After the besieged Gaza Strip’s sole power plant shut down Sunday, as fuel supplies funded by Qatar and Turkey in January dried up, Gaza’s electricity company announced on Monday that that the total available power […]
Israel has detained, kidnapped and jailed about one million Palestinian citizens since 1948 when it was established on the ruins of Palestinians, according to an official Palestinian report. The report was released recently on the […]
Thousands of Palestinians from across Europe took part in the 15th Palestinians in Europe Conference, held in the Dutch city of Rotterdam under the Slogan “100 Years On, A Victorious Nation and Unbreakable Determination,” PIC […]
By Jeremy Salt Just when he thought he had the biggest weapon in the world, Donald was trumped by Russia, which apparently has a bigger one. This was just after Donald thought he had proved the […]
The Palestine Museum of Natural History and its botanical gardens at Bethlehem University in the southern occupied West Bank opened to the public on Saturday, official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. Bethlehem University professor and […]
Lina al-Jarbouni was released from Israeli custody on Sunday after completing a 15-year-sentence in Israel’s Hasharon prison. She was the longest-serving woman prisoner in Israeli prisons. Speaking to the Gaza-based radio station Sawt al-Asra (the […]
Palestinian prisoners from across the political spectrum have pledged to join a hunger strike led by imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Bargouthi set to begin on Monday. Prisoners affiliated to the Palestinian People’s Party (PPP) announced […]
Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, as a part of her charity and human rights work, visited Bethlehem on Tuesday, where she met with Palestinian personalities and visited different sites. The visit included a tour of […]
Reviewed by Andy Simons Larry Derfner; No Country for Jewish Liberals (Charlottesville, Virginia : Just World Books, 272 pages, ISBN 978-1-68257-064-7, 2017) It’s rare that we get an Israeli perspective on the Palestinian struggle, one […]
Thousands of Christian followers of the Orthodox and Catholic faiths from all over the world gathering at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem’s Old City celebrated Easter Holy Saturday with the emergence of […]
By Marion Kawas The challenges faced by the students of Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights SPHR and the YestoBDS campaign at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in recent months serve as a template for […]
Palestinian prisoners representing all factions are expected to participate in the collective hunger strike scheduled to be waged on April 17, commemorated each year as the Palestinian Prisoners Day, rights sources revealed Thursday, as reported […]
Palestinian and Irish lawmakers have agreed on the need to prosecute Israeli leaders at international courts “for committing war crimes against Palestinian citizens.” These remarks came during a joint meeting held through Skype service on […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Human Rights Watch sent a letter to the Egyptian authorities yesterday, urging it to reveal the whereabouts of four Palestinians who went missing while on their way to the Cairo International Airport, […]
On Thursday China’s Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, said Palestinians must be able to build an independent state to correct a “historical injustice.” In a press conference in Beijing with Palestine’s Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki, Wang […]
Dozens of Israeli settlers entered the northern part of the town of Dura in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron on Thursday in order to carry out Passover celebrations on the Palestinian town’s […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The Palestinian Center for Human Rights in the Gaza Strip has published the account of six trainee lawyers who were denied permits to participate in an International Forum in South Africa. […]
A petition urging the British government to apologize for the tragic fallouts of the Balfour Declaration received over 11,000 signatures, the Palestinian Return Center (PRC) reported. According to the London-based PRC, “the UK government is […]
Right-wing Israelis and settlers took to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Tuesday, as hundreds more foreign tourists toured the site, amid ongoing security restrictions on Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem for the Jewish holiday of […]
Sabastiya Archbishop Atallah Hanna, of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, said he would boycott an upcoming conference in the United States aiming to discuss the situation of Christians in the Middle East, over what […]
The Israeli authorities have admitted on Monday it had lost the bodies of Palestinian martyrs it holds of Palestinians who were buried in what Israel calls ‘the cemeteries of numbers.’ Haaretz Israeli Newspaper said “the […]
The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) reported that the Israeli Prisons Service (IPS) continues “to hold an injured Palestinian prisoner Mahmoud Amid Nassar in solitary confinement for nearly two months without providing him with proper medical […]
By Ramzy Baroud For Palestinians, 2017 is a year of significant anniversaries. While historians mark May 15th as the anniversary of the date on which Palestinians were expelled from their historic homeland in 1948, the […]
Fourteen years ago Thursday, 23-year-old American peace activist Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israeli bulldozer that was preparing to demolish a Palestinian home in the Gaza Strip. Corrie has since become an icon of […]
By Yoav Litvin Since his election as the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump has been fighting multiple fronts: “Russiagate” has persistently remained on the mainstream agenda, the media has been highly critical […]
Thousands of Palestinians marched through Ramallah i for the funeral of 17-year-old Jassem Muhammad Nakhla on Tuesday, a day after the teen succumbed to wounds he sustained on March 23 when he was shot by […]
Arab lawmaker Basel Ghattas was sentenced by an Israeli court on Sunday to two years in prison and a 120,000 shekel fine, when the court accepted a plea bargain leading to his conviction for smuggling […]
Fears remerged again of a new energy crisis in the Gaza Strip, as fuel supplies from Qatar and Turkey are due to end in mid-April, MEMO reported. The Gaza Energy and Human Resources Authority announced […]
Israeli authorities on Monday reportedly prevented the head of the Palestinian Federation of Chile Anwar Makhlouf, who holds Chilean citizenship, from entering the country through the King Hussein (Allenby) Bridge border crossing between Jordan and […]
Israel is blackmailing developing countries to force them to vote in its favor at the UN, Arabi21 reported the Coalition for Accountability and Integrity revealing yesterday. According to the site, the organisation’s Director, Azmi Shuaibi, […]
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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