As events move toward Israel's 50 years of occupation of Palestine next year, confidence in the Palestinian Authority is crumbling and the peace process is on a knife-edge, threatening to create a new generation of radicals unwilling to live through the current malaise and political vacuum, writes Juno McEnroe, Political Correspondent.

As events move toward Israel’s 50 years of occupation of Palestine next year, confidence in the Palestinian Authority is crumbling and the peace process is on a knife-edge, threatening to create a new generation of radicals unwilling to live through the current malaise and political vacuum, writes Political Correspondent Juno McEnroe in the West Bank

On October 1, Rabbi Eiran and his Naama, who were in their 30s, were travelling between the West Bank Jewish settlements of Itamar and Elon Moreh with their four children when they were murdered by Palestinian terrorists.

Palestinian security forces arrested dozens of Hamas members in overnight raids in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the largest security crackdown since 2007, officials said.

The discovery by Iraqi forensic teams “of mass graves believed to contain some of the soldiers killed by Islamic State (IS) militants last year” (Irish Examiner, 7 April), is, I fear, merely the first in a cycle of IS atrocities as it retreats.

Dozens of Palestinian protesters have hurled eggs and shoes at the convoy of the visiting Canadian foreign minister.

A Palestinian cabinet member has died shortly after he and other protesters scuffled with Israeli troops near a West Bank village.

THIS WEEK’S Remembrance Day acknowledged the fallen of the First World War nearly a century ago but you only have to turn on the news to find out that war is still going on.

Rebuilding Gaza will cost $7.8bn (€6.03bn), the Palestinian Authority said, in the most comprehensive assessment yet of damage from a seven-week war with Israel during which whole neighbourhoods and vital infrastructure were flattened.

Israeli tank shells hit a compound housing a UN school in the Gaza Strip, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens who were seeking shelter from fierce clashes on the streets outside.

Western politicians’ equivalence of Israel’s horrific assaults on civilian populations with the insignificant efforts of Hamas to defend the people of Gaza is obscene.

Israel’s army has arrested 40 more Palestinians in the West Bank, expanding the search for three missing Israeli teenagers believed to have been kidnapped by Hamas last week.

President Mahmoud Abbas swore in a Palestinian unity government yesterday in a reconciliation deal with Hamas Islamists that led Israel to freeze US-brokered peace talks.

Israel has broken off Middle East peace talks and brought the US-brokered process to the brink of collapse.

Israel has broken off Middle East peace talks and brought the US-brokered process to the brink of collapse.

The Gaza-based Islamist group Hamas and president Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) have agreed to a unity pact, both sides announced in a joint news conference yesterday.

Israel has released 26 Palestinian inmates, including many convicted over killings, ahead of long-stalled Middle East peace talks.

The winner of reality show Arab Idol can’t stop adding titles.

Palestinian Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad has resigned, according to officials.

The Fatah party of Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has staged a massive rally in the Gaza Strip, the first such gathering in the territory since the Islamist Hamas group took control there in 2007.

When will the West hear what Palestinians say to each other in Arabic rather than the words aimed at the West’s ears, asks Boaz Modai

Israel’s response to the Palestinians’ new UN status is to deprive and humiliate which may maintain the status quo but will sabotage chances of long-term peace, writes Ian Buruma

Israel killed a leading Hamas military leader in an airstrike today that signalled the opening of a new offensive on Gaza.

Finland says Israel has warned the country it will take action against a boat carrying pro-Palestinian activists trying to break a naval blockade of Gaza.

The supreme leader of the Palestinian Islamic militant group Hamas is to step down, clearing the way for the movement to choose a new head for the first time in more than 15 years, senior officials said.

An Israeli air strike has killed a Palestinian militant preparing to launch rockets at Israel from the Gaza Strip, the military said.

PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas has set May 4 as the date for general elections meant to end a long-standing rift that has left his people divided between rival governments in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

One thin and weary Israeli soldier went home after five years as a Hamas captive today as hundreds of jailed Palestinians made the opposite journey, released as a swap for him.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza celebrated the homecoming today of their prisoners and demanded militants seize more Israeli soldiers for future exchanges.

Palestinian officials say a high-profile meeting between the leaders of the rival Fatah and Hamas movements has been called off.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu today promised to make “painful compromises” for peace with Palestinians but refused to agree any deal that threatened the country’s security or identity as a Jewish state.

PALESTINIAN leaders formally ended a four-year rift between secular Fatah and the Islamist Hamas at a ceremony in Egypt, a reconciliation their people see as crucial for their drive to set up an independent state.

Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas have sealed a landmark pact aimed at ending their bitter four-year rift.

Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas have sealed a landmark pact aimed at ending their bitter four-year rift.

ISRAEL will not negotiate with a new Palestinian unity government that includes the Hamas militant group, according to Israel’s foreign minister.

Israel’s foreign minister said today his country would not negotiate with a new Palestinian government that included the Hamas militant group.

Palestinian militants fired more than a dozen rockets at southern Israel today and Israeli warplanes killed four militants in the Gaza Strip in the most intense fighting since Israel's 2008-2009 offensive in the Hamas-ruled territory.

THOUSANDS of people thronged squares in the Gaza Strip and West Bank to plead with their leaders to end the long-running feud that has divided the Palestinian people between two rival governments.

Israel and Fatah Palestinian forces worked together when rival Hamas militants overran the Gaza strip, according to WikiLeaks documents released today.

THE Middle East peace process lay in tatters yesterday after Washington admitted defeat in its efforts to secure an Israeli freeze on settlement building, the Palestinians’ condition for resuming talks.

The Palestinians will study alternatives to peace talks with Israel in the coming days, a top PLO official said , after the Jewish state gave the green light to build 238 new houses on war-won land.

HUNDREDS of Palestinians clashed with Israeli security forces across east Jerusalem yesterday in the worst rioting in years as a senior Hamas leader called for a new “intifada,” or uprising.

A Hamas leader assassinated during a visit to Dubai last month exposed himself to attack when he breached security protocol by talking about his trip over the phone and making hotel reservations on the internet, the militant Islamic group said today.

Palestinian officials today rallied round a top aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after a video surfaced showing him in an alleged attempt to trade his influence for sex.