The World Bank has transferred $30 million to the Palestinian Authority to assist with “urgent budget needs,” the institution said in a press release on Tuesday. The statement added that the funds, contributed by Japan […]
Israeli police deliberately initiate “friction activity” with Palestinians living in occupied Jerusalem in order to provoke angry responses, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported yesterday. The report referred to “friction” in the Al-Issawiyeh neighborhood of occupied East […]
Israel has been exerting pressure to undermine a UNESCO vote on a joint Jordanian-Palestinian draft resolution denying a Jewish connection with Al-Aqsa Mosque, Israeli news website Ynet News reported on Sunday. According to the website, […]
The trial of Ahmed Manasra, a 13-year-old Palestinian boy, charged by an Israeli court with two counts of attempted murder, was to resume yesterday in a Jerusalem court. Manasra could face the maximum sentence of […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Israel’s Knesset, passed the controversial “NGO bill” on Monday, following a six-hour debate, despite human rights groups insisting the bill seeks to “silence criticism” and deligitimize left-wing groups. The legislation, also […]
A delegation from the Turkish Ministry of Energy has arrived in the Gaza Strip via the Erez crossing on Tuesday, headed by the Turkish ambassador. The delegation plans to meet with officials at the Palestinian […]
MP Jamal Khoudary, the head of the Popular Committee against the Siege, stressed that the ongoing Israeli siege on Hebron in the West Bank, which started two weeks ago, is an extension of the blockade […]
A petition urging world leaders to ‘Lift the Gaza blockade’ is close to reaching 700,000 signatures, as organizers mark two years since ‘Operation Protective Edge’. The petition, hosted on the Avaaz site, was first launched […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The Ministry of Education and Higher Education in Palestine today announced in a press conference held at the Ministry’s headquarters in Ramallah the results of high school examinations in Palestine. The […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff On World Population Day, celebrated on July 11, The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics issued a press statement detailing the conditions of the Palestinian population living in the West Bank and […]
Egyptian Foreign Minister, Samih al-Shukri, met with Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, in Israel on Sunday, amid efforts by Egypt to play a prominent role in supporting peace negotiations between Palestine and Israel. The visit […]
An Italian delegation led by the Deputy Parliament Speaker, Luigi de Mayo, was banned by Israel from entering the Gaza Strip. In a statement, Italy’s Five Star Movement said the Italian Embassy in Israel informed […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) said in a press statement that its member, Ibrahim Hasan Almasri, 28, was killed following a ‘resistance tunnel’ collapse in […]
Khalid Meshaal, the head of the political bureau of Hamas, expects that the Gaza siege will be completely lifted soon, highlighting “the continuing Qatari and Turkish efforts to lift Gaza’s siege”. Meshaal’s remarks came during […]
“It is time for the citizens of the world to effect the paradigm shift required to bring about a peaceful resolution to the world’s most infamous conflict.” By Jeremy R. Hammond Twelve years ago today, […]
(In 1995, Osama ElBorno, the author’s father, was shot in the head by an Israeli soldier on the third day of Eid, while visiting a friend in Gaza. His last words were, “Is everyone okay?” […]
PLO Secretary-General, Saeb Erekat, urged Latin American ambassadors to actively engage in political efforts made to end the Israeli occupation and realize the State of Palestine regarding 1967 boundaries with East Jerusalem as its capital. […]
The Palestinian National Reconstruction Team, formed under the umbrella of the Palestinian government, said in a detailed report published yesterday that only 40% of promised funds to reconstruct Gaza were delivered. “The amount of money […]
Philippines President, Rodrigo Duterte, has blamed conflicts in Middle Eastern countries on foreign intervention, insisting that the United States “imported terrorism”. Duterte told Muslim Filipinos attending an Eid al-Fitr celebration on Friday in southern Davao […]
The Bethlehem-based Lajee Center for Palestinian Cultural Arts is conducting a tour of Britain, Ireland, and Scotland, which is part of an annual trip made by 21 Palestinian youths to showcase cultural, photographic, and art […]
Israeli police have lifted a ban on the entry of Israeli settlers into occupied East Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque complex after a 10-day hiatus, Israeli media reported. According to Israeli public radio, police will now allow Jewish […]
By Haidar Eid – Gaza “Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true […]
Israeli Education Minister, Naftali Bennett, advocated on Thursday for Israel to kidnap Palestinians to be used as leverage to obtain the release of captured Israelis and the bodies of two soldiers held in the besieged […]
Palestinian prisoner Bilal Kayed is continuing his open hunger strike on the 22nd day as of July 7. Addameer lawyer, Mona Nadaf, visited him in isolation in Ashkelon prison, where he remains in a very […]
An Israeli army commander testified in the ongoing trial of Elor Azarya, an Israeli soldier accused of shooting and killing a Palestinian man in Hebron in March, saying that there was no justification for what […]
Approximately 50 trucks carrying Turkish humanitarian aid arrived in the Gaza Strip on Thursday via Israel’s Kerem Shalom border crossing, according to a Palestinian border official. Mounir Ghalban, who oversees the Palestinian side of the […]
By Samah Jabr While the exercise of military control over an occupied country may be expected to inflict inevitable pain and trauma on the citizens of that country, the history of Israeli policy has far […]
PLO Executive Member, Hanan Ashrawi, denounced Israel’s plan to expand three illegal Israeli settlements around the Jerusalem area. The aim is to build hundreds of residential units to accommodate more Israeli settlers. She said in a press release, […]
Amnesty International has denounced the lack of accountability for crimes committed during the assault on the Gaza Strip in 2014, Middle East Monitor reported. In a new briefing published on the second anniversary of ‘Operation […]
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, has slammed a recent report issued by the Middle East Quartet on the weakening Palestine-Israel peace process. Both Palestinian and Israeli leadership reacted with disappointment to a report released Friday by […]
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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