Category: 1. Palestine

In the early hours of June 9, Israeli forces intercepted the Madleen ship in international waters, near the coast of the Gaza Strip. The yacht, carrying 12 activists from seven countries and humanitarian aid and food supplies, had been sailing for just over a week. Among the activists was Greta Thunberg, who has been consistently demonised and mocked by Israeli politicians and others for her support of the Palestinian struggle.

The aid on board was a symbolic quantity, and it would not have…

Senior delegations expected to discuss fragile tariffs deal in bid to avert trade war between world’s two biggest economies.

High-level delegations from the United States and China are to meet in London to try to save a fragile tariffs deal and avert a possible trade war that has already roiled the global economy and sparked fears of recession.

The meeting on Monday follows negotiations in Geneva last month that resulted in a temporary respite in the trade war between the world’s two…

As wind turbines on the horizon churn out clean energy, John Smyth bends to stack damp peat – the cheap, smoky fuel he has harvested for half a century.

The painstaking work of “footing turf”, as the process of drying peat for burning is known, is valued by people across rural Ireland as a source of low-cost energy that gives their homes a distinctive smell.

But peat-harvesting has also destroyed precious wildlife habitats, and converted what should be natural stores for carbon…

On a typical day at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, Victoria Rose, a British surgeon, would wake up before dawn.

“Because the bombing would start at four,” she said, now back in London, having just wrapped up her third humanitarian mission to Gaza since Israel’s war began in October 2023.

Over almost four weeks in May, she usually operated on 12 or 13 patients per 14-hour shift, unless there was a mass casualty incident overnight, meaning even longer shifts and more patients.

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By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

The Israeli Ministry of Defense stated that all activists aboard were “safe” and would be deported to their respective countries.

The Gaza-bound aid ship Madleen has been seized by Israeli forces and taken to the port of Ashdod in central Israel, following a military operation to prevent it from reaching the besieged Gaza Strip. According…