We wrote today in support of Garvaghy Road residents who refuse to accept a proposed sectarian extremist march through their community @sinnfeinireland@SFIntDept
#OnThisDay 1923 IRA Chief of Staff during the Civil War, Liam Lynch is shot in Tipperary by Free State Forces. Lynch had just voted against a peace deal days earlier. His death effectively ended the war. 20 days later, a ceasefire was called for by Frank Aiken.
#Ireland#History
Ireland’s supporters gathered at the 1798 Monument in Sydney to honour patriot dead, and recommit to the struggle for Irish unity and independence @sinnfeinireland
A missile strike that killed nine civilians, including four children.
A synagogue and bomb shelter reduced to rubble. No military objective in the area.
Our new @Amnesty’s investigation found that the weapon used in #Iran’s strike on the Ramat Lehi neighborhood in #Israel is wildly inaccurate and carries a massive warhead, making it completely inappropriate for use in densely populated civilian area. This attack must be investigated as a war crime.
https://t.co/Ue4BFYXwmG
Israeli Defence minister says:’All homes in villages near the border in Lebanon will be destroyed, according to the model of Rafah and Beit Hanoun in Gaza, in order to permanently remove threats near the border to northern residents’ in Israel.
Israel is systematically targeting centers for ambulances. According to the ministry of health, at least 52 ambulances and medical vehicles have been hit, 19 medical and ambulatory centers damaged, and emergency services targeted in 79 separate attacks.
Do you approve or disapprove of the US military action against Iran?
🟢 Approve: 23% (6% strongly)
🔴 Disapprove: 72% (50% strongly)
⚪️ Don't know: 5%
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Israel is brazenly granting itself carte blanche to execute Palestinians while stripping away the most basic fair-trial safeguards.
The new law dismantles fundamental safeguards to prevent the arbitrary deprivation of life and protect the right to a fair trial. It further empowers Israel’s system of apartheid, which is maintained by scores of discriminatory laws against Palestinians.
https://t.co/ku7yWQIpig
OTD in 1849 in Mayo’s Doolough Valley hundreds of starving souls were forced into a 20mile death march to 'verify' their agony
Refused relief because colonial officials were "at lunch”, families were left to die at the roadside with grass in their mouths
Ná dearmad go deo 🕯️
Today, for the first time in centuries, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem was prevented from celebrating Palm Sunday Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, having been stopped and turned away by Israeli Police.
Or: Israeli forces forcibly evicted 15 Palestinian households in the Batn al-Hawa area of Silwan, East Jerusalem, displacing 70 Palestinians, including 29 children, as part of ongoing settlement expansion and ethnic cleansing efforts.
Israel bombed a medical center & ambulances in Bint Jbeil, south Lebanon, killing at least two medical workers
Israel has killed at least 53 healthcare workers over the past month, according to the Lebanese ministry of health
Intentionally killing medics is a war crime.
“Israel has effectively been given a license to torture.”
Francesca Albanese called out Israel’s systematic abuse of Palestinians at the United Nations on March 23.
🔴 Israeli strike kills nurse in Khan Younis, watchdog says
Nurse Mohammed Kamal Sheikh Al-Eid was killed in a drone strike targeting a police checkpoint in Al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis, according to Healthcare Workers Watch (HWW). He was among 6 killed in two strikes in Khan Younis on Saturday.
Here’s my interview @tribunemagazine
‘Irish people instinctively align with anti-colonial struggles. A new generation has been politicised by international events, by the struggle over the Irish language, & by a growing consciousness of decolonisation’
https://t.co/2rujFMn3Ui
Another Palestinian detainee killed in Israeli prisons: the 54 years old Palestinian civilian Marwan Hirzallah who was arrested by the Israeli army in Nablus on the 8th of January this year was announced dead today in an Israeli jail.
Israeli strikes in south Lebanon just this morning have killed seven paramedics and wounded seven more. Three journalists covering the attacks have also been killed.
An average of 19,000 children are being displaced every day in Lebanon, as escalating Israeli violence forces families from their homes, uprooting nearly 20% of the population in just three weeks, according to UNICEF.
#Infograph