In an interview with the Quds Press news agency, former Deputy Prime Minister of Jordan, Mamdouh al-Abadi said on Sunday that the “two-state solution is a lie.” Al-Abadi stressed that Jordan “must be present at […]
Israel’s far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir stormed Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque compound early on Sunday, The New Arab reported, citing a source from the Islamic Waqf Department in Jerusalem. Ben-Gvir was accompanied by 30 members of the […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Tensions rose in the West Bank and East Jerusalem on Thursday when tens of thousands of Jewish settlers marched to Jerusalem’s Old City in the provocative ‘Flag march’. Shop owners in […]
A massive rally was staged in the Jordanian capital Amman on Friday, in condemnation of the Israeli aggression on Al-Aqsa mosque and Palestinian worshippers in Jerusalem, Palestinian media reported. Hundreds of people took part in […]
The United Nations Security Council is expected to hold an emergency closed session on Thursday to discuss Israeli violations at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City, the official news agency WAFA reported. The joint request […]
Israeli forces stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque on Sunday night and forcibly evicted worshippers after Ramadan prayers, The New Arab reported. According to The New Arab, Israeli forces entered the mosque’s prayer hall after Ramadan’s Taraweeh prayers […]
Jordan’s King Abdullah II said Sunday that Muslims have a duty to “safeguard” Jerusalem’s holy sites, in a meeting in Amman with Muslim and Christian religious leaders from the occupied city, The New Arab reported. […]
Jordan’s parliament voted on Wednesday to expel Israel’s ambassador to Amman after Israeli Finance Minister Belazel Smotrich spoke at an event in Paris this week alongside a map showing ‘Greater Israel’, which included both Jordan […]
Jordan is hosting on Sunday a “political-security” meeting between Israel and the Palestinians to try to calm tensions in the occupied Palestinian territories after deadly violence, a Jordanian government official said. The meeting, held in […]
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar and Jordan have condemned Israel’s deadly raid in the occupied Palestinian territories, when 11 Palestinians, including a minor and an elderly man, were killed by Israeli forces in Nablus on Wednesday. […]
Arab leaders met at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo to discuss support for the Palestinians living under Israeli occupation in Jerusalem, the official news agency WAFA reported. The conference aims at presenting the issue […]
Jordan’s King Abdullah II has said he is prepared for conflict should the status quo regarding holy sites in occupied East Jerusalem change, warning that there are “red lines” not to be crossed, The New […]
Palestinian economic empowerment is not a substitute for a political solution, Jordan’s King Abdullah II said on Sunday, according to The New Arab. Addressing lawmakers in Jordan’s national assembly, the monarch spoke of Jordan’s duty […]
By Jeremy Salt Outrage has filled the western media in recent weeks over the death of a young Iranian Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, after being arrested by the Gasht i-Irshad, the so-called ‘morality police.’ The […]
By Sammy Baroud The under-20 Palestine National team have made it to the semi-finals of the U-20 Arab Cup coming off a late win against Jordan. Palestine’s young champions will meet Saudi Arabia on August […]
The Jordanian sports club Wihdat announced that it will not participate in an international handball competition that is scheduled to take place on July 18-28. The reason behind the decision is the club’s refusal to […]
Israeli police on Thursday barred an Al-Aqsa Mosque guard from entering the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City for one week, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Local sources told WAFA that the […]
Jordan is to buy water from Israel in a bid to ease shortages in the country, the Middle East Monitor reported on Thursday, citing Jordan media. Jordanian Minister of Water and Irrigation Mohammed Al-Najjar explained […]
Jordan has intensified efforts to push Israel to respect the historic status quo of Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa mosque and avoid a violent escalation, Jordanian officials and Western diplomats said on Thursday, according to The New […]
Thousands of protesters marched in Amman on Friday, chanting slogans in support of the Palestinian resistance and rejecting Arab normalization with Israel, Anadolu Agency reported. Jordanians gathered in front of the Grand Husseini Mosque in […]
Jordan’s King Abdullah II landed in Ramallah on Monday to meet Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, on his first trip to the occupied West Bank since 2017, Abbas’s office said. Abdullah’s visit comes as foreign […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Jordanian kickboxing coaches Mohammed Saud and Ibrahim Saraqma pulled out of the ‘Development Seminar and Coaching Workshop’, underway in Bahrain, due to the Israeli participation in the event, Al Jazeera and […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The phones of two leading activists for human rights in the Arab world were found to have been infected by Israeli Pegasus spyware, according to Israeli media. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz […]
Jordan’s King Abdullah met with Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz in the Jordanian capital Amman on Wednesday, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported. The Jordanian royal court said the meeting covered “a number of bilateral issues, and ways […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Though the final match in the 2021 FIFA Arab Cup brought Algeria and Tunisia together, it seems that Palestine was the dominant common denominator throughout the game. Algeria won 2-0 in […]
By Sammy Baroud The 10th Installment of The FIFA Arab Cup is underway in Qatar. Coming off of a convincing 5-1 win against The Comoros, Palestine (PLE ranked 98 in the world) kicked off their […]
Thousands of Jordanians rallied on Friday in protest against a deal signed with Israel that will reportedly see the two countries swap electricity for water, Anadolu News Agency reports. The march began in front of […]
A deal between Israel and Jordan that will see an exchange of solar power and freshwater between the two countries is expected to be signed next week, according to Haaretz. The terms of the agreement […]
Israel’s president met with the Jordanian king this past week, in a new sign of improved relations between the two countries, the president’s office revealed on Saturday. At the king’s invitation, new President Isaac Herzog […]
Israel’s security depends on good ties with Jordan, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said yesterday, stressing that his predecessor and head of the opposition destroyed relations between the two countries, the Jerusalem Post reported. “Knesset member […]
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