Jim Fitzpatrick, the artist who designed the classic Che Guevara image, has created a new print of an imprisoned Palestinian teenager, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

Israeli military intelligence officers recruited the services of Irish speakers so they could translate sensitive information transmitted between Irish soldiers working for the UN in Lebanon.

A Nobel peace laureate has described her detention by the Israeli navy as she tried to reach Gaza by sea as kidnap.

The tragedy of the Syrian civil war has reached new levels of barbarism over the last week as Bashar-al-Assad’s Russian ally launched air strikes against the civilian population in the rebel-held north of this devastated country.

Israeli forces may have committed war crimes when they stormed an aid flotilla boat heading to Gaza, but the possible crimes aren’t grave enough to merit a prosecution at the International Criminal Court (ICC), its prosecutor said yesterday.

Export licences for €6.4m worth of military goods for Israel have been approved by the Government in the past three years, the Irish Examiner can reveal.

The newspapers are criticising Israel regarding Gaza. To love and support the Jewish state may seem like defending the indefensible, but much truth is left out in the media reports.

Updates from Farah Baker, 16, convey the terror of life under conflict.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to a 12-hour 'humanitarian window' in the ongoing conflict in Gaza.

Fergus Finlay in his opinion piece (July 22) cynically assumes that the Israeli Defence forces (IDF) engage in indiscriminate attacks.

Newly released files show tensions flared between the Irish government and Israel over the safety of Irish troops serving in Lebanon on peacekeeping duty.

Palestinian militants barraged Israel with more than 200 rockets today, killing three people, as Israel pressed a punishing campaign of air strikes on militant targets across the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian militants fired nearly 150 rockets into Israel today, killing three people and striking the southern outskirts of Tel Aviv.

Gunfire from Israeli forces killed a Palestinian boy,12, in the Gaza Strip, local medics said, during border clashes between the Israeli military and Palestinian militants.

Israeli ships are reported to be rapidly approaching the Freedom Waves flotilla bound for Gaza.

IT has been argued by thousands of human rights protestors, including Trocaire, in recent years that Ezra Nawi is merely a pacifist protestor in the mould of Mahatma Gandhi who has been unfairly prosecuted and convicted by the Israeli courts when he attempted to halt the Israeli Defence Forces demolition of Palestinians’ homes in South Hebron in July 2007.

Dublin’s Socialist MEP Paul Murphy has today condemned US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for comments she made yesterday criticising the attempts by the Gaza Flotilla II to deliver humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza.

Israeli authorities boarded a British yacht, took down its flag and "almost strip searched" its crew as they attempted to break the blockade to Gaza, a Briton on board said today.

ISRAELI troops were not ready for the violent resistance they met when they boarded a Gaza-bound aid ship and killed nine pro-Palestinian activists, the country’s top military officer said yesterday.

STEVEN KING’S column on the Gaza flotilla activists (June 9) was a shameful outpouring.

I NOTE the ship attacked by the Israeli defence forces (IDF) was funded by the Turkish IHH, which is widely accepted to be an extreme fundamentalist organisation with links to al-Quaida.

Cypriot authorities have prevented Sinn Féin's Aengus Ó Snodaigh, Fianna Fáil's Chris Andrews and Fianna Fáil Senator Mark Daly from leaving the island join the Free Gaza flotilla.

YOUR paper carried an article on August 14 regarding allegations by Human Rights Watch which accused the Israeli Defence Forces of shooting 11 civilians carrying “white flags” during Operation Cast-Lead.

A Co. Armagh man who was caught with an Uzi submachine gun in Dundalk was sentenced to seven and a half years' imprisonment by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

Israeli troops battled Palestinian gunmen in a suburb of Gaza City today in one of the fiercest ground battles so far as Israel’s military inched toward Gaza’s population centres and residents braced for an expansion of the offensive.

Israel rained bombs and leaflets on Gaza, pounding suspected rocket sites and tunnels used by Hamas militants and warning of a wider offensive despite frantic diplomacy to end the bloodshed.

Israeli forces pounded rocket-launching sites and smuggling tunnels in Gaza today and planes dropped leaflets warning of an escalation in attacks, as Palestinian militants fired at least 15 more rockets at Israel.

THE Government has formally sanctioned a 150-strong Irish force to Lebanon, Defence Minister Willie O’Dea announced yesterday.

Europe’s tortuous efforts to pull together contributions for the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon could edge forward tomorrow when EU diplomats meet to coordinate positions after Italy’s conditional offer to lead the force.

CHARLES HAYES (Irish Examiner letters, August 14) grossly misrepresents and misquotes my letter of August 9.

Israeli forces took control of the strategic southern hub of Marjayoun today and warned that its fight against Hezbollah could grow wider and more severe if diplomacy fails.

It emerged today that the senior Irish officer in Lebanon, Lt. Col. John Molloy, contacted his liaison officer in the Israeli Defence Forces to express his concerns about nearby attacks six times prior to the destruction of a UN observer post in southern Lebanon by an Israeli airstrike.

United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan was at the centre of a diplomatic storm today after accusing Israel of deliberately bombing a UN observer post in southern Lebanon, killing at least two peacekeepers.

Senior Palestinian officials said militant groups in the Gaza Strip agreed to stop firing missiles at Israel at midnight tonight (9pm Irish time), if Israel launches no new raids into Gaza.

Israel sealed the West Bank and Gaza Strip and sent troop reinforcements to the areas today, in response to Yasser Arafat’s death, the military said.