Irish in Gaza

17/01/2025

Ceasefire announced but certainly not yet enacted...so today again We stand alongside Palestinian friends and colleagues,figuratively and literally in hopeful solidarity on the Bridges ...

Hopefully Sunday and going forward allows all of Palestine and their families in diaspora to breathe,reunite,grieve ,find and bury their dead,hold loved ones after so long,sleep,begin some recovery and hope and pray .

There is a battle ahead ,Palestinian led.

17/01/2025

We, the people of Ireland, are calling for the removal of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism from the Government's 2025 Plan. This definition has been widely criticized for blurring the line between criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism. It is broad and open to interpretation, and of the 11 examples provided of its use by IHRA, 7 specifically label criticism of Israel as anti-Semitic.

There is currently a genocide being perpetrated by Israel in Palestine, which Ireland has acknowledged by supporting a legal case against Israel at the International Court of Justice. We, the people of Ireland, reject this harmful definition, which could unfairly silence those who oppose Zionism. Adopting this definition threatens our freedom of speech on issues like genocide and the actions of Israel and Zionism. While Zionism claims to be linked to Judaism, it is an ethnocultural nationalist movement, and many Jewish people distance themselves from it, particularly due to its occupation of Palestine and war crimes.

In April 2023, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and over 104 civil society groups signed a letter opposing this definition, warning that it has been used to wrongly label criticism of Israel as anti-Semitic. The letter states: “the IHRA definition has often been used to wrongly label criticism of Israel as antisemitic, and thus chill and sometimes suppress, non-violent protest, activism and speech critical of Israel and/or Zionism, including in the US and Europe. Such misuse has also been criticized by the former Special Rapporteur on Racism E. Tendayi Achiume.” Additionally, over 122 Palestinian and Arab academics, journalists and intellectuals have also expressed their concerns about the IHRA definition.

We strongly reject the use of anti-Semitism as a political tool in the 2025 Programme for Government. This is a serious issue, and misusing anti-Semitism to cover up Zionist crimes in Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon is an abuse of the Jewish faith itself.

In conclusion, we demand the immediate removal of this dangerous definition. Our right to protest against genocide in Palestine, Israel, and Zionism is an expression of our freedom of speech, which must be protected and upheld. Our freedom of speech must be maintained, protected and cherished.

Why is this important?
The IHRA definition has been used to suppress freedom of speech in the UK and has been criticized and rejected by major human rights organizations and academics including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.

I've just signed this petition calling on the government to remove the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism from the Programme for Government. Will you sign too?

16/01/2025

Via Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC)
Micheál Martin has announced that Ireland had adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism.
This is a shameful betrayal of the Palestinian people and the hundreds of thousands of people in Ireland who have been showing up in solidarity for 15 months. It is appalling that this has been adopted without consulting a single Palestinian or anti-racist organisation. The IHRA definition is an anti-Palestinian definition so discredited that its own author has disowned it as being a tool for witchhunting criticism of Israel, and such a violation of free speech that Human Rights Watch and over 100 other rights organisations all oppose it. All this while apartheid Israel is committing a genocide, and the Irish government has not imposed a single sanction on that criminal state. This cannot stand.

16/01/2025

"After 15 months, Palestinian resistance fighters are still attacking Israeli occupation forces in every part of Gaza where they are present, including in the far northern areas that Israel entered and supposedly gained control of in the earliest weeks of its invasion.

The heavy losses and constant attrition have for months been sapping the ability and morale of the Israeli army to carry on a futile effort to defeat a resistance that moves through an extensive tunnel system that remains largely intact.
In light of this, a clear majority of Israelis now support a comprehensive deal to end the war...

The other key factor is Trump’s intervention. Last week, the president-elect sent his Middle East envoy to read Israel the riot act.

In a symbolic playing out of the real power relations between Israel and the United States, Steve Witkoff informed the office of Benjamin Netanyahu last Friday that he’d be arriving in Israel the next day and wanted to meet him.

Netanyahu’s aides “politely explained that was in the middle of the Sabbath but that the prime minister would gladly meet him Saturday night,” according to Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

“Witkoff’s blunt reaction took them by surprise,” Haaretz added. “He explained to them in salty English that Shabbat was of no interest to him. His message was loud and clear.”

Netanyahu obeyed orders from Trump’s envoy and showed up at his office as commanded “for an official meeting with Witkoff, who then returned to Qatar to seal the deal.”

The result of that meeting, according to Haaretz, is that “Witkoff has forced Israel to accept a plan that Netanyahu had repeatedly rejected over the past half year,” making serious concessions to a Hamas that has not budged from its position that the release of Israeli captives must be conditioned on the release of Palestinian prisoners, an end to the war and a complete – albeit phased – Israeli withdrawal from Gaza..."

Full article below...

Gaza ceasefire is closer than ever thanks to resistance steadfastness and intervention by US president-elect.

16/01/2025

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Hamas of backtracking on some details of a Gaza ceasefire deal today, adding that he has put on hold an Israeli Cabinet meeting due to approve the deal, Reuters reports.

