Odhrán Russell

[RTÉ Sport @RTEsport]

‘Action is surely required’ - Richie Sadlier and Stephen Kelly react to Irish fans' tennis ball protest at Israel games

[BDS movement @BDSmovement]

Nakba 78: We shall never forget.

We resist.
We remain.
We shall return.

Channel your rage, frustration, and grief into effective, strategic BDS pressure to support our struggle to end Israel’s ongoing Nakba, genocide and settler-colonial apartheid.

Read our full statement ➡️ https://t.co/YR1xkuTxzo

[Sky Sports Scotland @ScotlandSky]

🎙️ "This is bedlam!"

There was a pitch invasion after Celtic sealed their win over Hearts to claim the Premiership title ⤵️

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

"I wished for death with all my heart."

Abdel Mahdi al-Wuheidi, a Nakba survivor in Gaza, recounts displacement after 1948 and 2023 and his unwavering attachment to his homeland.

🔗: https://t.co/alAh8Soxg7

[IPSC @ipsc48]

We cannot play apartheid Israel, we cannot cross the Palestinian picket line. #BDS

[Sinéad O’Sullivan @SineadOS1]

The protests in Ireland are not about just fuel! They are about the distance between Ireland on this graph and every other modern and developed economy. Ireland is second wealthiest but gets waaaaay less than any other country for that wealth. By a golden mile.

That visual gap in this graph? That’s what people are protesting. It’s a lack of infrastructure and the everyday enshittification of services, the economy, and the additional difficulty of trying to live, relative to peers in any other country. It also highlights why people don’t get uniformly listened to! - because there is no government architecture to engage meaningfully across this huge gap.

That gap is a three hour drive to work in traffic, a 14 month wait for an MRI, buses that don’t arrive, trains that don’t exist, schools that have no places for your kids, houses that are unaffordable, pubs that close before midnight, €12 sandwiches, expensive fuel.

People feel this gap, even if they can’t explain it precisely. And that builds into resentment, and ultimately protest. Fuel just happened to be the next thing that could be pointed to, today.

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

Israel’s parliament has passed a law making the death penalty the default sentence for Palestinians convicted in military courts of killing Israelis.

The legislation, devised by far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, will see prisoners sentenced within 90 days of arrest and executed within a further 90 days.

Alternatives to death will only be allowed under “special circumstances,” with the bill closing off avenues for appeal.

Only Palestinians are tried in military courts. Rights group B’Tselem says there is a near 100% conviction rate and confessions are sometimes extracted through torture.

“Israel is already killing Palestinians on a regular basis – in detention facilities, and in the field, where lethal force is widely used by Israeli settlers and by the military with close to zero accountability,” Yuli Novak, the executive director of the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, told the Guardian. ‘‘This law is another tool in this toolbox.’’

Those sentenced to death will be held in separate facilities and denied visits. Legal consultations will happen over video link.

MPs allied to Ben-Gvir wore noose-shaped pins on their lapels as they gathered in the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, to vote through the legislation last night.

Ben-Gvir, who is said to keep a portrait of Jewish gunman Baruch Goldstein who killed 29 Palestinian worshippers in his living room, has widely reprogrammed Israeli prisons to starve and torture Palestinian prisoners.

“From today, every terrorist will know, and the whole world will know, that whoever takes a life, the state of Israel will take their life,” Ben-Gvir told the Knesset.

He was filmed brandishing a bottle of champagne in Israeli parliament, in celebration of the bill passing.

The UN, the EU and Amnesty International have condemned the legislation, warning that it violates Palestinians’ right to life and defines terrorism in a dangerously vague manner.

Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, said: “Such laws and measures will not break the will of the Palestinian people or undermine their steadfastness.

“Nor will they deter them from continuing their legitimate struggle for freedom, independence, and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.”

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel murdered every single person in this photo today in South Lebanon.

Every. Single. One.

2 journalists
7 paramedics
1 Lebanese soldier

They bombed the journalists’ vehicle — then bombed them again when paramedics rushed to help.

[Paddy Cosgrave @paddycosgrave]

Micheal Martin might as well be a foreign owned asset. Such a weak and unserious taoiseach.

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

Over 300 children have been killed in illegal US and Israeli attacks in Iran and Lebanon since late February, while more than 1,500 have been injured.

The victims include a three-day-old baby and his two-year-old sister, who were killed in a US-Israeli strike on their home in the Iranian city of Arak, Iranian state media reported.

Footage released by the Iranian Red Crescent Society on Wednesday showed rescuers pulling a badly injured child from the rubble of a building in Tehran following a US-Israeli attack.

The US and Israel claim they do not target civilians, but observers refute this. Jeffrey Sachs, a former special adviser to the UN secretary general, told journalist Piers Morgan earlier this month that the war on Iran is “a kind of mass murder of civilians” that involves “carpet bombing” Tehran.

The latest figures for child casualties were compiled by Unicef on Thursday, though the UN agency did not specify the perpetrators of the attacks. Donald Trump has sought to evade US responsibility for a massacre of some 170 schoolgirls in Minab on 28 February, despite mounting evidence that the US carried out the killings.

Iran has also killed and injured children with its retaliatory attacks on Israel, Bahrain and Kuwait.

Across countries affected by the war, the figures include “202 children reportedly killed in Iran, 107 in Lebanon, four in Israel, and one in Kuwait as well as over 1,190 children injured in Iran, 331 in Lebanon, four in Israel, and four in Bahrain,” Unicef said.

“These numbers are likely to rise as the violence intensifies,” the agency added.

“Homes, schools, hospitals, and other civilian infrastructure have reportedly been damaged or destroyed in several locations, disrupting services that children rely on for survival and wellbeing.”

[IPSC @ipsc48]

Shameful, but unsurprising. FIFA has refused to sanction apartheid Israel for its clubs in illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian land. FIFA is lying, the ICJ ruling is clear, apartheid Israel's occupation of Palestine is illegal and must be dismantled. #BanIsrael

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

We're busy packing suitcases of medical aid to bring to Cuba tomorrow. 🇮🇪 🇨🇺

GRMA to all who've assisted us source it (special thanks to Dr David Hickey).

The USA is illegally and savagely strangling the island and crippling its people.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel is currently bombing civilians in:

Iran
Lebanon
Palestine

This is not the behavior of a “victim.”

This is terrorism.

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

GRMA to all our loyal supporters for making the journey to London today to support us. 💚🤍🧡

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

This is Gaza on Christmas Eve

Israeli troops blew up homes sheltering displaced Palestinian families today despite a ceasefire that has been in effect for over two months.

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

A new video posted today shows the destruction of Jabalia camp.
That’s the camp where my mother was born and where her family lived waiting for return to their homes since 1948.
That’s where my maternal grandfather died in April 2024 after his house in the camp was destroyed. That’s the camp I sheltered in for weeks, where I survived death many times, where I witnessed massacres of relatives and friends
That’s the Jabalia Camp.

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

Stick that up your bollox Viktor Orbán 💚🤍🧡

[Ireland Football ⚽️🇮🇪 @IrelandFootball]

Bottle that feeling 🥺