The current US administration’s staunch support of Israel could be an advantage in pressuring the beleaguered Palestinians to accept a deal, says French diplomat Gerard Araud.

A British teenager accused of lying about being gang raped by Israeli tourists could be forced to remain in Cyprus for months after her trial was adjourned.

As Israel pounded Gaza with airstrikes, the Palestinian death toll rose to 22, including two pregnant women and two babies.

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.

The six-time Israeli football champions Beitar Jerusalem has renamed itself Beitar Trump Jerusalem in honour of the American president's move, describing the leader of the free world as 'courageous'.

For more than a decade, it has been an open secret that Israel was responsible for the 2007 bombing of a site in Syria reputedly the location of a nuclear reactor under construction.

Israeli military intelligence officers recruited the services of Irish speakers so they could translate sensitive information transmitted between Irish soldiers working for the UN in Lebanon.

The Palestinian president hit out at US president Donald Trump in a fiery, two-hour-long speech on Sunday, saying "shame on you" for his treatment of the Palestinians.

Donald Trump has appeared to threaten to cut off US aid money to the Palestinian Authority.

Minister for finance John Bruton wanted to withdraw Irish troops from peacekeeping in Lebanon in 1987 because Ireland was not being financially reimbursed sufficiently by the UN, writes Seán McCárthaigh

Disabilities Minister Finian McGrath has called for economic sanctions to be agreed against Israel over “unfair” treatment of Palestinians, writes Political Correspondent Juno McEnroe

He commands the second-highest political position in the country and is leading fragile negotiations for Ireland which could affect and dictate the lives of generations to come.

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas will no longer accept any US plans for peace in the Middle East because of the Trump administration's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

Irish4Israel welcomes the decision of the American government to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. For more than 2,000 years the Jewish people have yearned to return to Jerusalem, that desire became a reality in 1967.

A security guard has been stabbed in Jerusalem as protests and demonstrations take place across the world following US president Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

US secretary of state Rex Tillerson has said it is likely to take several years before the United States opens an embassy in Jerusalem.

Israel's health minister, who heads a powerful ultra-Orthodox political party in Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition, has resigned, saying he opposed continued maintenance work on the country's railways on the Sabbath.

The UK Work and Pensions minister Penny Mordaunt has been appointed as the new International Development Secretary.

The West’s failure to support Kurdish independence will condemn this people to further oppression by hostile forces, writes Shlomo Avineri.

Peter Jackson on the son of an Irish emigrant who guided Wales to the World Cup finals and was Matt Busby’s right-hand man at Manchester United.

The comments drew an angry condemnation from the Palestinians and created a new test for the Trump administration.

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.

Israeli security forces have shot dead a Palestinian assailant behind a pair of recent shooting attacks.

Two Israeli police officers have been killed by Palestinian attackers near a major shrine in Jerusalem, officials said.

In June 1967, Arab leaders decided to crush Israel, then the only democracy in that divided region. 

US president Donald Trump has cast the elusive pursuit of peace between Israelis and Palestinians as the "ultimate deal" as he continues his tour of the Middle East.

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

US President Donald Trump has invited Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to the White House to discuss resuming peace talks in their first contact since Mr Trump took office in January.

SINCE it was first mooted, media reports on plans to hold a conference in Cork on Israel have been invariably preceded by the adjective “controversial”.

As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the White House, the Trump administration is going back and forth over whether its vision for Middle East peace includes a Palestinian state.

The Dáil heard claims that US president Donald Trump is a “maniac” whose proposed diplomatic strategy in Jerusalem could provoke a third intifida, or Palestinian uprising.

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.

Will Thalia Heffernan and Aoibhín Garrihy survive the first elimination in ‘Dancing With The Stars?’on RTÉ One at 6.30pm on Sunday.

Pope Francis has wished Christmas peace on people scarred by wars and those who lost loved ones to terrorism that he says is sowing "fear and death" in many cities and countries.

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.

Israeli firefighters have reined in a blaze that had spread across the country's third-largest city of Haifa.

The ongoing building of illegal settlements is just one feature of a brutal occupation that foments Palestinian resentment, writes Political Correspondent Juno McEnroe

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.

“Tear gas has been used, live bullets, stun bombs, there have been incursions and arrests, people have been shot, houses ransacked. We are scared of Israeli soldiers, we want it to stop.” These are the words of Leyan, 14, a pupil at the UN school in the Jalazone refugee camp in the West Bank, reports Irish Examiner Political Correspondent Juno McEnroe from the West Bank