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

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.

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.

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

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's vow to never evacuate Jewish settlements from occupied land has drawn outrage from Palestinians.

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.

Israel banned Muslim men under the age of 50 from a contested Jerusalem shrine on Friday and deployed about 3,000 police nearby, ahead of expected Muslim protests over the installation of metal detectors at the holy site.

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

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.

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.

After 100 days in office without passing any major legislation, US President Donald Trump faces a week with a deadline to avert a government shutdown and the possibility of progress on health care.

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.

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.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said Israeli legislation to retroactively legalise thousands of West Bank settlement homes is an aggression against the Palestinian people.

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.

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas’s senior adviser has warned Israel that if it rejects a fresh initiative to restart the dormant peace talks, that a third intifada or uprising could erupt, reports Juno McEnroe of the Irish Examiner.

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

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is to undergo a heart test in hospital.

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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.

Donald Trump called off a planned December trip to Israel, shelving what was shaping up to be an awkward visit by the Republican presidential front-runner following comments that managed to offend Muslims and Jews alike.

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

United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon has offered a grim assessment of prospects for defusing the latest wave of violence between Israel and the Palestinians.

Israel has set up roadblocks in Palestinian neighbourhoods in East Jerusalem, and deployed soldiers in cities across the country, to combat the worst surge of violence in months.

Two Palestinians shot dead by police after three stabbing attacks

Palestinians have carried out three stabbing attacks against Israelis and police in Jerusalem, with two of the attackers shot dead, Israeli police said.

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.

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

Israeli police armed with stun grenades and tear gas clashed with rock-throwing Palestinian youths who had barricaded themselves inside Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque for a third day, police and witnesses said.

With much pomp and fanfare, Egypt yesterday unveiled a major extension of the Suez Canal billed by its patron, President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi as a historic achievement needed to boost the country’s ailing economy after years of unrest.