Adalah, The Legal Center for Arab Rights in Israel, sent an urgent letter to Israeli authorities on June 1, 2017, protesting against the sealing off of an Arab Bedouin village in the country’s southern desert […]
The Israeli security cabinet has approved a 40 per cent reduction in Israel’s electricity supply to the besieged Gaza Strip, “in response to a request by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas,” Middle East Monitor has […]
Israeli Minister of Culture Miri Regev expressed opposition to the recitation of a poem by renowned Palestinian author Mahmoud Darwish at an Israeli cultural event, calling it a “provocation” and requesting that the performance be […]
The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Sunday that he had told US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley that, “the UN should consider shutting down operations of its Relief and Works Agency for […]
By William James Martin The narrow strip of land on the east shore of the Mediterranean Sea, inhabited by Palestinians, which is the Gaza Strip, has been under siege for a decade. The Gaza Strip […]
For the first time, Israel, jointly with the US Missile Defence Agency (MDA), will test the Arrow-3 anti-ballistic missile system in the US state of Alaska. According to a statement yesterday by Israel’s Channel 2, […]
The number of Israeli settlement building licences issued in the first half of 2017 is the highest since 1992, Quds Press has reported. The details were revealed by Israel’s far-right Defence Minister, Avigdor Lieberman during […]
The Gaza office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced on Friday that 19 Palestinians are still missing following the 2014 Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip. According to spokeswoman Suhair Zaqqout, […]
Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, PLO Executive Committee Member, said on Thursday that Israel is making a mockery of the international community and the global justice system with its recent announcement to construct 3,000 illegal settlements in […]
Israeli media reports claim that the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, will make concessions to smooth talks with the Israeli occupation. According to Israeli newspaper Yedioth Aharonot, senior economic adviser to Abbas, Mohamed Mustafa revealed on […]
A meeting in Ankara on Friday between the Palestinian Ambassador to Turkey Faed Mustafa and Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak revealed that a cargo ship carrying humanitarian aid would arrive in the besieged Gaza […]
A group of right-wing Israeli women dressed up in religious Muslim clothing reportedly in an attempt to pray at Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem on Thursday evening, in contravention of agreements regimenting the holy […]
Israeli authorities have resentenced a Palestinian man to life in prison, the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported on Monday, more than 30 years after he was released in a prisoner swap deal. Yousif Hassan Ahmad […]
Director of the Department of Laboratories and Blood Banks in the General Administration of Gaza hospitals, Amid Mushtaha, said the Gaza hospitals suffer from a shortage of laboratory testing materials up to 30%, a percentage […]
Nikki Haley, US Ambassador to the United Nations, said that the UN could no longer “bully” Israel over its violations of international law, during a three-day visit to Israel and the occupied West Bank in […]
An Israeli minister presented a plan to Israel’s parliament on Tuesday, advocating for 67,000 additional illegal settlement housing units to be built in the occupied West Bank. The plan was proposed by Israeli Minister of […]
Amnesty International announced on Wednesday that it was launching a campaign to implement a full boycott of illegal Israeli settlements across the occupied Palestinian territory. “One of the tragedies of 50 years of ceaseless occupation-related […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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, […]
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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