“Israelis celebrate their Independence Day,” Dareen Tatour explains, “but it comes with celebrating the suffering of our ancestors, the displacement of our people and the memory of massacres perpetrated against us over the years.” A […]
Palestinians are justifiably worried that the mandate granted to the United Nations Agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, might be coming to an end. UNRWA’s mission, which has been in effect since 1949, has done more […]
On May 1, the mandate of UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Michael Lynk, came to an end. International human rights and refugee lawyer Francesca […]
Eid al-Fitr is the first of the two religious holidays celebrated in Islam and it comes at the end of the holy month of Ramadan. Muslims around the world celebrate the holiday by performing Eid […]
‘Take photos!’, young Palestinian men urged me while they were being chased by Israeli soldiers. The youth were hoping to cross the Israeli checkpoint to reach Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem to pray on the final […]
Israel summoned the Russian ambassador on Monday after Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov suggested that Adolf Hitler may have had Jewish roots, RT reported. “Foreign Minister Lavrov’s remarks are both an unforgivable and outrageous statement […]
Hamas’ political leader in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar, said during a press conference on Saturday that the “big battle” for Al-Aqsa Mosque will begin after Ramadan if Israel “does not cease its aggression” at […]
While international news headlines remain largely focused on the war in Ukraine, little attention is given to the horrific consequences of the war which are felt in many regions around the world. Even when these […]
In the gallery below, the Palestine Chronicle features three of Gaza’s major mosques, the Great Omari Mosque and Sayed al-Hashim Mosque in Gaza City, and the Martyrs Mosque in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the […]
There was a story recently in Canadian news. In it Palestinian-Canadian professor, Samer Abdelnour, remarked: “It’s tiring. I feel like growing up in Toronto, the narrative has been so hostile against Palestinians. … It’s just tiring […]
Palestine Deep Dive’s latest live show, “Al-Aqsa Under Attack! Ramadan in Palestine Under Israeli Occupation” with Dr. Mustafa Barghouti shines a light on recent events in occupied East Jerusalem. Dr. Barghouti is a distinguished Palestinian […]
Lentils, chicken, tomatoes, sugar and lots and lots of selfies. Gaza’s youth continue to come to the aid of their community, amid a burgeoning food crisis in the besieged Gaza Strip. The latest initiative was […]
Starting on April 15, the Israeli occupation army and police raided Al-Aqsa Mosque in Occupied East Jerusalem on a daily basis. Under the pretense of providing protection to provocative ‘visits’ by thousands of illegal Israeli […]
For 30 years, Miassar Qassem, now 65, has been making her specialty, Palestinian Ka’ak and Maamoul to sell near the Great Omari Mosque in Gaza City, in the days preceding Eid-al-Fitr. The Eid is a […]
Thousands of Palestinians, women, men and children, crowded at the Qalandiya checkpoint entrances on the third Friday of Ramadan, many of them hoping to gain access to pray at Al-Aqsa Mosque. Armed with their faith […]
‘From the Ghalaba to the Ghalaba’ – from the poor to the poor – is a local project that allows Palestinians in Gaza to offer help to one another. In the photos below, Gaza volunteers […]
A farmer found on Monday a Canaanite sculpture dating back to about 2500 BC, while he was cultivating his land, in the city of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, the Palestinian official news agency […]
Activist rapper Lowkey is joined by Dr. Ramzy Baroud to discuss the latest Israeli attacks against al-Aqsa mosque and Palestinian worshippers, media coverage and the hypocrisy of Arab countries’ responses to Israeli crimes who have […]
Palestinian Christians in Gaza celebrated the ‘Holy Saturday’ on Easter Eve, in the Saint Porphyrios Church in Gaza City. On Great and Holy Saturday, the Orthodox Church commemorates Jesus Christ’s burial and descent in Hades, […]
Malsi, who had never been out of Gaza was picking olives close to the high border wall. She said to her grandmother that she wished the trees were much much taller. But why her grandmother […]
The English Forest Green Rovers Football Club has flown the Palestinian flag on April 18, during a game against Oldham Athletic, at the Gloucestershire club’s New Lawn Stadium. Chairman Dale Vince said in a tweet […]
A large number of activists gathered on Saturday in front of the Israeli Embassy in London, to condemn repeated Israeli aggressions on Palestinian worshippers in Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. The protest has been organized by […]
In this exclusive photo gallery, Palestinian fighters in Gaza are seen handing dates and water to drivers and passengers in Gaza City. Palestine Chronicle photojournalist in Gaza Mahmoud Ajjour said that the practice is aimed […]
(Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders and Intellectuals Speak Out, by Ramzy Baroud and Ilan Pappé, Clarity Press, 2022) ‘Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders and Intellectuals Speak Out’ is a fascinating book, […]
In a heated exchange with CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday, Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said that settler terrorism and the rise in violence and vandalism by Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank […]
Finally, with a devastating war on its doorstep, Europe called out Russia for committing crimes of “collective punishment” – a term it studiously avoids using against Israel. For Europe, America and the rest of the […]
A while ago, I was talking to a friend about some things I was helping another go through. He was experiencing some unnecessary barriers within Toronto-based social services, specifically on account of discrimination against people […]
As more and more Canadians, including university students across the country, oppose Israel’s apartheid policies, the Liberals devoted millions of dollars in the recent federal budget to strengthen anti-Palestinian forces. They put up $5.6 million […]
Spanish football giant FC Barcelona is reported to have forced one of its young stars to delete a pro-Palestine Instagram post, Palestine Online reported. According to the news website, 20-year-old winger Abde Ezzalzouli, who is […]
(Giving up is not an option: Memoirs of a Palestinian American. Hani Q. Khoury. Amazon, 2021.) In an interesting short work, Giving up is not an option – Memoirs of a Palestinian American, Hani Khoury […]
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