The Microfinance Department in Gaza organized its first trade fair to display products and services of micro-enterprises run by Palestinians benefiting from UNRWA Microfinance loans. The trade fair took place under the patronage of the […]
Senior Fatah leaders in Gaza have accused the new Fatah leadership commission of taking decisions in favor of the dismissed leader, Mohammed Dahlan, that reinforces his grip on the movement against Mahmoud Abbas, Al-Resalah newspaper reported. In […]
Israeli bulldozers, protected by Israeli forces, yesterday demolished 12 Palestinian houses in the town of Qalandiya to the north of Jerusalem, after imposing a closure on the town. IDF soldiers assaulted the mayor of the town, […]
Israel’s Defense Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, said Egypt is his country’s best ally in the Middle East as it is more serious than other countries. Lieberman added that more considerations should be borne in mind with […]
Saeb Erekat, Secretary General of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) has revealed that Palestinians asked Egypt to call for a meeting of the Arab Quartet in order to submit a draft resolution to the UN […]
The International Forum for Democracy and Human Rights (IFDHR) has filed a submission with the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) at the International Criminal Court (ICC) concerning the torture of Palestinian detainees by Palestinian security […]
Israeli forces detained four people, including a journalist and Oscar-nominated filmmaker, as soldiers dispersed weekly protests in the village of Bil‘in in the Ramallah district of the occupied West Bank. Palestinian Filmmaker, Emad Burnat, Oscar-nominated director […]
The United Nations Projects Office has announced signing an agreement with the German government through the German Development Bank to fund building some 100 houses destroyed during the 2014 summer offensive on Gaza. The UN […]
Dozens of Palestinians and their supporters organized a sit-in yesterday in Jaffa’s Aqtarjani neighborhood to protest a new Israeli project that aims at taking over the area. The newly-formed neighborhood committee organized the protest and […]
Palestinian Prime Minister, Rami Hamdallah, on Sunday joined a sit-in in front of Bethlehem’s Nativity Church in the southern occupied West Bank, organized by activists, in solidarity with dozens of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners held in […]
The Israeli occupation forces continue their blockade on El-Araqeep village in the Negev, for the eighth day, while continuing to shut down access to it and prevent its inhabitants from staying on their lands. Sources […]
Palestinian MP, Yehya Mousa, member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PCL) of Hamas Change and Reform Bloc has called on Saudi Arabia to reject all forms of normalization with the Israeli occupation. He told Al-Quds […]
Reviewed by Dr. Ludwig Watzal (Yakov M. Rabkin, What is Modern Israel, Pluto Press, London 2016, 228 pp. $ 27.) Zionism is primarily a Christian Protestant enterprise that has little to do with Judaism. This […]
A Palestinian Bedouin man was charged on Thursday with sheltering the alleged perpetrators of the shooting attack in a Tel Aviv market that left four Israelis dead on June 8. Abdelhadi Abu Afash, 49, a resident of […]
The Egyptian authorities are “closer to Israel than Hamas” and they “put more pressure” on the besieged Gaza Strip “than is needed,” Safa News Agency reported a senior Israeli army officer saying on Friday. The […]
Nearly one year after his parents and 18-month-old brother were murdered in an arson attack on their home by Jewish extremists, six-year-old Ahmad Dawabsha was released from Israel’s Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, on Friday, […]
The General Israeli Radio has announced that Doctors for Human Rights in Israel has filed a suit before the Central Court of Ber Alsaba demanding that it order the Israeli Prison Service to remove chains […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The Central Elections Commission in Palestine has resumed today, updating electoral records in preparation for local elections to be held in October 2016 in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Palestinians worldwide, and their supporters yesterday marked the 44th anniversary of the assassination of Ghassan Kanafani by Israel in Beirut in 1972 by planting explosives in his car. Kanafani’s niece Lamees […]
This video-clip is dedicated to Abdulla Issa, the 12-year old Palestinian child taunted and then beheaded by Syrian terrorists in Aleppo. Issa comes from a poor, refugee family who lived in a refugee camp in […]
By Hasan Afif El-Hasan Palestinians have the right to resist like any people under occupation – the Czechs under the Germans or the Algerians under the French – but they have been vilified if they […]
Israeli Defense Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, has compared the broadcast of poetry by Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish, on Israeli radio to glorifying Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf,” the Ministry of Defense said on Thursday. On Tuesday, Israeli […]
Qatar is to pay the July salaries of the employees of the former government of Gaza, Qatar News Agency (QNA) reported. Emir Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani “has directed that the salaries for Gaza Strip employees for […]
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, met with his French counterpart, Francois Hollande, Thursday evening at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Wafa reported. President Abbas reportedly made a point to condemn the attack in Nice, France last week that […]
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) warned that the needs of refugees in the Gaza Strip are greater than the funds available, Safa news agency reported. According to a report issued […]
The Al-Qassam Brigade has pledged to free all Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli jails, Quds Press reported yesterday. In a report published on its website, Al-Qassam Brigade said: “The [Israeli] enemy is confused and will […]
The Palestine Liberation Organization’s Executive Committee on Thursday condemned the horrific murder of 12-year-old Abdullah Issa, a Palestinian refugee in Syria, demanding immediate international intervention to bring those behind the beheading to justice. Chief Palestinian […]
Ramy Hamdallah, the Palestinian Prime Minister, has called on Israel to open its West Bank border with Jordan permanently to allow Palestinian travelers to cross freely without any delay. Hamdallah’s statement came during a visit […]
The Israeli Planning and Construction Committee of the Jerusalem Municipality approved a project yesterday to build more buildings and houses along the line of the light trail connecting East and West Jerusalem. Israeli General Radio […]
Jameel Mizhir, a member of the political Bureau of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) said the local elections to be held in Gaza and the West Bank in October is a […]
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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