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LONDON, (PIC)

A global hunger monitoring group said that the entire population of the Gaza Strip remains at risk of severe famine and that half a million people are at risk of starvation, describing this as a significant deterioration since its latest report in October.

A report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) initiative, released on Monday, said the Gaza Strip “is still confronted with a critical risk of famine” after over a year and a half of…

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Citing its field team in Gaza, the organization said many of the women killed were of childbearing age, and included those killed alongside their children in their homes.

Israel has killed an average of 21.3 Palestinian women per day, or approximately one woman per hour, through direct bombardment of the Gaza Strip since October 2023, according to the Euro-Med Human Rights…

The new pontiff talks of witnesses ‘who report on war even at the cost of their lives’.

Pope Leo XIV has called for the release of journalists imprisoned for doing their work while affirming free speech.

Leo, who was elected pontiff on Thursday after the death of Pope Francis, gave his first news conference at the Vatican on Monday.

Addressing some of the thousands of journalists who travelled to Rome to cover his election as the first American pontiff, he said journalists jailed “for…

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)

Islamic Awqaf guards frustrated an attempt by extremist Jewish settlers to slaughter a sacrificial goat in the courtyards of the Aqsa Mosque compound on Sunday afternoon.

According to local sources, settlers defiled the Aqsa Mosque through its al-Ghawanmeh Gate while one of them was carrying a baby goat in a shopping bag before guards of the holy site chased them and foiled their attempt to slaughter it.

The settler attempt to sacrifice the goat at the…