“Hamas reneges on parts of the agreement reached with the mediators and Israel in an effort to extort last minute concessions,” a statement from Netanyahu said. “The Israeli cabinet will not convene until the mediators notify Israel that Hamas has accepted all elements of the agreement.”

A senior Hamas official said the group is committed to the ceasefire agreement announced by the mediators.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250116-netanyahu-israel-cabinet-will-not-ratify-gaza-ceasefire-deal/

16/01/2025

Merely hours after announcing a ceasefire,one Israel and Joe Bidens administration delayed since last May ...

Who but Evil personified and their Evil backers would do this.

16/01/2025

Israeli forces have killed at least 82 people in Gaza, medical sources told Al Jazeera, including at least 30 people in Gaza City in the hours since Hamas and Israel announced they had reached a ceasefire agreement.

One Israeli strike on a house in Gaza City killed 18 people as Palestinians await the start of the ceasefire on Sunday.

15/01/2025

What kind of evil mind plans and agrees to the increase in activities to maim,destroy,injure or kill as many and as much as possible in the hours before a ceasefire.
Absolute Evil minds



" previous experiences showed that the Israeli occupation is determined to inflict the utmost level of harm, committing more massacres and crimes against civilians in Gaza.

As mounting reports indicate the possibility of concluding a ceasefire deal within the next few hours, the Gmo warning that the Israeli occupation army may have set up ambushes or booby-trapped properties to commit more crimes and increase damage."

The Gaza Government Media Office (GMO) has urged Palestinians across the besieged enclave to show “extreme vigilance and utmost caution” specially when moving between regions, governorates and displacement sites, amid reports of an imminent ceasefire deal that could see displaced civilians return to their homes.

In a statement issued yesterday, the GMO said previous experiences showed that the Israeli occupation is determined to inflict the utmost level of harm, committing more massacres and crimes against civilians in Gaza.

As mounting reports indicate the possibility of concluding a ceasefire deal within the next few hours, the GMO said citizens should seek information only from official Palestinian sources, and avoid moving in destroyed areas or areas witnessing intense shelling, especially in the hours following the announcement of a ceasefire, warning that the Israeli occupation army may have set up ambushes or booby-trapped properties to commit more crimes and increase damage.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250115-palestinians-warned-of-israeli-traps-amid-reports-of-imminent-deal/

14/01/2025

Doherty warned last week that Israel would retaliate if the Occupied Territories Bill was enacted and said her “worst fear” was that the government wouldn’t get an invitation to the White House next March

The International Court of Justice ruled last year that Israel’s occupation of Gaza and the West Bank is unlawful.

14/01/2025

"This genocide will not stop because the world supports us,or because humanity did anything. This genocide will stop because there are countries that dominate the world that want to register achievements on the blood of Palestinians"

14/01/2025

Cuba joins Ireland in South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice.

Nations of the world are standing up for the human rights of the Palestinian people.

Countries who joined the case include:
Cuba
Ireland
Spain
Nicaragua
Colombia
Libya
Mexico
Turkey

https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/153479

14/01/2025

Tuesday,January 14th 10am.

"Israeli attacks killed at least 24 Palestinians across Gaza SINCE DAWN TODAY today, as Israel’s siege of northern Gaza crossed the 100-day mark"

13/01/2025

We are continuing to get water delivered in the Northern part of the strip.Every single cent helps,is appreciated and goes directly towards water...
The situation there is dire right now. Today, like every other day,is a living,manmade hell on earth

13/01/2025

Soft Skin.
" Soft Skin is part of From Ground Zero, a collection of 22 short films made in Gaza, initiated by Palestinian director Rashid Masharawi, to tell the untold stories of the current war."

Soft Skin is a short film from the “From Ground Zero” collection.

13/01/2025

Gaza ,all before midday...

"Israeli forces kill at least five Palestinians in an attack on Salah al-Din School in Gaza City that sheltered forcibly displaced people.
A total of 26 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since dawn on Monday, Al Jazeera Arabic reports, citing medical sources"... Via Al Jazeera English

12/01/2025

The offering of water,simple in one way but so vital for life and yet our (collective)act of solidarity ended,twice,recently with injury and death to mothers and children in line to merely fill up water containers for their families...Absolutely no other reason ...a chance of clean water was enough to get them killed.

Shame on the brutality inflicted by Israel,Shame on every country aiding,abetting,financing or turning a blind eye to genocide.

The courageous and determined team in Gaza regrouped both times and water again reached some ... But no one should ever be forced to be so resilient over and over

This is the story,the hell we allowed into our world,the evil we allow to continue and the shame we will never wash away.
This is the story future generations, our children,grandchildren and further will read about ,wonder why and carry our shame for .

As always, security and dignity is paramount so pictures /videos will not be asked for or expected...and certainly not concerning the above.

We will continue to do what we can, for as long as possible and that is only possible with your help... So Thank you.
IF donating for water in Gaza, please, leave a reference or note etc so we can acknowledge the donation and thank you for it....

Huge thanks also to those who are sharing the posts as this is truly vital for awareness, donations and solidarity.

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Thank you, Shukran, شكرًا لك, Go raibh mile maith agat

Derek and Jenny Graham.
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11/01/2025