By Palestine Chronicle Staff Members of the Palestinian Journalists Forum and other Palestinian activists held two separate protests outside the Gaza headquarters of the Red Cross in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners and in commemoration […]
Palestine today called on the international community and signatories of the Geneva Conventions to assume their responsibilities towards protecting Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, Anadolu Agency reports. “These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of […]
LOVED ONES: FAMILIES OF THE INCARCERATED will combine voices from Palestine with voices from Seattle to reveal the destructive impacts of mass incarceration on mothers, sisters, brothers, fathers and children of those in detention. Drawn […]
The Palestinian Fatah Central Committee member and lawmaker Marwan Barghouti has entered his 20th year in Israeli prisons on charges of leading the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, the armed wing of the Fatah movement, Anadolu Agency […]
The Israeli Prison Service (IPS) today transferred a hunger-striking prisoner to Asqalan Prison in southern Israel in order to punish him for being on 29 days of hunger strike in protest against his administrative detention, […]
A draft bill has been proposed in the Israeli parliament which, if passed into law, would see citizenship stripped from any Arab-Israeli prisoner who accepts a stipend from the Palestinian Authority. The PA pays such […]
The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, called on Tuesday for immediate international intervention to stop Israel’s detention of its parliamentary election candidates. The movement made the announcement at the Palestinian Central Elections Commission in Ramallah. […]
Israeli occupation forces detained at least 28 Palestinians from various parts of the occupied territories, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS). Israeli forces rounded up 10 Palestinians after ransacking their families’ homes in Tuqu […]
The defense team of the head of the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel Sheikh Raed Salah has slammed the Israel Prison Service’s decision to transfer him to Ramon prison. The team announced […]
Palestinian administrative detainee in Israel, Imad Batran, 47, from Hebron (Al-Khalil), suspended his hunger strike, which lasted for 47 days, after an agreement to set a ceiling for his administrative detention, according to the Palestinian […]
Marking Palestine Children’s Day, the Palestine Prisoners’ Club revealed that there are 140 Palestinian children in Israeli prisons, including two under administrative detention. According to the Defence for Children International-Palestine, every year between 500 and […]
Imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti has submitted an independent list for Palestinian legislative elections in May, according to The New Arab’s Arabic-language site. The development is the latest sign of turmoil raging in the Fatah […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff In his talk at the Congress of South African Trade Unions, COSATU’s Virtual Conversation, Palestinian author and editor of The Palestine Chronicle, Ramzy Baroud, talks about the centrality of Palestinian […]
Imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti is expected to get the largest number of votes if he runs for president, Director of the Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research, Khalil Shikaki, said yesterday. Speaking about […]
A Palestinian prisoner is on his 40th day of hunger strike, in protest against his prolonged administrative detention, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS). The PPS said in a statement that Imad Batran, 47, […]
By Neil Ballantyne Fulfilling an earlier promise to “raise the voices of Palestinian people” in the parliament of Aotearoa New Zealand, just last week, Wellington Palestine and Alternative Jewish Voices were welcomed into parliament by […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Following a month of struggle against the COVID-19 disease, freed Palestinian prisoner and highly-respected leader within the Islamic movement in the West Bank, Omar Barghouti, passed away in a Ramallah […]
The Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs has accused the Israeli occupation police and jailers of physically assaulting and maltreating a Palestinian child from Jerusalem during his detention, the Palestinian Information Centre reported. According […]
Israeli soldiers today assaulted an entire Palestinian family during a search-and-arrest operation in the town of Beit Ummar in southern West Bank, as they detained at least seven Palestinians throughout the occupied territories, according to […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Dima Ismail Rashid al-Wawi was born on November 20, 2003, in the town of Halhul, north of Al-Khalil (Hebron) in the occupied West Bank. Her family earns its income mostly […]
The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS), a local NGO which advocates for the rights of the Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails, said today that the Israeli authorities are currently incarcerating 35 female Palestinian prisoners, 11 […]
Israeli Prison Service (IPS) at Ofer prison threatened today to intensify its punitive measures against Palestinian prisoners, which would aggravate the already poor health conditions in Israeli prisons amid the global outbreak of the coronavirus […]
An Israeli court in occupied Jerusalem yesterday extended the administrative detention of Khaled Abu Arafa, the former Palestinian minister of Jerusalem affairs, for another four months. The Israeli intelligence service, Shin Bet, detained Abu Arafa […]
Israeli forces Wednesday overnight detained eight Palestinians and injured three others across the West Bank, according to the Palestine Prisoner’s Society (PPS) and security sources. PPS confirmed in a press statement that Israeli forces re-arrested […]
An Israeli military court yesterday sentenced Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) movement member, Khalida Jarrar, to two years in prison and issued a fine of $1,200. Heba Hamarsha, head of the media […]
A Palestinian youth who suffers from hemophilia was tortured during interrogation at the infamous Israeli detention center in West Jerusalem, known as the Russian Compound, today said the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS). Qassem Baghdadi, 20, […]
By Gary Anderson Dr. Ramzy Baroud’s prior books have examined many aspects of Palestinian life, within the homeland as refugees and in the extended Diaspora. In his latest work, ‘These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian […]
The head of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheikh Raed Salah, has been held in solitary confinement since he was jailed by Israel on August 15 last year, Arabi21.com reported on Sunday. His lawyer Khalid […]
Israel will never return its soldiers from Gaza without a prisoner swap, the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas announced on Thursday. “The only way that the Israeli occupation will get its soldiers in the hands […]
Israeli forces detained 15 Palestinians on Tuesday, mostly in overnight raids across the West Bank, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Security sources and eyewitnesses told WAFA that Israeli forces rounded up a Palestinian […]
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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