Israeli warplanes last night carried out two strikes that hit targets in the center of the Gaza Strip, resulting in damages to property but no casualties, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Israeli F16 […]
The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas called on Friday for Palestinian resistance factions in Gaza to be ready for any Israeli escalation at Al-Aqsa Mosque and in Jerusalem’s neighborhoods, a statement has announced. In the […]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said yesterday that Moscow supports defusing tension between Israel and the Palestinians in the occupied city of Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, Anadolu reported. Speaking at a press conference with […]
Palestine, like many countries around the world, commemorated International Workers’ Day on Saturday, May 1. But for a country that is overwhelmed with a persisting military occupation, thus exploitation and unemployment of large sectors of […]
(The Crash of Flight 3804: A Lost Spy, A Daughter’s Quest, and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil. Charlotte Dennett. Chelsea Green Publishing. London/White River Junction, VT. 2020.) Titles can be deceptive […]
Israel said Thursday that it had re-opened the fishing zone off the blockaded Gaza Strip, after closing it earlier this week. “Following security consultation, it was decided today to re-open the fishing zone,” said a […]
The Israeli government has banned Palestinian fishermen from working off the coast of Gaza, Wafa news agency has reported. Already prevented from fishing in the full 12 nautical miles of occupied Palestine’s own territorial waters, […]
Three people were injured by Israeli army gunfire and many sites were destroyed in several Israeli strikes on the besieged Gaza Strip last night and early this morning, Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Israeli soldiers […]
The Jerusalem uprising, as it has been dubbed (in Arabic intifada al-Quds), raged last night in occupied Jerusalem for the 11th night in a row in protest against Israeli police and settlers’ provocations and assaults […]
Members of the Palestinian Journalists Forum and other Palestinian activists held two separate protests outside the Gaza headquarters of the Red Cross in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners and in commemoration of Arab Prisoners Day. In […]
The besieged Gaza Strip yesterday recorded the highest number of COVID-19 fatalities, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the coastal enclave said. The coronavirus pandemic has meant mostly bad news for Gaza. But despite it […]
The Israeli army has revealed a plan including simultaneous attacks on hundreds of targets in Gaza based on a prepared bank of targets, Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported on Friday. According to the London-based newspaper, this was […]
Two people were injured early this morning in Israeli air raids on the besieged Gaza Strip as several areas were hit with missiles, destroying the sites and causing damage to civilian homes, according to the […]
Palestinian refugees who fled Syria to Gaza as a result of the war continue their protests at the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Unlike Syrian refugees in other parts of […]
Israeli warplanes today struck several sites in the besieged Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Israeli F-16 fighter jets fired two missiles at a site, west of Nuseirat refugee camp in the […]
The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has elected Khaled Meshaal as the head of its political bureau abroad. Mousa Abu Marzook will be Meshaal’s deputy, the movement told the media. “This is part of the […]
US Congressional Republicans delayed $75 million in aid from being sent to Palestinians, reported the Jerusalem Post. Last month, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) sent Congress a “program narrative” of $75 million in […]
The Israeli government is ramping up its efforts aimed at creating a centralized strategy to combat an imminent investigation into war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC). A high-level meeting brought top Israeli officials […]
(Engaging the World: The making of Hamas’s foreign policy. Daud Abdullah. Afro-Middle East Centre (AMEC), 2020.) Hamas has been a strongly maligned actor within the western mainstream media. The concise and well-written “Engaging the World” […]
Under strict precautions, the Palestinian Christian community in Gaza celebrated Easter Sunday inside the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Family. Celebrations and special prayers were also held in many parts of occupied Palestine, including […]
Maryam Bar is a 32-year-old Palestinian woman living in Gaza City. She is a graduate of Islamic Studies. For her, there is much overlapping between her academic credentials and her passion for cats. As a […]
Nine members of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah – withdrew on Thursday from the movement’s electoral list for parliamentary elections just as the Central Elections Commission closed registration for the polls. Fatah candidate […]
Palestinians at home and in Shataat marked the 45th anniversary of Land Day, which falls on March 30 of every year, with rallies and marches in Palestinian Arab towns inside Israel, as well as the […]
Fulfilling an earlier promise to “raise the voices of Palestinian people” in the parliament of Aotearoa New Zealand, just last week, Wellington Palestine and Alternative Jewish Voices were welcomed into parliament by Golriz Ghahraman MP […]
Thousands of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip have been deprived of identity documents and consequently, several basic rights, most notably the right to freedom of movement, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said in a […]
A study released today by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) and the Palestinian Water Authority suggests that only four percent of households in the Gaza Strip have access to safely managed water, compared […]
Israel has received a letter from the International Criminal Court (ICC) giving details of the scope of its war crimes investigation against the occupation state and Hamas, Channel 13 reported on Wednesday. The letter apparently […]
Jamila al-Shanti became the first woman to be elected to the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas. The bureau is the highest political decision-making body of the movement. Al-Shanti, a Palestinian refugee from […]
The three Palestinian fishermen who died in an off-shore blast over the weekend encountered an explosive-laden Israeli drone that fell into the sea and detonated in their nets, the Ministry of Interior in Gaza said […]
The Palestine Chronicle organized its first media training workshop in Gaza on Wednesday, March 10. The training, which was conducted by Palestine Chronicle correspondent in the Gaza Strip Abdallah Aljamal, took place at the Youth […]
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