Gaza: The militarised and ethnically motivated persecution of a people
It is the sort of barbarity that engulfs a country which is built upon a disproportionately unfair system
about 14 hours ago
Alex Musleh
Palestinian protesters run for cover from tear gas fired by Israeli security forces near the settlement of Beit El and Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. Photograph: Abbas Momani/AFP
I recall feeling an immense sense of pride as I sat in the Palestinian ministry of higher education’s meeting room, listening to representative Jonathan Conlon announce the Ireland-Palestine scholarship programme back in 2019. Ireland had given me much, and now it was extending that same courtesy, once again, to my fellow Palestinians.