By Palestine Chronicle Staff Chris Gunness, the spokesperson for The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), has issued a statement in response to the Israeli Defense Force […]
In a report marking the two-year anniversary of the ceasefire that ended ‘Operation Protective Edge’, UN agencies have urged an end to what they describe as the Gaza Strip’s ‘de-development spiral’. In a statement released […]
Following an intense two year campaign, the BDS South Africa movement in support of Palestine has announced an end to the controversial #BoycottWoolworths boycott. The #BoycottWoolworths campaign was launched in August 2014 in response to […]
Within Gaza’s fast-growing entrepreneurial sector, Gaza’s technological community holds a Startup Weekend event every year. This year, the event will focus specifically on children. “It is the first startup event exclusively for kids in the Middle East,” Startup […]
The Israeli military has closed 13 criminal investigations into cases of Israeli soldiers committing violations against Palestinian civilians during the 2014 Israeli assault on the besieged Gaza Strip without imposing any punitive measures, a statement […]
The United Nations and Palestinian factions from across the political spectrum reacted with outrage after Palestinian security officers arrested a Palestinian man and beat him to death in prison on Tuesday morning. The UN denounced the killing […]
By Yves Engler Sticks and stone may break my bones, but names will never hurt me — and they may come back to haunt the name-callers. In finding anti-Semites behind every challenge to Canadian complicity with […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association said in a statement that Palestinian hunger striker, Bilal Kayed, will be released on December 12, 2016, on condition he ends his 71-day hunger […]
The Commissioner of Intentional Relations of the Fatah Movement, Nabil Shaath, has said in a statement that 62% of Palestinian lands in the West Bank have been turned into Israeli settlements, and the number of […]
Jordanian politician Taher Almasri has refused ‘any attempt to politicize’ Jordan’s refusal to grant a permit to register a new society for Jerusalem affairs. The refusal was granted by the officer in charge of Registered Associations […]
UK Foreign Office files have revealed that Israel sold weapons to Argentina in 1982, which were used against British forces during the battle over the territory in the Falklands War. Prior to the war, Israel […]
Egyptian power-lines feeding the southern Gaza Strip began operating normally on Wednesday after three days of power being disconnected due to damage. An official at Gaza’s electricity company told Ma’an that the Egyptian power-lines feeding […]
The International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment (ICEVI) has awarded Rima Canawati with the International Leadership Award for the outstanding service to people with a visual impairments. The award ceremony held on […]
By Ramzy Baroud “You deserve to see your loved ones suffer and die. But, maybe, you would be hurt before them,” was part of a threatening message received by a staff member at ‘Al-Mezan’, a […]
In breaking news from Barzilai hospital in Asqelan, Palestinian prisoner and hunger striker Bilal Kayed announced that he is suspending his hunger strike on his 71st day without food pending a press conference in which […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff On his 70th day of his hunger strike, Palestinian prisoner, Belal Kayed, sent a letter through his lawyer to his family and to the Palestinian people assuring them that he will […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The U.S. State Department has issued a statement warning US citizens not to travel to the Gaza Strip and to avoid areas in the West Bank where demonstrations occur. The statement […]
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said on Sunday that Israel’s actions against Palestinians does not constitute ‘terrorism’, eliciting a range of angry responses. Shoukry’s comments came during a Q&A session with students held at the […]
Palestinians living in parts of the occupied West Bank are suffering from a severe shortage of water as temperatures in the area peak. Palestinian, Nidal Younis, head of the Masafer Yatta village council near Hebron, […]
Supporters of Celtic football club, known as The Green Brigade raised more than £110,000 (US$144,000) and counting, as of Tuesday afternoon, in reaction to a fine from the Football European governing body, UEFA, over a […]
An Austrian animal rights organization has moved animals at a Gaza zoo to South Africa and Jordan to provide better protection and food for them. The organization moved the animals from a zoo in Khan […]
A small majority of both Palestinians and Israelis support a two-state solution despite their differing views on the terms of a permanent settlement to peace negotiations, a survey published Monday found. The survey, conducted jointly by […]
Palestine Chronicle Staff The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has called on Israel, in a statement released today, to investigate the killing of a Palestinian youth […]
On the first anniversary of the disappearance of two of the four Palestinians in the Sinai en route to Cairo, Al-Jazeera Live TV has published a leaked photo from an Egyptian prison in Cairo. The […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Taekwondo fighter, Ahmad Abughaush, has made Jordanian history at the Rio 2016 Olympics, winning a gold medal – Jordan’s first-ever Olympic medal since it joined the games in 1980. However, […]
“Israel is unable to defeat Gaza despite its military supremacy,” Al-Resalah newspaper reported the head of Hamas’ political bureau saying yesterday. In a televised speech aired in a mosque in the eastern Gaza neighbourhood of Al-Shuja’iyya, Khaled […]
Thousands of Israelis rallied in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square on Tuesday in support of an army medic who was caught on video last month executing a wounded Palestinian suspect following a knife attack in the […]
The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement published yesterday “Turkey should think twice before criticizing the military action of another country.” The statement added, “We will continue to defend Israelis against rockets […]
Reviewed by Hatim Kanaaneh (I Remember My Name – Poetry by Samah Sabawi, Ramzy Baroud and Jehan Bseiso. Vacy Vlazna, ed., 2016, Novum Publishing. Kindle Edition.) In penning this review, the primacy of Israel in […]
Israel has more than doubled its sale of services and products to the United Nations (UN) and its branches over the past two years, according to Israel’s Channel 2. The channel said that a recent report […]
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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