The Palestinian Embassy to Uruguay organized a cultural festival and an exhibition of Palestinian traditional clothing to mark Palestinian Dress Day. The role of Palestinian women in keeping Palestinian heritage alive as well as their […]
The Palestinian Prisoners Club revealed that the General Secretary of the Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine, MP Ahmad Sadaat, was transferred to Rimon isolation section following his decision to go on a hunger […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Dozens of Saudis took to twitter to protest the recent visit of a Saudi delegation headed by retired General, Anwar Ashqi, to Israel last week. This report highlights some of these […]
Reviewed by Jim Miles (Enzo Traverso. The End of Jewish Modernity. Pluto Press, London, 2016.) Works of political theory, written within the sphere of intellectual/philosophical history, are generally a difficult read. The End of Jewish […]
A 15-year-old Palestinian boy sustained a broken hand and heavy bruising after being assaulted and detained by undercover Israeli police officers in the Issawiya neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem. Fadi Rafat al-Issawi was detained last […]
Palestinian prisoners’ groups denounced on Saturday a decision by the Israel Prison Service (IPS) to ban Ma’an TV being aired inside Israeli prisons, saying the move was made to disconnect Palestinian prisoners from the outside world and […]
Hamas has begun handing out plots of land to 40,000 civil servants to compensate them for the millions of dollars in salaries it owes them for the past two years. The land giveaway is the […]
The Israeli occupation forces in Jerusalem banned three Palestinians from entering Al-Aqsa mosque, issuing them with fines. Occupation authorities handed deportation orders to Hamza Alnabali, Hamza Aldisi and Raed Zughbor who were employed at Al-Aqsa […]
Zehava Shaul, mother of Oron Shaul, the Israeli soldier who was captured by Hamas fighters in the summer of 2014 during fighting to the east of Gaza said she ‘has evidence her son is still […]
Israeli mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barakat, said in a video posted to his Facebook page that Israeli settlement reconstruction will continue all over the city. Barakat stated: “Reconstruction in Jerusalem is not considered a provocation […]
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, yesterday praised the warm relations with Egypt and President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi. Netanyahu attended an event at the Egyptian ambassador’s residence on the occasion of the 64th anniversary of the […]
The US State Department released a statement on Wednesday slamming Israel’s continued settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank, while expressing concern over the recent increase of demolitions on Palestinian homes that have left dozens […]
Hamas stated that the 27th Arab League Summit attended by only eight Arab leaders, and from which 14 were absent, “reflects the status of decline which the Arabs are suffering, even at the official level.” In a […]
The Works and Housing Minister at the Palestinian Authority, Mofeed Al-Hasayneh, has announced that the ministerial council in Ramallah has agreed to cut 80 per cent of the tax on fuel for the Gaza Strip’s […]
By Yves Engler Despite a backlash evocative of those who defended the Jim Crow US South, Green Party members recently voted in favor of a resolution calling on Ottawa to stop subsidizing racist land covenants. […]
A US Democratic congressman who was harshly criticized for comparing illegal West Bank settlers to termites has apologized for his remarks. Hank Johnson, a Georgia representative, said during an event for the US Campaign to […]
In the first half of 2016, Israeli authorities demolished more homes in the West Bank than they did during 2015, according to B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. B’Tselem reported that, […]
Head of the Global Popular Committee in Solidarity with the Gaza Strip, Isam Yousef, met with Turkish diplomats in Istanbul, Turkey, to discuss Turkish efforts to resolve the Gaza crises, PalSawa.com reported. Yousef met with the Deputy […]
The Youth and Sports Department of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) has condemned Israeli action against Palestinian sportsmen through the refusal to issue permits for nine Palestinian players from Khan Younis Youth Club. The players were […]
The Head of the Qatari Committee for the Reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, Ambassador Mohammed Alamadi, has arrived in the Gaza Strip today to assess Qatar-based projects in the region. Qatari ambassador to arrive in Gaza […]
The Center for Palestinian Prisoners Studies has today called on human rights organizations, international pressure groups and the International Committee of the Red Cross to immediately visit Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails to assess the […]
By Ramzy Baroud (Based on interviews with Palestinian refugees from Syria.) The refugee camp of Yarmouk was ever present in his being, pulling him in and out of an abyss of persistent fears that urged […]
French Consul General in Jerusalem, Herve Magro, has reiterated France’s hopes for its ongoing peace initiative to solve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, stating that it remained “the central issue in the Middle East.” Magro stated: “Negotiations […]
In what was intended as a message to Palestinian citizens of Israel on “equality and dignity for all,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Arabs “goats,” resulting in a backlash from Palestinian political parties for staging a […]
Responding to criticism over his failure to appoint a foreign minister since March, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, told the Knesset State Control Committee on Monday that “Israel’s ties with the world are better than […]
Families of Palestinian prisoners from Jerusalem in Israeli jails organized a sit-in in front of the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to protest a decision made by the committee to […]
Palestinian fighter, Mohammed Al-Faqih, was killed today in the West Bank village of Sourif in Hebron following an exchange of fire with Israeli forces that besieged a house in which he took shelter. The Israeli […]
An official in the Constructional Industries Union in the Gaza Strip said the Israeli authorities changed its mind and refused to allow cement into Gaza after a three month-ban. The official who spoke under the […]
By Ramzy Baroud Days after a truck ploughed its way into throngs of people celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, France, the Los Angeles Times reported that “[Daesh or the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and […]
Palestinian Foreign Minister, Riyad al-Maliki, urged the General Secretary of the Arab League on Monday to help the Palestinian Authority to sue the United Kingdom over the Balfour Declaration of 1917 which resulted in what is […]
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