Category: 1. Palestine

South of Gaza City, along the Sea Road that runs beside the Mediterranean, young Palestinians are producing fuel by melting plastic in makeshift burners.

With limited access to commercial fuel, they collect plastic waste, process it in metal drums to extract crude fuel, and then bottle and sell it to passers-by.

The work unfolds in the open air, where black smoke billows from the burners, blanketing the roadside. The area is lined with small tents where the youth store materials and rest…

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Despite the Trump administration’s public messaging, preliminary assessments from the Defense Intelligence Agency, as reported by CNN, Reuters, and The New York Times, paint a different picture.

Recent US and Israeli airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities have been widely portrayed by the Trump…

It has been two months since I last ate bread. Food in the markets has been fading away since Israel blocked nearly all aid into Gaza on 2 March. Following the blockade, food prices skyrocketed. Sugar and flour vanished, fruits and vegetables became a rare sight, and only red lentils remained available in the markets.

Unlike many others who stored food during the January truce, fearing another harsh round of famine, my family and I made the risky decision not to store anything. We had…

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

A single Palestinian resistance fighter triggered a deadly ambush in southern Gaza, killing seven Israeli soldiers and wounding sixteen.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog said on Tuesday that it was “a painful morning,” referring to an ambush by Palestinian resistance fighters in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza, which resulted in the deaths of one Israeli officer and six soldiers.

Herzog went…

Rights groups say at least 60 people were killed last year by security forces in weeks of youth-led protests against planned tax rises.

Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Kenya to mark a year since people stormed parliament at the peak of antigovernment demonstrations, despite fears that they would be met by state-backed gangs and police violence.

At least 60 people were killed last year by security forces in weeks of protests over tax rises and the dire economic situation for…

After 12 days of intense air strikes between Iran and Israel, US President Donald Trump announced on Monday that the rivals had reached a ceasefire.

The ceasefire came after the US struck three key Iranian nuclear facilities on Saturday. In retaliation, Tehran launched a missile attack on the Al Udeid airbase in Qatar – the largest United States military base in the Middle East – with no reported injuries as a result.

As Iran and Israel traded missile salvoes, Trump stayed busy on social…