By Rannie Amiri Israel’s Jan. 6 attack on a United Nations-run girls elementary school sheltering more than 1,600 civilians in Gaza’s Jabalya refugee camp was not the first time the country’s military targeted refugees it […]
By Kathy Kelly – Arish, Egypt Yesterday, en route to the Rafah border crossing that leads into Gaza, our driver pointed to a long line of trucks laden with goods that are desperately needed in […]
By Salim Nazzal In the year 285, Silvanus the Palestinian bishop of Gaza was given two choices, either to give up his faith or to die. Off course Silvanus knew that his power was little […]
By William A. Cook "Become more human, and humans will love you." — (Text of the Gospel of Phillip, 143) Predictably, the United States Senate and House of Representatives voted to support Israel’s carnage in […]
By M. Shahid Alam At a time when Palestinian men, women and children, corralled in the ghetto of Gaza since 1948, are daily, hourly, relentlessly, being bombed from the air, land and sea, it is […]
By Suzanne Roberts We watch for days in disbelief.But war is death—the suffering so far away.But it’s not the time to look away from grief. The blood of children stains the streets.Bent barefoot at the mosque, […]
By Stuart Littlewood – London After seeing American politicians pass resolutions giving unconditional support for Israel’s offensive in Gaza – the Senate unanimously and Congress by 390 to 5 – readers might like to know […]
By Stephen Lendman – Chicago In his January 8 article, "Gaza Under Fire," John Pilger quotes the Soviet dissident Yevgeny Yevtushenko saying: "When the truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie." America’s […]
[Editor’s Note: The following is the full text of an open letter sent by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Gaza to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, on January 12, 2009. The Gaza government was deposed […]
Israel pressed on with its assault on the Gaza Strip, sending its tanks into built-up areas in the city of Gaza, the deepest thrust since the attack began as the military said "there is still […]
Israeli invading troops are using armless civilians in the Gaza Strip as human shields to protect them against attacks from Palestinian resistance fighters. "It’s standard practice for Israeli soldiers to go into a house, lock […]
By Adham Khalil – Gaza It is very horrible here. Today was the worst. There were lots of F-16s above us and white phosphorous falling from the sky. I didn’t sleep last night. The sound […]
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has boasted that he forced US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to abstain from a UN Security Council resolution on Gaza, which she supported and even helped draft. "In the […]
Dozens of Lebanese protestors angry at Israel’s onslaught of the Gaza Strip forced the closure Tuesday of a Starbucks coffee shop in Beirut, calling for a boycott of the U.S.-based chain. "We want to revive […]
By Ola Attallah – Gaza City "Oh, God! I have never seen such a terrible scene," cried Kayed Abu Aukal. The emergency doctor could not believe himself seeing the remains of what was days back […]
By George Bisharat Israel’s current assault on the Gaza Strip cannot be justified by self-defense. Rather, it involves serious violations of international law, including war crimes. Senior Israeli political and military leaders may bear personal […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Concerns about Israel’s use of non-conventional and experimental weapons in the Gaza Strip are growing, with evasive comments from spokesmen and reluctance to allow independent journalists inside the tiny enclave […]
By Janine Roberts Much has been made of Hamas’ reported failure to honour last year’s truce. But, an extraordinary correspondence between Jewish residents of the much-rocketed town of Sderot, nearby kibbutz, and the Palestinians living […]
By Franklin Lamb – Beirut "The Resistance is one project and the resistance movement is one movement and has one course, one destiny, one goal, despite its different parties, factions, believes, sects and intellectual and […]
By Jim Miles – Canada Canada lives in the unfortunate position of being under the thrall of U.S. media for most its information and cultural relevance. At the same time, its own media, apart from […]
The Palestine Chronicle is pleased to feature a poem by J. A. Miller. Voldemort in Gaza – Operation ‘Cast Lead’ By J. A. Miller He went down to Gaza to play gamesSpinning a dreidel that […]
Two Norwegian medics who returned on Monday, January 12, from the bombed-out Gaza Strip compared the Israeli onslaught to the massacre of Palestinian refugees in Sabra and Shatila in 1982. "Gaza in 2009 is becoming […]
Israel on Monday vowed to hit Hamas with an "iron fist" if it does not stop firing its rockets against the Jewish state, as Hamas announced it was closer to victory. Israel will hit Hamas […]
Israel is testing a new "extremely nasty" type of weapon in Gaza, two medics charged as they returned home to Norway Monday after spending 10 days working at a hospital in the impoverished territory; while […]
Since Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip began, Venezuela’s president has openly and strongly criticized Israel and the United States for what he labeled the ‘holocaust’ of the Palestinian people; his outspoken rhetoric has turned […]
By Ewa Jasiewicz – Beit Hanoun and Jabaliya, Gaza Last night was a quiet one in Jabbaliya. ‘Only’ six homes bombed into the ground, the Market, again, maybe four lightly injured people – shrapnel to […]
By Hamid Dabashi Writing under circumstances when on a daily basis Palestinian women and children are slaughtered by the Israeli army in Gaza is an exceedingly difficult, for it seems utterly futile, task. But writing […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth As Israel rejected the terms of the proposed United Nations ceasefire at the weekend, Israeli military analysts were speculating on the nature of the next stage of the attack on Gaza, […]
By Jeremy Salt – Ankara Palestine is the issue but Israel remains the problem. The fact that Israelis do not see their state as the problem is everyone else’s problem only because they can’t see […]
By Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos – Mexico Two days ago, the same day we discussed violence, the ineffable Condoleezza Rice, a US official, declared that what was happening in Gaza was the Palestinians’ fault, due to […]
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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