Category: 1. Palestine

The US House of Representatives is preparing to vote next week on a pro-Israel resolution that would classify the chant “Free Palestine” as an antisemitic slogan, sparking widespread concern among free speech advocates and Palestinian rights groups.

Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL), known for inciting genocide against Palestinians, introduced the resolution, formally titled H. Res. 472, on June 4, 2025. Over a dozen Republican lawmakers co-sponsored the measure. It condemns what it…

Polls indicate a close race between Dutch far-right PVV party and the Labour/Green Left alliance.

Dutch voters will head to the polls on October 29 in snap elections triggered by the dramatic collapse of the right-wing ruling coalition.

Interior Minister Judith Uitermark announced the election date on Friday and said she would coordinate with municipalities to ensure a smooth voting process.

Polls indicate a close race between the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV), led by firebrand Geert…

The case concerns the deaths of Janna and Abderrahim Abudaher, aged six and nine, who were killed on October 24, 2023, when a house in northern Gaza was hit by two missiles launched from an Israeli F-16 fighter jet.

The grandmother of two French children killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip filed a legal complaint in France on Friday, accusing Israeli authorities of genocide, crimes against…

By Fayha Shalash – Ramallah

A provocative show of power by Netanyahu beneath Al-Aqsa Mosque signaled Israel’s accelerating campaign to assert sovereignty over the holy site, with illegal Israeli Jewish settlers emboldened and Palestinians increasingly under siege.

The scenes that unfolded in Jerusalem and around Al-Aqsa Mosque on the anniversary of the so-called unification of the city…

Jordan is celebrating the qualification of its football team for a FIFA World Cup for the first time following a decisive 3-0 victory against Oman.

Huge celebrations erupted as fans drove their cars through Jordan’s capital Amman late on Thursday and into Friday, honking their horns and chanting victory while others waved the national flag in triumph.

“We are all with you!” and “It’s getting closer, heroes” read messages written into the night sky in a spectacular drone light…

At least 22 people have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza, medical sources told Al Jazeera, as the US-backed group distributing aid in the Palestinian territory said all its centres were closed until further notice.

In northern Gaza, at least 10 people were killed in Israeli tank fire in Jabalia, local health authorities said. At least five people were killed in Khan Younis in southern Gaza when Israeli drones struck tents housing displaced people, medical sources said.

A journalist…

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Maariv quoted soldiers, company and battalion commanders, and senior officers as saying that “problems are piling up due to technical malfunctions and lack of spare parts.

The Israeli army is facing mounting logistical and mechanical challenges amid the prolonged military operation in Gaza, with technical failures affecting its…

Michael Valentino Teofrasto Carturan was renting a luxury New York townhouse for $40,000 a month, enjoying the fruits of his highly lucrative investments in cryptocurrency. But in May, his 17-room Manhattan home became a torture chamber in which he was held by kidnappers for 17 days.

Carturan’s captors, John Woeltz and William Duplessie, who wanted access to his cryptocurrency accounts, used brutal methods in their bid to prise open Carturan’s Bitcoin wallet, purportedly containing some…