By Ronnie Kasrils My enduring memory of Denis Goldberg, who died in Cape Town, just after the 26th anniversary of South Africa’s freedom day, comes from his late mother’s lips. A frail Annie Goldberg recounted […]
Israel is expected to annex large parts of the occupied West Bank within the coming weeks, the US envoy to Israel said on Wednesday. US Ambassador David Friedman to Israel said that Washington would be […]
A network of European groups has called on the EU to impose sanctions on Israel in a letter addressed to EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell. Sent by the European Coordination of Committees […]
Jewish settlers today uprooted hundreds of grapevines in the town of al-Khader, near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, according to a local official. Hasan Breijieh, director of the Bethlehem office of the Palestinian […]
By Ramzy Baroud One hundred years ago, representatives from a few powerful countries convened at San Remo, a sleepy town on the Italian Riviera. Together, they sealed the fate of the massive territories confiscated […]
By Marion Kawas May 2020 will focus attention on the many dangers and challenges facing the future of Palestine. First, Nakba72 will commemorate the continuing dispossession and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. Second, the COVID-19 […]
A Palestinian prisoner was taken to hospital yesterday after he was subjected to harsh interrogation following his arrest by Israeli occupation forces, the PLO’s Prisoners’ Committee has revealed. Ramzy Baroud: These Chains Will Be Broken […]
The Israeli artillery bombarded early this morning several locations in the northern Gaza Strip, causing property and infrastructure damage, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Artillery shells also fell on three different sites in […]
Jewish settlers today seized Palestinian land in southern West Bank to build a road for their illegal settlement, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. @PalestineChron: Pompeo: West Bank Annexation is an #Israeli Decision https://t.co/gywXkzGhI3 […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff A once-fierce critic of US foreign policy in Iran and of the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. took her supporters by surprise when it […]
Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med) said today in a statement that the European Union’s contracts of €59 million with Israeli military companies to supply war drones for the surveillance of asylum seekers at sea […]
Arab local councils in Israel went today on a general strike in protest against the failure of the Israeli government to respond to their demands to compensate them for the great losses suffered in light […]
The Directorate of Public Security in Beirut has banned Palestinian refugees who are stranded abroad from returning to Lebanon, Al-Watan Voice reported on Monday. Domestic workers are also included in the banning directive. Further to the circular […]
By Ramzy Baroud It was nearly twenty years ago at a Muslim conference in Washington D.C. that I heard the distressing argument that Palestine should not be made a central topic in the American […]
Israel has reopened a number of crossings following an agreement with the Palestinian Authority (PA), in a move that allows thousands of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank seeking employment opportunities to return to work, […]
Israel has seized municipal power from the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs in order to “renovate” the Ibrahimi Mosque in the occupied city of Hebron (Al-Khalil). The renovations will include the installation […]
Israeli soldiers shot and injured last night a Palestinian youth in the Aqbat Jabr refugee camp in the West Bank city of Jericho, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Eyewitnesses said that the soldiers […]
By Fawzi Mahmoud Imam of the Al-Omari Mosque in northern Gaza is left alone during the month of Ramadan as thousands of Muslim faithful remain quarantined in their homes due to the coronavirus pandemic. Al-Omari […]
Israel’s Supreme Court began a two-day hearing on Sunday to determine whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been indicted for corruption, will be allowed to form a new government, according to Reuters. The top […]
May 3 marks the World Press Freedom Day, and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said today that 12 Palestinian journalists are currently held behind Israeli prison bars. The longest-serving of these 12 journalists are Mahmoud […]
Israeli navy boats opened fire today at Palestinian fishermen off the northern Gaza shores, while soldiers fired teargas canisters at farmers in the south of the Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. […]
127 British politicians from all parties have written to the British Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary urging them to make clear publicly to Israel that any annexation of occupied Palestinian territory “will have severe […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Palestine is a state, and therefore the International Criminal Court (ICC) has legal jurisdiction to rule on alleged war crimes committed there, the ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda reiterated on […]
By Samah Sabawi Inspired by Gaza’s Great March of Return, the poem ‘Song of the Besieged’ was written and performed by Samah Sabawi, with music by young Palestinian Australian composer Nahed ElRayes. Song of the […]
The United States has told Israel that it won’t support West Bank annexations unless it agrees to negotiate on a Palestinian state and fully endorses President Donald Trump’s “Deal of the Century”, Axios reported on […]
Over 60 signatories comprising Palestinian human rights groups and non-governmental organizations sent today a joint open letter to the International Labor Organization (ILO), urging it to take action to protect the rights, livelihoods, and dignity of Palestinian […]
Dozens of Palestinians Friday dawn suffocated from tear gas fired by Israeli forces in Tulkarem refugee camp in the northern West Bank, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Israeli military vehicles stormed the camp, […]
By Jonathan Cook This is a column I have been mulling over for a while but, for reasons that should be immediately obvious, I have been hesitant to write. It is about 5G, vaccines, 9/11, […]
Jewish settlers in Hebron (Al-Khalil) celebrated their ‘Independence Day’ by preventing Palestinians from leaving their homes and by sealing off one of the city’s neighborhoods, despite the hot weather. According to Palestinian activist Issa Amro, […]
The board of Kairos Palestine, the most extensive Palestinian Christian ecumenical movement, today sounded the alarm on the dire consequences of Israel’s new coalition government on Palestinians and the region. Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud and Bennie […]
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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