Karol Balfe

Death toll from US-Israeli strike that hit girls' school rises to 108, Iran Red Crescent says Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said “this barbaric act is another black page in the record of countless crimes committed by the aggressors”.

The Iranian Red Crescent has said the death toll from a strike on a school in southern Iran has risen to 108, following a wave of attacks launched by the United States and Israel against the Islamic republic
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Karol Balfe: A multilateral world is worth fighting for, it must start with justice for Palestine Ceasefires that don’t provide safety and a mechanism to rebuild a shattered land are not steps toward peace

Brilliant article @karolbalfe.bsky.social

'If Ireland truly believes in a multilateral world governed by law rather than force, then it must demand more not only from Israel, but from our allies and from itself.'

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Karol Balfe: A multilateral world is worth fighting for, it must start with justice for Palestine Ceasefires that don’t provide safety and a mechanism to rebuild a shattered land are not steps toward peace

Multilateralism is worth fighting for but it must start with justice for Palestine. My opinion piece @actionaidie.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Time to challenge corporate power in Ireland Greta Thunberg and Bohemian Football Club together stress need to put communities before companies

Fantastic piece by @jenniestephens.bsky.social on the need to re examine corporate capture in Ireland
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Ireland and the EU should be actively shouting about US breaches of international law right now - failure to do so contributes to normalisation of a new era of colonial gangsterism.

Inside the West Bank: Life under Israeli occupation is cruel and violent Karol Balfe shares the stories of two women living in the West Bank and writes that Ireland needs to honour its commitment to pass the Occupied Territories Bill.

Inside the West Bank: Life under Israeli occupation is cruel and violent. My op ed today jrnl.ie/6911841

Winter in Gaza Alla Abu Samura, Action Aid's Emergency Response Manager for Gaza, on the current situation in Gaza as families face winter weather.

Winter in Gaza is extremely tough. My colleague Alaa shares his experience from Deir-el-Balah with @rteradio1.bsky.social

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‘Catch remaining targets’: Leaked Teneo files pull back curtain on corporate lobbying Internal Teneo documents reveal exactly how oil firms and other big multinationals pushed to dilute EU supply chain rules

‘Catch remaining targets’: Leaked Teneo files pull back curtain on corporate lobbying...with no real pushback from Ireland

www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

COP30 is over, as the dust settles, we need to ensure that justice is at the heart of our approach @actionaidie.bsky.social My op ed today

Fossil fuels grabbed the spotlight at #COP30, while the conditions to phase them out – rich countries moving first and backing others – were sidelined.

That’s how climate ambition is turned against those who did least to cause the crisis, and the Paris Agreement is weakened.

Analysis: We're halfway through COP30. Here's the good, the bad and the ugly so far Negotiators should put the needs of people who are most affected by the climate crisis at the centre of their decisions, writes Karol Balfe.

Thanks to @karolbalfe.bsky.social for this excellent overview of the 'good, bad & the ugly' of week 2 at COP30 via @thejournal.ie

www.thejournal.ie/readme/cop30...

Aid is being utterly weaponised, and the result is chaos Israel has sunk to a new low in Gaza, writes Karol Balfe, CEO of ActionAid Ireland

Killed, while starving and desperate for aid...a new low in Israel's genocidal campaign on Gaza www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Complete and open disregard for international law.

No sanctions.

Displacement orders are 'entirely erasing Gaza', Oxfam warns Since the breaking of the ceasefire, Israel has issued 30 forced displacement orders and are pushing people into isolated areas

“Imagine trying to move with four children or an elderly parent in the middle of the night, with no transport and nowhere to go. People are so exhausted, many would rather face death than flee again.”

- Jim Clarken, Oxfam Ireland
www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41... @oxfamireland.bsky.social

Today @trocaire.bsky.social is launching a new climate justice campaign with a powerful report: ‘Fuelling Injustice: Ireland’s fossil fuel problem’ exposes how we’re enabling climate harm & calls on @micheal-martin.bsky.social’s Gov to do its fair share to drive a fast, funded, fossil-fuel phase out

Israeli settlers force about 150 Palestinians to leave their West Bank village Two settlers under UK sanctions among those who carried out intimidation campaign under Israeli authorities’ watch

Just another Friday in the West Bank as the West utters mild criticism but keeps the weapons and money flowing.

Powerful letter. Long past time for the government to act.

Counter-terrorism legislation, a most flexible friend of a state that fails miserably to counter or even acknowledge impunity on the part of another state whose genocide and war crimes it has enabled:

🔴Listen back to our CEO @karolbalfe.bsky.social speaking on @todayfm.bsky.social about the devastating reality the people of #Gaza are enduring.

📻https://link.goloudplayer.com/s/pGXggjtG0Hzh

Colin Sheridan: We quibble over words as children burn in Gaza 60,000 Palestinians, over a quarter of them children, were killed in 600 days. We have watched it all in real time

This says it all
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"Dystopia is the living reality in #Gaza today. For its beleaguered #population, it feels like the world is ending, over and over again."

In the @independent.ie, our CEO @karolbalfe.bsky.social, sheds light on the ongoing struggle faced by Gaza’s population.

www.independent.ie/opinion/karo...

Gaza at critical risk of famine, with one in five facing starvation Israel’s blockade on humanitarian aid to Gaza has entered its third month.

A stain on humanity's conscience
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Phasing out fossil fuels ‘doomed to fail’, says Tony Blair as he calls for rethink of net zero policy

I have never seen a situation so dismal that Tony Blair couldn't make it worse.

If you wonder why men *obsessed* with the United States having more children are kidnapping children and sending them to other countries, those children were the incorrect color.

Britain does not dictate Irish law. Or Irish feminism Where LGBTQ+ rights are bolstered, so too are women’s rights, and where they collapse, so too does authentic feminism

Britain does not dictate Irish law. Or Irish feminism.

Wrote about the Gender Brexiteers.

Kneecap Manager asks the question no one ever answers: “At what point do we stop amplifying messages that are inaccurate?”

"How can #humanity co-exist with this much #suffering and #trauma? Why can’t the #EuropeanUnion do anything?" - Our CEO, @karolbalfe.bsky.social, for the @irishexaminer.bsky.social

🗞️https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41608582.html

“The Irish have resisted colonialism for centuries under enormously difficult hardships and they’ve never given up hope.

Palestinians for 100 years, we’ve been resisting oppression and doing everything we can to live in peace, justice, dignity, equality and self-determination.

We cannot give up."