The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday condemned the Israeli government’s ongoing excavations beneath al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem. According to the ministry, the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “continues to employ all […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The Ministry of Interior in Gaza has revealed yesterday that 3,894 new babies were born Gaza in May. The Ministry said that on average, 125 babies were born per day, while […]
The Palestinian cabinet on Tuesday announced a decision to hold municipal elections on October 8, according to a statement released by the cabinet. The cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, appointed a central elections […]
Israel has hopes of dismissed Fatah leader, Mohamed Dahlan, being appointed as governor of the Gaza Strip, a military analyst for the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported yesterday. Alex Fishman stated that Israel might go beyond having Dahlan in Gaza, and aim to have […]
Israeli forces shot and killed a 15-year-old Palestinian bystander and seriously injured four other Palestinian teens early Tuesday morning in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, after Palestinian youth nearby allegedly threw stones and Molotov […]
Gift of the Givers sets up the first ever “open market” for people to do their Ramadan “shopping” in Gaza. Vouchers were given to 600 families in Rafah and Khan Younis and they could choose […]
By Tariq Shadid A major political scandal is unfolding in the Netherlands: politician Lodewijk Asscher has made sure over the years that AOW-pension payments to Dutch Jewish settlers in the Occupied Territories were kept at […]
By Nour El-Borno – Gaza Moons shine through her eyes As she walks past her house: Here, she once laughed; There, she once cried. “I remember,” she whispers. The dark hours that […]
The Israeli Minister of Intelligence, Israel Katz, is promoting a $5 billion plan to build an island off the Gaza Strip that would give Palestinians in besieged Gaza a seaport, and maybe a hotel and […]
Thousands of Palestinian workers do their shifts during night hours during the holy month of Ramadan to avoid the heat wave that is sweeping the Gaza Strip. The summer season officially started on June 20, […]
Approximately 41.6 per cent of Palestinian residents in the state of Palestine are refugees, Quds Press reported Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) saying yesterday. In an official report, the PCBS said that 26.3 per […]
Union Construction and Investment’s (UCI) major real estate project, TABO, on Monday announced the completion of the extension of a network of high voltage underground electricity cables in QarawaBaniZaid, north of Ramallah. The pioneering project […]
The Palestinian Media Club yesterday called on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to protect journalists from the Israeli occupation instead of harassing them and putting restrictions on their work, the Safa news agency reported. The Media […]
Palestinian Authority (PA) foreign ministry yesterday refused to comment on Egypt’s denial that the two authorities are discussing their mutual sea borders, Quds Press reported. PA ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour had allegedly begun negotiations with […]
Witnesses and officials from the Islamic Endowment (Waqf) that control Al-Aqsa Mosque told Ma’an that more than 60 Israelis toured the compound, escorted by six Israeli intelligence officers. The Waqf condemned Israeli authorities last week […]
By Jamal Kanj It is fair to assume that most readers today can’t name the current heavyweight boxing champion. The same people would, however, most likely name the champion from 50 years ago. That’s what […]
A Palestinian young man from the West Bank who suffered from Down’s Syndrome died on Sunday evening after succumbing to wounds he sustained when Israeli forces shot him during clashes in his hometown of Sair, his […]
The Israeli media reported yesterday that the Israeli cabinet approved $18.6 million in funding to settlements in the occupied West Bank due to the “worsening security situation”. The approved funds are in addition to the […]
By Yousef Aljamal Palestine Prisoners Center has revealed that there are 485 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails sentenced to life, including Palestinian prisoners from Jerusalem and the 1948 territories. The latest two political prisoners […]
9Millions of people are marking Refugee Week which starts today, June 20, in the hope of highlighting the bleak reality of life as a refugee. The forced mass expulsion and displacement of the Palestinian people, […]
A Palestinian farmer is to install solar panels on his chicken farm in order to ensure he obtains a continuous electricity supply, Arab48 reported yesterday. Fifty-two-year-old Nahid Abu-Asi, said his farm, which is located to […]
Isaac Herzog, leader of Zionist Union, agreed to return to Israel’s 1967 borders in secret talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in 2014. During the 2014-2015 election cycle in Israel, Herzog agreed to hand the […]
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said Monday that 65 Palestinian prisoners affiliated with the left-wing Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) have started an open hunger strike in Israel’s Megiddo prison, according to […]
Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, PLO Executive Committee Member, said on Saturday that the people of Palestine mourn the loss of ‘Palestine’s dear friend and peace and justice activist,’ British Labor MP Jo Cox. She was murdered […]
The latest spate of acts of normalization conducted by some Arab writers (eg. Amin Maalouf’s interview on a right-wing Israeli satellite channel) and official Palestinian, and Arab, participation in the Herzilya conference are just two […]
Four young Palestinian musicians left the Gaza Strip on June 3, 2016, heading for Brighton to perform music. Singer, Najlaa Humaid, guitarist Mohammed Shoman, oud player Mohannad Abu Safia and qanun player Farouk Abu Ramadan, […]
Three hundred Palestinians from the Gaza Strip were permitted to visit the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem on Friday, according to Palestinian officials. This followed a recent decision to lift a ban implemented last […]
Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations said on Friday that the Palestinian and Egyptian foreign ministries have reportedly initiated negotiations to determine the undersea border between their territories. The Associated Press quoted Riyad Mansour as […]
Palestinian Authority Representative to the UN, Riyad Mansour, has called for international pressure on Israel to stop collective punishment of the Palestinians, Quds Press has reported. UN Secretary General and the current presidency holders of […]
By William A. Cook “Conquest and tyranny, at some earlier period, dispossessed Man of his rights, and he is now recovering them. And as the tide of all human affairs has its ebb and flow in […]
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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