Hamas condemns Israel’s decision to postpone release of 600 Palestinian prisoners
Israel says releases delayed until the release of next hostages ‘has been assured, and without the humiliating ceremonies’
Gaza Strip
Uncertainty over Ukraine war sees Gaza slip off EU agenda
Displaced Gazans must be allowed to return to their homes, EU to tell Israel
Trump, America’s Emperor of Chaos, is far more dangerous this time
Trump’s opponents cower before him, and many of the country’s institutions look unfit for opposition
Six Israeli hostages released by Hamas in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
The six are the last living hostages from group of 33 due to be freed under first stage of ceasefire deal
Sinn Féin’s White House boycott is ‘manoeuvre’ for O’Neill’s Irish presidency bid, DUP says
Sinn Féin taking ‘principled stance’ against Trump’s suggestion to remove Palestinians from Gaza
Hamas releases new body after misidentification of Shiri Bibas
Israeli prime minister Netanyahu threatens revenge after wrong body was returned on Thursday
Thanks to Trump, Saudi Arabia gets a big week in international diplomacy
The Russia-US talks on Ukraine and Arab summit on Gaza place the Gulf kingdom front and centre in world affairs
Saudi Arabian crown prince tries to rally Arab leaders to counter Trump’s Gaza plan
Mohammed Bin Salman is expected to host counterparts from Egypt, Jordan, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates in Riyadh on Friday to discuss the proposal
Hamas hands over bodies of youngest Gaza hostages taken from Israel
UN says parading of bodies is abhorrent and flies in the face of international law
America divided: Musk and Trump on Fox News, Sanders on CNN
Switching from one channel to the other underlines the seismic drift between competing ideologies
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 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’
Egypt developing plan to rebuild Gaza without forcing out Palestinians
Gaza proposal calls for 'secure areas' where Palestinians can live while construction work is carried out
Saudi Arabia set to host mini-summit to discuss Trump’s proposal to deport Gazans
Aim is to formulate plan before full meeting of 22-member Arab League
Families urge Israeli government to ensure all hostages are released under ceasefire
Israel expected to receive bodies of four hostages on Thursday
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
Israel receives shipment of heavy bombs cleared by Trump
Marco Rubio expected to push president’s proposal to displace Palestinians in Gaza during first visit to region
With fighting stilled, Palestinians face new trauma: searching for their dead
Some Gazan families have returned home to find corpses of loved ones so decomposed, they cannot tell them apart
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
‘If the asteroid hits Dublin, everything is gone’: A chastened Kieran Cuddihy hears about the end of the world
Radio review: Odds of its hitting Earth turn out to be far shorter than those of winning Newstalk’s Cash Machine contest
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
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
Government to ban trade on goods but not services from occupied Palestinian territories, Harris tells Dáil
Tánaiste says ‘radical’ amendment need on legislation to avoid EU infringement proceedings
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
Trump’s adoption of imperial manner is a function of failure
The essential question for Ireland is: to grovel or not to grovel?
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
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
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