Pope Francis has appealed for moderation after recent killings at a Jerusalem holy site.

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.

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.

Israeli troops have shot and killed a Palestinian who tried to stab a soldier in the West Bank, military officials said.

Two Palestinians carrying knives ran towards an Israeli checkpoint in the West Bank, drawing fire from troops who killed one and critically wounded the other, according to police and a Palestinian medic.

An Israeli air strike has killed a pregnant Palestinian woman and her two-year-old daughter in Gaza, health officials said.

Israel’s military has hit a Hamas site in the Gaza Strip in its first air strike on the Palestinian territory since the summer’s war.

A Palestinian Cabinet member died shortly after he and other protesters scuffled with Israeli troops near a West Bank village. The forces also fired tear gas close to the demonstrators, witnesses said.

Dr Orla Lynch (Letters, September 9), deprecates Israel’s counter-attacks on military targets as "violence inflicted on Palestinians via direct and indirect punishment".

The principal of a secondary school in Kerry has rejected claims made by an Israeli journalist of antisemitism and pro-Palestinian bias in the school.

Israeli troops fired on Gazans as they surged towards their border fence, killing one person but leaving intact the fragile two-day-old ceasefire between Hamas and the Jewish state.

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At least one Palestinian has been killed and three others wounded after an Israeli airstrike on central Gaza.

The accusation that the state of Israel was founded on the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian Arabs is thrown about with great abandon, most recently in letters from two of your correspondents, Charles Murphy and Kevin Squires (Jul 10), despite there being little historical evidence to substantiate it.

Dervla Murphy’s call for a boycott of Israel is one-sided and shows a misunderstanding of the facts, writes Boaz Modai

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore met with the President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas this afternoon during the third day of his visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories.

An Israeli air strike has killed at least one Palestinian and wounded two others in a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is preparing to submit his bid for UN recognition of Palestine as an independent state today in defiance of a US-led bid to stop him. He said he would deliver the application to UN chief Ban Ki-moon as planned.

The Palestinian president is to ask the UN Security Council next week to endorse his statehood bid, a step that would risk a threatened US veto in the council.

Over the past five years, Israel’s military has detained more than 800 Palestinian youths and children for pelting rocks at Israeli soldiers, and has interrogated and jailed many of them, a rights group said in a new report.

Israeli troops clashed with Arab protesters today along three hostile borders, including the frontier with Syria, leaving at least 12 people dead and dozens wounded.

The Israeli military said a Palestinian has infiltrated a Jewish West Bank settlement and killed five people.

Soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian who tried to throw explosives at a West Bank checkpoint, the Israeli military said today.

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

The Palestinian president is sticking to his refusal to resume peace talks with Israel unless it freezes all construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has sought the backing of dozens of senior Palestinians to pull out of the Middle East peace talks.

Crowds of Palestinian youths went on the rampage in east Jerusalem today as a sudden burst of violence clouded fragile peace efforts.

The Palestinian president is leaving the door open to continuing peace negotiations with Israel – even if the Jewish state resumes settlement construction in the West Bank.

A Palestinian who broke into the Turkish embassy in Tel Aviv trying to take hostages and demanding asylum was in Israeli custody today.

A Palestinian took hostages in the Turkish embassy in Tel Aviv today after shots were fired outside in an incident that appeared to have only an indirect link to recent tensions between the two countries.

David Cesarani

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.

SOME of the seven Muslims arrested as part of an international probe into an alleged plot to murder Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks had planned to set up an extremist prayer group in Waterford to radicalise other Muslims, gardaí believe.

ONE of the few women in US history to be charged with terrorism has been linked to an Irish plot to murder Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks.

The victim of a meticulously planned assassination involving up to 17 people, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, was a marked man before he ever left Damascus, writes Catherine Shanahan.

Top Hamas fugitives lobbed grenades and fired automatic weapons today to push back Palestinian security forces storming their hideout, leaving six dead in the bloodiest clash since the Palestinian president launched a crackdown on Hamas in the West Bank two years ago.