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Month: January 2020
Palestinian Authority Official Released after 17 Years in Prison
Israeli authorities yesterday released Palestinian Authority (PA) member Hani Tawfiq Abu Hatab after 17 and a half years in prison. In Limbo: #Palestinians Held in Israeli #Solitary Confinement Face Medical Neglect https://t.co/5KheVL71gd via @PalestineChron pic.twitter.com/hQUnQAPPBC […]
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States – Book Review
By Jim Miles (How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. Daniel Immerwahr. Farrer, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2019.) The Greater United States of the title is not just the […]
Palestinian Civil Society Calls on Austrian Parliament Not to Equate BDS with Antisemitism (VIDEO)
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Representatives of over 200 Palestinian civil society organizations called on the Parliament of Austria to refrain from passing a resolution that aims at criminalizing advocacy for the Boycott, Divestment and […]
Israeli Forces Assault Palestinian Prisoners in Megiddo Jail
Israeli prison forces on Tuesday night stormed section 4 of the Megiddo jail and brutalized Palestinian prisoners. According to the Palestinian Prisoner Society, the forces’ raid on section 4 lasted for several hours before they […]
UNRWA Fires 17 Teachers Due to Budget Deficit
UNRWA has sacked 17 teachers from its schools in the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, Safa news agency reported yesterday. UNRWA claimed that the teachers were surplus to necessity. However, the human rights group, Shahed, said that the […]
Friedman: America’s Next Step is to Let Israel Annex West Bank
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman said on Wednesday that America’s next step, after recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and Israel’s sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights, is the annexation of the occupied West Bank, […]
‘Balanced and Sober’: Israel’s Policy Forum Celebrates the ‘Pompeo Doctrine’ (VIDEOS)
By Palestine Chronicle Staff US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday that Washington’s support for Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian West Bank will advance “peace” between the Israelis and the Palestinians, […]
Justice at Last? ‘Panic’ in Israel as the ICC Takes ‘Momentous Step’ in the Right Direction
By Ramzy Baroud At long last, Fatou Bensouda, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has uttered the long-anticipated conclusion that “all the statutory criteria under the Rome statute for the opening […]
Jewish Settlers Chop down 50 Olive Trees near Nablus
Jewish settlers chopped down today 50 olive trees for Palestinian farmers in the village of al-Sawiya, to the south of the West Bank city of Nablus, according to a local official. Ghassan Daghlas, in charge […]
Israel Fines Palestinian Prisoner One Million Shekels
An Israeli court in Jerusalem on Tuesday fined a Palestinian prisoner one million shekels (approximately $286,000), according to Quds Press. The Palestinian prisoner was identified as Murad Al-Rajabi, from Jerusalem’s Silwan neighborhood. Palestinian prisoners lost […]
Israeli Forces brutally Attack Palestinian Worshippers in Al-Aqsa Mosque (VIDEO)
Israeli forces attacked several Palestinian worshippers and detained six of them on Tuesday evening, at Bab al-Rahma, inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied Jerusalem. Moreover, three Israeli soldiers have been caught on camera while […]
Refusing to be Silenced: How Rima Najjar’s Suit Against Quora Could Change the Space of Social Media
By Benay Blend On December 31, 2019, attorneys for Dr. Rima Najjar filed a suit against Quora in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Her complaint, filed by Daniel Siegel […]
Only Vehicle Confiscated: Isolated Hebron Village Denied Medical Services by Israel
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The only vehicle available to medics, who provide assistance to nearly 1,500 Palestinians living inside the so-called Israeli military firing zone in the West Bank has been confiscated by Israeli […]
Israeli Court Rejects Appeal for Release Prisoner Zahran
The Israeli military court of Ofer rejected the appeal submitted for the release of Palestinian Prisoner Ahmad Zahran, who has been on an open-ended hunger strike for 107 consecutive days, demanding an end to his incarceration […]
Undercover Police Arrest Israeli Anti-occupation Activist
Undercover Israeli police officers arrested prominent Israeli anti-occupation activist Jonathan Pollak at his workplace yesterday morning, reported +972 Magazine, “after he repeatedly refused to appear in court over a private prosecution filed against him by a […]
