Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) Chairman Qaddura Fares said in statement on Monday that 12 countries were set to stage various sit-in protests in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons. Fares said that the […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas has condemned the bombing of an Egyptian Coptic church in Cairo yesterday, which claimed the lives of many Egyptians. The movement issued a statement soon following the […]
The Israeli government has decided to hand over the bodies of seven Palestinians back to their families to bury them after holding their bodies for months. The decision came following a petition made by Al-Quds […]
Israeli authorities are denying or ignoring a quarter of applications by Gaza cancer patients for Israeli entry-permits via Erez for the purpose of medical treatment in the West Bank, Israel or Jordan. According to World […]
Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Shas party is pushing for a law banning non-Orthodox prayer at Jerusalem’s Western Wall as tension over mixed-gender prayer at the site mounts. Israel Radio reported that the law, which was formally presented […]
In video footage made available on social media, Muhammad and Mahmoud Balboul were shown the moment they were united with their family. The brothers were released from an Israeli prison on December 8, 2016. The […]
A Turkish court has dropped a case against four Israeli military officials charged over a deadly raid on a ship in an aid flotilla bound for Gaza in 2010, BBC reported. According to a lawyer […]
Palestinian security forces reportedly blocked Israeli troops as they attempted to enter the city of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank on Sunday, and succeeded in forcing them to leave. A video that went […]
After almost one year since Israeli authorities detained Palestinian circus performer Muhammad Faisal Abu Sakha, 23, and placed him under administrative detention, a petition to release him was rejected by the Israeli High Court, according […]
Asa Winstanley, a London-based investigative journalist reported in Middle East Monitor today that a British citizen is being tortured in Israel to confess to apparently false charges. “Although Haaretz claimed last month that he had been […]
Haneen Zoabi, an Arab member of the Israeli Knesset, representing the United Arab Bloc said, “Theft and dispossession in the new Israeli law which aims at legalizing settlements in the West Bank is not new, […]
Head of the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs, Issa Qaraqe accused Israeli authorities of “deliberately” attempting to kill Palestinian hunger strikers, while simultaneously employing several tactics to convince hunger strikers to break their strikes, according […]
Hundreds of complaints of torture against Shin Bet agents have produced not a single criminal investigation, according to a report in Haaretz. Of the 598 complaints filed between 2001 and 2008, every single case was […]
The neglected, ignored or justified suffering of the people of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine is only part of the great indifference of ‘liberals’ because in the US they are just as indifferent to the […]
The Egyptian authorities have decided to open the Rafah crossing for three days in two ways starting Saturday to allow Palestinians to get in and out of the Gaza Strip. Sources have told Sama News […]
Yousef Bin Ahmed Aluthaimin, the Secretary General of The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has denounced the passing of a new law by the Israeli Kenesset, which legalizes settlement outposts in the West Bank. Aluthaimin issued a […]
The Hamas movement marked its 29th anniversary on Wednesday, as the Palestinian resistance group vowed to continue fighting Israel until the end of the occupation. “Conspirators thought that by killing our leaders and sons, they […]
For the third time, the Israeli Knesset postponed the vote on a bill which would ban the use of loudspeakers for the Muslim call to prayer, Israeli media reported yesterday, noting that the Israeli prime […]
A Palestinian youth was killed by Israeli border police forces on Thursday morning in the northern occupied West Bank after he allegedly attempted to carry out a stabbing attack. Israeli police spokeswoman Luba al-Samri alleged […]
Israel’s Minister of Public Security Gilad Erdan has proposed that Israel set up a committee to blacklist organizations and individuals which advocate for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on […]
The Turkish Humanitarian Relief Organisation, IHH, organized a demonstration in front of the Israeli consulate in Istanbul yesterday to protest Israel’s ban on the call to prayer and its continuing violations against Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque. […]
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaigners are celebrating, after the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) in Jordan dropped its contracts with notorious security company G4S, a long-standing target for its role in Israel’s systematic […]
By Iqbal Jassat – Johannesburg, South Africa Recent changes effected within parts of South Africa’s mainstream media, may be interpreted differently by consumers. Some may use the glass of water test and come to contrasting positions: […]
By Ramzy Baroud In July 2003, the then Palestinian Authority Chairman, Yasser Arafat, described Mahmoud Abbas as a “traitor” who “betrayed the interests of the Palestinian People.” Arafat loathed Abbas to the very end. This particular […]
Palestinian short-story author Mazen Marouf has won the Kuwaiti-based Multaqa award for the best Arab short-story collection, after his short story collection titled Nukaat Almusalheen, the jokes of armed people, published by Alkawkab Publishing house […]
The Israeli police has arrested two Israelis who attacked and beat to death a Sudanese migrant who arrived in the country a few years ago. The Israeli daily newspaper, Haaretz, has revealed that the two […]
Israeli authorities denied the entry of a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) activist into the country at the Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv on Monday, in what Israeli media reported was “the first time” the […]
Dr. Daud Abdullah After three years of open hostility, Egypt appears to be resetting its policy towards the Gaza Strip. Whereas in the recent past the Cairo administration has only opened the Rafah border crossing […]
Israel has lifted the ban on parcels being sent to Gaza, Israeli officials announced yesterday. Israel initiated the ban over allegations Hamas was using them to smuggle weapons into the besieged enclave. “It was decided […]
Israeli occupation forces in Jerusalem prevented the burial of Palestinian elder Khadija Abuildula at Bab Alrahrma Islamic graveyard located to the east of Al-Aqsa Mosque, claiming that the graveyard’s was “confiscated by the Israeli natural […]
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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