A one-day general strike has been declared across the occupied West Bank cities, including Jerusalem, in mourning of the late Palestinian prisoner Nasser Abu Hamid, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Abu Hamid died […]
Cancer-stricken Palestinian prisoner Nasser Abu Hamid died on Tuesday morning after battling lung cancer for several months, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Affairs Commission […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Palestinian Christians on Saturday performed prayers and celebrated the lighting of the Christmas tree in the Latin Monastery Church in Gaza City. The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa was […]
By Paul Salvatori Recently I attended an unsettling talk in Toronto, entitled “Bedouistan: How did we get here – and how do we get out???” It was delivered by Naomi Linder Kahn, one of […]
Jewish settlers set fire to a Palestinian nursery and shop on Monday morning in the village of Al-Sawiya, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. According to […]
Cancer-stricken Palestinian prisoner Nasser Abu Hamid entered into a coma on Sunday and was moved from Ramle clinic prison, where he has been kept, to a hospital in Israel, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society […]
Palestinian political groups on Sunday condemned Israel’s deportation of Palestinian-French lawyer and former detainee Salah Hamouri, the Middle East Monitor reported. “This move is a continuation of the Israeli policy of ethnic cleansing and forced […]
The Israeli army detained 17 Palestinians on Monday, in raids across the occupied territories, including a pregnant woman, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Nihal Mohammad Ribee was arrested from her home in the […]
France condemned on Sunday Israel’s forcible expulsion of Palestinian-French lawyer Salah Hamouri, who has been detained by Israel since March without charges or trial, saying the expulsion is against the law. “Today we condemn the […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff In this episode of “Palestine In Perspective”, host and Toronto-based writer for The Palestine Chronicle, Paul Salvatori talks, with Palestinian human rights defender and activist, Issa Amro. From an undisclosed location […]
Israel expelled French-Palestinian human rights lawyer Salah Hamouri on Sunday morning, after holding him without charge since March, The New Arab reported. Hamouri, 37, had been held under a controversial practice known as administrative detention, […]
Two Palestinian brothers were killed on Saturday night in a car-ramming attack by a Jewish settler near the Israeli military checkpoint of Za’tara, near Nablus, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Zakaria Fayala, a […]
Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu has stated that Palestinians can get autonomy without sovereignty, The Middle East Monitor reported. Speaking to the US radio network National Public Radio on Thursday, Netanyahu proposed restricted autonomy for […]
The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, Theophilos III, warned that Christians in the holy land have become the target of repeated and continuous attacks by radical Israeli groups, especially in the holy city of Jerusalem. […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff This weekend Londoners will show their solidarity with Palestine by attending Palestine Pop-Up, a 2-day interactive event in Shoreditch, the UK-based organization Friends of Al-Aqsa (FOA) said in a statement […]
By David Harrop “A basic human requirement is the need to dwell, and so to inhabit a place connecting ourselves to a place on the planet where we belong, and which belongs to us.” – […]
By Mats Svensson Old Bi-Bibi Where you been, baby? Been to your friend in the White Old Bi-Bibi See you are back now Got new instructions Old Bi-Bibi What’s wrong with you? It ain’t your […]
The Fifth Committee of the United Nations General Assembly discussed on Thursday the program budget implications for the year 2023 for a draft resolution related to Israel’s practices in the Palestinian territories, the Middle East […]
Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu urged key ally the United States to reaffirm its commitment to Saudi Arabia and pledged to pursue formal Israeli ties with Riyadh for a “quantum leap” in peace, Al Arabiya […]
UN experts condemned on Thursday Jewish settler violence and excessive use of force by the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. The UN experts slammed in a […]
By Ilan Pappe – The Palestine Chronicle The definition of Israel as an Apartheid State by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch is a maturation of a long process of framing and reframing the […]
Palestinian Authority security forces have arrested scores of civilians across the West Bank this week in a “politically motivated” campaign of arrests during the 35th anniversary of the establishment of Hamas, The New Arab reported. […]
The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) welcomed on Thursday the adoption of a resolution by the UN General Assembly regarding the rights of Palestinians over their natural resources. In a statement, the Secretary of the Executive […]
The Union of Temple Mount Institutions has called on its supporters and followers to raid Al-Aqsa Mosque during the eight-day Jewish holiday of Hanukkah which starts on December 19, Ma’an news reported on Wednesday. The […]
Jewish settlers predawn Thursday attacked a school in Urif village, south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activities in the northern […]
The next Nakba Day will be officially commemorated by the United Nations General Assembly on May 15, 2023. The decision by the world’s largest democratic institution is significant, if not a game changer. For nearly […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff In a pre–recorded speech celebrating the 35th anniversary of the establishment of the Hamas movement, the military leader of Hamas’ Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades Mohammed al-Deif called for Palestinians to […]
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Gaza has recently been working on clearing a nature reserve in the Gaza Strip following investment from European countries, The New Arab reported. In a press statement, the […]
The Israeli occupation forces on Wednesday closed the iron gate placed at the entrance to the town of Beit Ummar, in the southern West Bank, and prevented a funeral from reaching the town’s cemetery, the […]
By Kieran Baker On a field in the middle of the Middle East, on the edge of history, Morocco will step out Wednesday evening into the embodiment of it’s true self; as the first African and […]
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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