The Zaffa is a main fixture in traditional Palestinian Arab weddings. The Zaffa is for dancers, musicians, family and friends to welcome the bride and groom into the reception hall. Palestine Chronicle photojournalist in Gaza, Mahmoud Ajjour, […]
Driving around in Gaza, you see, feel, and experience too much. It’s overwhelming, all too hectic and chaotic, but then everything, for a moment, subsides. This means you saw something, that thing makes you forget […]
After 15 months of deliberation, the Advertising Standards Authority UK (ASA) has refused to formally investigate a complaint from a group of Anglo American shareholders that challenges advertisements claiming De Beers and Forevermark diamonds are […]
In 1956 the dying colonial powers, Britain and France, in cahoots with apartheid Israel launched a tripartite aggression against Egypt after its heroic decision to nationalize the Suez Canal. England occupied the city of Suez […]
Facebook has “wrongfully removed” content by Palestinians and pro-Palestine activists, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Friday. According to the New York-based international NGO, Facebook unfairly removed posts describing human rights abuses […]
In a shocking decision made by Herman Scholtz as the Deputy Press Ombudsman, he has ironically, granted propagandists for the Apartheid regime of Israel a blank cheque to malign conscientious human rights critics of Zionist […]
Egyptian mediators have been unable to bring Israeli and Hamas representatives closer during indirect talks regarding a potential prisoner exchange deal, Israeli sources reported today. According to Arab48.com, the Israeli Hebrew-language newspaper Maariv reported an […]
Israeli navy Wednesday morning targeted Palestinian fishermen offshore As-Sudaniya area, northwest of Gaza city, according to the official Palestinian news agency WAFA. WAFA correspondent said that the Palestinian fishermen were sailing within six nautical miles […]
Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor and the Global Institute for Water, Environment and Health (GIWEH) said in a joint oral statement during the 48th session of Human Rights Council (HRC) that the long-term Israeli blockade has […]
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday expressed his concerns about the expulsion of Palestinian families from Sheikh Jarrah and increasing tension at Al-Aqsa Mosque, fearing that this could lead to a new war, […]
Mousa Abu Marzouk, a member of the Hamas political bureau, revealed on Thursday a scheme involving countries and individuals in the region, who aim to tighten the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip and thwart […]
Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man east al-Bureij refugee camp, in the central besieged Gaza Strip, according to the official Palestinian news agency WAFA. WAFA correspondent said that 41-year-old Mohammad Abdul-Karim Ammar was shot dead […]
US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has responded to accusations of “cowardice” over her last-minute decision to abstain from a vote on providing $1 billion in additional funding for Israel’s Iron Dome missile system, The New Arab […]
Nearly two-thirds of American scholars and academics, whose work focuses on the Middle East, think that the current reality in Israeli and Palestine is akin to apartheid, a recent survey by the Middle East Scholar […]
Hundreds of Palestinians today took part in sit-ins held in front of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) premises across multiple West Bank cities, in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners, the official Palestinian news […]
A Dutch court will hear an appeal next week against Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz for his alleged role in the murder of a family during Israel’s 2014 military offensive on the Gaza Strip, Middle […]
The Israeli army today detained three youths from Gaza Strip when they were near the eastern fence separating besieged Gaza from Israel, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported on Saturday. Israeli soldiers, stationed behind […]
25 years before Israel was established on the ruins of historic Palestine, a Russian Jewish Zionist leader, Ze’ev Jabotinsky, argued that a Jewish state in Palestine could only survive if it exists “behind an iron […]
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi yesterday called for international support for Cairo’s mediation efforts between Israel and Gaza. During a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Al-Sisi cited his country’s efforts to maintain calm […]
Rise After Tawfiq Ziad From Nazareth: this light in my eyes, this flame in my blood, and all the pain of Palestine I speak and gladly give – I, the orphan starving, who heard the […]
Israeli warplanes bombarded different locations across the Gaza strip on the dawn of Saturday, causing damage but no injuries. Local sources said Israeli warplanes shelled an agricultural land in Ata Zayed in Beit Hanoun. They […]
A large Israeli army campaign is taking social media by storm. The unstated aim of what is known as the “#Untie_Our_Hands” initiative is the desire to kill, with no accountability, more Palestinian protesters at the […]
The head of the Hamas Political Bureau stressed on Tuesday that the six Palestinian prisoners who escaped from Israel’s high-security Gilboa Prison “must be protected”. According to a statement from the movement, Ismail Haniyeh’s comment […]
Palestinian Health Minister Mai Al-Kaila has warned of a fourth wave of the coronavirus across the occupied Palestinian territories. Al-Kaila’s warning comes as the number of new Covid-19 cases and deaths rise across the Gaza Strip […]
Israeli warplanes last night attacked several sites in the besieged Gaza Strip causing damage but no injuries, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Israeli warplanes attacked three sites in and around Khan Younis in […]
For years, Palestinian families have held a weekly vigil inside or outside the Red Cross headquarters in Gaza City to protest the detention and demand the freedom of their loved ones inside Israeli prisons. Mothers, […]
The Israeli army’s Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi issued a highly irregular public letter on Saturday, in which he warned that Israel must be prepared to lose soldiers in order to have “resilience” and told […]
Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh has assured Palestinians that efforts are ongoing to free detainees held by Israel, reports Anadolu Agency. “The efforts made by Hamas to secure the release of all Palestinian detainees from […]
A Palestinian farmer was injured by Israeli gunfire on Sunday afternoon while he was working on his own farm in the village of Juhor ad-Dik, south of Gaza City, according to the Palestinian news agency […]
The Israeli military attack on the Gaza Strip in May 2021 had catastrophic economic effects, especially on the productive sector, and caused direct and indirect losses exceeding half a billion dollars in various sectors, Euro-Mediterranean […]
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