By Fawzi Mahmoud Gaza-based Palestinian artist Rana el-Ramlawi revealed her latest work, a sand sculpture “Stay Home”, as part of the awareness campaign to stop the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). All photos by Fawzi […]
The number of Palestinian families living under the official poverty line is expected to double in the coming months due to the coronavirus crisis, the Palestinian Authority’s Social Development Minister warned yesterday. Ahmad Majdalani told […]
By Fawzi Mahmoud Palestinian volunteers with the Women’s Program Center launched the initiative ‘One Bicycle, One Life’, where they distributed crafts, children toys and reading material to families confined due to the coronavirus pandemic. The […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Another Palestinian clinic was shut down and several Palestinian activists were arrested by Israeli forces in the occupied East Jerusalem on Tuesday. The Israeli raid was the latest action taken […]
By Jonathan Cook The Palestinians of Gaza know all about lockdowns. For the past 13 years, some two million of them have endured a closure by Israel more extreme than anything experienced by almost any […]
Israeli authorities are impeding efforts by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease in occupied Jerusalem and its refugee camps, UNRWA spokesman Sami […]
By Fawzi Mahmoud Palestinian Karate coach Khaled Sheikh Eid trains members of his family on the rooftop of their house at a refugee camp in Rafah, in the Gaza Strip. Millions of Palestinians have been […]
By Ramzy Baroud Spitting at someone is a universal insult. In Israel, however, spitting at Palestinians is an entirely different story. Now that we know that the deadly coronavirus can be transmitted through saliva […]
Israel’s spy agency Mossad has admitted to resorting to theft to obtain face masks and other medical supplies in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. A Mossad official made the revelation during an interview with […]
Jewish settlers belonging to the terror group known as “Youth of the Hills” – who were quarantined in an army base after they were suspected of contracting the coronavirus – escaped from the quarantine this […]
The Egyptian authorities today opened Rafah crossing with the Gaza Strip to allow hundreds of stranded Palestinians to return home, according to Palestinian news agency WAFA. The crossing will remain open for four days to […]
By Richard Falk Affirming spirituality as the power over life and death I aspire to achieve this spirituality that is nothing other than the blending of love and mystery cherishing wonder at a precarious precipice, […]
Inspired by Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s famous novel ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’, the talented singer-songwriter Doc Jazz has released his latest album “Love in the time of Corona”. He was nicknamed “Doctor Jazz” by […]
Only a handful of priests celebrated Holy Saturday at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher this year, following severe restriction on gatherings and movement due to the coronavirus outbreak. The Holy Sepulcher was closed on […]
Despite the coronavirus outbreak in Israel, with over 9,500 cases and nearly 80 deaths reported so far, Israeli occupation forces today opened several wastewater tunnels near the West Bank city of Qalqiliya to smuggle Palestinian […]
Israeli authorities are exploiting the world’s preoccupation with confronting the novel coronavirus to escalate its ongoing aggression against the Palestinian people, the Arab League warned yesterday. The Arab League said in a statement that the […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff ‘Gaza is out of Coronavirus test kits’ was the ominous, but expected announcement made by Palestinian Health Officials in the impoverished Gaza Strip on Wednesday. This means that the besieged […]
By Ramona Wadi Unsurprisingly, Israel has not heeded requests to safeguard the health of Palestinian prisoners in its jails. Besides recommending “precautionary measures”, which are likely to provide no protection in confined spaces, it seems […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff A well-known Palestinian doctor died in the Italian town of Cagliari on Wednesday, April 8, due to the COVID-19 disease caused by the Coronavirus. Nabeel Khair, 62, was one of […]
By Ramzy Baroud While the Coronavirus continues to ravage almost every nation on earth, Arab countries remain unable, or unwilling, to formulate a collective strategy to help the poorest and most vulnerable Arabs survive […]
By Benay Blend In a new collection of seder readings, Rabbi Brant Rosen acknowledges that Passover 2020 truly is a night “like no other.” In many ways, Rabbi Rosen also stands apart. In 2014 he […]
After weeks of speculation, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday expressed willingness to enter into a prisoner exchange with Hamas. “The government coordinator for prisoners and missing persons, Yaron Blum, and his team, in cooperation […]
Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Leon has accused Israel’s Ministry of Health of neglecting Palestinian hospitals in the occupied eastern section of the city after it failed to deliver essential equipment it promised to provide. According to […]
In Palestine, hardship, military occupation, thus lack of resources are often precursors for ingenuity and invention. The latest such example took place at Al-Quds University in East Jerusalem. On April 1, Al Quds University President, […]
Palestinians in Gaza have launched a new sterilization process for fresh fruit and vegetables in an effort to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus. The new system allows all fresh produce to be vacuum-packed […]
The head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, called on the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah on Sunday to put political differences aside and unite in the efforts to confront the coronavirus pandemic. Haniyeh made […]
By Ramzy Baroud Call it a ‘quarantine’, a ‘shelter-in-place’, a ‘lockdown’ or a ‘curfew’, we Palestinians have experienced them all, though not at all voluntarily. Personally, the first 23 years of my life were […]
By Ramona Wadi Cooperation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority regarding the spread of coronavirus COVID-19 is similar to security coordination. The only real difference is that Israel can play the humanitarian card, even as […]
The Palestine Liberation Organization has warned that Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem have become epicenters of the coronavirus pandemic, threatening nearby Palestinian cities, towns, and villages. The PLO’s National Office for […]
As Palestinians are trying to fight the spread of the deadly coronavirus pandemic, , Israeli soldiers today dumped trash and spat on doors of vehicles and homes in the southern West Bank town of Beit […]
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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