Binyamin Netanyahu

Directorate set up within Israeli defence ministry to offer ‘among other things, special departure arrangements by sea, air and land’

Israel expected to receive bodies of four hostages on Thursday

Netanyahu again describes US president as the greatest friend Israel has had in the White House

The question implicit in US foreign policy - ‘who’s going to stop us?' - is now live in the country’s domestic affairs

The US-based Egyptian-Canadian’s new book reads as a break-up letter with a West that has seen a derailment of normalcy

Onslaught points to growing frustration in Gulf state’s royal court with Israeli prime minister and war in Gaza

Israel’s Netanyahu threatens to end ceasefire if Hamas does not release hostages on Saturday

The essential question for Ireland is: to grovel or not to grovel?

Three captives report having been tortured and deliberately starved, and that captors denied them water for days at a time

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

From gender to Gaza, climate policy to USAID, the start of Trump’s second term as seen a deluge of orders and pronouncements overturning what has gone before

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 must respect that ‘Ireland is for Irish people and Palestine is for Palestinians’, says Palestinian ambassador to Ireland

Poll carried out since Trump’s plan was unveiled finds 72% of Israelis support the idea, although only 35% believe it will be implemented

US president dismisses reports that United States and Israel planned to ‘blow Iran to smithereens’ as ‘greatly exaggerated’

It is one of the most dramatic U-turns in US policy in history and has enraged potential regional and international allies

Dr Jilan Wahba Abdalmajid calls for humanitarian support, not ‘business deals’, for devastated enclave

US president’s proposal sounded like a pitch for an upmarket gated community rather than the enforced displacement of a people

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

West Bank at risk of even more violence, and events in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria have significantly weakened Iranian regime

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

Trump letter to Netanyahu says US president wishes to discuss ‘efforts to counter shared adversaries’

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

Thousands gather in Tel Aviv to celebrate as release of Israeli hostages begins following ceasefire

Widespread support in Israel for ceasefire amid relief at return of hostages despite high price involved in release of Palestinian detainees

Israeli military strikes kill at least eight Palestinians across Gaza on Sunday morning amid delay in implementing ceasefire

Deal set to exchange dozens of hostages held by Hamas for Palestinians in Israeli jails and pause 15-month war for initial six weeks

News of ceasefire was greeted not with exuberant celebrations but rather with a sombre recognition that finally Israel has reached the beginning of the end

The outgoing US president will also be remembered for disastrous foreign policy choices, including his refusal to curb the excesses of Israel

Binyamin Netanyahu’s aim of returning 200,000 Israelis to southern and northern communities abandoned during war is unlikely until Gaza has been pacified by political means

Israeli cabinet meeting on Thursday morning expected to endorse the new deal, as Israel reportedly intensified strikes on Gaza

US and Israeli administrations face tough political calculations — and vast undertaking of rebuilding Palestinian enclave

‘Distinct possibility’ of getting deal done before US president Joe Biden leaves office

Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, met Netanyahu on Saturday