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Month: January 2023

Report: Israel Outraged by ‘Irresponsible’ Visit of Western Envoys to Al-Aqsa Mosque
Israel is angry that envoys from the European Union and other Western countries visited Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque last Wednesday, Israel Hayom reported on Sunday. According to the Israeli newspaper, the delegation, which included around 30 […]

Israeli Army Admits Killing Palestinian Man Who Posed No Danger
The Israeli army admitted on Monday its forces recently killed a Palestinian man who posed no imminent danger, the official news agency WAFA reported. The Israeli occupation army confirmed that 45-year-old father of four Ahmad […]

Jewish Settlers Set up Electronic Gate near Jerusalem
Jewish settlers set up an electronic gate on Sunday at the entrance of the area of Ein Silwan, to block access to the area, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. WAFA correspondent said that […]

Israeli Forces Demolish Residential Structures near Bethlehem
Israeli occupation forces demolished two Palestinian-owned residential structures on Sunday, in the village of Artas, near Bethlehem, the official news agency WAFA reported. Lutfi Asaad, the mayor of the village, told WAFA that an Israeli […]

Netanyahu Dismisses Minister with Criminal Record as Ordered by Israel’s Supreme Court
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will dismiss coalition ally Aryeh Deri from the cabinet on Sunday following a Supreme Court order for his removal over his criminal record, The New Arab reported. Barak Seri, a […]

Israeli Forces Remove Settler Outpost in West Bank, Angering Far-Right Ministers
Israeli forces on Friday expelled a number of Jewish settlers from an unauthorized outpost in the occupied West Bank that they had erected hours earlier, provoking the anger of pro-settler activists and members of Benjamin […]

Noam Chomsky Speaks about Future of Humanity
The world is teetering on the brink of the abyss due to an increased risk of nuclear war, failure to address environmental challenges, and diminished ability to tackle problems rationally, world-renowned philosopher and linguist Noam […]

WATCH: Why Is China More Critical of Israel than Europe?
The visit by a far-right Israeli government minister to the third-holiest site in Islam has caused an international outcry. However, the European Union’s response has remained curiously muted. The Palestinian leadership denounced Itamar Ben-Gvir for […]

Saudi Arabia Says No to Normalization with Israel without Palestinian State
Saudi Arabia will not normalize ties with Israel until the establishment of a state for Palestinians, the kingdom’s top diplomat has said, according to news agencies. The comments by Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud […]

ICJ Confirms It Received UN Request for Legal Opinion on Israeli Occupation
The International Court of Justice confirmed on Friday that it officially received a request from the United Nations General Assembly to give an advisory opinion on the legal consequences of Israel’s Occupation of the Palestinian […]

WATCH: Israeli Forces Shoot, Kill Palestinian Man near Ramallah
Israeli occupation forces shot and killed a Palestinian man on Saturday morning, near the town of Kufr Nimeh, west of Ramallah, the official news agency WAFA reported. The Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a […]

This Week in Palestine: Eight Palestinians Killed by Israel in Occupied West Bank
By Robert Inlakesh Over the past week, Israeli occupation forces killed 8 Palestinians, the youngest being a 14-year-old boy, bringing the total death toll from Israeli fire, in the West Bank, to 18 in the […]

A Distant Dream: Why Not Many Gazans Made it to Qatar World Cup 2022
By Asma Abu Amra The crippling blockade and bad economic conditions in Gaza made it impossible for most Gazan football fans to attend the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the first ever held in an Arab […]

Jewish Settlers Set up New Illegal Outpost in Occupied West Bank
Jewish settlers set up a new settlement outpost in the northern West Bank on Friday, Anadolu News Agency reported. “A group of settlers established a settlement outpost on the lands of Jureesh town, south of […]

Barcelona’s Struggle to Cut Ties with Israeli Apartheid (PHOTOS)
By John McAulay It has been an unusually warm winter in Barcelona, with clear skies that have allowed a dazzling sun to push temperatures up, at times into the low twenties. But on Tuesday, January […]

