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Month: February 2021

Gaza Launches National Vaccination Campaign against COVID-19
The Palestinian Ministry of Health today launched a national vaccination campaign against coronavirus. Patients deemed most at risk were inoculated in the first phase of the rollout of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccination, with former Palestinian […]

Report: Raed Salah Held in Solitary Confinement by Israel
The head of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheikh Raed Salah, has been held in solitary confinement since he was jailed by Israel on August 15 last year, Arabi21.com reported on Sunday. His lawyer Khalid […]

Gaza Suffers $1.5m Losses as Israel Open Floodgates, Destroys Crops
Palestinian agricultural areas suffered $1.5 million in damages as a result of Israel’s decision to open rainwater floodgates, Anadolu reported. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture in the Gaza Strip, Israel has so far […]

VIDEO: Four Palestinian Families Displaced as Israeli Forces Demolish Building in East Jerusalem
The Israeli occupation authorities today demolished a two-story, four-apartment residential building in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Isawiyya displacing, as a result, four families, including 12 children, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. A […]

Biden has Reassured Netanyahu that the Status Quo is Safe
By Ramona Wadi With US President Joe Biden’s first call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now out of the way, the first inklings of the new administration’s diplomacy regarding Palestine and Israel have been made public. […]

Why Politicians and Doctors Keep Ignoring the Medical Research on Vitamin D and Covid
By Jonathan Cook It is probably not a good idea to write while in the grip of anger. But I am struggling to suppress my emotions about a wasted year, during which politicians and many […]

Jewish Settlers Chop down Dozens of Olive Trees near Bethlehem
Jewish settlers cut down today dozens of olive trees belonging to a Palestinian resident in the village of al-Walaja, northwest of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. […]

New Poll: Nearly Half of Israel’s Religious Youths Hate Palestinians, Support Expulsion
Nearly half of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox and nationalist religious youth expressed hatred toward Palestinian citizens of Israel and support stripping them of their citizenship, according to a poll released this week. The poll from the Hebrew […]

VIDEO: Satellite Images Show Israel Expanding Dimona Nuclear Facility
New satellite images have revealed that Israel is expanding its Dimona nuclear facility in the Naqab (Negev) desert, where it has previously produced fissile material used for nuclear weapons. Images released on Thursday by the […]

Hamas: ‘Israel Will Not Get Its Soldiers without Prisoner Swap’
Israel will never return its soldiers from Gaza without a prisoner swap, the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas announced on Thursday. “The only way that the Israeli occupation will get its soldiers in the hands […]

Israel Prevents Palestinians from Praying at Al-Aqsa Mosque
Israeli police on Friday prevented dozens of Palestinian residents of the occupied West Bank from reaching Al-Aqsa Mosque to perform Friday prayer, Anadolu Agency reports. An Anadolu Agency correspondent saw Israeli police deployed in checkpoints […]

Equatorial Guinea to Move Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem
Equatorial Guinea is to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, the Israeli prime minister’s office said Friday, following the controversial lead of former US President Donald Trump. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema announced the planned […]

Israeli Forces Suppress Anti-Settlement Protests in West Bank (VIDEO)
At least two Palestinians were injured from military gunfire today as Israeli forces suppressed anti-settlement protests throughout the West Bank. In the village of Beit Dajan, east of Nablus city, Israeli forces violently dispersed hundreds […]

UAE’s Notorious Penal Code Limiting Free Speech Has Severe Implications for Expats Including South Africans
By Iqbal Jassat South African expats residing in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), be warned: overzealous securocrats in the Gulf oligarchies are watching you and all foreign migrants, ready to pounce if you dare to […]

Israeli Forces Open Floodgates near Gaza, Destroy Palestinian Crops
Israeli occupation forces today opened floodgates near the eastern borders of the Gaza Strip for the second day, flooding vast tracts of Palestinian agricultural land. Palestine Chronicle correspondent Wafaa Aludaini reported that the water devastated […]

