Gaza ceasefire back on track after Hamas says it will release hostages
Three further hostages seized in October 2023 attack on Israel due to be freed on Saturday
Three further hostages seized in October 2023 attack on Israel due to be freed on Saturday
Onslaught points to growing frustration in Gulf state’s royal court with Israeli prime minister and war in Gaza
As diplomats scramble to save the Gaza ceasefire, the clock is ticking down towards Saturday' scheduled hostage release
Jordan absorbed most of the 750,000 Palestinians who fled the Israeli-Arab war in 1948. A fresh influx could destabilise the country
Israel’s Netanyahu threatens to end ceasefire if Hamas does not release hostages on Saturday
Netanyahu says IDF ‘will resume intense fighting until Hamas is finally defeated’ if Israeli hostages not released by noon Saturday
Militant group accuses Israel of breaching aspects of fragile ceasefire in Gaza
Three captives report having been tortured and deliberately starved, and that captors denied them water for days at a time
‘Bookseller of Jerusalem’ and his nephew operate famous Educational Bookshop stores in East Jerusalem
US fast-food chain records like for like improvement in revenue, with business in the Middle East picking up
Outlandish and utterly unacceptable as the Riviera of the Middle East plan is, it may succeed in derailing negotiations to bring a long-term end to the conflict in Gaza
Joy of some Israelis watching release turned to shock when they saw emaciated state of hostages
Worldview: Gérard Araud says the idea of fighting for democracy is completely alien to Trump
Militant group hands over Ohad Ben Ami, Eli Sharabi and Or Levy to Red Cross in Deir Al-Balah
Order accuses ICC of ‘illegitimate and baseless actions’ against the US and ‘close ally’ Israel
Controversy comes as figures show the number of Palestinians seeking asylum in Ireland has increased more than eightfold
Israel Katz said Ireland, Spain and Norway should accept Gazans in wake of Trump idea for enclave
US plan ‘does not mean boots on the ground in Gaza’, says White House
Remarks from Frances Black, who introduced Occupied Territories Bill, come in advance of meeting with Tánaiste
US president dismisses reports that United States and Israel planned to ‘blow Iran to smithereens’ as ‘greatly exaggerated’
Claim of need to ‘start from scratch’ is to ‘avoid taking action’, Roderic O’Gorman says
Palestinians unite in their outright rejection of plan to remove residents from their own land
Analysis: China and Iran among the potential beneficiaries of US president’s proposal
St Patrick’s Day visit should be cancelled if US president remains on ‘trajectory towards ethnic cleansing’, Social Democrats say
The Israel leader hopes to return from Washington with significant achievements on two fronts
Critics decry Michael D Higgins speech for Holocaust Memorial Day, politicians’ stance on Gaza and the Occupied Territories Bill
Rite & Reason: Does its tortured history give Israel the right to propose its own rules of combat that fly in the face of UN protocols of war?
First two Israelis to be released by Hamas include Yarden Bibas, whose wife and children became poignant symbols of hostage crisis
West Bank at risk of even more violence, and events in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria have significantly weakened Iranian regime
The details of their ordeals vary, but all yearn for the return of the people still held captive
Occupied Territories Bill ‘might pose problems’ for multinationals and other businesses in Ireland, Department of Enterprise briefing note states
Ceasefire in Gaza and election of pro-Israel US president Donald Trump likely to feed into deliberations on Occupied Territories Bill
Yarden Bibas, Keith Siegel and Ofer Kalderon will be handed over on Saturday
Three Israeli and five Thai hostages released as buses arrive in Ramallah with some of 110 prisoners to be freed
Neither Israel or the US likely to accept military group’s involvement in any postwar administration
Trump’s Middle East envoy held prior talks in Saudi Arabia over US president’s plan for region
The aid system cannot function without Unrwa in Gaza, which co-ordinates logistics, safety, fuel provision and movement
Israel’s ban on the UN agency serving refugees is due to be implemented on Thursday
Trump letter to Netanyahu says US president wishes to discuss ‘efforts to counter shared adversaries’
Law preventing UN agency from operating in Israel and Palestinian territories comes into force on Thursday
Gaza war: Israel and Hamas reach agreement on the release of an Israeli civilian and two other hostages
Egypt and Jordan reject Trump’s proposal to transfer Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to their territory
UCD lecturer who was forcibly evicted from event says: ‘We feel like we are talking to the walls when we talk about anti-Semitism’
Trump suggests move to resettle population to ‘clean out’ war-ravaged territory
Joe Veselsky (106) made his mark on Ireland after his parents and brother died in Auschwitz
Latest transfer of prisoners was the second made under the Qatari- and Egyptian-mediated ceasefire deal
‘Commentators found it impossible to imagine a different camp: the camp of life’ when faced with demands to cease the slaughter of innocents
Palestinians have cause for increased concern
Minister says army applying lessons from Gaza in West Bank operation
Militant group maintains control over coastal enclave’s administration and security forces
Resignation ties in with right-wing narrative that it was the army and the intelligence community that was solely responsible for the October 7th disaster and not the political echelon
Israel accused of ‘sowing atmosphere of violence’ in West Bank following rampage through villages by masked Jewish settlers
Israeli move follows the release of three Israeli women held hostage by Hamas
Micheál Martin stands over his criticism of Michael Lowry when the Moriarty tribunal’s report was published in 2011, and said what was revealed by the tribunal was ‘shocking’
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices