Deirdre Fitzsimons

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

Children.

Let that sink in.

According to a new UN inquiry, Israeli authorities and security forces have deliberately targeted Palestinian children in Gaza, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.

No government, army, ideology, or political argument can make the killing, starvation, displacement, and traumatizing of children morally acceptable. A world that excuses the destruction of children has lost its moral center.

We must not grow numb. We must demand an end to genocide, protection for Palestinian children, unrestricted humanitarian aid, accountability for these atrocities, and every child’s right to live in dignity, safety, and peace.

#Gaza #PalestinianChildren #CeasefireNow #BelovedCommunity #Nonviolence365

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

Richie Sadlier👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

"It's baffling to me, how...it is controversial or contentious or objectionable that someone suggests...do you know what maybe let's not play football against them.

Maybe instead of playing a match against them, maybe let's not play a match."

[Jeremy Diamond @JDiamond1]

I barely recognized the journalist Ali al-Samoudi when I saw him this week. He had been imprisoned by Israel — without charge and without a trial — for a year, during which time he lost half his body weight.
He is one of 105 Palestinian journalists who have been imprisoned by Israel since October 7, 2023 — most without charge, according to @pressfreedom.

[Pádraig Murchadhfinn @murchadhfinn]

“How many categories of the protected must be erased before the words “red line” regain meaning?”
~editorial

Irish Examiner

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[Bohemian Football Club @bfcdublin]

#StopTheGame

[Androulla Kaminara @AKaminara]

Breaking news!

European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) to suspend the 🇪🇺EU 🇮🇱Israel Association Agreement has passed the threshold for 11 countries and at 1,034,599 signatures now.

🇫🇷France 🇧🇪Belgium 🇪🇸Spain 🇮🇹Italy 🇮🇪Ireland 🇫🇮Finland 🇸🇪Sweden 🇩🇰Denmark 🇳🇱Netherlands 🇵🇱Poland 🇵🇹Portugal have passed the threshold. Incredible! 🫶🏾

We needed minimum 7 countries to pass the threshold.

We have 11 countries that passed the threshold.

For a European citizens' initiative to be valid, it must obtain at least one million valid signatures and meet the minimum thresholds in at least seven countries.

This was not just on track to reach the 1 Million threshold; this may well become the most supported EU Citizen Initiative EVER.

Please keep signing! Let's show the power of the people! 🇪🇺🕊️🙏🏾
https://t.co/8CSJ2sd0Zo

[IPSC @ipsc48]

When will you pass the #OccupiedTerritoriesBill @MichealMartinTD @SimonHarrisTD @HMcEntee?

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

On Yom HaShoah, we pause to remember the six million Jewish victims of the Nazis' systematic program of mass murder, along with the millions of others murdered by the Hitler regime.

We remember the scale of this horror, and the systems of hatred and dehumanization that made it possible — and that still echo in our world today.

In New York City, home to more Holocaust survivors than anywhere else in this country, that memory lives among us and shapes who we are. The resilience of survivors is woven into the very fabric of this city, and it calls on all of us to act with courage and clarity in the face of injustice.

Today, as antisemitism rises once more, we are reminded that remembrance alone is not enough. We must confront hate wherever it appears.

As we light the yahrzeit candle, let us come together to protect its fragile flame — and shield it from the cold winds of hate and cruelty.

"Never again" is a promise. And it is one we must fight to keep.

[Roger G @RogerGalligan]

Only 23.6k Irish have signed this so far ... so plenty more to go. Keep signing to push it towards 1.5m European signatures.

[Almut Rochowanski @rochowanski]

EU citizens should sign this European Citizens' Initiative to suspend the EU-Israel association agreement (=free trade). This is a powerful constitutional tool, which at 1 mil signatures forces EU bodies to take action (see ⬇️). It's already at 750,000.
https://t.co/p4cwjBCu43

[Deirdre Fitzsimons @DeeFitzCann]

@HMcEntee Then act, you are the party in power, you can actually do something about this, other than release statements. Pass the Occupied Territories bill, in full.

[Marc Botenga MEP @BotengaM]

Israel just adopted the death penalty for Palestinians.

Last week, the @eu_eeas called the death penalty a violation of the right to life and to freedom from torture.

Logically, the EU should now suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement that demands respect for human rights.

[UN Human Rights Palestine @OHCHR_Palestine]

Israel must immediately repeal the discriminatory death penalty law passed today by the Knesset, as it contravenes Israel’s obligations under international law.
The United Nations opposes the death penalty under all circumstances. The implementation of this new law would violate international law's prohibition of cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment.
Additionally, this law further entrenches Israel’s violation of the prohibition of racial segregation and apartheid as it will exclusively apply to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Israel, who are often convicted after unfair trials.

Read @UNHumanRights earlier statement and analysis about the death penalty draft bill:
https://t.co/oHVrU5nomP…

[Deirdre Fitzsimons @DeeFitzCann]

@willne Visiting Liverpool from Ireland and made a specific pilgrimage to find a Rodd's coffee. Huge fan! Delighted with herself! 🤗

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

Over the past 29 months the devastating, multilayered impact of Israel’s ongoing genocide has pushed Palestinian women and girls in the occupied Gaza Strip to the brink.

Women in Gaza are being denied the conditions needed to live and to give life safely.

Read more 👇 https://t.co/AD2A0YDJ9o

[Gráinne Kelly @Swimmingsolo1]

@NiallStanage

[Niall Stanage @NiallStanage]

I’d been thinking about Gaza, the unwillingness of so many to acknowledge its horrors, and the comparatively contained outrage over the bombing of the school in southern Iran.

But this letter-writer to The Irish Times says it better.

[MSF International @MSF]

As of 31 December 2025, MSF is still awaiting renewal of its registration to operate in Gaza and the West Bank under new Israeli requirements, including staff lists.
The Palestinian health system is decimated, essential infrastructure is destroyed, and people struggle to meet basic needs. People need more services, not less. If MSF and other INGOs lose access, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians would be cut off from essential care.
We currently support one in five hospital beds and the delivery of one in three births in Gaza. In 2025 alone, we provided nearly 800,000 outpatient consultations, treated over 100,000 trauma cases, performed 22,700 surgeries, assisted more than 10,000 births, and distributed nearly 700 million litres of water.

[Scott Barber @thescottbarber]

This 100 percent