Israel, US to Develop New Ballistic Missile Shield
Israel announced on Thursday that it is developing a new ballistic missile shield, the Arrow-4, with the United States, as part of a defensive system built with an eye towards Iran, Reuters reports. Israel’s Arrow-2 […]

The US is Duplicitous over Jerusalem, but the PA Stays Silent
By Ramona Wadi The Biden administration is adopting a confusing position regarding Jerusalem, signaling a possible effort to square the circle of taking the US back to the fold of international consensus on Palestine and […]

Re-Marketing ‘Racist-Zionism’ and Manufacturing Double White Privilege-Plus
By Gavin Lewis Zionist Colonialism Vs The Post-War Consensus. At just over the 52nd minute of the 1967 film thriller Funeral in Berlin’, a female character who’d been seducing British agent Harry Palmer (played by […]

Biden Makes Long-awaited First Phone Call to Netanyahu
US President Joe Biden made a long-awaited first phone call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday after a delay that had seen Washington deny it was snubbing Israel’s leader, Reuters reported. There had been […]

Israeli Authorities Cut Electricity in Palestinian Village in Jordan Valley
Dozens of Palestinians from the village of Al-Jiftlik, north of the occupied West Bank city of Jericho in the Jordan Valley region, today organized a sit-in to protest the Israeli authorities’ cutting off electricity in […]

Israeli Forces Detain Three Palestinians from Jerusalem
Israeli police today detained three Palestinians from the occupied city of Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Palestinians play with snow at Al-Aqsa in 2018 #Jerusalem pic.twitter.com/pNdC1QM8Vp — TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) February […]

Israeli Authorities Prepare Law to Prohibit Cooperation with ICC
Israeli authorities are preparing a law that would prohibit any cooperation with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, and would propose five years in prison for any violations of this law, RT reported […]

A Baby and His Mother: The Cancer Journey of a Palestinian Family
“We`re waiting for a cancer patient from Jenin so we can deliver him to Augusta Victoria Hospital on Mount Scopus in East Jerusalem,” said the member of the Jerusalem Red Crescent medical team while waiting […]

Breaking the Silence – A Poem
By Timothy McCord There’s come a time when it becomes a crime to speak truth of another’s. When false claims damage good names and cause an outcry: the baying for blood and broken bones so […]

Israeli Forces Demolish Palestinian Village for 183rd Time
Israeli occupation bulldozers this morning demolished the homes of Palestinian Bedouin in the village of Al-Araqeeb for the 183rd time. Residents are now being forced to face the winter storms and rain without shelter. Located in […]

‘Leaving Aside’ International Law: Why Democrats are as Dangerous as Republicans to a Just Peace in Palestine
By Ramzy Baroud Motivated by their justifiable aversion to former US President Donald Trump, many analysts have rashly painted a rosy picture of how Democrats could quickly erase the bleak trajectory of the previous […]

Israel to Allow 1,000 COVID-19 Vaccines into Gaza (VIDEO)
The besieged Gaza Strip is due to receive its first batch of coronavirus vaccines today after Israel approved the delivery. Gaza will receive 1,000 doses of Russia’s Sputnik V inoculation from the Palestinian Authority (PA) […]

Palestinian Woman Dies of Heart Attack following Israeli Military Raid
A 67-year-old woman died of a heart attack following an Israeli military raid into her house in the village of Abu Njeim, east of Bethlehem city, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Security sources […]

Mourid Barghouti, A Palestinian Intellectual Icon, In His Own Words
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Mourid Barghouti is a renowned Palestinian poet who passed away on Sunday, February 14, at the age of 76, in the Jordanian capital Amman. Born in the Palestinian village of […]

Israel Blocks Shipment of Russian Vaccine to Gaza
Palestinian authorities denounced on Monday that Israel is blocking access to COVID-19 vaccines to Gaza. “Today, 2,000 doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine were transferred to enter the Gaza Strip, but the occupation authorities […]