By Palestine Chronicle Staff “This is a man-made disaster and it’s absolutely unconscionable that this continues.” Around 60,000 Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip are living in catastrophic conditions under the Israeli siege that […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The intensified military operation in Gaza, ongoing since October 7, 2023, has devastated civilian infrastructure, including schools, hospitals, and residential areas. At dawn on Wednesday, Israeli airstrikes targeted a school […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff UNRWA announced on Sunday that it was halting aid shipments through the Israeli-controlled crossing due to security concerns. The Gaza Government Media Office has urged the UN Relief and Works […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The Director of the Government Media Office in Gaza, Ismail Al-Thawabta, says Israel has left 34 hospitals inoperable. Hospitals in the besieged Gaza Strip have lost 75 percent of their […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff “Between 65,000 and 75,000 people are estimated to remain in the besieged north Gaza.” Israel has denied 82 out of 91 attempts by the UN to deliver aid to the […]
Lazzarini said that the impact of the Israeli decision on UNRWA’s operations is already being felt on the ground. The head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), Phillipe Lazzarini, urged the international […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The report focuses on the catastrophic impact of the war in Gaza on the rights of Palestinians. Israel’s warfare in the besieged Gaza Strip is consistent with the characteristics of […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff “If no effective action is taken by stakeholders with influence, the scale of this looming catastrophe is likely to dwarf anything we have seen so far in the Gaza Strip […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The Irish government previously said it would intervene in the case after South Africa filed its memorial, which took place last week. Ireland intends to intervene in South Africa’s genocide […]
By Ramzy Baroud Israel’s banning of UNRWA should represent an opportunity for those concerned about the standing of the United Nations, to remind Israel that UN members who have no respect for international law […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff An independent review commissioned by the United Nations to Israeli allegations last April revealed that Israel has not provided sufficient evidence to support its claims against UNRWA. On Sunday, Israel […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Lazzarini slammed the international community for trying to replace UNRWA instead of ending the genocide. Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), said on […]
Israel’s parliament passed a bill on Monday banning UNRWA from operating in Israel, which would eventually affect its work in the Gaza Strip, the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. Russia has said that Israel’s […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The war is a cover for something far more sinister .. Israel has been trying to ban the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for years. They had entrusted […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Norway stated that ‘under international law, Israel is obligated to support the Palestinian population under occupation.’ Norway announced on Tuesday its intention to introduce a United Nations General Assembly resolution […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Israeli lawmakers voted 92-10 in favor of a law barring UNRWA from conducting “any activity” inside Israeli territory, and 87-9 in favor of another bill which restricts the agency’s activities […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The Israeli Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee endorsed on October 7 two bills, pending final approval to be passed as a law, to halt UNRWA’s operations in Israel. Seven […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff A total of 205 UNRWA workers have been killed in the ongoing genocidal war on Gaza since October 7 last year. Two Palestinians working for the UN Agency for Palestine […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Amidst a bloody siege, UNRWA reiterated OCHA’s appeal to Israeli occupation authorities for free access to the north of Gaza to conduct lifesaving rescue operations. The United Nations for Refugees […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff “What we have seen for the time being is that there is no red line. We have seen a blatant, constant disregard of international humanitarian law”. Philippe Lazzarini The Commissioner-General […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff As the Israeli Knesset endorses two bills to halt UNRWA operations, the organization chief describes the genocide on the Strip as “a free fall descent into barbarism”. Marking the first […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The death toll in Israeli raids on several areas in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours has risen to at least 99 Palestinians killed and 169 injured, according […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff UNRWA’s Lazzarini revealed that the agency is $80 million short in its budget from now till the end of the year. The Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff “As autumn begins, plastic and fabric are not enough to protect people against the rain and the cold.” With the first heavy rain of the season in Gaza, UNRWA has […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff “Civilians and the infrastructure they rely on must be protected and meet the essential needs of the civilian population.” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned the killing of at least […]
An Israeli airstrike on a UNRWA-run school sheltering displaced civilians in Gaza’s Nuseirat camp killed 14 people, with many still trapped under the rubble, marking the fifth attack on the school since the beginning of […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff “The convoy was stopped at gunpoint just after the Wadi Gaza checkpoint with threats to detain UN staff.” Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA Chief A UN convoy was stopped at gunpoint by […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff “Education cannot be taken away. Children and their learning must be protected, always.” Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA Commissioner General Palestinian students in the occupied West Bank began their new school year […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff “Even while wearing my medical uniform, I was hit by munitions from the air and was injured above my eye and got shrapnel wounds.” The Israeli army’s ongoing incursions in […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff UNRWA warned of increasing violence and destruction in the West Bank labeling the escalation as “unacceptable” and should immediately stop. The United Nations Refugee and Works Agency (UNRWA) announced on […]
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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