Elaine Loughlin: Trauma heaped on trauma in what Palestinians see as a second Nakba

The unconscionable Hamas attacks of October 7, followed by the sustained bombardment of Gaza, is the latest and deadliest round in what has been a decades-long conflict

A demolished school in the abandoned Palestinian village of Khirbet Zanuta. Picture: Southern Mount Hebron Activists group/Times of Israel

Looking at a map of Israel and Palestine can feel familiar.

Names like Bethlehem, Jerusalem, and Nazareth transport many of us back to Irish classrooms at Christmas time and the story of a baby in a manger.