MSF’s field communications manager in Jerusalem Jacob Burns reflects on what it means when a devastating toll of injuries in Gaza comes to be considered a ‘good’ day

A third young Palestinian has died as tens of thousands of protesters gathered near the Israeli border to mark the first anniversary of weekly demos in the Gaza Strip.

An unofficial ceasefire appears to be holding between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers despite limited exchanges of fire.

Israeli soldiers have shot and killed an unarmed Palestinian who was trying to aid another man, according to the governor of the West Bank city of Bethlehem.

Today is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement for Jewish people. It is 45 years since the war which bore its name.

Two Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire and another 60 injured at a protest along the Gaza border amid Egyptian efforts to broker a ceasefire, Gaza's Health Ministry said.

Ireland looks set to join 20 other nations in what UK prime minister Theresa May has described as the “largest collective expulsion of Russian intelligence officers in history”.

The Palestinian president has called the US ambassador to Israel a "son of a dog" in an angry rant against the Trump administration.

An employee of France's consulate in Jerusalem is under arrest for allegedly smuggling dozens of weapons from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank, Israeli officials said.

DID you hear the story alleging that Barack Obama was an undercover Hamas agent whose mission when elected president of the United States was to create a socialist national health system — Obamacare — the aim of which was to kill David Bowie because he knew the truth about a plan by Chinese-backed space aliens to hijack the oil industry and destroy the global economy? F

Donald Trump's Middle East envoy has said Hamas must renounce violence and commit to negotiations with Israel if it wants to play a role in any Palestinian government.

Rival Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah have reached a preliminary, partial agreement that could pave the way for President Mahmoud Abbas to resume governing the Gaza Strip a decade after Hamas overran the territory, officials said.

The leader of Hamas has said his group has reached an agreement with the rival Fatah party of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after Egyptian-brokered talks about the terms of control of the Gaza Strip.

Two murals depicting an oversized Donald Trump have appeared on Israel's West Bank separation barrier, just yards from where elusive British artist Banksy decorated a hotel earlier this year.

All players in the Middle East must value diplomacy not conflict, writes Jeffrey D Sachs

The Israeli military has carried out a wave of West Bank arrests following a deadly stabbing attack against an Israeli family.

Qatar's foreign minister says that sanctions imposed upon his country violate international law, calling the moves by Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations an "unjust siege".

Palestinian flag flying atop our municipal buildings is about attaining the summit, in a hierarchy of victims, says Gerard Howlin.

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said he is hopeful after his first meeting with US president Donald Trump.

America’s limited intervention won’t change the course of the Syrian war or temper Bashar al-Assad’s scorched earth policy against rebels and civilians, writes Mohamad Bazzi.

Gaza’s Hamas rulers have warned the US not to move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, saying such a step could unleash new violence.

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An Egyptian court has struck out a life sentence and ordered the retrial of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi on charges of conspiring with foreign militant groups, including the Palestinian Hamas.

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

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 in the West Bank.

Israel’s ambassador to Ireland has said he “cannot guarantee” that Irish passports will not be used by the Israeli secret service again, after their previous use in the assassination of a Palestinian militant.

Ambassador Zeev Boker has a tough task appeasing sentiment here about Israeli activity in Gaza, but our countries have much in common, he tells Juno McEnroe

A Nobel peace laureate has described her detention by the Israeli navy as she tried to reach Gaza by sea as kidnap.

The Israeli government has begun work on a massive underground barrier along the border with Gaza meant to block Hamas militants from tunnelling into Israel, defence officials said.

A senior employee of the international aid group World Vision in the Gaza Strip siphoned off millions of dollars of the charity’s funds and transferred them to the Islamic militant group Hamas, assisting it in building tunnels and purchasing arms, Israel’s internal security agency said.

The Labour Party in England has suspended a councillor over social media posts, including a suggestion that Israel should be relocated to the United States.

Once again Zoe Lawlor resorts to a distorted interpretation of reality to reinforce a hypocritical boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. 

A 12-year-old Palestinian girl, imprisoned by Israel after she confessed to planning a stabbing attack in a West Bank settlement, returned home yesterday after she was freed early following an appeal.

Zoe Lawlor of Gaza Action Ireland uses the isolated killing of Abed al-Fattah Yusri al-Sharif, 21, by an Israeli soldier to support a universal claim that Israel engages in a campaign “of extrajudicial executions” in its confrontation with Palestinian terrorists (Letters, April 5).

Given Orla O’Neill (Letter Irish Examiner, April 11), puts such great store in what Amnesty International has to say, it is reasonable that she also pays attention to what it has to say about the Palestinians whose delusions she panders to.

Once again a leading member of a morally defective and hypocritical Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign casually and without a shred of empirical evidence accuses Israel, the only democratic state in the Middle East, of “ethnic cleansing; violence and murder” (Letters, April 1).

USA: A truck driver was caught using a fishing line to flip his licence plate in a bid to avoid paying tolls into New York City.

In a crass attempt to reinforce a Boycott, Diversify and Sanction (BDS) campaign against Israel, Yousef Munayyer, executive director of the US campaign to end Israeli occupation made an outrageous anology with apartheid South Africa in order to dissuade actors attending the Oscars not to accept a gift bag containing trips to Israel (Irish Examiner, February 26).

The condition of a Palestinian journalist on a 48-day hunger strike in an Israeli jail is deteriorating, the man’s wife and a Palestinian official said.