By Ramzy Baroud A Palestinian man, Atef Yousef Hanaysha, was killed by Israeli occupation forces on March 19 during a weekly protest against illegal Israeli settlement expansion in Beit Dajan, near Nablus, in the […]
The Israeli occupation authorities today demolished two Palestinian houses in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabal al-Mukabbir, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Local sources confirmed that Israeli police forced their way into the […]
Israeli police detained three Palestinian youth on Tuesday, after physically assaulting them in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Local sources said Israeli police stormed the Bir Ayoub […]
More than 100 Palestinian homes face demolition and about 1,550 residents, including more than 800 children, will be made homeless at the hands of Israel’s Jerusalem Municipality, Arab48 reported yesterday. This comes as the Israeli […]
Fourteen Palestinian and regional organizations sent a joint urgent appeal to United Nations special procedures on forced evictions in East Jerusalem. The appeal addressed six UN Special Rapporteurs, including the Special Rapporteur on the situation […]
A Palestinian family from the occupied Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan embarked last night on emptying their home after the Israeli municipality informed them that the home will be demolished soon for lack on an Israeli-issued […]
Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem will vote through Israeli post offices in upcoming legislative elections, scheduled for May 22, in a move that is said to have received international consensus. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s adviser on […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Israeli occupation forces arrested on Monday, March 8, two Palestinian women who were taking part in an event celebrating International Women’s Day in the town of At-Tur, east of occupied […]
Israeli authorities deported 29 Palestinians from the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the occupied city of Jerusalem in February, Wadi Hilweh Information Centre announced yesterday. “The Israeli decisions included preventing 27 Palestinians from entering Al-Aqsa and another […]
Israeli occupation forces today tore down a tent, which was set up two weeks ago by members of the Elian family on the rubble of their home, which was demolished by the Israeli municipality in […]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, today announced that her office will open a formal investigation into war crimes in Palestine. “Today, I confirm the initiation by the Office of the Prosecutor of […]
The Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land (ACOHL) condemned repeated Jewish settler attacks against the Romanian church monastery in Jerusalem. In the last of the series of incidents, a group of Jewish settlers […]
Israeli occupation forces on Friday placed military barricades at the entrances of the Old City, obstructing Palestinian worshippers from reaching Al-Aqsa Mosque, Safa Press Agency reported. According to a Safa Press Agency reporter, the Israeli […]
The Israeli army yesterday arrested 11 Palestinians, including a police officer, after raiding and ransacking their homes in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. The Israeli army said in a statement that its soldiers […]
The Israeli occupation authorities today demolished a two-story, four-apartment residential building in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Isawiyya displacing, as a result, four families, including 12 children, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. A […]
Israeli police on Friday prevented dozens of Palestinian residents of the occupied West Bank from reaching Al-Aqsa Mosque to perform Friday prayer, Anadolu Agency reports. An Anadolu Agency correspondent saw Israeli police deployed in checkpoints […]
By Ramona Wadi The Biden administration is adopting a confusing position regarding Jerusalem, signaling a possible effort to square the circle of taking the US back to the fold of international consensus on Palestine and […]
The Israeli District Court in Jerusalem last night rejected an appeal by four Palestinian families living in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, in occupied East Jerusalem, and upheld the eviction order, in favor of Jewish […]
British Consul General in Occupied Jerusalem Philip Hall has condemned Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories as “illegal and an obstacle to restarting peace talks.” In remarks to Palestinian Satellite Channel this morning, Hall […]
The US State Department announced on Thursday that Jerusalem is subject to final status negotiations. This came in a press briefing by State Department spokesperson Ned Price, in which he conveyed: “The ultimate status of […]
A group of Jewish settlers today trespassed and desecrated a Muslim cemetery located just below Jerusalem’s old city wall, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Munther Siam, A member of the committee in charge […]
Israeli efforts at co-opting Africa countries received a major setback on Saturday, February, 6 when the African Union issued a strong statement of solidarity with Palestine, condemning Israel’s illegal settlement activities and the US’s so-called […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff On Friday, February 5, the last hurdle in the way of an international investigation into war crimes committed in occupied Palestine has been removed, as the International Criminal Court in […]
The Israeli authorities today re-detained a Palestinian man immediately following his release after serving a 7-year prison term for resisting the Israeli occupation, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Local sources told WAFA that […]
Jordan issued a statement on Monday slamming Israel for “assaults” on the Al Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, demanding that it respects its “historic and legal status quo”. Jordan’s ministry of expatriate and foreign affairs […]
The British Foreign Secretary has criticized Israel’s decision to construct thousands of new settler housing units in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, warning that it puts a viable two-state solution at risk. “The UK […]
Israel has issued tenders for 2,500 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, a watchdog said Wednesday, on the eve of Joe Biden’s swearing-in as US president. On Sunday, Israel approved […]
Israeli occupation authorities have taken the measurements of the Dome of the Rock while Jewish settlers are calling for its demolition, Director of Al-Aqsa Mosque Sheikh Omar Al-Kiswani announced on Friday. Al-Kiswani described what is […]
Israeli occupation police on Friday barred thousands of Palestinians from performing Friday prayer at Al-Aqsa Mosque, Anadolu Agency reported. Due to Israeli Occupation lockdown regulations, Palestinians who are barred from entering the Old City of […]
The Israeli municipality of West Jerusalem today infringed on the centuries-old al-Yousifieh Islamic cemetery in occupied East Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Mustafa Abu Zahra, a caretaker of the Islamic cemeteries in […]
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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