West Bank

Middle East minister Hamish Falconer said the annexation of the West Bank would be illegal and undermine any prospects for peace.

They agreed on the need to support a political solution to ‘end the bloodshed’ in Lebanon.

A strike late on Monday on the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya killed at least 20 people.

Abbas Araghchi held talks with his Egyptian counterpart Badr Abdelatty and Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi in Cairo on Thursday.

The UK, along with France and Algeria, called an urgent UN Security Council meeting to discuss the lack of aid entering northern Gaza.

The former prime minister urged the new Government to ‘look again’ at sanctioning ‘extremist’ Israeli ministers.

On the anniversary of the October 7 attacks, Anne Hailes speaks to those in Northern Ireland affected by the war in Gaza over the past 12 months

Israel launched a ground incursion into Lebanon on Tuesday and its forces have been clashing with Hezbollah militants in a strip along the border.

Council members have clashed over the changing of break time during a meeting v.1

The Foreign Secretary said suspending export licences that could be used by Israel against Houthi rebels would lead to a ‘wider war’.