By Palestine Chronicle Staff As in numerous other mosques and open spaces, Palestinians performed Eid Al-Adha prayer in Sarada Square, in central Gaza. Eid Al-Adha, along with Eid Al-Fitr, are the two major holidays […]
Israel’s regional cooperation minister said today that he had asked Saudi Arabia to admit direct flights from Tel Aviv for Muslim pilgrims, pointing to a possible new accommodation by Riyadh ahead of next week’s visit […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The first delegation of Palestinian pilgrims left Gaza on Tuesday, June 21. Palestine Chronicle correspondent in the Strip Mahmoud Ajjour talked to some of the pilgrims as they were about […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Rashad Nimr Abu Ras is only 7 years old and has just completed the first grade in his elementary school in Gaza City. But there is something particularly special about […]
Jewish settlers on Wednesday raised the Israeli flag atop the Ibrahimi Mosque, the second holiest Islamic site in Palestine, ahead of Israel’s so-called ‘Independence Day’, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. The Ibrahimi Mosque […]
Palestine’s Religious Affairs Minister condemned the raising of the flag of Israel and the singing of the Israeli anthem at Al-Aqsa Mosque while preventing the call for the night prayer, The New Arab reported on […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Eid al-Fitr is the first of the two religious holidays celebrated in Islam and it comes at the end of the holy month of Ramadan. Muslims around the world celebrate […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff In the gallery below, the Palestine Chronicle features three of Gaza’s major mosques, the Great Omari Mosque and Sayed al-Hashim Mosque in Gaza City, and the Martyrs Mosque in the […]
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has said Muslim-majority countries have failed both the Palestinians and the people of Kashmir as part of his keynote address to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Wednesday, the […]
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riyad Al-Malki, discussed on Wednesday with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi a number of issues of common interest and developments in the international and Palestinian arena, the official Palestinian […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff A group of Palestinian pilgrims left the besieged Gaza Strip on Tuesday to perform Umrah, the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. Unlike Hajj, which occurs in accordance with the Islamic lunar […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Over 50 countries, “from Trinidad to Tanzania, from Tobago to Thailand”, are set to take part in the Aqsa Week 2022, which goes global for the second year in a […]
The US administration of President Joe Biden has warned Israel that continuous tension in Jerusalem might lead the region to possible war as Muslim, Jewish, and Christian holidays confluence in April, the Times of Israel […]
Jewish settlers on Thursday erected a big menorah on the roof of a historical mosque in the village of Nabi Samwil, northwest of Jerusalem, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Anas Obeid, a resident […]
Israeli occupation authorities Thursday morning demolished a mosque in the town of Duma, near the occupied West Bank of Nablus, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Ghassan Daghlas, an official who monitors illegal Jewish […]
By Ramzy Baroud When the news circulated that Morocco’s leading political group, the Development and Justice Party (PJD), has been trounced in the latest elections, held in September, official media mouthpieces in Egypt celebrated […]
By Mahmoud Ajjour – Gaza The occasion of Prophet Mohammed’s birthday – Eid al-Mawlid al-Nabawi – is celebrated across the Muslim world every year with various communal activities, charity work and, often songs and Nashid. […]
Protected by heavily armed Israeli occupation police, 1,371 Jewish settlers accompanied by Knesset members stormed Al Aqsa Mosque and clashed with Palestinian worshipers inside the third Islamic holy site. Media sources and eyewitnesses reported that […]
By Fawzi Mahmoud Maryam Bar is a 32-year-old Palestinian woman living in Gaza City. She is a graduate of Islamic Studies. For her, there is much overlapping between her academic credentials and her passion for […]
By Iqbal Jassat Misreading and deliberately so, the causes for the fury across the Muslim world and remaining defiant in challenging Islam, French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to “fight to the death”. In a […]
By Ramzy Baroud There is no moral or ethical justification for the killing of innocent people, anywhere. Therefore, the murder of three people in the French city of Nice on October 29 must be […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Palestinian Archbishop Atallah Hanna condemned the targeting of Muslims in France and around the world through degrading paintings and cartoons. Hanna, who is the Archbishop of the Sebastia Diocese of […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff On Monday, Palestinian religious scholars in Gaza joined worldwide protests condemning inflammatory anti-Islamic practices and official statements by French media and government officials. Like many Muslims across the world, the […]
By Benay Blend On October 6, presidential candidate Joe Biden delivered a call to heal a “divided country,” thereby hoping to transcend party lines and perhaps garner a few more moderate Republican votes. By speaking […]
By Fawzi Mahmoud After a 70-day closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, mosques in the Gaza Strip reopened their doors to worshippers, though with strict guidelines to ensure that the deadly COVID-19 disease remains under […]
By Ramzy Baroud It was nearly twenty years ago at a Muslim conference in Washington D.C. that I heard the distressing argument that Palestine should not be made a central topic in the American […]
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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