A draft Israeli law that criminalized filming Israeli soldiers engaged in activities including confrontations with Palestinians passed its first reading in the Knesset on Wednesday. The bill’s explanation stated: “For many years already the state […]
An Israeli court on Tuesday threw out a confession given by a teenage settler – who cannot be named for legal reasons – in which he admitted his participation in an arson attack on a […]
The UN Palestinian refugee agency facing a major funding shortfall after US aid cuts is planning to defer payment of salaries and suspend some of its operations in Gaza, an official said Tuesday. The UN […]
The undersigned are appalled by the recent deaths in Gaza. At least 110 Palestinians have been killed and thousands injured by sniper fire and noxious gas used by the Israeli military. The recent violence takes […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Israeli authorities have detained two mothers of Palestinian prisoners as they were visiting them in the Rimon prison facility. The mothers are from the Tuqu’ town east of Bethlehem. Their children, […]
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that the “most serious escalation” of violence in the Gaza Strip places the besieged enclave on the “brink of war”. The UN chief said he is “shocked” by Israel’s […]
Israeli troops have shot dead a Palestinian man on the Gaza border with Israel, Palestinian officials have said. Gaza’s health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said on Monday that 24-year-old Sabri Ahmad Abu Khader was killed […]
A public swimming pool in southern Israel has “separate hours” for Jewish and Palestinian citizens, “a practice that is undeclared but nevertheless familiar to visitors”, reported Haaretz. The pool is located in Mabu’im, a community […]
Israel on Sunday released 18-year-old Palestinian detainee Hassan Tamimi who was “subjected to medical negligence” following which he lost his sight. 🇵🇸 Palestinian Teen Lost His Sight in Israeli Jails .Hassan Tamimi, has been left blind […]
The Israeli military court of Ofer extended the administrative detention of leading member of the Palestinian socialist resistance group, the PFLP Khalida Jarrar for three months, for the third time in a row. Jarrar, 54, […]
Israeli ministers on Sunday are set to back a bill to criminalize the filming of Israeli soldiers in the occupied Palestinian territories. The legislation would see penalties of up to five years in jail for […]
Human Rights campaigners say that Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) must suspend Israel and ban Israeli diamonds exports. A global coalition of organizations working for justice and peace in Palestine have called on the EU […]
Deep involvement of Israeli banks in the building of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank may amount to the war crime of pillage, HRW has said. While the settlements are condemned worldwide, Israel keeps […]
Israel has limited the entry of helium gas to the Gaza Strip, claiming Palestinians use it for Molotov cocktails. However, delivery of the gas is necessary for medical purposes. Israel to limit helium supplies to […]
A Palestinian youth has been the latest victim of Israel’s bloody assault on the besieged enclave. The 21-year-old was shot by Israeli forces on the Gaza border on June 8, and succumbed to his wounds […]
The Student Federation of India (SFI), a four-million-strong national organization, joined the global campaign to boycott Hewlett Packard over its record of complicity in Israel’s violation of human rights against Palestinians. Good News: India's largest […]
The UN General Assembly has adopted a nonbinding resolution condemning Israel’s use of ‘excessive force’ against Palestinian protesters in Gaza. A US amendment to condemn Hamas did not get enough support. BREAKING: The UN General […]
By Ramzy Baroud What is taking place in Palestine is not a ‘conflict’. We readily utilize the term but, in fact, the word ‘conflict’ is misleading. It equates oppressed Palestinians with Israel, a military power […]
The Spanish city of Oviedo disinvited an Israeli orchestra and ballet group arguing “Israeli organizations are not wanted” in its premises in yet another victory for the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Spanish […]
Israel’s forcible transfer of thousands of Palestinians has been denounced as a war crime by over 300 elected officials, legal scholars, academics, artists, faith leaders and activists from around the world. More than 300 public […]
The Israeli military has closed an investigation into the tragic death of a 15-year-old Palestinian, who was killed two years ago after the soldiers opened fire on a car full of West Bank teens. In […]
By Dr. Mustafa Barghouti We are deeply shocked at the amount of lies that the Israeli officials and spokesperson of the Israeli army are trying to spread to justify the horrible war crime of killing […]
Dear Palestine Chronicle Supporters and Readers, For the 19th year in a row, the Palestine Chronicle has provided news and coverage of events in Palestine and the larger Middle East. We have managed to continue […]
Hundreds of LGBT activists and their supporters took to the streets of Tel Aviv Friday to block the city’s pride parade. Activists say the move was in protest of Israel’s cynical exploitation of using their […]
The UN General Assembly will hold an emergency meeting next Wednesday to vote on a resolution on Gaza, the body’s president Miroslav Lajcak announced on Friday. #Palestine :Emergency #UN General Assembly meeting on #Gaza to […]
Israeli forces killed four Palestinian protesters and wounded more than 600 others on Friday as mass protests in Gaza continue for the 11th week in a row. Yousef al-Fasih, 29, was shot dead while demonstrating […]
US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and advisor Jared Kushner has had “a very brief and stormy meeting” with Kuwait Ambassador to the United States, Sheikh Salem Abdullah Al Sabah, during which he conveyed the US […]
A parole board in the Rimonim prison rejected a request filed by detained Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi’s lawyer to reduce her sentence and grant her early release. Israel’s Channel 10 reported that Tamimi, who was sentenced […]
Argentina officially canceled its final World Cup warm-up match against Israel on June 9, as a result of BDS pressure. Match Between #Argentina, Israel Cancelled under #BDS Pressure https://t.co/9jHcxWeVDn @PalestineChron pic.twitter.com/WwEWN3ULF6 — Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) […]
Paula Audrey Abrams Hourani, the founder of Women in Black (WiB) Vienna, passed away on June 4, 2018. Paula started WiB Vienna in 2001, coordinating a group of women and men, dedicated to the cause […]
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