By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Was it meant as an epic parody or an insult to his audience’s intelligence? It was hard to tell. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to social media to apologize […]
The Arab League will host the 90th Boycott Israel Conference at its headquarters in Cairo today, aiming to gather liaison officers in various Arab regions ‘to activate and monitor an Arab boycott of Israel’. Said Abuali, […]
Israeli Foreign Ministry has labelled criticism by the international communities of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank as “baseless”, Israeli media reported. On Thursday, the US had described the construction of new residential units […]
The Palestine news agency, WAFA, Monday issued a report on incitement and racism published in the Israeli media against Palestinians and Arabs between June 15 and 21 July, 2016. The report reviewed a number of articles […]
The Israeli Prison Service (IPS) returned 100 Palestinian prisoners affiliated with Fatah and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) to Ramon prison Monday morning, according to Sawt al-Asra (Voice of Prisoners) radio. IPS […]
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said during a meeting with the editors-in-chief of major Israeli newspapers that building a seaport for Gaza would pose ‘a threat’ to Israel and he would not allow this to […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Dr. Mustapha al-Barghouti, the General Secretary of the Palestinian Initiative, has suggested a five-pillar approach for the Palestinian cause to succeed. Al-Barghouti’s remarks came during talks organized by Masarat, the Palestinian […]
Israel Defense Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, will most likely decide the fate of the village of Susya in the southern Hebron Hills, denying villages their ancestral lands. Israeli NGO, Rabbis for Human Rights (RHR), stated that […]
Palestinian Authority (PA) ambassador to Cairo, Jamal Al-Shobaki, yesterday said that Israel must meet four conditions in order for peace talks to resume, the Anadolu Agency reported. Al-Shobaki added that “Talks must have international brokers, the Israeli […]
According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, in the first quarter of 2016, approximately 63,000 Palestinians worked in Israel, with permits to enter via 11 checkpoints located throughout the West Bank. It is also estimated that another 38,000 […]
By Yousef M. Aljamal As various Palestinian political factions are busy preparing for their electoral lists to join the upcoming local elections to be held in October 2016 in the West Bank and the Gaza […]
Remains of a human skeleton were found on Sunday under the rubble of a house in Gaza City’s eastern neighborhood of Shujayya, which was devastated by an Israeli ground incursion during the Israeli military offensive in 2014. […]
The Palestinian Embassy to Uruguay organized a cultural festival and an exhibition of Palestinian traditional clothing to mark Palestinian Dress Day. The role of Palestinian women in keeping Palestinian heritage alive as well as their […]
The Palestinian Prisoners Club revealed that the General Secretary of the Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine, MP Ahmad Sadaat, was transferred to Rimon isolation section following his decision to go on a hunger […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Dozens of Saudis took to twitter to protest the recent visit of a Saudi delegation headed by retired General, Anwar Ashqi, to Israel last week. This report highlights some of these […]
Reviewed by Jim Miles (Enzo Traverso. The End of Jewish Modernity. Pluto Press, London, 2016.) Works of political theory, written within the sphere of intellectual/philosophical history, are generally a difficult read. The End of Jewish […]
A 15-year-old Palestinian boy sustained a broken hand and heavy bruising after being assaulted and detained by undercover Israeli police officers in the Issawiya neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem. Fadi Rafat al-Issawi was detained last […]
Palestinian prisoners’ groups denounced on Saturday a decision by the Israel Prison Service (IPS) to ban Ma’an TV being aired inside Israeli prisons, saying the move was made to disconnect Palestinian prisoners from the outside world and […]
Hamas has begun handing out plots of land to 40,000 civil servants to compensate them for the millions of dollars in salaries it owes them for the past two years. The land giveaway is the […]
The Israeli occupation forces in Jerusalem banned three Palestinians from entering Al-Aqsa mosque, issuing them with fines. Occupation authorities handed deportation orders to Hamza Alnabali, Hamza Aldisi and Raed Zughbor who were employed at Al-Aqsa […]
Zehava Shaul, mother of Oron Shaul, the Israeli soldier who was captured by Hamas fighters in the summer of 2014 during fighting to the east of Gaza said she ‘has evidence her son is still […]
Israeli mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barakat, said in a video posted to his Facebook page that Israeli settlement reconstruction will continue all over the city. Barakat stated: “Reconstruction in Jerusalem is not considered a provocation […]
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, yesterday praised the warm relations with Egypt and President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi. Netanyahu attended an event at the Egyptian ambassador’s residence on the occasion of the 64th anniversary of the […]
The US State Department released a statement on Wednesday slamming Israel’s continued settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank, while expressing concern over the recent increase of demolitions on Palestinian homes that have left dozens […]
Hamas stated that the 27th Arab League Summit attended by only eight Arab leaders, and from which 14 were absent, “reflects the status of decline which the Arabs are suffering, even at the official level.” In a […]
The Works and Housing Minister at the Palestinian Authority, Mofeed Al-Hasayneh, has announced that the ministerial council in Ramallah has agreed to cut 80 per cent of the tax on fuel for the Gaza Strip’s […]
By Yves Engler Despite a backlash evocative of those who defended the Jim Crow US South, Green Party members recently voted in favor of a resolution calling on Ottawa to stop subsidizing racist land covenants. […]
A US Democratic congressman who was harshly criticized for comparing illegal West Bank settlers to termites has apologized for his remarks. Hank Johnson, a Georgia representative, said during an event for the US Campaign to […]
In the first half of 2016, Israeli authorities demolished more homes in the West Bank than they did during 2015, according to B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. B’Tselem reported that, […]
Head of the Global Popular Committee in Solidarity with the Gaza Strip, Isam Yousef, met with Turkish diplomats in Istanbul, Turkey, to discuss Turkish efforts to resolve the Gaza crises, PalSawa.com reported. Yousef met with the Deputy […]
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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