For the first time in modern history, the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound was closed to Muslim worshippers on the first day of Ramadan, the holy fasting month, due to the coronavirus pandemic. The holy site, which […]
By Fawzi Mahmoud Palestinian artists putting final touches on a mural in Gaza City, exhibiting solidarity with Palestinian prisoners who have contracted the coronavirus inside Israeli prisons. There are nearly 5,500 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli […]
By Ramzy Baroud (These Chains Will Be Broken: Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons, by Ramzy Baroud, Clarity Press, 2020) FOR MY OPINIONS,” wrote Italian intellectual Antonio Gramsci, “I am willing to […]
Israeli soldiers conducting coronavirus tests in the Gaza Strip have been ordered to stop by Defense Minister Naftali Bennett due to ‘coordination issues’. The Israeli army had committed to conducting about 50 tests per day […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Join our editors Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo as they discuss the topics of the week in the latest episode of Palestine Chronicle TV: Machiavellian Chaos in Israel; Nour Jaber […]
United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday that it was Israel’s decision whether to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, and the US will offer its views on this to the […]
A Jewish settler opened fire in the air today as he approached in his car a post that Palestinian volunteers had set up in southern West Bank as part of efforts to fight the spread […]
By Ramzy Baroud It was intended to be a Machiavellian move, but the decision by Benny Gantz, leader of Israel’s Kahol Lavan (Blue and White) coalition, to join a Benjamin Netanyahu-led government is likely […]
Israeli government’s Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit yesterday approved the expropriation of Palestinian land adjacent to the Ibrahimi Mosque in occupied West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil). According to Arab48, after Mandelblit’s approval, the Palestinian land will […]
A Palestinian man was shot dead by Israeli border police at a checkpoint near Jerusalem, an Israeli police report said on Wednesday. According to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the Palestinian man – whose identity was not […]
A Palestinian prisoner serving an 8-year sentence for resisting the occupation has died in an Israeli jail this morning, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS). PPS said in a statement that Nour Jaber Barghouti, […]
Dozens of Palestinians from the northern West Bank village of Qusra clashed today with Israeli soldiers after the army blocked the main access road to their village with cement blocks, according to Palestinian news agency […]
By Fawzi Mahmoud Palestinian toymaker Fida al-Liddawi adds the final touches on his coronavirus costume, putting it in practice in the Nuseirat refugee camp, in Central Gaza. The idea behind Liddawi’s costume is to provide […]
By Maren Mantovani When the COVID-19 pandemic started to bring the world to a standstill, a simple meme with white letters on black background began circulating on social media: “Dear world, How is the lockdown, […]
By Benay Blend In News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media, Juan Gonzales and Joseph Torres reveal how racial segregation helped distort the information that Americans read in […]
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas warned the US administration and Israeli government on Monday against their plans to annex any part of the occupied West Bank, Anadolu has reported. “Despite our preoccupation [with the virus], […]
The Palestinian Ministry of Health today received a package of medical assistance provided by the Chinese government to help confront the ongoing outbreak of the coronavirus in the country. Palestinian Minister of Health, Mai Alkaila, […]
Israeli military vehicles today infiltrated the northern Gaza border fence east of Jabalya and razed land, according to Palestinian news agency WAFA. Several vehicles breached the border fence, went dozens of meters into Gaza and […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff After three general elections and an unprecedented deadlock, all within the course of one year, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his rival Benny Gantz signed a government coalition agreement […]
By Fawzi Mahmoud Palestinian families shop at a market in Gaza City in preparations for the holy month of Ramadan. Muslims across the globe fast the month of Ramadan, where they abstain from eating and […]
By Richard Falk Double Jeopardy for Refugees/Migrants Recently reflecting on the plight of refugees fleeing war zones in the Middle East and migrants from sub-Saharan Africa and Central America I was struck by the analogy […]
The Director-General of the Jerusalem District Electricity Company (JDECO), Hisham Al-Omari, said yesterday that the Israeli authorities rejected the company’s request to freeze debt that was accumulated due to the spread of the coronavirus and […]
Jewish settlers today planted trees in a Palestinian-owned land in an area south of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem in a prelude to taking it over, according to Palestinian news agency WAFA. Hasan […]
Israeli forces raided early this morning two towns in southern West Bank and detained at least five Palestinians, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS). Israeli soldiers raided and searched homes in the town of […]
By Fawzi Mahmoud Photos below show Palestinian workers in the besieged Gaza Strip making protective masks and preventive medical suits at a local factory in Gaza City on April 19. Since the spread of the […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Filmmaker Patrice Forget shot an original documentary that is based on a soccer match organized in the French town of Martigues, in July 2019, between a Palestinian team from Gaza […]
By Triestino Mariniello In 2016, a group of scholars and an Italian judge started a three-year research project on Israel’s law and practice of administrative detention in the West Bank. The main objective of the project […]
In commemoration of 2020 Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, Palestinian journalist and editor of the Palestine Chronicle Ramzy Baroud discusses his new book, “These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons“, […]
Israeli authorities sealed off the Arab towns of Deir al-Asad and al-Baneh in the northern Galilee region on Saturday morning for a week of tight restrictions, after “drive-thru” testing facilities revealed a number of coronavirus […]
Israeli forces opened fire today at Palestinian fishermen sailing off the Gaza Strip and at farmers, to the east of Khan Younis in two separate incidents, said local sources. Israeli navy opened fire on fishermen […]
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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