“Starting with Gaza and moving on…” said the head of a state-owned Israeli weapons company at a recent Tel Aviv military technology conference.

In the final week of Maria Steen’s failed effort to receive a nomination to the Irish presidency, emails with the same message appeared in the inboxes of ten TDs, all of them independents or supporters of the government.

With lawyers for an on-remand Irish activist demanding prosecutors investigate a German company’s possible involvement in Israeli war crimes, The Ditch can reveal the firm is shipping  “target acquisition” systems to Israel.

The Ditch can exclusively report the largest shipment of munitions to Israel since October 2023 will pass through Spanish territory later today.

After a Sinn Féin MEP criticised Israeli lobbyists in the European Parliament the state of Israel spent thousands seeking to sue her.