Israeli human rights organization, B’Tselem, announced on Wednesday that it will no longer continue their strategy of holding Israeli forces accountable for their crimes against Palestinians through internal military mechanisms. B’Tselem focuses on collecting information […]
Right-wing Israeli politician Avigdor Lieberman will endeavor to create the appropriate conditions for the return of his friend, former Fatah leader Mohammad Dahlan, as head of the Palestinian Authority, Israeli media sources have said. Channel […]
Rami Hamdallah, Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority on Tuesday rebuffed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s latest call for direct talks, opting instead to join a French-led multilateral peace initiative. According to an AFP report, […]
The 16th Doha Forum organized by Qatar’s foreign ministry, was attended by heads of state from South Africa, Afghanistan, Yemen, Mauritius, and Niger, as well as Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary-General. The foreign minister of […]
Palestinian bodies of those killed by Israeli forces will not be returned, announced Gilad Erdan, Israeli Minister of Public Security. Luba al-Samri, an Israeli police spokeswoman reported on Tuesday that Erdan watched footage of the […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth In a surprise move, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week forced out his long-serving defence minister, Moshe Yaalon. As he stepped down, Yaalon warned: “Extremist and dangerous elements have […]
Breaking the Silence is an Israeli organization that publishes anonymous testimony from soldiers regarding the use of excessive force against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The organization appeared in court […]
Mohammed Al-Qeeq, the 33-year-old Palestinian journalist who waged a 94-day hunger strike while in Israeli custody was finally released last week. His message to his fellow prisoners is: stand up to Israel’s unjust detention policies. […]
Two Palestinian children were detained for six and a half hours for allegedly throwing stones at settlers in the village of al-Tur in occupied East Jerusalem, Muhammad Samih Ulayan, 10, and Mustafa Abu al-Hawa, 12, […]
Yousef M. Aljamal – Gaza There is no privacy in refugee camps. The Gaza Strip is home to eight refugee camps, which host hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who were displaced in 1948 from their […]
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in its weekly report that the Israeli army wounded at least 78 Palestinians, including 32 children, in clashes during 10-16 May. In a fire […]
Cement has been allowed into the Gaza Strip following a two-month ban imposed on the area, according to the Palestinian Authority’s department of civil affairs. The department’s media director, Muhammad al-Maqadma, said in a press […]
By Ahmad Ghazal – Gaza Due to the current situation in the Gaza Strip, and with the numerous difficulties Gazans face, they try hard to escape from their reality by entertaining themselves, for example, by […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Following Israel’s offensive on Gaza in 2008-9, Refaat Alareer, a lecturer at the Islamic University of Gaza started requesting that his students write short stories as a means of releasing their […]
Mohammed Al-Qeeq, a Palestinian activist and journalist, has been released from prison by Israel. After a 94-day hunger strike in protest against his treatment by Israeli authorities, a deal was reached in February securing his […]
Israel is stepping up its efforts to seize control of Palestinian heritage sites and antiquities in the occupied territories. This is in direct violation of international law, Palestinian and Israeli archaeologists warned this week. The […]
For women with breast cancer in Gaza, Israel and Egypt’s isolation of the area affects nearly every stage of their diagnosis and treatment. Doctors in clinics and hospitals told surgeon Philippa Whitford, that vital medicines, […]
Lawmakers in Ontario vote this week to blacklist supporters of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Tim Hudak, a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, introduced the so-called Standing Up Against Anti-Semitism in […]
Marwan Barghouti, an imprisoned Palestinian Fatah leader, has been nominated by the Belgian parliament for the Nobel Peace prize for 2016. Palestinian rights groups and various parliamentarians have been engaged in a campaign for Barghouti […]
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned the decree recently issued by a number of Jewish rabbis, which allows the killing of Palestinians by opening fire on them without investigation or trial, claiming that such executions “stop […]
By Jeremy Salt Is Israel beyond redemption? Should we conclude, after seven decades of worsening behavior, that while there’s life there’s hope – life for the Zionists and Israel, of course, and, in fact, no […]
By Yousef M. Aljamal – Gaza Tens of thousands of Palestinian students in Gaza are studying for their final exams at school, yet the limited amount of electricity in Gaza makes it difficult for them […]
The second International Palestinian Conference for Media and Communications begins today in Istanbul, Turkey. The two-day event, is hosted by the Palestine Media Forum in partnership with Middle East Monitor (MEMO), and aims to discuss the most successful methods through which […]
The Jewish extremist, Meir Ettinger (23), arrested for the arson attack that killed three members of the Dawabsha family in the occupied West Bank last summer, is to be released from Israeli custody. Two Israeli […]
By Ramzy Baroud On May 15th of every year, over the past 68 years, Palestinians have commemorated their collective exile from Palestine. The ethnic cleansing of Palestine to make room for a ‘Jewish homeland’ came […]
Israeli forces on Monday night returned the bodies of a Palestinian woman and a teenage boy from occupied East Jerusalem to their families for burial, after withholding the bodies for months. Israeli forces deployed heavily […]
For the past five decades, Palestinian intellectual, Abu Sitta was on a mission to rebuild the map of historic Palestine in an immense body of indisputable evidence and facts In his memoir, Mapping My Return: A […]
A $24 million Museum will open its doors Wednesday in Birzeit in the occupied West Bank, as a space to celebrate and redefine Palestinian art, history and culture. President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Human Rights Watch has called on the Jordanian government to lift the restrictions imposed based on issuing “non-objection papers” to Palestinians from Gaza who travel through the country. Kenneth Roth, the […]
French officials said on Sunday that they will continue to press ahead with plans to host a multilateral Middle East peace conference later this year, despite hearing, quite bluntly, that Israel is displeased with the […]
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