Israel-Hamas conflict

Yemen-based Houthis are the only full-strength survivors of Tehran’s axis of resistance

US defends Israel’s operations in Syria since fall of Assad

Higgins holds ‘warmest of memories’ of Palestinian footballers who visited Ireland

Journalist Eman Al-Shanti among the dead, the 193rd member of the press killed in the war since October 2023

State would submit Declarations of Intervention against Israel and Myanmar as part of plans being put forward by Tánaiste

TD, who will now sit as an independent when Dáil resumes, says shares were not sold earlier due to ‘administrative barriers’

Eoin Hayes denied that it was politically hypocritical for him to call for the State to divest its interest in Israel when he was making money from the company

Recent signs of optimism among Israeli and Palestinian officials suggest potential progress in efforts to reach a ceasefire deal

Wartime prime minister describes three separate corruption cases involving alleged gifts, media deals and regulatory favours as ‘complete lies’ and ‘an ocean of absurdness’

At least one-third of this work is devoted to little-known causes of death — famine and famine-related diseases

Israeli PM Netanyahu has done everything he can to avoid facing long-standing corruption charges

Denouncing ‘Zionism’ as a uniquely malign force allows people to imagine they are ‘punching up’ rather than falling for the ‘socialism of fools’

Binyamin Netanyahu says IDF moves to ensure ‘no hostile force embeds itself next to Israel’s border’

At least eight of the fatalities were civilians, according to residents and medics

There are signs of mass return, of cleaning and clearing; a sense of reclamation, but also of grief

Women and children among dead as makeshift shelters set ablaze in near Khan Younis, an area Israel calls a humanitarian zone

Israel has repeatedly denied genocide allegations and cites right to defence against Hamas attacks

Air strikes kill at least 47 people across Gaza, say Palestinian medics

Country’s long-running civil war has killed hundreds of thousands since erupting in 2011 in rebellion against president Bashar al-Assad

Israel threatens to return to war in Lebanon if its truce with Hizbullah collapses

Lawmaker from Binyamin Netanyahu’s party speaks of ‘window of opportunity’ for making occupied West Bank ‘an inseparable part of Israel’

Exchanges put five-day old truce in Lebanon under severe strain

Israeli intelligence officials warn about dangers of Assad regime collapse as fighter jets reportedly intercept Iranian plane

Head of UN agency calls on Israel to ‘ensure aid flows into Gaza safely’ and to ‘refrain from attacks on humanitarian workers’

The ceasefire offers something to both sides: Hezbollah has been severely weakened by months of Israeli onslaught while it has been welcomed across the political spectrum in Israel

Jews whose family members fled the Nazis in the 1930s have reclaimed their German citizenship

Hamas delegation travels to Cairo amid efforts to revive ceasefire talks

Medics report at least 40 dead as Israeli tanks pull back from Gaza refugee camp

Abbas blamed for rampant corruption and mismanagement and held responsible for rift with Hamas

Displaced residents fear agreement cannot keep them safe from Hizbullah in towns near contested border with Lebanon

Israeli foreign minister say he believed US will ‘punish’ International Criminal Court for having issued arrest warrants for Binyamin Netanyahu and Yoav GallantIsraeli strikes kill 17 people in Gaza as IDF steps up bombardments

News comes less than a day after ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hizbullah in Lebanon

US-brokered deal ‘designed to be a permanent cessation of hostilities’, says Joe Biden

Israel has agreed to pause fighting in Lebanon, but a truce in Gaza remains in doubt

Israeli PM says ‘we will strike decisively’ if Hizbullah violates accord, which is expected to take effect on Wednesday

Amid death, destruction, deprivation and disease, Gaza is at ‘breaking point’, says UN

Israeli security cabinet expected to approve deal on Tuesday despite minister’s criticism of ‘historic missed opportunity’

Israel’s invasion of Lebanon made peacekeeping tour among most dangerous and complex undertaken by an Irish unit

More than 310 other medical personnel ‘arrested, tortured and executed in prisons’, Hamas-run health authorities say

Fighting continued on Sunday, with Hizbullah firing 250 rockets into Israel, while Israel struck targets near Beirut