Israel denounced Monday a “one-sided” UN statement condemning its so-called “legalization” of settlements in the occupied West Bank and deplored US support for the text that allegedly ignores what it called the “historic” rights of […]
The UN Security Council unanimously approved on Monday a watered-down statement opposing Israel’s continued construction and expansion of settlements, The New Arab reported. The vote came after high-stakes negotiations by the United States succeeded in […]
The Israeli government agreed to reduce military raids in the occupied West Bank in exchange for the PA withdrawing its support for a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate halt of illegal Jewish […]
The United States is “deeply dismayed” at an Israeli Cabinet decision to expand Jewish settlement activity in the Occupied West Bank, the White House said on Thursday, suggesting President Joe Biden was prepared to take […]
The UN Security Council will likely vote on Monday on a resolution that would demand Israel to “immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory,” Reuters news agency reported. The draft […]
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reiterated on Monday that “all of Israel’s settlements are illegal under international law and a substantial obstacle to peace.” Guterres made his comment as he expressed his deep concern about […]
Israel has ‘legalized’ nine colonial outposts in the occupied West Bank, turning them into official settlements, Israeli media reported. According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Defense Minister Bezalel Smotrich […]
A young Palestinian man was shot and critically injured on Saturday by illegal Jewish settlers in the town of Qarawat Bani Hassan, in the occupied West Bank province of Salfit, the official Palestinian news agency […]
A number of fanatic Jewish settlers briefly detained Ibraheem Mousa, head of al-Khader village municipality, and Ziyad Salah, head of the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees (PARC), while they were checking agricultural lands, the official news […]
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has proposed the construction of a network of tunnel roads under the occupied West Bank, Israeli news site Zman Israel reported Saturday. Netanyahu, who became premier late last year and […]
Two Israelis were reportedly shot and wounded on Saturday in occupied East Jerusalem in a new shooting attack, hours after a Palestinian gunman killed seven people in the settlement of Neve Yaakov on Friday, The New […]
Israeli occupation forces ordered a Palestinian farmer on Wednesday to uproot olive saplings he had planted in his land in the town of Battir, near Bethlehem, the official news agency WAFA reported. Omar Qaisi, a […]
By Fayha Shalash – Ramallah It was a happy moment when Ayed Mazloom was told that he had two whole days to enter his land in the village of Al-Janyeh, near Ramallah, in the occupied […]
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 […]
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 […]
The European Union on Wednesday reaffirmed its opposition to Israeli settlements and demolitions of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank, the Middle East Monitor reported. The EU’s Crisis Management Commissioner, Janez Lenarcic, said that […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Israeli occupation forces on Wednesday shot and killed a Palestinian youth near the southern West Bank city of Al-Khalil (Hebron), the Palestinian Ministry of Health reported. Sanad Muhammad Samamreh is […]
In a rare warning, the US State Department called on Israel to refrain from the legalization of the illegal West Bank outpost of Homesh, the Middle East Monitor reported. “The Homesh outpost in the West […]
By Paul Salvatori The recent article by Yves Engler, published by The Palestine Chronicle, resonates with me. It reminds me that many in the Canadian establishment not only do not care about Palestinian justice. […]
Saleh Raafat, a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) called on Sunday for an international boycott of the new Israeli government to force it to accept international legitimacy. Speaking to […]
Incoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly handed considerable power to far-right politician Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionism party to approve the construction of settlements in the occupied West Bank, The New Arab reported. As […]
By Yves Engler The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs’ recent attack against Elizabeth May is farcical. Canada’s leading mouthpiece for Israel criticized the Green Party leader for saying she takes her direction from the […]
A Palestinian teenager was injured on Thursday when Jewish settlers assaulted him in the West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil), the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. WAFA correspondent said that Jewish settlers assaulted 17-year-old […]
A Palestinian man succumbed to wounds sustained by Israeli military gunfire on Tuesday, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. The Civil Affairs Commission announced in a press statement that a Palestinian man was killed […]
At least 13 Palestinians were injured on Friday as Israeli forces suppressed anti-settlement protests in various parts of the occupied West Bank, The New Arab reported. Local sources told The New Arab’s Arabic-language sister site […]
At least four Palestinians were injured by Israeli forces on Friday during the weekly anti-settlement protest in the village of Kafr Qaddum, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Morad Shtewi, a local anti-occupation activist, […]
Israel’s Prime Minister-elect Benjamin Netanyahu and the leader of the extreme-right Otzma Yehudit movement Itamar Ben-Gvir agreed on Wednesday to amend a law that would allow Israelis to move to the Homesh settlement in the […]
A nineteen-year-old Palestinian was shot and killed by Israeli forces inside the illegal Jewish settlement of Ariel, near Salfit, following an alleged stabbing attack, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. The Palestinian Ministry of […]
The Fourth Committee of the United Nations General Assembly adopted on Friday four resolutions in favor of Palestine, including extending the mandate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and […]
The Ohio-based Case Western Reserve University student government adopted on Tuesday a resolution declaring Israel an apartheid state, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. According to The Observer, the student newspaper of CWRU, “after […]
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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