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At least 100 Palestinian prisoners joined the some 1,500 Palestinians on the 13th day of a mass hunger strike on Saturday, amid a continued crackdown by Israel Prison Service (IPS) aimed at disrupting the movement […]
Russia’s state-run news network RT published a letter purportedly written by Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadir, addressed to “the free Palestinians in the darkness of the Israeli terrorist state prisons,” and announcing his intent to fast […]
Israeli forces have again raided the village of Beit Ummar in the West Bank yesterday, with video footage seemingly showing Israeli forces using a water pump to spray sewage over the houses of Palestinians. The […]
“An Israel NGO has been giving thousands of dollars to Jewish extremists, including one who killed a Palestinian teenager,” Haaretz reported Israel’s Channel 10 as saying yesterday. Honenu, which bills itself as a legal aid […]
Several members of the European parliament organised a sit-in in solidarity with hunger striking Palestinian prisoners yesterday. Chair of Delegation for relations with Palestine Neoklis Sylikiotis organized the event which took place at the European […]
Dozens of Palestinian hunger-striking prisoners’ mothers staged a sit-in outside the Nativity Church in Bethlehem in solidarity with their sons in Israeli jails, Palestinian Information Center reported. According to the PIC reporter in Bethlehem, “the […]
500 leaders and members of the Islamic Jihad movement in the besieged Gaza Strip declared a 24-hour hunger strike on Thursday, in solidarity with the more than 1,500 Palestinian prisoners on the 11th day of […]
By Yves Engler On Tuesday thousands will gather to celebrate the most aggressive ongoing European settler colonialism. Organizers of Montréal’s annual Israel Day rally claim it is the largest event of its kind in the […]
By James M. Wall Ma’an reported Thursday that a general strike has begun in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. As part of the strike, Palestinians shut down their shops and businesses in solidarity […]
By Kathy Kelly On April 26th, 2017, in Yemen’s port city of Hodeidah, the Saudi-led coalition which has been waging war in Yemen for the past two years dropped leaflets informing Hodeidah’s residents of an impending […]
The Israeli Housing Ministry and the Jerusalem Municipality have launched a large settlement scheme aimed at building 15,000 settlement units on the lands of Qalandiya airport and in a settlement area called Atarot to the […]
Israeli settlers set ablaze some 100 olive trees on Tuesday belonging to Palestinians in the village of Beit Tamir in the occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa. Hassan Brijiyeh, […]
Two Palestinian children were killed Tuesday evening in an explosion caused by an object that was left by the Israeli army near their tent home in a Bedouin encampment in the Negev, Palestinian Information Center […]
A number of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners being held in solitary confinement began refusing water on Wednesday, as more than 1,500 Palestinians entered the 10th day of the mass “Freedom and Dignity” hunger strike. Head of […]
Israeli navy boats opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats off the coast of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip early Wednesday morning, forcing the fishermen to head back to shore “in fear for their […]
By Ramzy Baroud Israel has resorted to three main strategies to suppress Palestinian calls for justice and human rights, including the Right of Return for refugees. One is dedicated to rewriting history; another attempts to […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS) Malaysia, has criticized the cancelation of a talk by Australian academic Peter Slezak on Palestine, following what the movement called a group “lobbied the […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff In a new report, B’Tselem -The Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, has revealed that the Israeli army has killed 101 Palestinians in 2016, 90 of them […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refused to meet with German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel because of the latter’s intention to meet with human rights group. “The meeting is cancelled,” said David Keyes, a Netanyahu spokesman. […]
On the eighth day of the Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike Palestinian Authority (PA) Mahmoud Abbas met with the famous female singer Ahlam Al-Shamsi in Kuwait, Safa news agency reported yesterday. This is the second time […]
By Romana Rubeo A few days ago, a friend of mine, who is a teacher asked me to take part in a meaningful project: to talk to her students about what I learned during a recent […]
MP Jamal Al-Khudari, the head of the Popular Committee Against the Siege said in a press statement issued Sunday that “Israel’s ten-year blockade has subjected Gaza’s population to collective punishment that violates international human rights […]
The Israeli Ambassador to London, Mark Regev, is due to speak this Thursday April 27th at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Plans for the meeting have generated “a storm […]
Former South African anti-apartheid stalwarts and ex-political prisoners on Monday expressed solidarity with Palestinians currently on hunger strike protesting Israeli detention policies. “We unequivocally support the demands of Palestinian political prisoners and strongly condemn the […]
The Israeli government yesterday ratified an agreement to employ thousands of Chinese workers in Israel, after Tel Aviv agreed to the Chinese government’s demand that its citizens not work in illegal settlements, Haaretz reported. The […]
Fifteen cities around the Middle East marked World Book Day yesterday in memory of late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. Sudan’s Education Without Borders Association in 11 cities around the country, similar events were also held […]
Imprisoned Palestinian parliamentarian and Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi, who has been leading a large-scale hunger strike in Israeli prisons, suffered from a serious deterioration of his health today after forgoing food for eight days. Palestinian […]
Israel has tightened restrictions on the movement of tourists to the occupied West Bank with particular limitations on their access to occupied Bethlehem, sources told Ma’an. According to the news site, sources said that Israeli […]
Isam Yousef, the head of the Popular International Committee for the Support of Gaza, said “the UK’s refusal to apologize for Balfour Declaration constitutes a renewal of the ill-famed promise.” In a press statement on […]
The official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) has expressed its solidarity with Palestinian prisoners who have been on hunger strike in Israeli prisons for seven consecutive days. A statement received […]
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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