Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s office said on Thursday that the comments of Miloon Kothari, a member of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory (COI) “echo the darkest days of […]
The European Union condemned in a statement on Sunday a recent increase in violence by Jewish settlers across the occupied West Bank, which resulted in the killing of a Palestinian teenager on Friday, the official […]
Israeli authorities withdrew the licenses of six schools in occupied East Jerusalem for ‘glorifying’ resistance against Israel’s illegal occupation, The New Arab reported. Israel’s Minister of Education, Yifat Shasha Biton, decided on Thursday to cancel the […]
By Ramzy Baroud To judge US President Joe Biden’s recent visit to Israel and Palestine as a ‘failure’ in terms of activating the dormant ‘peace process’ is simply a misnomer. For this statement to […]
A series of newly-released documents have revealed fresh details on the premeditated murder of 49 Palestinian civilians at the hands of Israeli forces during the massacre in the village of Kafr Qasem, in October 1956, […]
Hussein Kawarik, a 60-year-old Palestinian man who was injured by Israeli gunfire last Tuesday, succumbed to his wounds on Friday night, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Khaled, Kawarik’s brother, told WAFA that his […]
Saudi Arabia has reiterated that it will not change its firm position on the Palestinian issue, despite its decision to open its airspace to all international aircraft, including those from Israel, Anadolu News Agency reports. […]
By Chas W. Freeman (Ambassador Chas W. Freeman delivered the following remarks at a panel of the Middle East Policy Council on July 29, 2022) In June 1974, cornered by Watergate, Richard Nixon set off […]
By Paul Salvatori The Canadian government recently published a report entitled, “The Rise of Ideologically Motivated Violent Extremism in Canada.” It has several important and necessary recommendations. But this one is troubling: “The Government […]
Israeli forces killed a Palestinian teenager on Friday afternoon in the village of al-Mughayyir, east of Ramallah, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. The Palestinian Health Ministry said in a press statement that Amjad […]
The Syrian government has not responded to mediators’ attempts to bridge views with the Palestinian movement, Hamas, following the movement’s decision to restore ties with Damascus, Al-Quds newspaper reported yesterday citing informed sources. According to […]
Iranian police announced yesterday that it arrested five members of a spy network suspected of working for the Israeli spy agency Mossad. “The network is made up of five people, including the leader of an […]
Palestinian prisoner Raed Rayan suspended his hunger strike after reaching an agreement with prison authorities, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Rayan has been on hunger strike for 113 days in protest of his […]
Palestinian Israeli footballer, Munas Dabbur, who has long spoken out against the Israeli military occupation, has quit the national team. Born in Nazareth, the 30-year-old forward who plays for German Bundesliga team Hoffenheim announced his […]
An Israeli delegation is set to leave for Russia on Wednesday evening, for the first time since the outbreak of a crisis between Moscow and Tel Aviv, following a Russian move to ban the Jewish […]
The Israel Prison Services (IPS) punitively transferred Palestinian-French human rights defender and lawyer Salah Hamouri to a higher-risk Israeli isolation prison facility called Hadarim after writing a letter to French President Emmanuel Macron, according to […]
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas received Russian Special Envoy for the Middle East Vladimir Safronkov on Wednesday, at the presidential headquarters in Ramallah, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. During their meeting, President Abbas […]
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz suggested his country could launch a strike against Iran’s nuclear program, calling it “a global problem” at a conference on Tuesday. Gantz also criticized the 2015 nuclear deal – abandoned […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Supporters of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement organized a mass rally in Gaza on Monday in support of Palestinian prisoners under the banner “We will not fail our heroic prisoners.” […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff After two years of interruptions, the UNRWA summer camps are back, and Palestinian refugee children in Gaza are having the time of their lives. The UNRWA’s 2022 Summer Fun Weeks […]
Israeli Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar started an official visit to Morocco on Monday, during which he is set to sign a memorandum of legal cooperation with Rabat, Anadolu news agency reported. Sa’ar wrote on Facebook […]
Israeli NGO Planners for Planning Rights (BIMKOM) has revealed that the Israeli occupation authorities have registered properties owned by Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem for illegal Jewish settlers, Anadolu reported on Monday. “The registration took […]
By Alice Rothchild There is a growing consensus that the behaviors of the Israeli government fulfill the definition of an apartheid regime. There is also a growing consensus that Palestinians who are Israeli citizens […]
Several people were injured and six Palestinians were detained on Tuesday, as Israeli occupation forces raided two villages near Jerusalem, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Local sources told WAFA that Israeli forces entered […]
Algerian runner Djamel Sedjati has celebrated his silver medal in the 800 meters at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Oregon by waving the Palestinian flag around the stadium. The 23-year-old finished in a time […]
Israeli troops shot and injured two Palestinian workers on Monday, at a military checkpoint near Hebron (Al-Khalil), the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Palestinian security sources told WAFA that Israeli soldiers opened fire at […]
Israeli forces demolished a Palestinian house in the Umm Qassa community in Masafer Yatta on Monday, displacing ten people, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Rateb al-Jabour, a local activist, said that an Israeli army […]
The anticipated closure of The Jewish Agency in Russia will have a serious impact on Russia-Israel relations, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid warned Russia on Sunday. The quasi-governmental organization, which promotes Jewish migration to Israel, […]
At least 40 Palestinian prisoners have started an open-ended hunger strike, Al-Quds Association announced on Friday. The prisoners started their hunger strike on Thursday in solidarity with hunger striker Khalil Awawdeh, who had been on […]
By Jim Miles (The Hundred Year War on Palestine – A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017. Rashid Khalidi. Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2020.) With the writing of “The Hundred […]
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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