The Fatah party may split before elections if President Mahmoud Abbas excludes supporters of exiled former party leader, Mohamed Dahlan, Al-Resalah newspaper reported. “We are more popular than Abbas,” member of the party’s reformist group and Dahlan […]
The late Palestinian poet and icon, Mahmoud Darwish, has stirred controversy in Israel eight years after his death after Army Radio aired a show about him as inciting terrorism. Israeli defence ministry yesterday issued a […]
Palestinians are using the Pokemon Go game, which has gone viral, to highlight their plight in the face of Israel’s continuing occupation, News.com.au reported. The game, which is banned in some countries and is said to breach […]
By Ramzy Baroud I visited Iraq in 1999. At the time, there were no so-called ‘jihadis’ espousing the principles of ‘jihadism’, whatever the interpretation may be. On the outskirts of Baghdad was a military training […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth The grubby underside of US electoral politics is on show once again as the Democratic and Republican candidates prepare to fight it out for the presidency. And it doesn’t get […]
Videos have emerged and gone viral online of what appears to show Syrian rebels taunting and then beheading a boy they say is a captured Palestinian pro-government fighter. Social media was on Tuesday inundated with […]
The Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday handed 16 demolition orders to Palestinians living in villages around Nablus. The orders include demolishing 14 houses and two agricultural facilities, and shutting down two agricultural roads in the […]
A 12-year-old Palestinian boy was killed Tuesday evening during clashes with Israeli soldiers in the town of al-Ram, north of Jerusalem, in the central occupied West Bank, after he was shot in the heart by […]
Gaza’s military court issued death sentences on Tuesday against three Palestinians charged with collaborating with Israel, according to a statement released by the court. The statement said that two unidentified Palestinians -(a 59-year-old resident of […]
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, warned yesterday that the Palestinian Authority (PA) would collapse if the Israeli army and security services withdraw from the West Bank. Netanyahu said, “I do not want to donate the […]
A group of unidentified Israeli settlers set alight a house belonging to the Dwabsheh family in the West Bank village of Duma last night. The house of Mohammed Dwabsheh was set alight resulting in the […]
By Haidar Eid – Gaza When we, Palestinian Civil Society, issued our 2015 BDS call, we were counting on people of conscience, rather than governments and complicit corporations. Most of us argued that we needed […]
Israeli opposition leader, Isaac Herzog, warned of what he called “growing hatred and racism” in Israel encouraged by right-wing politicians, adding that it could pave the way for further deadly violence, Hebrew-language news site NRG reported on […]
The Israeli Central Court in Jerusalem has sentenced 14-year-old Palestinian, ‘Mo’awiyeh Alqam’ to six-and-a-half years in prison for an alleged stabbing attempt, Quds Press reported. Alqam’s family was further ordered to pay a fine of 26,000 Israeli […]
The United Nation’s Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) on Sunday postponed a vote on a draft resolution that would designate Al-Aqsa Mosque as an Islamic-only site, following a failed coup attempt in Turkey, Israel’s Haaretz newspaper […]
The Palestine Prisoners Centre has revealed that Israel has arrested 17 Palestinians at the Eretz Crossing en route to the West Bank during the first half of the year. Riyad Alashqar, the spokesperson of the […]
The Palestine Today reported that the Israeli Knesset is today expected to pass the second and third drafts of a resolution that allows for the banning of Members of Knesset (MKs) who “call for hatred and […]
The first Palestine Taekwondo Championship has kicked off in Ramallah on Monday at the headquarters of Birzeit University, with participation of nearly 300 athletes, both local and international. The championship started with a fight between […]
By Jamal Kanj How many words does it take the British to say a liar? 2.6 million words to be exact. The Chiclot report had also painted Tony Blair as submissive to George W Bush, […]
The Ministry of Social Affairs in the Gaza Strip will distribute the first package of Turkish aid, starting tomorrow. Safa News Agency reported that 10,000 Palestinian families would receive this aid, which includes food packages. […]
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society said on Sunday that Israel Prison Service (IPS) forces raided section 5 of Israel’s Ramon prison, and imposed a total closure on the section, which holds exclusively prisoners affiliated with the […]
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, on Sunday urged the African Union member states and its officials to support the French initiative to organize an international peace conference aimed at reaching a solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. In a […]
Six senior army commanders were arrested in connection with the failed coup attempt in Turkey, including 64-year-old General Akin Öztürk, who in the 1990s was the Turkish military attaché to Israel, a Turkish official told […]
A source in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement in the West Bank village of Qabatya said fighters belonging to the military wing of the movement have exchanged fire with invading Israeli forces in Jenin as […]
Israeli occupation forces have transferred Palestinian prisoner and MP, Marwan al-Barghouthi yesterday from Jalbou prison to isolation in Hadarim prison. Israeli forces transfer Palestinian prisoners from one prison to another as a form of punishment. […]
Palestinian national and Islamic factions are set to meet the head of the Palestinian Central Election Committee, Dr. Hanna Nasser, in the Gaza Strip today, who will arrive with a delegation from the Central Election […]
The Palestinian Ministry of Interior in the Gaza Strip said 24,138 babies have been born in the Gaza Strip during the last six months, with an average of 132 new babies born per day. The […]
PLO Executive Committee Member, Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, met with the EU Commission’s Coordinator on Combating Anti-Semitism, Katharina von Schnurbein, at the PLO Headquarters in Ramallah. Both parties reviewed the EU position on racism and human […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Palestinian leaders expressed their condolences to French President Francois Hollande and the French people on Friday, following an attack Thursday night in Nice, France, that left at least 84 people killed, […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Hamas has issued a statement in which it condemned the failed coup attempt carried out by Turkish military forces. The statement expressed, on behalf of Hamas and the Palestinian people, “the unfair attempt to crack down […]
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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