{"id":295077,"date":"2026-02-12T23:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/295077\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T23:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:57:08","slug":"75-irish-citizens-served-in-idf-during-gaza-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/295077\/","title":{"rendered":"75 Irish citizens served in IDF during Gaza genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ditch can reveal that 75 Irish citizens have served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during its genocide in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition first demanded answers from government about Irish nationals serving with Israeli forces \u2013 while they <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2025\/10\/1166201?ref=ontheditch.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">committed war crimes<\/a> against Palestinians \u2013 two years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then foreign affairs minister Miche\u00e1l Martin didn\u2019t answer whether his department would warn Irish citizens of the potential criminal consequences of serving in the IDF when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oireachtas.ie\/en\/debates\/question\/2023-11-22\/22\/?ref=ontheditch.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TD Catherine Connolly asked him a parliamentary question<\/a> in November 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Two months later Martin also refused to answer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oireachtas.ie\/en\/debates\/question\/2024-01-23\/112\/?ref=ontheditch.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TD Richard Boyd Barrett\u2019s question about whether he was aware<\/a> of claims that Irish citizens were serving in the IDF.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.declassifieduk.org\/over-2000-britons-served-for-israel-amid-gaza-genocide\/?ref=ontheditch.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Declassified UK reported<\/a> yesterday that 2,000 Britons served in the IDF since October 2023, according to records released by Israeli authorities to NGO Hatzlacha.<\/p>\n<p>The Ditch, along with Berlin-based journalist Yossi Bartal, reviewed the records to confirm that 75 Irish citizens, who hold at least one other nationality, were IDF service members as of March 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ditch can reveal that 75 Irish citizens have served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-295077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}