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 […]
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 […]
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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