Category: 1. Palestine

A ceasefire proposal with Israel tabled by the administration of United States President Donald Trump is “still under discussion” by Hamas, but in its current form will only result in “the continuation of killing and famine” in Gaza, an official from the Palestinian group has said.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Thursday that Israel had “signed off” on the ceasefire proposal, and the Trump administration’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, had submitted it…

A federal appeals court has temporarily reinstated (PDF) US President Donald Trump’s tariffs a day after a trade court ruled that it exceeded the authorities granted to the president.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington temporarily blocked the lower court’s decision on Thursday, but provided no reasoning for the decision, only giving the plaintiffs until June 5th to respond.

The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit granted an emergency motion from…

Aid workers are also having to cope with a wave of cholera outbreaks in war-torn Sudan.

The World Food Programme (WFP) has said it is “shocked and alarmed” that its premises in southwestern Sudan have been hit by repeated shelling from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), as the paramilitary group wages a brutal civil war, now in its third year, with the Sudanese army.

“Humanitarian staff, assets, operations and supplies should never be a target. This must stop now”, the United Nations…

Washington, DC – For Anson, hearing the news that Chinese student visas were the latest target of US President Donald Trump’s administration was “heartbreaking”.

The Chinese graduate student, who is studying foreign service at Georgetown University, told Al Jazeera that he feels uncertain about the future of students like himself after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the US would begin to “aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students, including those with connections…

Israel has ordered the closure of al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza, leaving health officials scrambling to relocate dozens of people who remain at the medical facility, as deadly bombardment and starvation rack the besieged enclave.

At least 70 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks since the early hours of Thursday.

The Gaza Health Ministry called Israel’s push, which forced the hospital out of commission, a “continuation of the violations and crimes” against the medical sector…

Residents of Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank retrieve their belongings from their homes before they’re demolished by the Israeli military. Tens of thousands have already been forced out. This comes as Israel approves 22 illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, the largest expansion in decades.

Last week, Israeli opposition leader Yair Golan made international headlines when he declared in an interview on Israeli public radio that “a sane country does not wage war against civilians, does not kill babies as a hobby, and does not aim to expel a population.”

It was a rare internal indictment, although to suggest Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza is hardly a radical claim. The army…

New York (Quds News Network)- Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for UN Secretary-General António Guterres, said Israel is preventing the organization from retrieving aid trucks intended for starving people in the Gaza Strip, amid warnings of a looming famine after more than 80 days of total blockade.

Dujarric said there are 600 aid trucks on the Gaza side of the Karem Abu Salem crossing, but Israel has blocked the UN from retrieving the supplies for the past three days.

He explained…

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

The US-brokered ceasefire plan outlines a 60-day truce, phased prisoner exchanges, and a roadmap for a permanent ceasefire.

The Israeli government has officially approved a new ceasefire and prisoner exchange proposal brokered by US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, while the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas is still reviewing…

London (Quds News Network)- More than 300 British artists, doctors, activists, and academics — including singer-songwriter Dua Lipa and actor Benedict Cumberbatch — have signed an open letter urging Prime Minister Keir Starmer to end the UK’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

The prominent public figures have also demanded that the prime minister suspend UK arms sales and licences to Israel, ensure full humanitarian access across Gaza without military interference,…