NEED TO CATCH up? The Journal brings you a round-up of today’s news.

IRELAND

Alaa Avgoub and Adham Shnaino rom Palestine gather for a pro Palestinian rally in Dublin. Eamonn Farrell Eamonn Farrell

• Mary Lou McDonald denied her party was attempting to “stranglehold democracy” and defended the decision of members to sue the media. 
• The Palestinian ambassador sat down with The Journal at the Palestinian Embassy in Dublin this week and spoke about her thoughts on the events that have led to thousands of deaths of people across Gaza and the West Bank.
• Concern mounted for the safety of an Irish man who has gone missing in Tenerife while on holiday.
• Thousands took to the streets of Dublin and Cork again today in a show of support for the people of Palestine.
• The Palestinian ambassador to Ireland received a rapturous applause at the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis this afternoon, where she was embraced by former party leader Gerry Adams. 
• Mary Lou McDonald said Sinn Féin will “work hard” to win the trust of voters, telling the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis this evening that she wants to form a government “without Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil”.
• Three men were charged after a violent row spilt onto a busy road in central Dublin where a man was beaten, held down and repeatedly kicked in the head “in the middle of traffic”.
• €8.2 million worth of cigarettes were seized by Revenue officers yesterday following the search of a vehicle in Co Louth. 

INTERNATIONAL

Emergency responders and volunteers search the destroyed house of the Al-Ghouti family for the injured and dead people following an Israeli airstrike in Rafah. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#GAZA Twenty of Gaza’s 36 hospitals were “no longer functioning”, the UN’s humanitarian agency said as Israel continued its bombardment of the Gaza Strip.

#VATTICAN Pope Francis dismissed US bishop Joseph Strickland, a prominent conservative who has repeatedly criticised his papacy, following concerns over his leadership and governance.

#LONDON Counter-protestors clashed with police in London ahead of a pro-Palestine demonstration on Armistice Day which is expected to be one of the largest political marches in UK history.

#KYIV A missile targeted Kyiv today, ending nearly two months of relative calm in the Ukrainian capital, while frontline regions fended off waves of drone attacks overnight.

#WASHINGTON Donald Trump pushed for his US federal election interference trial in Washington to be televised, joining media outlets that say the American public should be able to watch the historic case unfold.

PARTING SHOT

Norma Prenderville speaking at the event today. Eamonn Farrell Eamonn Farrell

Members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) from across Ireland gathered at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin this afternoon for a vigil of remembrance for journalists killed in conflict zones across the world.

128 flowers were laid in a symbolic procession, one for each journalist killed in the line of duty over the past two years.

Uilleann piper Noel Pocock played a lament after the names of the most recently murdered journalists, killed in the Israel-Palestine war.

The names of all murdered journalists were held aloft as the litany of names were read out.

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