Category: 1. Palestine

Israeli military attacks ports of Hodeidah, Ras-Isa and as-Salif as Houthis continue to launch missiles towards Israel.

Israel’s military has bombed three ports and a power plant in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, prompting the rebel group to fire more missiles towards Israeli territory.

The Israeli military said on Sunday that it struck the ports of Hodeidah, Ras-Isa and as-Salif on the Red Sea coast as well as the Ras Kathib power plant.

It said it also struck a radar system on the…

Here are the key events on day 1,229 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here is how things stand on Monday, July 7:

Fighting

• Russian forces launched missile and drone attacks on the eastern Ukrainian province of Donetsk, killing four people in the town of Kostiantynivka and another in nearby Druzhkivka, according to officials.
• Donetsk Governor Vadim Filashkin urged residents of the front-line towns to evacuate, saying: “It is dangerous to stay here! Evacuate to safer regions of…

Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 82 people as negotiations between Israel and Hamas towards a ceasefire deal begin in Qatar.

On Sunday, at least 39 people were killed in Gaza City alone. A midnight attack on the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood in the region also trapped victims under debris.

Witnesses have described apocalyptic scenes as neighbours retrieve body parts, including those of children.

Mahmoud al-Sheikh Salama, a survivor of one strike, said it took place at 2am…

Gaza (Quds News Network)- The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) announced on Sunday that a new Gaza-bound aid ship, Handala, will depart from Italy next week to “break Israel’s illegal blockade,” just weeks after Israeli forces seized the Madleen and abducted 12 activists in international waters.

The FFC said in a statement that it will launch Handala, a “civilian boat setting out to challenge Israel’s illegal, deadly blockade of Gaza” on July 13.

The vessel will carry…

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Spain’s iconic San Fermín festival opened with chants of “Free Palestine,” as tens of thousands gathered in Pamplona in a rare show of international solidarity.

Spain’s most internationally renowned celebration, the San Fermín festival, began on Sunday with an unprecedented show of solidarity with Palestine. 

As tens of thousands…

Gaza (Quds News Network)- Gaza’s Government Media Office has strongly rejected the “misleading allegations” by the US State Department that resistance fighters threw grenades at American workers from the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), injuring them.

The US on Saturday blamed Hamas for an attack that injured two American workers from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation at a food distribution site in Gaza.

The US- and Israeli-backed GHF claimed in a statement…

Rio de Janeiro (Quds News Network)- Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has opened the BRICS summit with a speech in which he condemned Israel’s war on Gaza, saying, “We cannot stand by indifferent to the genocide being committed by Israel against the people of Palestine.”

He also told the leaders from China, India and other nations on Sunday that Israel’s use of hunger as a weapon of war was absolutely unacceptable and that the only solution was for Israel to…

For decades, tens of thousands of Afghans – who have fled war and poverty and sought a better future – have crossed into neighbouring Iran.

Tehran has largely been lenient towards members of this community. But in recent years, Iranians seem to have grown tired of hosting them – and sentiment towards foreign nationals has hardened.

The Iranian government has responded by expelling…

Gaza (Quds News Network)- The food security situation in Gaza is once again “on the brink of collapse,” according to the World Food Programme (WFP), with reports of people fainting from hunger as Israel continues to block aid from entering the war-torn enclave.

“Most of the families that I’ve met yesterday in Gaza City are telling me that they’re barely having one meal per day,” Antoine Renard, the Palestine country director for the WFP, said from al-Rashid Road in…