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Month: June 2017

Following Killing of Palestinian Youth, General Strike Announced Inside Green Line
The High Arab Follow-Up Committee in 1948 Occupied Palestine held the Israeli government, police, and internal security minister, responsible for the escalating violence and murder crimes in the 1948 occupied territories. The Arab Follow-Up Committee […]

Salaries of Former Palestinian Prisoners Cut Without Warning
The Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs said it was not informed of the reasoning behind the Palestinian Finance Ministry’s decision to cut the salaries of 270 former Palestinian prisoners of Israel in the Gaza Strip. […]

Oranges and a Gun: Documenting Life in Palestinian Camps in Lebanon
Location: Shatila camp Beirut, Lebanon Photographer: Alaa Hamade, Beirut, Lebanon Description: Shatila, where people put aside their guns for oranges and where people work hard for a decent living despite the harsh circumstances such as […]

Land of Opportunity for Testing Weapons
By James M. Wall Fifty years after the June 5-10, 1967, Six Day War, Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian people offers a business opportunity for some, and massive oppression for others. We will begin with […]

Connecting the Dots: Israel Role in the Attack on Qatar
By Iqbal Jassat Those who thought that the rulers of Saudi Arabia do not possess chutzpah will have to admit that they were wrong. Not only being mistake but unsuspecting too that an unelected monarchy would […]

Little-known Tale of Betrayal and Cover up
By Ron Forthofer This column is about events so counterintuitive that Hollywood would reject the plot as being too unbelievable. Fifty years ago, on June 8th, another nation intentionally attacked a U.S. Navy ship in […]

Pro-Palestine Activists Arrested in New York
One hundred Jewish activists disrupted the annual Celebrate Israel parade in New York yesterday, calling for an end to apartheid. Seven activists from Jewish Voices for Peace (JPC) were arrested for civil disobedience and the […]

A Palestinian Witness to Al-Naksa
By Mahmoud Zidan Ever since he told me about it a few years ago, I was unable to erase it from my memory. It had such an indelible effect that whenever we mark the setback […]

Who Started the Six Day War of June 1967?
By Jeremy R. Hammond “In June 1967,” Bret Stephens writes in the New York Times for the 50th anniversary of the Six Day War, “Arab leaders declared their intention to annihilate the Jewish state and the Jews decided […]

Israeli Forces Detain 15 Palestinians, Including 4 Minors, in West Bank Raids
Israeli forces detained at least 15 Palestinians in raids across the occupied West Bank before dawn on Monday, including four minors and the son of a Palestinian man killed by Israeli forces last year after […]

“Death to Arabs” Sprayed on Palestinian Vehicles in East Jerusalem Neighborhood
Suspected extremist Israelis vandalized a number of Palestinian-owned vehicles in occupied East Jerusalem overnight night Sunday, an Israeli police spokesperson reported, with at least one car being painted with the message “Death to Arabs” in […]

BDS Calls For Intensifying Actions Against Israeli Occupation
Mahmoud Nawaja, the head of the National Committee for the boycott of Israel, has called on Sunday on intensifying the activity of the BDS movement in various fields in order to pressure and isolate Israel, […]

HRW Calls for ‘Accountability on All Sides’ as Palestinians Mark 50th Occupation Anniversary
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Human Rights Watch has published yesterday a press release on the 50th anniversary of the Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, calling for accountability on all sides, […]

The Unwanted ‘Bride’: Can the 1967 War Offer Opportunity for Peace?
By Ramzy Baroud There is a saying that goes: “Be careful what you wish for, for you may get it.” This has been Israel’s dilemma from the very beginning. The Zionist movement, which held its […]

Radiohead: BDS Campaign is an ‘Extraordinary Waste of Energy’
Radiohead have hit back at a campaign urging the British band to cancel a scheduled concert in Israel, calling efforts to get them to adhere to the Palestinian call to Boycott, Divest from, and Sanction […]

Funeral Procession Honors 16-Year Old Martyr
Two days after Israeli forces fatally shot 16-year-old Nuf Uqab Abd al-Jabar Infiaat, the girl was laid to rest Saturday in her hometown of Yaabad, southwest of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank. Infiaat […]

250,000 Flock to Al-Aqsa on First Friday of Ramadan
Tens of thousands of Muslim worshipers performed the first Friday prayer of the holy month of Ramadan in the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem. Islamic endowment (Awqaf) director Azzam al-Khatib told Ma’an that an […]

B’Tselem to EU Officials: After 50 Years, Occupation Must End
By Palestine Chronicle Staff On Thursday June 1, Hagai El-Ad, General Director of B’Tselem, The Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, met with Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs Anders Samuelsen in […]

The Parachute Paradox – A Book Review
Reviewed by Rod Such (Steven Sabella. The Parachute Paradox. Kerber.) If you were asked to conjure up an image that depicts the situation of the Palestinians, what would it be? A graphic image of an […]

Israeli Prison Authorities to Meet With Palestinian Prisoners to Discuss Demands
Issa Qaraqe, Head of the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs, said a joint committee of Palestinian prisoners who were on hunger strike are expected to meet with officials of the Israel Prison Service (IPS) on […]

The ‘West’ and Its ‘War on Terror’: Treating the Symptoms, Not Curing the Disease
By Jeremy Salt When Jeremy Corbyn made a direct link between the Manchester bombing and Britain’s wars on Iraq, Libya and Syria he was roundly attacked for justifying terrorism, supporting terrorism, being soft on terrorism […]

Palestinian Girl Dies after Being Shot by Israeli Forces
A 16-year-old Palestinian girl who was shot and critically injured on Thursday by Israeli forces, succumbed to her wounds Friday morning, according to the hospital where the girl was being treated. The teen, identified as […]

On Children’s Day, PA Says 3,000 Palestinian Minors Killed by Israel Since 2000
On the occasion of the International Day for Protection of Children on Thursday, the Palestinian Authority (PA) denounced the continuous harm brought on to Palestinian children by Israel since the Second Intifada. According to the […]

Hamas Thanks Lebanon For ‘Reinstating Palestinian Cause in Schools’
The Hamas Movement has sent a thank-you-letter to the Lebanese minister of education Marwan Hamadeh for his decision “to reintroduce the Palestinian question into a school curriculum” in the country, the Palestinian Information Centre has […]

Netanyahu Won’t Meet with Foreign Leaders Who Meet with Israeli Army Critics
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that he “does not intend to meet with foreign leaders who meet with organizations who are critical of the Israeli army such as B’Tselem and Breaking the […]

Ashrawi: US Congress Celebration of Jerusalem’s Occupation Makes It Complicit With Israel
By celebrating 50 years for Israel’s occupation of East Jerusalem, the US Congress is violating international law and makes it complicit to Israeli crimes, Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee member Hanan Ashrawi said on […]

3,502 Palestinian Refugees Killed in Syria
The Action Group for the Palestinians in Syria (AGPS) said on Wednesday, that “3,502 Palestinian refugees were killed in Syria due to the civil war that has been ongoing since 2011.” A report published by […]

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