Category: 1. Palestine

By Zarefah Baroud

What this focused targeting of prisoner groups should indicate and affirm to us is the centrality of the struggle of Palestinian prisoners, and the threat of the prisoners’ movement in Palestine to ongoing Israeli-American hegemony.

Addameer, or Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, a Palestine-based organization whose primary mission is to…

Authorities send troops to de-escalate the situation after fighting breaks out between Bedouins and Druze.

Fighting between Bedouin tribes and local fighters in the predominantly Druze city of Sweida in southern Syria has killed several people.

Sunday’s clashes are the first outbreak of deadly violence in the area since fighting between members of the Druze community and security forces killed dozens of people in April and May.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based…

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Dr. Marwan Al-Hams, Director of Field Hospitals at the Ministry of Health in Gaza, warned that nearly half, 47%, of essential medicines are now completely depleted.

Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip since dawn on Sunday have killed at least 92 Palestinians, including 46 in Gaza City, as the Israeli military continues its relentless bombardment of the besieged enclave.

‘Syria possesses valuable assets,’ says DP World’s CEO, highlighting the country’s economic potential.

Syria has finalised an $800m agreement with Dubai-based DP World to redevelop its Tartous port in a bid to speed up post-war reconstruction.

State news agency SANA said the deal was signed in Damascus on Sunday between DP World and the General Authority for Land and Sea Ports, in the presence of Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa.

Syrian officials described the deal as a key step…

Israeli columnist Gideon Levy tells host Steve Clemons that almost all Israelis believe their country “has the right to do whatever it wants”. This includes war crimes and plans to create concentration camps for Palestinians in Gaza, in preparation for expulsion.

Levy argues that it makes no difference if a Republican or Democratic administration were in power in the…

The Prisoners’ Information Office confirms that the occupation authorities are detaining journalist Nasser Laham in difficult health conditions, emphasizing that he is in urgent need of treatment.

The Prisoners’ Information Office issued a statement explaining the harsh conditions suffered by the detainee under Israeli occupation, journalist and director of Al…