Israeli forces detained at least three Palestinians during predawn raids carried out yesterday across the occupied West Bank, including a man who had led a hunger strike in a Palestinian Authority prison last month, whose […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Wednesday that the Israeli government would assist in funding a settler-driven archaeological project in occupied East Jerusalem, in response to the UNESCO resolution strongly condemning Israeli policies at the […]
By Haidar Eid – Gaza I am writing this piece in response to a questions raised by a Western, liberal friend of mine who wanted to “understand” as to why I have been calling for […]
Israel has refused a request to transfer the graves of Palestinian leaders buried in Syria whose tombs are threatened by jihadists, to Palestine, AFP reported. Ramallah sought to transfer the interred remains of notable Palestinians […]
Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Stephen O’Brien, delivered a statement on the Humanitarian Situation in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) on Wednesday, stating that “nearly half of all Palestinians in the oPt […]
By Sarah Algherbawi Yasser Shamallakh, 58, stopped growing fruit during the first Intifada, but two years ago he started again and has found success growing the crop, as have many other farmers in Gaza according […]
Palestinians on Thursday gave a rare glimpse of one of the Middle East’s finest mosaic floors near the occupied West Bank city of Jericho. Dating from the eighth century AD, the floor covers about 820 […]
Israeli occupation forces stopped Palestinian workers from completing the renovation works in Hebron’s (Al-Khalil) Old City in the south of the occupied West Bank, QudsPress reported. Hebron Rehabilitation Committee’s General Manager, Imad Hamdan, said that […]
By Sarah Algherbawi Twenty meters high and 15 meters wide, the mural on a wall of a 12-floor building in Gaza City is unmissable. The artwork, “Besieged Childhood,” has garnered renown for its creators. It depicts […]
By Jonathan Cook It was presumably intended as an Israeli history lesson to the world. A video posted to social media by Israel’s foreign ministry shows an everyday Jewish couple, Jacob and Rachel, in a […]
Israeli authorities revoked Israeli-issued exit permits for 12 senior officials in the Gaza Strip’s Civil Affairs Administration on Wednesday, according to Israeli media, just one week following the revocation of the majority of permits issued […]
By Ramzy Baroud “The United States has the power to decree the death of nations,” wrote Stephen Kinzer in the Boston Globe. Kinzer’s article was entitled: “The media are misleading the public on Syria.” In […]
A spokesperson for the Hamas movement’s military wing said during a speech commemorating the fifth anniversary of the Gilad Shalit deal on Tuesday that Israel would be made to release Palestinian prisoners as part of […]
By Irfan Raja The incessant Israeli atrocities in the occupied territories particularly in the Gaza-strip had reached to its boiling-point on 27th of December 2008. That year’s Christmas brought sad news to both Christians and […]
Victims of the Israeli raid on an aid flotilla in 2010 fear that their legal case may be dropped following the restoration of diplomatic ties between Turkey and Israel. Turkey broke diplomatic relations with Israel […]
Several Israeli military vehicles Wednesday morning raided eastern Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, according to witnesses. Witnesses told Ma’an that four Israeli bulldozers entered ten meters into lands of the town of Beit […]
By Mahmoud Zidan Like his predecessors, the incumbent Prime Minister of the Israeli colonial state Benjamin Netanyahu never fails to cause a twitch in one’s face. In response to the UNESCO draft resolution that emphasizes the […]
The British ‘Football for Palestine’ team, organized by the UK Lions Football Club, concluded a week-long tour of the West Bank with a friendly soccer match at the Arab-American University stadium in Jenin, according to […]
‘While the resolution will unlikely alter the nature of the conflict fundamentally, it rejects – legally and morally – all Israeli efforts aimed at denying the rights of Muslims – and Christians – in their […]
At a rally organized in Gaza City on Monday commemorating the fifth anniversary of the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange deal, a number of activists and former prisoners vowed that Palestinian resistance movements would capture more Israeli […]
The Palestinian government and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) have condemned this week’s visit to Israel, and specifically to an illegal Israeli settlement, by South African MP Kenneth Meshoe, in violation of South Africa’s policy […]
Qpress, a media center specializing in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa affairs, has been closed by Israeli authorities. After being questioned and banned from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque last week, the head of the news organization, Dr. Hekmat […]
Issa Qaraqea, the head of Palestinian detainees and ex-detainees body, said in a statement that 470 prisoners are sentenced to life while 42 prisoners spent more than 20 years in Israeli jails. 16 of these […]
Bo Schack, Director of UNRWA Operations in Gaza, said Israel refuses to approve the reconstruction of some Gaza houses, which were destroyed during the 2014 offensive. Schack stated that in May, UNRWA handed names of hundreds of owners of houses […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to bar national service volunteers from joining human rights group B’Tselem after the organization angered him with their testimony at the UN last week. Netanyahu said in a […]
A British parliamentary report condemned what it called “the growing prevalence” of anti-Semitism in the United Kingdom, notably calling for the term “Zionist” to be considered “inflammatory and potentially anti-Semitic.” The report, issued by the […]
Dr. Khaled Thabit, the head of Tumor Department at Gaza’s Shifa hospital, said there are more than 1600 new cancer cases reported in the Gaza Strip annually. He added that some 160 new cancer cases are […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Jerusalem reported that Israeli settlers attacked on Friday night 26-year old Mohamamd Khalil Al-Razem “with a knife and batons while walking in “Bar Elan” Street in […]
By Tamar Fleishman On the winding road leading to the soldiers’ posts stood a woman, her head dropped and her body leaning on the separating railing. “Are you ill?” I asked and felt stupid, because […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The Egyptian authorities have decided to open the Rafah crossing for six days this week and next week. The crossing will open from Saturday to Sunday then shut down on Monday […]
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