Category: 1. Palestine

Protesters held a silent vigil outside Harvard University’s commencement ceremony, demanding an end to US support for Israel’s war on Gaza. The demonstration came amid rising political pressure, as the Trump administration targets pro-Palestinian activism with deportation threats.

Gaza (Quds News Network)- The Israeli military has ordered the forced evacuation of al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza, the only remaining partially functioning hospital in the area, despite it being overwhelmed and operating under dire conditions amid the ongoing Israeli assault, the Ministry of Health said Thursday.

A spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also said “efforts are ongoing to move the patients and the medical staff” out of al-Awda Hospital after…

It is the latest move by the Trump administration in a campaign against US universities and international students: a decision to revoke the visas of Chinese students, who number in the hundreds of thousands in the United States.

The US secretary of state has also announced the suspension of interviews for new student visa applicants – and an increase in the vetting of their social media postings.

With China being the…

Gaza (Quds News Network)- The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has renewed its call to increase humanitarian access to Gaza, as people across the enclave face worsening starvation. Israel is allowing only limited aid to enter, an amount the UN has described as “a drop in the ocean.”

“After nearly 12 weeks of siege by Israeli authorities, only a trickle of supplies has entered Gaza,” UNRWA said in a post on X.

“But what made it through falls far short of…

Khaled Murad, 33, headed north from the central Gaza Strip toward a new aid distribution point he heard had opened up on Thursday, May 29th. When news reached Murad that the site was similar to the center that had begun distributing food boxes to residents in Rafah on Tuesday, he immediately made his way to the intended location northwest of the Netzarim Axis.

When Murad arrived, he saw tens of thousands of people gathering to receive the aid. Before him was a large site equipped…

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

The aid workers were traveling in an IHH-marked vehicle through a densely populated area in the center of Gaza City when they were targeted in a missile drone strike.

Five aid workers from an Istanbul-based international humanitarian organization, working with the UN World Food Programme (WFP), were killed in Israeli air strikes in the Gaza…

In 2017, the US dropped the “mother of all bombs” in a remote village in Afghanistan’s Achin district. Al Jazeera made the journey to see what’s left: homes destroyed, health problems mounting, and no accountability in sight.

“The Government of Chile demands that Israel cease its military operation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, allow the entry of humanitarian aid, and respect international law and international humanitarian law.”

Chile announced on Wednesday that it would withdraw its military, defense, and air force attaches from Tel Aviv, citing the dire humanitarian situation facing the Palestinian people in Gaza.

In a statement on…