaza have weakened our humanity — a ceasefire must come now
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Tue 5:11 PM
This month
March 2024
Podcast
The Explainer: What challenges are Irish troops facing in an unstable Middle East?
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Mar 6th 2024, 4:44 PM
Last month
February 2024
Middle East
Thousands told to evacuate largest hospital in south Gaza as 9 dead after Israel strikes Lebanon
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Feb 14th 2024, 10:25 PM
Voices
Tom Clonan: Israel has pursued the relentless massacre of innocent Palestinians in Gaza
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Updated
Feb 12th 2024, 11:55 PM
tensions
Iran says it 'will not hesitate' to respond to US attack on its territory
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Feb 5th 2024, 11:54 AM
Middle East
US and UK launch dozens of strikes on Houthi locations in Yemen
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Feb 4th 2024, 7:41 AM
January
January 2024
US
Joe Biden says he has decided how to respond to drone attack that killed US troops
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Jan 30th 2024, 4:23 PM
Middle East
US vows 'very consequential' response after military members killed in Jordan drone strike
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Jan 29th 2024, 4:10 PM
Middle East
Three US military members killed and more than 20 injured in drone strike on Jordan base
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Jan 28th 2024, 5:33 PM
gulf of aden
British ship on fire in Red Sea after attack claimed by Houthis
29.4k
Jan 26th 2024, 9:12 PM
Voices
Holly Cairns: Ireland has long advocated for the Palestinians - we can't let them down now
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Jan 23rd 2024, 10:33 AM
Voices
Kittens & Current Affairs: 'Try not to look away from a world in flames, no matter how tempting'
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Jan 21st 2024, 8:00 AM
Middle East
Sister of UK citizen being held hostage by Hamas says 'there is no more time'
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Jan 14th 2024, 9:19 AM
Middle East
US carries out fresh strike in Yemen, UK warns Iran to 'cease' Houthi support
The fresh strike comes after the Houthis warned of further attacks on ships in the Red Sea.
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Jan 13th 2024, 7:39 AM
Middle East
Mary Lou McDonald to address rally in London calling for ceasefire in Gaza
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Jan 12th 2024, 9:08 PM
Middle East
Explainer: Why did the US and UK just launch airstrikes in Yemen?
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Jan 12th 2024, 8:13 AM
Gaza
Antony Blinken meets head of Palestinian Authority as Israel continues to bombard Gaza
Mahmud Abbas spoke with Blinken of the need “to stop the Israeli aggression against Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank”.
Palestinian Authority currently exercises limited rule in the West Bank, which has been occupied by Israel since 1967.
Netanyahu is not known to have shifted his position on reviving talks for a Palestinian state.
Blinken has called for "more food, more water, more medicine" to be delivered to Gaza.
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Jan 10th 2024, 4:35 PM
Gaza
Israel agrees for UN mission to assess north Gaza situation, says Blinken
The US diplomat says the IDF is entering a “lower intensity phase” in Gaza.
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Jan 9th 2024, 7:41 PM
Middle East
UN says Gaza is now 'uninhabitable' as Western diplomats make trips to Middle East
The death toll in Gaza now stands at least 22,722 people, most of them women and children.
In Khan Younis, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) evacuated its staff and their family members from the area around the Al-Aqsa hospital
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken landed in Turkey today at the start of his fourth regional tour since the conflict began.
In a statement on Saturday, the Gaza health ministry said it had recorded more than 120 deaths over the past 24 hours.
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Jan 6th 2024, 7:00 PM
Gaza
Micheál Martin warns of ‘devastating consequences’ for the world if Middle East conflict widens
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Jan 6th 2024, 9:19 AM
Middle East
US says it carried out Iraq strike, killed pro-Iran commander
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Jan 4th 2024, 9:38 PM
Middle East
Funeral of Hamas leader in Beirut as Blinken heads for Middle East amid wider conflict fears
Tensions have surged with Lebanon, where a strike in Beirut on Tuesday, widely assumed to have been carried out by Israel, killed Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Aruri.
Aruri was killed in the south Beirut stronghold of the powerful Iran-backed Hezbollah movement.
The Israeli military, in its campaign to destroy the Islamist militant group, has reported more strikes in and around Gaza City.
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Jan 4th 2024, 4:30 PM
Middle East
At least 103 people killed and 211 wounded in bombings in Iran at ceremony near general's grave
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei blamed “evil and criminal enemies” of the country for the attack and vowed a “harsh response.”
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Jan 3rd 2024, 10:30 PM
Middle East
Hezbollah leader warns Israel against waging war on Lebanon as fears rise of wider conflict
Hamas’s number two Saleh al-Aruri was killed along with his bodyguards in the strike by Israel.
French President Emmanuel Macron urged Israel to "avoid any escalatory attitude".
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Updated
Jan 3rd 2024, 6:11 PM
Last year
2023
Voices
Opinion: We are living in difficult times – but we must not give up hope
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Dec 28th 2023, 11:55 PM
Yemen
UN-led peace process announces Yemeni warring factions agree to ceasefire
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Dec 23rd 2023, 5:16 PM
an unholy alliance
Netanyahu & the American Evangelicals: 'They wage war in our country, then celebrate Christmas'
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Updated
Dec 21st 2023, 1:50 PM
Voices
Tom Clonan: Gaza has become hell on earth, while the world just watches
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Updated
Dec 12th 2023, 11:47 PM
israel-hamas war
Fresh Israeli bombardment of Gaza as Hamas and Islamic Jihad launch rockets into Israel
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Dec 3rd 2023, 6:12 PM
Voices
Bobby McDonagh: The Rule of Law matters more than ever when the world is imploding
11.8k
Nov 25th 2023, 8:00 PM
Middle East
From the West Bank: 'Settler violence and military restrictions strangle Palestinian life'
9.2k
Nov 22nd 2023, 12:10 AM
Middle East
Israeli strikes on Lebanon kill eight, including two journalists
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Nov 21st 2023, 8:14 PM
Gaza
Gaza health ministry says more than 80 dead in strikes on refugee camp
29.1k
Nov 18th 2023, 3:00 PM
Voices
Holly Cairns: What Israel is doing in Gaza is beyond horrific - we cannot stand idly by
21.7k
Nov 12th 2023, 7:30 AM
Voices
Bobby McDonagh on Israel/Gaza: 'Peace requires both sides to accept that they can never win'
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Updated
Nov 10th 2023, 6:10 AM
THE MORNING LEAD
Irish diplomats working behind the scenes in hope of freeing kidnapped Emily Hand
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Nov 9th 2023, 12:05 AM