Gaza’s Interior Ministry yesterday said it would reopen the enclave’s local markets this week after over five months of closures. “Local markets will reopen on 7 February all week, except Fridays and Saturdays, during which […]
For the first time in two months, the Egyptian authorities will temporarily reopen the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip for four days for travel in both directions, said Palestine’s ambassador to Egypt Diab […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Somewhere in northern Gaza City, a small impoverished community lives mostly in makeshift homes, some fashioned using rusty sheet metal. While poverty in the besieged Gaza Strip is rampant, the […]
Several people this morning received various injuries in an explosion in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. #Palestine– An explosion heard in the #Gaza Strip Saturday morning has […]
A Palestinian man was injured last tonight by shrapnel from an artillery shell fired by Israeli occupation forces at a site in the Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. An artillery shell […]
Israeli navy today opened fire at Palestinian fishermen in the northern Gaza shore, while soldiers targeted farmers working in their lands in the southern Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Israeli navy […]
Following media reports about Israel linking the entry of COVID-19 vaccines into Gaza with the release of an Israeli soldier, Israeli rights group Gisha-Maslak stressed that the entry of vaccines “must not” be conditional. In […]
Imagine Gaza, in fact, the whole of Palestine, without war, without siege, without military occupation and without apartheid walls. Despite over 70 years of relentless colonialism, Palestine remains full of hope. The Palestinian people ache […]
The Israeli army announced on Thursday that it had attacked 300 targets in the Gaza Strip during 2020. The Israeli military revealed in a statement documenting its activities in 2020, that nearly 300 targets were […]
Kafa, a 55-year-old patient from Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, was repeatedly denied access to treatment abroad by Israeli authorities. Kafa, who was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) in August 2018, underwent chemotherapy […]
By Benay Blend In “A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas” (1843) Charles Dickens tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is paid a visit by his former […]
Israeli navy and forces today opened fire at Palestinian fishermen and farmers on the borderline areas to the east of Gaza City, causing panic but no injuries, reported the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Israeli navy […]
Twenty four Members of the European Parliament signed a petition calling on Israel to lift its 14-year blockade on Gaza to allow medical supplies in, after coronavirus cases spiked in the enclave. The petition, launched […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The Israeli occupation army fired a shell at a Palestinian home in the besieged Gaza Strip, Palestine Chronicle correspondent, Wafaa Aludaini reported. An Israeli army tank opened fire at the […]
Due to a large number of coronavirus cases in the Gaza Strip, all the enclave’s hospital beds are currently occupied, today said Fathi Abu Warda, an advisor to Minister of Health Mai Alkaila. He warned […]
An EU delegation arrived in the besieged Gaza Strip today to assess the health situation in the Palestinian territory amid a coronavirus outbreak. The delegation visited the European Hospital in Gaza for treatment of COVID-19 […]
Less than 24 hours after Gaza’s medical facilities ran out of coronavirus testing kits, including swaps, the besieged sea enclave tonight received a new supply of urgently needed kits provided by the World Health Organization […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The strawberry harvest season in Gaza is bittersweet. This is a time of community, beauty, and hope, of family and friends coming together, and helping each other. In the process […]
The leader of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, tested positive on Tuesday for the novel coronavirus, the Palestinian movement said. “Yahya Sinwar, the head of the political bureau of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, was infected […]
A new United Nations (UN) report found that the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip has resulted in $16.5 billion losses to its crippling economy and pushed more than half of the enclave’s residents below […]
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced that the occupation state is willing to reach a settlement with Hamas and improve conditions for the residents of the Gaza Strip. In a tweet, Gantz wrote: “I met […]
The economic repercussions of the coronavirus have led to an increase in the unemployment rate in the besieged Gaza Strip by 17 percent, with 82 percent of the population now out of work, the head […]
The “worst financial crisis” ever faced by the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees could lead to “disaster” in the Gaza Strip and insecurity in Lebanon, the organization’s chief has warned. Founded in 1949, the United […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday condemned Israel for its violations of health rights in the Palestinian territories and in the occupied Golan Heights during the coronavirus pandemic. Representatives from dozens of countries, including Malaysia, […]
Egypt will reopen the Rafah crossing with the blockaded Gaza Strip on Monday, the Palestinian Interior Ministry said on Sunday. “The terminal will be open in both directions for four days until Thursday,” the Hamas-run […]
The unemployment rate in the besieged Gaza Strip has hit 70 percent as a result of Israel’s ongoing siege of the enclave and the lockdowns which have resulted from coronavirus, the head of the Palestinian […]
By Fawzi Mahmoud Palestinian artists Wisam Abu al-Amrin and Rifqah Hijazi paint large murals on Gaza city walls to raise awareness of the importance of wearing the mask as a prevention tool against the COVID-19. […]
Israeli warplanes dawn Friday stroke two sites in the central and southern besieged Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Israeli fighter jets targeted a site in Nuseirat refugee camp, in the central […]
Israeli warplanes bombed late last night a site and agricultural land to the south and center of the besieged Gaza Strip without inflicting any human casualties, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Israeli warplanes attack […]
An Israeli navy boat today opened fire and its water hose at Gaza fishermen sailing off the northern shores of the Gaza Strip and forced them to cut short their work at sea, according to […]
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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