Irish Examiner view: The world is watching the Middle East — and our response to events there

Israel's attack on Gaza is being compounded by a blockade of items including medical equipment and fridges

'I told the people gathered there that American doctors were reporting from Gaza that Israeli soldiers were shooting small children in the head.' 'Irish Examiner' contributor Maeve Higgins is led away by police after speaking out at an event in a New York church. 

There is a moment in the new Alex Garland film Civil War — wherein an unlikely secessionist alliance of California and Texas battles with the other states — which may come to define 2024.

An unnamed paramilitary sporting combat fatigues and, in a bizarre but menacing touch, red sunglasses and hefting an assault rifle interrogates a motley group of people he has intercepted.