The BRICS summit conference, held on Thursday in the South African capital of Pretoria, has called for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, the official Palestinian news agency […]
Saleh Raafat, a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) called on Sunday for an international boycott of the new Israeli government to force it to accept international legitimacy. Speaking to […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza participated on Thursday in a rally to commemorate the 18th anniversary of former President Yasser Arafat’s death. The rally was organized by the Palestinian National […]
Palestinians on Thursday marked the 18th anniversary of the death of Yasser Arafat, the first president of Palestine and chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), with a rally and march through the streets of […]
By Ramzy Baroud Palestinians and their supporters are justified in celebrating the election victory of the leftist presidential candidate, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, in Brazil’s runoff elections on October 30. But Lula’s victory […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Hundreds of Palestinians, including national and popular figures, participated in the “Palestinian Popular Conference – 14 Million”, urging a reform of the Palestine LIberation Organization (PLO), Sama News Agency reported. […]
Rival Palestinian political groups agreed on Thursday to end internal division through elections that will be held within a year, Reuters reported, citing a Palestinian and an Algerian official. This came as representatives of Palestinian […]
Over 70% of Palestinians want Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas to resign, Al-Risalah newspaper reported on Wednesday. According to the news site, the poll was conducted between September 13-17, ahead of Abbas’ speech before […]
The Factional Coordination Committee in Nablus announced on Wednesday that an agreement has been reached to end the tension in the West Bank city, Anadolu news agency reported. Tensions rose on Monday after the Palestinian […]
By Jim Miles (The Hundred Year War on Palestine – A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017. Rashid Khalidi. Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2020.) With the writing of “The Hundred […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The US State Department said on Monday that the analysis of the bullet that killed Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh last May “could not reach a definitive conclusion regarding [its] […]
By Louis Brehony The unity of the Palestinian people in resistance since the May 2021 uprising has continued to rattle the crisis-ridden corridors of power in Tel Aviv. Protests in the supposed heartlands of the […]
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas condemned American ‘silence’ on Tuesday and insisted that the US administration “must turn its talk into action,” the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Abbas made his comments during a […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Palestinians in Gaza take part in a rally on Saturday, April 16, marking the 34th anniversary of the assassination of Palestinian leader Khalil al-Wazir by Israeli forces in Tunisia. Al-Wazir, […]
By Katarzyna Rybarczyk As the eyes of the entire world are on Ukraine now, it can seem like the Palestinian struggle has been fading into the background, but in Beirut’s Mar Elias camp, it remains […]
Iconic Palestinian political activist Khalida Jarrar said that the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) “is hijacked and suffers from hegemony and exclusivity, in an interview with Al Resalah newspaper on Wednesday. ‘These Chains Will Be Broken’: Ramzy […]
Palestinians throughout the West Bank rallied on Thursday marking the 17th anniversary of the death of Yasser Arafat, the first president of Palestine and chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the official Palestinian news […]
By Mahmoud Ajjour – Gaza Palestinian artist Naji Nasr is putting the final touches on his latest painting, ‘Abu Ammar’, the nom de guerre of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who passed away on November […]
The Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas has suspended monthly payments to three Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) political groups to silence their criticisms, the groups disclosed in a joint statement on Sunday. The Popular Front […]
By Issam Khalidi Throughout decades, sports were a mirror that reflected Palestinian reality and portrayed it with all its details. The Palestinian struggle has always been multilateral and sport was one of them. Sports developments […]
The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has called for a “transparent” investigation into the murder of a Palestinian activist in the West Bank, Nizar Banat, RT reported on Friday. “It is a serious incident and needs […]
Around 3,000 Palestinians have signed a petition calling for Mahmoud Abbas to resign from his triple position as head of the Fatah movement, head of the PLO and Palestinian Authority chairman. In April, Abbas, whose […]
Member of Fatah’s Central Committee and the PLO’s Executive Committee Azzam Al-Ahmad yesterday reiterated that the PLO and Fatah will not accept carrying out elections without Jerusalem. Speaking to Voice of Palestine radio, Al-Ahmad said: […]
Kosovo opened its embassy to Israel in Jerusalem on Sunday, joining the United States and Guatemala as the only countries with embassies in a city whose status is at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian “conflict”, […]
Senior Fatah leaders Marwan Barghouti and Nasser Al-Qidwa have given Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas until March 5 to accept their electoral list, Lebanon’s Al-Akbar reported on Monday. Barghouti has been in an Israeli prison […]
By Ramzy Baroud December 8 came and went as if it was an ordinary day. For Palestinian political groups, it was another anniversary to be commemorated, however hastily. It was on this day, thirty-three […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas accepted today, Wednesday, December 9, the resignation of Hanan Ashrawi, an influential member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the official […]
Hanan Ashrawi has resigned from the Palestinian Liberation Organisation’s Executive Committee in protest at Ramallah’s decision to resume security coordination with Israel, sources have told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed. Dr. Ashrawi, a veteran legislator who has taken […]
Dr. Saeb Erekat, the Secretary-General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s Executive Committee, passed away from COVID-19, the Palestinian Fatah movement announced. The veteran PLO official contracted coronavirus on October 8, his condition became critical ten […]
Longtime chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat is suffering from pneumonia after he contracted the novel COVID-19, Palestinian Health Minister Mai Alkaila said today. Alkaila said in a press statement that the President’s Office, the government, […]
A recent New York Times made many claims about the ‘mass rape’ of Israeli women on October 7. But two leading Palestinian media organizations, The Palestine Chronicle and Friends of Palestine Network, conducted a joint investigation, the outcome of which resulted in the ‘The Black Dress’, a groundbreaking 18-minute documentary looking into allegations and the possible falsification of evidence.
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