Two tiny captives, symbols of hostage crisis, to come home dead, Hamas says
Hopes have dissipated that Shiri Bibas and her children, aged four and nine months at time of Hamas-led attack, will be returned alive
Israel
Israel refuses to withdraw its forces fully from southern Lebanon as extended ceasefire deadline passes
IDF says it will continue to ‘remain and temporarily control several control points inside southern Lebanon’
Israel and Hamas to begin negotiations on second phase of Gaza ceasefire deal
Palestinian militant group says six living hostages will be released this weekend
Israel sets up body to facilitate ‘emigration’ of Palestinians from Gaza
Directorate set up within Israeli defence ministry to offer ‘among other things, special departure arrangements by sea, air and land’
Rubio pushes for next stage of Gaza ceasefire and says Hamas must be eliminated
Netanyahu again describes US president as the greatest friend Israel has had in the White House
Three more Israeli hostages released by Hamas in Gaza
Israel has also began releasing 369 Palestinians, easing fears that the ceasefire could collapse
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This and The World after Gaza: holding the West to account
Omar El Akkad sees a future in which western intelligentsias will whitewash their past complaisance, but Pankaj Mishra is in little doubt that attitudes will broadly remain the same
Writer Omar El Akkad: ‘There have been so few bright spots in terms of ... national or institutional moral compass. Ireland has been a rare exception’
The US-based Egyptian-Canadian’s new book reads as a break-up letter with a West that has seen a derailment of normalcy
Release of three Israeli hostages to go ahead following week of tension
Hamas to hand over Sagui Dekel-Chen, Yair Horn and Alexander Troufanov after threat to halt hostage releases
While Israel faces pressure to bring hostages home, Hamas has to get aid into Gaza to maintain credibility
Gazans need mobile homes as rain has swamped makeshift shelters and temperatures fall to 5 degrees at night
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
Saudi Arabia launches ferocious state media attack on Netanyahu
Onslaught points to growing frustration in Gulf state’s royal court with Israeli prime minister and war in Gaza
The Middle East is on the brink again, and it’s hard to be optimistic about what comes next
As diplomats scramble to save the Gaza ceasefire, the clock is ticking down towards Saturday' scheduled hostage release
Jordan has long faced existential peril from pressures to become the ‘Palestinian state’
Jordan absorbed most of the 750,000 Palestinians who fled the Israeli-Arab war in 1948. A fresh influx could destabilise the country
Trump repeats Gaza takeover plan as he meets Jordan’s King Abdullah
Israel’s Netanyahu threatens to end ceasefire if Hamas does not release hostages on Saturday
Israel threatens to resume Gaza war if Hamas delays hostage release
Netanyahu says IDF ‘will resume intense fighting until Hamas is finally defeated’ if Israeli hostages not released by noon Saturday
Israel places military on ‘highest alert’ as Hamas says it is postponing next hostage release
Militant group accuses Israel of breaching aspects of fragile ceasefire in Gaza
Emaciated state of latest released hostages piles pressure on Israel to bring the rest home
Three captives report having been tortured and deliberately starved, and that captors denied them water for days at a time
Palestinian booksellers’ arrests by Israeli police prompt outcry
‘Bookseller of Jerusalem’ and his nephew operate famous Educational Bookshop stores in East Jerusalem
McDonald’s reports sales growth in fourth quarter as Gaza boycott eases
US fast-food chain records like for like improvement in revenue, with business in the Middle East picking up
There’s no way Americans will support Trump sending troops to Gaza
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
Israeli forces withdraw from key Gaza corridor as part of ceasefire deal
Joy of some Israelis watching release turned to shock when they saw emaciated state of hostages
‘Will the US go to war for Estonia or Latvia?’ Former French ambassador on the new world disorder
Worldview: Gérard Araud says the idea of fighting for democracy is completely alien to Trump
Hamas releases three Israeli hostages in central Gaza
Militant group hands over Ohad Ben Ami, Eli Sharabi and Or Levy to Red Cross in Deir Al-Balah
Trump imposes sanctions on International Criminal Court, accusing it of targeting US and Israel
Order accuses ICC of ‘illegitimate and baseless actions’ against the US and ‘close ally’ Israel
Government criticises ‘provocative’ Israeli comments on Irish ‘obligation’ to Gaza refugees
Controversy comes as figures show the number of Palestinians seeking asylum in Ireland has increased more than eightfold
Trump’s Gaza plan: Israeli comments on Ireland ‘provocative’ and a ‘distraction’, says Government
Israel Katz said Ireland, Spain and Norway should accept Gazans in wake of Trump idea for enclave
Donald Trump says Gaza will be ‘turned over to the US by Israel’
US plan ‘does not mean boots on the ground in Gaza’, says White House
Proposed ban on imports from illegal Israeli settlements ‘should not be watered down’, says Senator
Remarks from Frances Black, who introduced Occupied Territories Bill, come in advance of meeting with Tánaiste
Trump calls for immediate nuclear talks with Tehran
US president dismisses reports that United States and Israel planned to ‘blow Iran to smithereens’ as ‘greatly exaggerated’
Government ‘peddling myth’ about Occupied Territories Bill, former coalition minister says
Claim of need to ‘start from scratch’ is to ‘avoid taking action’, Roderic O’Gorman says
Trump Gaza proposal condemned by Arab states and welcomed by Israel’s far-right
Palestinians unite in their outright rejection of plan to remove residents from their own land
Arab leaders have many cards to play in opposing Donald Trump’s Gaza plan
Analysis: China and Iran among the potential beneficiaries of US president’s proposal
Trump’s Gaza comments are ‘very concerning’, Simon Harris says
St Patrick’s Day visit should be cancelled if US president remains on ‘trajectory towards ethnic cleansing’, Social Democrats say
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