Israel has sent more troops to the West Bank after six people died in violence which erupted over escalating tensions at Jerusalem's most contested shrine.

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

US president Donald Trump has said Israel's Arab neighbours are realising they share a "common cause" with Israel over the threat from Iran.

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.

Bethlehem, the birthplace of Christ, is synonymous with Christmas, but it is menaced by the concrete divide that encroaches on Palestine territory, says Eoin O’Driscoll.

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.

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).

Behind its strategic manipulations and sham alliance to tackle the likes of IS, a purported ally of the West’s official ideology forms the heart of the terrorist creed, writes Brahma Chellaney

In his reply to my letter, Derek O’Flynn of the Israeli Embassy ( Letters, November 6) inadvertently admits to the Apartheid system that exists in the West Bank, when he argues that the water Israel allows to them is two thirds that available to Israeli settlers.

Betty Purcell (Irish Examiner, November 2) makes some grossly inaccurate accusations against Israel and calls for a boycott against the Jewish State.

Following on from Dr Ronit Lentin, it’s appalling and tragic whenever children are killed. (Letters, 24 Oct 24).

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.

Israel’s military deployed hundreds of troops in the West Bank after a drive-by shooting by suspected Palestinian gunmen killed a Jewish settler couple in front of their children as they were driving home.

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has declared that he is no longer bound by agreements signed with Israel.

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 image conjured by Daniel Teegan (25 June), of emaciated Holocaust survivors arriving in post-WW2 Palestine – their only available refuge, into which they had to be smuggled in the face of severe British-imposed entry restrictions – as representatives of “European colonialism” would be laughable if it did not embrace so much tragedy.

If anyone still needs convincing that the so-called political representatives haven’t betrayed the people of Gaza, then the report by Steen Lau Jorgensen, the World Bank’s director for the region should once and for all highlight the criminal behaviour of Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.

Fifa’s annual Congress will discuss a proposal from the Palestinian FA (PFA) for the suspension of Israel.

Ten-man Belgium held on to beat Israel 1-0 in a European Championship qualifier last night after Marouane Fellaini scored an early goal and captain Vincent Kompany was sent off midway through the second half.

A poll by the independent Ramallah-based Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research on the post Operation Protective Edge found 68% of Gaza’s occupants supported last summer’s ‘Hamas rocket attacks’.

David Morrison’s complaint that Palestinian Arabs could not vote in Israel’s general election obscures a crucial fact.

Dr Kevin McCarthy (Letters, Irish Examiner) is, of course, perfectly entitled to deplore Benjamin Netanyahu’s electoral success but he stretches the point when he claims that it is “a triumph for the politics of fear over socio-economics [in which] he created national security paranoia in the last days of a bitterly divisive election campaign”.

A Palestinian man stabbed 11 people on and near a bus in central Tel Aviv, seriously wounding three of them before he was shot and arrested by Israeli police.

The Palestinian Authority agreed under the Oslo accords that resolution of its dispute with Israel should be by direct negotiation and not via outside channels.

Without irony, the Israeli deputy ambassador lists apparent violations of the Oslo accords, which she says justify the withholding of tax revenues from the Palestinian Authority (Letters, January 10). 

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has opened a preliminary probe into possible war crimes in Palestinian territories.

When the Palestinian Authority applied recently for Palestine to join the International Criminal Court, Israel responded by immediately confiscating vital Palestinian tax-funds.

In yet another spiteful act, Israel has delayed the transfer of €104m in monthly taxes it collects on behalf of the Palestinians.

Your editorial (Irish Examiner, January 5) castigates Israel’s action in delaying the monthly transfer of tax revenues to the Palestinian Authority, on whose behalf it collects them, as a “bid to make life even more miserable for the people of Palestine”.

Israel’s capacity to shoot itself in both feet appears to have no bounds.

In all the media coverage of the Palestinian Authority’s recent membership of the International Criminal Court, the emphasis has been on how Israel can now be legally called to account for its conduct regarding Gaza .

A former High Court judge is to conduct a fresh inquiry into the death of a soldier and the disappearance of a colleague in Lebanon in 1981.

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

A member of the Palestinian cabinet has reportedly died after being hit by a tear gas canister fired by Israeli troops during a protest in the West Bank.

Dr. Kevin McCarthy’s letter (Irish Examiner, November 24) makes for sad reading. 

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.

The Israeli military says three rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip, breaking a temporary ceasefire amid negotiations over the war between Israel and Hamas.

A Palestinian negotiator has said his side is “less optimistic” about indirect talks with Israel over the Gaza war as a deadline on a temporary ceasefire looms.

The European Union has offered to take charge of Gaza’s border crossings and work to prevent illegal arms flows, insisting on a durable truce and saying a return to the status quo before the latest war “is not an option”.