An Irish doctor detained after Israeli forces intercepted a protest flotilla this week says she was held in conditions she likened to a “horror of a concentration camp”. Dr Margaret Connolly, sister of President Catherine Connolly, was among 14 Irish citizens and 430 activists detained by Israeli authorities after the vessels were stopped at sea on Monday. The group had been travelling with the Global Sumud Flotilla, an effort aimed at breaching the blockade of the Palestinian territory and bringing aid to people in Gaza.…

Gisele Pelicot has spent two years learning to live inside a story the world could scarcely fathom. Now, in a memoir released this week, the 73-year-old French woman who became a galvanizing figure in the fight against sexual violence lays out, in spare and searing detail, how she survived a crime orchestrated within her own home — and why she chose to attach her name and her face to a case that forced France to look hard at itself. In “A Hymn to Life,” Pelicot retraces the 2024 mass-rape trial in which her former husband,…