Category: 1. Palestine

US immigration agents arrested Chavez earlier this week, with authorities alleging ties to Mexican cartel.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has announced she expects boxer Julio Cesar Chavez Jr to soon be deported from the United States to serve a sentence for arms trafficking and organised crime.

Sheinbaum explained on Friday that Mexico has had an arrest warrant for the boxer since 2023, stemming from an investigation initiated in 2019. But Chavez had not previously been arrested because…

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Newly released video shows a complex Palestinian ambush involving mines, tunnel warfare, and direct engagements east of Gaza City.

Al-Jazeera has broadcast exclusive footage of a complex ambush carried out by Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, targeting Israeli occupation forces last Wednesday in the Sheja’iyya neighborhood,…

The United Nations Special Rapporteur says some of the world’s largest companies are complicit in and profiting from Israel’s actions in the occupied Palestinian territory.

Francesca Albanese’s landmark report identified Microsoft, Amazon and Google as just some of the major United States tech firms helping Israel sustain its genocide in Gaza.

But UN reports like this…

Russia has become the first country to formally recognise the Taliban government in Afghanistan since the group took power in 2021. The Kremlin said the move would ‘pave the way for bilateral cooperation’, while the Taliban hailed it as a ‘courageous step’.

Human Rights Watch says Asmara’s move was an effort to distract from independent reporting on the ‘country’s dire rights record’.

The United Nations Human Rights Council has rejected Eritrea’s attempt to shut down an independent investigation into alleged rights abuses, in a move hailed as vital to preventing impunity.

Eritrea’s rare bid to scrap the mandate of the UN special rapporteur on its human rights record was defeated on Friday, with only four votes in favour, 25 against,…

India remain in control of second Test despite England centuries by Harry Brook and Jamie Smith on Day Three.

England had big centuries from Harry Brook and Jamie Smith but little else to celebrate as India stayed in control of the second Test on a turbulent Day Three at Edgbaston.

Resuming on 77-3 on Friday, in reply to India’s mammoth first-innings 587 all out, England lost Joe Root and Ben Stokes to successive balls from Mohammed Siraj in the second over but recovered brilliantly purely…

At least 50 Palestinian families from a Bedouin community in the occupied West Bank have fled their homes, following repeated assaults and harassment from Israeli settlers under the protection of Israeli forces, according to media reports and a local rights group.

Thirty Palestinian families were forcibly displaced on Friday morning from the Arab Mleihat Bedouin community, northwest of Jericho, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported, while 20 others were displaced on Thursday.

Before the…

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Calling the killings in Gaza “senseless,” a WHO official,  Hanan Balkhy, said that everday, on average, 90 Palestinians are being killed and more than 200 injured.

Fifty-three Palestinians, including women and children, as well as 20 aid seekers, were killed and dozens more injured in Israel’s ongoing military operation in Gaza since dawn on Friday.

Most of the attacks were…