UN Urges Israel to Ensure Palestinians’ Right to Education
The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Lynn Hastings, called on the Israeli government to “fulfill its international obligations to ensure Palestinians can have safe access to education,” The Middle […]

Israeli Forces Attack Palestinians in Jerusalem to Escort Jewish Settlers (VIDEO)
Israeli police Thursday night attacked Palestinians at Bab al-Amoud in the occupied city of East Jerusalem, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Eyewitnesses told WAFA that Israeli heavily-armed police forced Palestinian youths who gathered […]

Israeli Forces Shoot, Injure Palestinian Worker near Apartheid Wall
Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian youth on Friday, near the apartheid wall north of the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarm, the official news agency WAFA reported. Official Palestinian sources told WAFA that […]

Netanyahu, US Security Advisor Discuss Israel-Saudi Arabia Normalization
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Thursday with US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and discussed plans to promote normalization with Saudi Arabia, The Middle East Monitor reported. A statement issued by Netanyahu’s office said […]

Harvard Reverses Decision: Ken Roth to Be Reinstated as Fellow
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Following strong protests, Harvard University Dean Douglas W. Elmendorf announced Thursday that he would reverse his decision to deny a fellowship to the former head of Human Rights Watch (HRW), […]

Gaza Protesters Burn Pictures of Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir (PHOTOS)
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Palestinian protesters in Gaza burned posters carrying images of rightwing Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu and his new National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. The protest followed a sit-in in solidarity […]

Journalist among 15 Palestinians Arrested by Israeli Forces in Occupied Territories
The Israeli occupation army detained 15 Palestinians on Thursday morning in raids at their homes, including a journalist, the official news agency WAFA reported. In the governorate of Hebron (Al-Khalil), in the southern West Bank, […]

Palestinian Health Minister Denounces Israeli Army Shooting at Jenin Hospital
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a statement on Thursday that the Israeli army targeted Jenin Government Hospital with live bullets, the Anadolu news agency reported. Palestinian Minister of Health Mai Al-Kaila denounced in […]

Palestinian Prisoner Maher Younis Released after 40 Years
The Israeli occupation authorities released Palestinian prisoner Maher Younis after holding him for forty years in prison, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) reported. Younis, 63, was one of the longest-serving Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. […]

Israeli Occupation Forces Kill Two Palestinian Men in Jenin
Israeli occupation forces killed two Palestinians in the northern West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday, bringing the total number of Palestinians killed since the start of the year to 17, the official news agency […]

It Has Always Been a ‘Religious War’: On Ben Gvir and the Adaptability of Zionism
By Ramzy Baroud In a self-congratulatory article published in the Atlantic in 2017, Yossi Klein Halevi describes Israeli behavior at the just-conquered holy Muslim shrines in Occupied East Jerusalem in 1967 as “an astonishing […]

Netanyahu’s Declaration of Jewish Exclusivity Must Be Confronted: Will South Africa Lead the Charge?
By Iqbal Jassat Does the defiant declaration by Benjamin Netanyahu to press ahead with completing Israel’s colonial project in Palestine, not challenge the world that regardless of international conventions, his government will continue to defy […]

Foreign Diplomats Visit Al-Aqsa Mosque in Support of ‘Status Quo’
A large delegation of foreign diplomats met with Palestinian and Islamic Awqaf officials at the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Wednesday in an apparent show of support for upholding the status quo in occupied East Jerusalem, The […]

US Senate Delegation Refuses to Meet with Members of Israeli Far-Right Parties
By Palestine Chronicle Staff A delegation of US senators that arrived in Israel on Tuesday refused to meet with members of two Israeli far-right parties that are in the government coalition, Axios news website reported. […]

Opinion Survey Reveals 40 Percent of Americans Think ‘Israel Treats Palestinians like Nazis Treated Jews’
A recent opinion survey revealed that 40 percent of Americans think that ‘Israel treats Palestinians like Nazis treated Jews’, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. The survey, which was released last week by the […]