Israeli Soldier Slips a Snake inside a Palestinian Car in West Bank
A snake was slipped into a Palestinian family’s car by an Israeli soldier on December 23, during a routine search of the vehicle in the West Bank, Israeli newspapers reported. Soldier jailed for placing snake […]
Hamas, Islamic Jihad Leaders in Iran: ‘Soleimani is the Martyr of Jerusalem’ (VIDEOS)
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Leader of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh visited Iran along with a large delegation, representing Hamas, the Islamic Jihad, and other Palestinian political movements. The delegation joined a […]
Film Release: ‘The Truth: Lost at Sea’ Counters Israeli Propaganda (VIDEO)
Rifat Audeh’s documentary, “The Truth: Lost at Sea” was made available online nearly two years after its official release in film festivals around the world. The documentary details the journey of the Freedom Flotilla, a […]
The ‘Great Game’ is Afoot: Killing Soleimani Reflects US Desperation in the Middle East
By Ramzy Baroud & Romana Rubeo By killing top Iranian military commander, Qasem Soleimani, American and Israeli leaders demonstrated the idiom ‘out of the frying pan into the fire.’ US President Donald Trump and Israeli […]
25 Jordan MPs Walk out in Protest of Gas Deal with Israel
Twenty-five members of Jordan’s parliament yesterday walked out of a session in protest against the country’s gas deal with Israel. MP Mustafa Al-Assaf, from the Islamic Action Front, told Quds Press that his bloc had rejected […]
Israeli Forces Arrest 19 Palestinians in Jerusalem, West Bank Raids
Israeli forces today detained at least 19 Palestinians in multiple overnight raids in Jerusalem and across the West Bank, said the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS). Israeli general security units raided the East Jerusalem neighborhood of […]
Israel Floods Gaza Farmland with Rainwater
Israel deliberately flooded hundreds of acres of farmland on Sunday, according to the Ministry of Agriculture. Israel opened one of the gates of its rainwater stores east of Gaza, making the water drown hundreds of […]
Israeli Analysts: US ‘Gave Israel Advance Notice’ of Assassination Plot against Soleimani
Israel was notified in advance of the US plan to assassinate Iran’s top military general Qasem Soleimani, Israeli military and diplomatic analysts revealed on Friday. Speaking to Israel’s Channel 13 news, the analysts added no further details due to heavy […]
Israeli Forces Committed 255 Violations against Journalists in 2019
In 2019, Israeli forces committed 255 violations against journalists and media institutions working in the occupied Palestinian territories, according to The Palestine News and Information Agency (WAFA). The agency released its annual report on Israeli […]
‘Defeating Israel and ISIS’: Palestinians Remember General Soleimani in Gaza and on Social Media
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Hundreds of Palestinians gathered in the besieged Gaza Strip on Saturday to mourn the death of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards General, Qasem Soleimani, who was assassinated in a US airstrike […]
Massive Rally in Jordan to Protest against Gas Deal with Israel (VIDEO)
Thousands of Jordanians participated in a massive rally on Friday against the fist import of Israeli gas in the country, on January 2. The rally commenced in front of the Grand Husseini Mosque, in Amman, […]
Legal Battle Intensifies: Turkey’s Ottoman Archives Now in the Hand of the Palestinian Authority
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Turkey has transferred to the Palestinian Authority a copy of the Ottoman-era archives, in order to help Palestinians in their legal fight against Israel’s land claims, according to Israeli news […]
Embracing Palestine: How to Combat Israel’s Misuse of ‘Anti-Semitism’
By Ramzy Baroud At a talk I delivered in Northern England in March 2018, I proposed that the best response to falsified accusations of anti-Semitism, which are often lobbed against pro-Palestinian communities and intellectuals […]
Don’t Be Alarmed – A Poem
By Stephen Oliver Banksy on his balcony at The Walled Off Hotel imploding the barrier a leap away, watchtowers left and right. The Israeli land grab barricade winding off out of sight; they play it […]
Israeli Forces Assault Palestinian Worshipers at Al-Aqsa (VIDEOS)
Israeli police assaulted several Palestinian worshipers and detained two of them on Thursday evening, at the Bab al-Rahma prayer area inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied Jerusalem. Israeli occupation forces assaulted a number of […]