A Palestinian citizen was today killed in Al-Khudr village near Bethlehem after an Israeli settler ran him over. Mohammed Awad, head of the Emergency Unit at the Palestinian Red Crescent, said 81-year-old farmer Sulaiman Hamad […]
By Ramzy Baroud I fear that many of us are hating Donald Trump for the wrong reasons. Multitudes are being swayed by mainstream media-inspired demonization of the new US president, based on selective assumptions and […]
By Jonathan Cook The Israeli parliament passed the “Regularization Bill”, on Monday night–a piece of legislation every bit as suspect as its title suggests. The law widens the powers of Israeli officials to seize the final […]
Palestinian and Israeli activists and human rights groups lashed out at the Israeli government for passing a bill legalizing settlement outposts built on Palestinian private land across the occupied West Bank, the PIC reported. Palestinian […]
Saeb Erekat, a senior PLO leader and top negotiator, said “if the EU rewarded Israel with a high-level meeting later this month, it would be helping to bury the two-state solution,” PNN reported. “The Israeli […]
Poultry farmer Khalid Al-Haya expressed his anger after the occupation forces targeted his farm during the military attack on the Gaza Strip yesterday. Khalid told MEMO that he was surprised that his farm was targeted, […]
In the year marking a century on the passing of the Balfour declaration, a descendant of signatory of Balfour Declaration exalted his family’s role in founding a national homeland for Jews in Palestine. Roderick Balfour, […]
By Yves Engler The Conservative party leadership campaign has unleashed pro-Israel quackery, but it is the NDP race that could have greater impact on Canada’s Palestine policy. Aping Donald Trump, former Conservative minister Kellie Leitch […]
By Palestine Briefing (Watch the House of Commons debate on Israeli settlements. Thursday February 9th 11.30 am – 2.30 pm. Foreign Office questions Tuesday February 21st 11.30 am) Two days before Christmas the UK voted for UN […]
Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, top member of the executive commute of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), urged Italy to recognize the state of Palestine in the immediate future, according to a statement by her office published […]
By Marjorie Drake Abdullah On the 25th of January 2017, BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) Malaysia reported that items of clothing with the barcode assigned to Israeli companies (which starts with the numbers 729) were […]
Approximately 300 children are among 7,000 Palestinian prisoners currently held in Israeli jails amid very difficult detention conditions, rights sources revealed, according to the PIC. The researcher in prisoners Affairs Abdul Nasser Farwana confirmed that […]
Israeli forces resumed attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip Monday evening, injuring two Palestinians, after injuring a Palestinian earlier Monday in a series of Israeli army airstrikes in northern Gaza, allegedly in response to a […]
Leader of the British Labor party Jeremy Corbyn said Prime Minister Theresa May “must make clear to Israeli PM that Britain will stand behind the rights of the Palestinian people”. The call came as London […]
Prominent Palestinian former hunger striker Mohammad al-Qiq began a new hunger strike on Monday to denounce his latest detention by Israel. Palestinian outlet Quds News Agency quoted relatives of al-Qiq as saying that the 34-year-old […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged British Prime Minister Theresa May to support new sanctions on Iran after it tested a ballistic missile. Netanyahu, who arrived in London this morning, met May in Downing Street […]
The Applied Research Institute of Jerusalem and Land Research Center revealed to European Union consuls and the Arab countries accredited to the Palestinian Authority that the number of settlers living in the West Bank is […]
Israel this morning shelled Palestinian farmland in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, while four armored vehicles penetrated the south-eastern border of Deir Al-Balah in the central area, the Palestinian Safa news agency reported. Palestinian news […]
An Israeli court on Sunday morning sentenced a teenage Palestinian girl from Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem to six years in prison after she was charged with knife possession and planning a stab attack. Hayat […]
Israeli media reported on Sunday that the Hamas movement, the de facto ruling party in the besieged Gaza Strip, refused a prisoner exchange offer by Israel. The Israeli government offered to release a Hamas official […]
Thousands rallied in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv on Saturday evening in protest of home demolitions targeting Palestinian citizens of Israel, with demonstrators calling the Israeli state’s demolition campaign “racist” and an act of […]
Steve Bannon, top adviser and chief of staff to US President Donald Trump predicted wars between the United States and China, as well as another war in the Middle East, USA Today reported last week. […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, said on February 1, 2017 that the Israeli occupation authorities began on Sunday, January 15, 2017 uprooting olive trees […]
A conference due to take place in Turkey later this month is part of a new pledge to commit to the land and the right to return to Palestine, Dr. Essam Youssef the head of […]
A new video filmed by Al Jazeera has contradicted claims by Israeli officials concerning the killing of Bedouin teacher Yaqoub Moussa Abu al-Qian, a math teacher and Palestinian citizen of Israel who was shot dead […]
An official at the European Commission in occupied Jerusalem announced that the EU has adopted a new financial support policy regarding the Gaza Strip in 2017, in coordination with the Palestinian Authority (PA), but that […]
By James M. Wall When President Donald Trump spoke by phone Saturday, January 28, with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, he was speaking (above) from the White House, before an audience of two aides, National Security Adviser Michael T. Flynn […]
By Richard Falk Listening to Donald Trump’s inaugural speech on January 20th led me to muse about what it might mean to live in a pre-fascist state. After reflecting on key passages and conversations with […]
By Nasim Ahmed Countering an allegation of wrongdoing with another allegation of wrongdoing is universally accepted as a misguided fallacy; two wrongs don’t make a right. This fallacy, however, has become a common theme in […]
British Minister for the Middle East Tobias Ellwood on Thursday strongly condemned the Israeli government’s announcement of building additional 3,000 illegal settlement units in the West Bank, the PIC reported. “The announcement of further settlement […]
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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