By Palestine Chronicle Staff Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) said in a press statement that its member, Ibrahim Hasan Almasri, 28, was killed following a ‘resistance tunnel’ collapse in […]
Khalid Meshaal, the head of the political bureau of Hamas, expects that the Gaza siege will be completely lifted soon, highlighting “the continuing Qatari and Turkish efforts to lift Gaza’s siege”. Meshaal’s remarks came during […]
“It is time for the citizens of the world to effect the paradigm shift required to bring about a peaceful resolution to the world’s most infamous conflict.” By Jeremy R. Hammond Twelve years ago today, […]
(In 1995, Osama ElBorno, the author’s father, was shot in the head by an Israeli soldier on the third day of Eid, while visiting a friend in Gaza. His last words were, “Is everyone okay?” […]
PLO Secretary-General, Saeb Erekat, urged Latin American ambassadors to actively engage in political efforts made to end the Israeli occupation and realize the State of Palestine regarding 1967 boundaries with East Jerusalem as its capital. […]
The Palestinian National Reconstruction Team, formed under the umbrella of the Palestinian government, said in a detailed report published yesterday that only 40% of promised funds to reconstruct Gaza were delivered. “The amount of money […]
Philippines President, Rodrigo Duterte, has blamed conflicts in Middle Eastern countries on foreign intervention, insisting that the United States “imported terrorism”. Duterte told Muslim Filipinos attending an Eid al-Fitr celebration on Friday in southern Davao […]
The Bethlehem-based Lajee Center for Palestinian Cultural Arts is conducting a tour of Britain, Ireland, and Scotland, which is part of an annual trip made by 21 Palestinian youths to showcase cultural, photographic, and art […]
Israeli police have lifted a ban on the entry of Israeli settlers into occupied East Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque complex after a 10-day hiatus, Israeli media reported. According to Israeli public radio, police will now allow Jewish […]
By Haidar Eid – Gaza “Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true […]
Israeli Education Minister, Naftali Bennett, advocated on Thursday for Israel to kidnap Palestinians to be used as leverage to obtain the release of captured Israelis and the bodies of two soldiers held in the besieged […]
Palestinian prisoner Bilal Kayed is continuing his open hunger strike on the 22nd day as of July 7. Addameer lawyer, Mona Nadaf, visited him in isolation in Ashkelon prison, where he remains in a very […]
An Israeli army commander testified in the ongoing trial of Elor Azarya, an Israeli soldier accused of shooting and killing a Palestinian man in Hebron in March, saying that there was no justification for what […]
Approximately 50 trucks carrying Turkish humanitarian aid arrived in the Gaza Strip on Thursday via Israel’s Kerem Shalom border crossing, according to a Palestinian border official. Mounir Ghalban, who oversees the Palestinian side of the […]
By Samah Jabr While the exercise of military control over an occupied country may be expected to inflict inevitable pain and trauma on the citizens of that country, the history of Israeli policy has far […]
PLO Executive Member, Hanan Ashrawi, denounced Israel’s plan to expand three illegal Israeli settlements around the Jerusalem area. The aim is to build hundreds of residential units to accommodate more Israeli settlers. She said in a press release, […]
Amnesty International has denounced the lack of accountability for crimes committed during the assault on the Gaza Strip in 2014, Middle East Monitor reported. In a new briefing published on the second anniversary of ‘Operation […]
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, has slammed a recent report issued by the Middle East Quartet on the weakening Palestine-Israel peace process. Both Palestinian and Israeli leadership reacted with disappointment to a report released Friday by […]
Israeli police have unveiled new regulations which allow Israeli officers to open fire on Palestinian demonstrators with live ammunition before a non-lethal option is used, a statement released by Israeli rights group Adalah revealed. According […]
The United States has offered to increase its military aid to Israel on the condition that Tel Aviv spends more of the aid on the purchase of American equipment and fuel rather than on its […]
By Ramzy Baroud Hyped emotions, and political opportunism aside, the Israel-Turkey normalization deal, signed on June 27 is unfavorable for Palestinians – and for Gazans, in particular. There is much that is being said to […]
Hamas yesterday denied Israeli claims regarding indirect talks about a new prisoner swap, Masralarabia.com reported. Hamas spokesperson, Salah Al-Bardaweel, said “Hamas does not have any information about the news regarding a prisoner swap”. This comes after […]
Egypt closed the Rafah border on Monday evening after a five-day opening to allow humanitarian cases through. The spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, Iyad al-Bizm, told Ma’an that Egyptian authorities had stopped people trying […]
34 violations against Palestinian journalists have been carried out in June by Israeli occupation forces and the Palestinian Authority, Quds Press reported an NGO saying. Israeli violations included direct assaults, firing rubber bullets at journalists […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has stated that 80% of Gaza’s Palestinians “depend on humanitarian assistance to meet their basic needs.” […]
By George Polley They came from Europe, these people, single and in families, eager to settle. They said they were returning home, though we had never seen them, were here for generations stretching back for a thousand […]
By Mahmoud Zidan There are many challenges that the defenders of Palestinians’ human rights have to face, but one of the most considerable of them is the accusation of anti-Semitism. Zionists have always managed to convince […]
By Yves Engler The campaign to revoke the Jewish National Fund of Canada’s charitable status is growing. In recent weeks it has gained an important political endorsement, a high profile intellectual backing and has raised funds […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The Palestine Prisoners Studies Centre revealed yesterday that 13 Palestinian mothers are being held in Israeli jails this Eid. Israel has detained 65 female Palestinians, of which 13 are mothers who have children […]
Israel’s former Justice Minister, MK Tzipi Livni, was summoned last week by British police for questioning over alleged war crimes. Livni received a letter on Thursday regarding the summons which was later cancelled following talks […]
A recent New York Times made many claims about the ‘mass rape’ of Israeli women on October 7. But two leading Palestinian media organizations, The Palestine Chronicle and Friends of Palestine Network, conducted a joint investigation, the outcome of which resulted in the ‘The Black Dress’, a groundbreaking 18-minute documentary looking into allegations and the possible falsification of evidence.
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