The ceasefire in the Israel military’s genocide against the Palestinian people of Gaza has been welcomed in Ireland, but anger and concern is growing at the continuation of Israeli killings and related violence.

Despite huge publicity and fanfare for the announcement by US President Donald Trump in Egypt, involving a rogue’s gallery of western politicans and celebrities, Israel has continued to launch direct attacks against Palestinian civilians.

Four Palestinians were killed while by the Israel army in Gaza City’s eastern Shejaiya neighbourhood while merely inspecting their homes. Those killed were called “suspects” in the media, who continue to parrot the Israeli line.

Disturbingly, the Israeli army has created new ‘kill zones’ defined by invisible lines, and when civilians cross them, they are shot and killed.

The ceasefire deal has seen the focus of Israeli attacks move elsewhere, to Lebanon and the West Bank, suggesting a lilely return to the daily killings of Palestinians which took place before the genocide began.

The agreement states that Hamas should return the remains of dead Israeli hostages - although Israeli military have killed far more hostages than they rescued through military means.

Trump acknowledged that recovering many of those bodies is going to be difficult, even as he boasted that US weaponry had been used to reduce most of Gaza to rubble.

The Western coverage of the Israeli hostages versus the Palestinian hostages also saw Israelis given extended and sympathetic coverage, while Palestinians were treated as numbers and subhuman.

Despite concerns, Irish politicians have been broadly supportive of the peace efforts. Sinn Féin Leader Mary Lou McDonald TD said the agreement “presents hope that Israel’s brutal genocide will be brought to an end.”

She said the attacks on the people of Gaza must stop immediately.

“It is crucial that vital humanitarian aid, food and medical supplies are allowed to flow into Gaza with urgency. All hostages must be released,” she said.

“This is a moment of hope that must now be seized with urgency. I am conscious that the details of the wider agreement are still being worked out. Everything must be done to ensure that this is not another false dawn.”

Tánaiste Simon Harris said the “horrors, genocide and famine in Gaza” cannot be “forgotten”, and Taoiseach Micheál Martin called for an immediate surge of humanitarian aid to the people of Palestine, adding: “The war and the killing must stop.”

However, the Dublin government continues to show ambivalence to implementing the moderate and years‑delayed plan to impose sanctions on illegal Israeli occupations, despite the legislation being due to go before the Dublin parliament.

Protests in Ireland are set to continue at least until the killing stops.

A successful white‑line event along the Falls Road on Wednesday of last week, organised by Mothers Against Genocide and supported by a broad range of republican groups, saw participants line the road from Milltown Cemetery to the to the International Wall at Divis Street,.

Former IRA hunger striker Laurence McKeown, who spent 70 days without food as part of the 1981 hunger strike over the withdrawal of political status from republican prisoners, took part in a 24‑hour fast last weekend to mark two years of genocide in Gaza.

It follows a week long water‑only fast by former republican prisoners earlier this month, including ex‑Blanketman Seamus Kearney.

Mr Kearney said those who were on the Blanket protest at Long Kesh in the 70s and 80s “always had an affiliation to other struggles throughout the world”, including Palestine.

“We were involved in our own struggle, but we also had Palestine, which was close to our heart at the time, and South Africa, which was resolved in 1990, but Palestine has never been resolved,” he said.