The British ‘Football for Palestine’ team, organized by the UK Lions Football Club, concluded a week-long tour of the West Bank with a friendly soccer match at the Arab-American University stadium in Jenin, according to […]
‘While the resolution will unlikely alter the nature of the conflict fundamentally, it rejects – legally and morally – all Israeli efforts aimed at denying the rights of Muslims – and Christians – in their […]
At a rally organized in Gaza City on Monday commemorating the fifth anniversary of the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange deal, a number of activists and former prisoners vowed that Palestinian resistance movements would capture more Israeli […]
The Palestinian government and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) have condemned this week’s visit to Israel, and specifically to an illegal Israeli settlement, by South African MP Kenneth Meshoe, in violation of South Africa’s policy […]
Qpress, a media center specializing in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa affairs, has been closed by Israeli authorities. After being questioned and banned from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque last week, the head of the news organization, Dr. Hekmat […]
Issa Qaraqea, the head of Palestinian detainees and ex-detainees body, said in a statement that 470 prisoners are sentenced to life while 42 prisoners spent more than 20 years in Israeli jails. 16 of these […]
Bo Schack, Director of UNRWA Operations in Gaza, said Israel refuses to approve the reconstruction of some Gaza houses, which were destroyed during the 2014 offensive. Schack stated that in May, UNRWA handed names of hundreds of owners of houses […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to bar national service volunteers from joining human rights group B’Tselem after the organization angered him with their testimony at the UN last week. Netanyahu said in a […]
A British parliamentary report condemned what it called “the growing prevalence” of anti-Semitism in the United Kingdom, notably calling for the term “Zionist” to be considered “inflammatory and potentially anti-Semitic.” The report, issued by the […]
Dr. Khaled Thabit, the head of Tumor Department at Gaza’s Shifa hospital, said there are more than 1600 new cancer cases reported in the Gaza Strip annually. He added that some 160 new cancer cases are […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Jerusalem reported that Israeli settlers attacked on Friday night 26-year old Mohamamd Khalil Al-Razem “with a knife and batons while walking in “Bar Elan” Street in […]
By Tamar Fleishman On the winding road leading to the soldiers’ posts stood a woman, her head dropped and her body leaning on the separating railing. “Are you ill?” I asked and felt stupid, because […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The Egyptian authorities have decided to open the Rafah crossing for six days this week and next week. The crossing will open from Saturday to Sunday then shut down on Monday […]
The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov Thursday expressed concerns over the situation in Gaza, and urged Israel to understand that its policies on the besieged enclave only “escalates violence.” […]
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, unleashed a barrage of criticism over the UNESCO decision not to recognize Israel’s historic claims to the holy sites, known to Muslims as Al-Haram al-Sharif. “The theatre of the absurd […]
The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has hailed UNESCO’s resolution on Alqsa Mosque Compound, including the Buraq Wall, which considered it of a Muslim ownership, as ‘a political victory for the Palestinian cause.’ Spokesperson for the […]
Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman has instructed the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the military body that oversees the day-to-day management of the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, to […]
Hundreds of Jordanians took to the streets of the Jordanian capital Amman yesterday following Friday prayers to protest the gas deal signed between Israel and the Jordanian government. Protesters raised banners and expressed their refusal […]
The United Nations cultural and heritage body, UNESCO, has condemned Israel’s “escalating aggressions” regarding the holy site in Jerusalem’s Old City, known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif, and to Jews as the Temple Mount, prompting […]
Israeli forces Thursday detained the mother of slain Palestinian Muhannad al-Halabi after summoning her for an interrogation with Israeli intelligence on Wednesday, the family told Ma’an. The al-Halabi family said that Israeli forces reportedly detained […]
The United Nations’ special adviser on sport for development and peace, Wilfried Lemke, has affirmed in a letter to FIFA that Israeli settlements are illegal under international law. The opinion, requested by football’s governing body […]
By Vacy Vlazna “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” ― Mahatma Gandhi While Australia slept, John Salisbury, a true gentleman activist from Melbourne, rose daily to the moral occasion of walking the […]
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Tuesday that the conflict in the Gaza Strip has caused “deep psychological and physical wounds,” Anadolu has reported. “Violence can create an environment of chaos, […]
The Palestinian Ministry of Health shipped on Wednesday 31 truckloads of medicine and required medical aid to be stored by the ministry in the besieged Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Minister of Health Jawad Awwad said […]
Issa Qaraqie, the head of the Palestinian Detainees and Ex-detainees Affairs said 60% of 750 Palestinian administrative detainees in Israeli jails had their administrative detention orders renewed at least once. He noted today in press […]
The Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, reported today that Israeli farmers are using some 1500 dunums of land confiscated from three Palestinian villages to the north of Jerusalem, including lands that were confiscated in 1967 from the […]
Dr. Mustafa al-Barghouti, the General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, said that comments made by Meir Turgeman, deputy mayor of Jerusalem, reflects the racism of the Israeli occupation, and the fascist apartheid regime it […]
By Ramzy Baroud The Israeli official narrative regarding its conflict with the Palestinians is deliberately confounded because a muddled up discourse is a convenient one. It allows the narrator to pick and choose half-truths at […]
By Or Amit Google works in mysterious ways. You search for something, you find something else instead, and that something leads to something else still, until you’ve forgotten what you were looking for in the […]
Italian football giants Juventus have signed a ten-year-old Palestine soccer wonder boy dubbed the “Palestinian Messi” with the club. Rashed Al-Hajjawi, who was born in Norway in 2006, was discovered after videos of him playing […]
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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