Hotels and restaurants in the Gaza Strip suspended serving meals and drinks on Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., and instead served their customers a mixture of salt and water, in solidarity with hunger-striking […]
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) asked the Israeli authorities to improve communication between Palestinian prisoners and their families and to bear responsibility in full for this regard in accordance with the international […]
Israeli forces fired bullets, stun grenades and tear gas at a Palestinian hospital in the central occupied West Bank city of Ramallah this morning, sparking condemnation from the Palestinian Authority (PA). Eyewitnesses told Ma’an that […]
Thousands of Palestinians participated in the “March of Return” in Israel on Tuesday, which set off from the destroyed Palestinian village of al-Kabri to the western Galilee in commemoration of the Palestinian Nakba, catastrophe, Maan […]
Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas Movement, gave Israel 24 hours to meet the demands of the Palestinian hunger-striking detainees. The Brigades said they will add “30 new names, every day following the time […]
By James M. Wall It is a well-known fact of history that to the victor belongs the spoils. And one of those spoils is the ability to reshape history. Donald Trump has won the presidency. He is now busy […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Human Rights Watch has published a report yesterday detailing the conditions and demands of Palestinian prisoners on mass hunger strike in Israeli jails. According to HRW, Some 1,000 Palestinian prisoners began […]
By Chas W. Freeman, Jr. We are here to discuss the prospects for peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Israel has long sought to normalize its relations with Arab states without having to address the […]
By Ramzy Baroud Gaza is the world’s largest open air prison. The West Bank is a prison, too, segmented into various wards, known as areas A, B and C. In fact, all Palestinians are subjected […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The Palestinian Center for Human Rights has published a report detailing Israel’s house demolitions in Jerusalem, which targets the Palestinian presence in the city. These measures, the report noted, aim to […]
UNESCO today voted in favor of a resolution which describes Israel as an “occupying power” and denies its sovereignty over occupied Jerusalem. Twenty-two countries voted in favor of the resolution which was submitted to UNESCO’s […]
Activists across Europe are going on hunger strike in solidarity with Palestinian political prisoners and to promote the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against the state of Israel. Students and non-student groups, from England, Scotland, […]
By Yoav Litvin, Ph.D. I am an Israeli-American. I was raised in a middle-class academic ‘Liberal Zionist’ household (aligned with the Israeli Labor Party and Meretz), which is an inherent contradiction. Liberal Zionism maintains a […]
“Israel will not pay terror victims’ compensation to Ahmed Dawabsha,” a Palestinian boy whose parents and brother were killed in a 2015 arson attack carried out on their home by Israeli settlers, Israel’s Defense Minister […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The head of the political Beauru of Hamas, Khalid Meshal, has launched yesterday in a join-Doha-Gaza press conference, Hamas’s Political Document ‘General Principles and Policies.’ The 42-article document represents Hamas’s thought […]
“Bella Ciao” – Goodbye Beautiful – a hymn of freedom and resistance – In solidarity with Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli prisons. (Performed by Romana Rubeo). To learn more, visit: http://www.addameer.org. (PalestineChronicle.com)
By Iqbal Jassat As global attention is drawn to Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strikes, it is quite likely that the colonial-era conditions under which they have been jailed by Israel, will come into sharp focus. Led by […]
Several Palestinian student groups, international NGOs, and the Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture planted more than 50 olive trees in the al-Jib village, east of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank, in solidarity with some […]
Israeli settlers installed dozens of Israeli flags on the Ibrahimi Mosque in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron, in celebration of Israeli Independence Day, which coincides with the Palestinian Nakba, or “catastrophe,” which […]
The persistent absence of progress to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues to significantly impede Palestine’s development, according to a new report issued by the Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East […]
“Nearly 361, 000 Palestinians have been unemployed,” the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) reported on the eve of the International Labor Day. According to a statistics-based report by PCBS on the situation of Palestinian […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth The Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas is due to meet Donald Trump in the White House on Wednesday to discuss reviving the long-cold corpse of the peace process. Back home, things […]
Some 1,500 Palestinian prisoners out of approximately 6,300 Palestinians held by Israel entered the 14th day of an open-ended hunger strike on Sunday, with Israeli prison authorities ramping up punitive measures in an attempt to […]
The Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate denounced the violent suppression of a peaceful sit-in in occupied East Jerusalem held Saturday afternoon, saying in a statement that the attack “will not prevent journalists from delivering Palestinians’ message to […]
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 […]
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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