Category: 1. Palestine

Statistics Canada showed an unemployment rate of 6.9 percent, with most cuts in the manufacturing sector.

Canada’s unemployment jumped to its highest level since November as United States President Donald Trump’s imposed tariffs affect the export-dependent economy.

Statistics Canada showed a 0.2 percent increase for the month of April, bringing the country’s unemployment rate to 6.9 percent, according to its report released on Friday.

The 6.9 figure matched November unemployment, which…

GAZA, (PIC)

The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced on Friday that 27 martyrs and 85 injuries were reported in Israeli massacres in the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours.

Since March 18, 2025, the number of casualties has reached 2,678 martyrs and 7,308 injuries, the ministry added.

This brings the death toll from the Israeli aggression to 52,787 martyrs in addition to 119,349 injuries since October 7, 2023.

A number of victims remain under the rubble and on the roads,…

In 2023, the pair cut down the almost 200-year-old tree on Hadrian’s Wall in northern England.

A British court has found two men guilty of cutting down the famous “Sycamore Gap” tree in what prosecutors called a “moronic mission”.

Newcastle Crown Court found former friends Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, guilty of criminal damage on Friday for the 2023 felling of the tree at Sycamore Gap.

The historic tree, estimated to be almost 200 years old, stood at the centre of a…

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Dermer, described as a “close confidant” of the Israeli Prime Minister, also met with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday.

US President Donald Trump met with Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer at the White House on Thursday and discussed the nuclear talks with Iran as well as the war on Gaza, Axios reported, citing two…

The tribunal will hold Russian President Vladimir Putin and his ministers to account for the invasion of Ukraine.

Kyiv’s European allies have endorsed the creation of a special tribunal to hold top Russian leaders, including President Vladimir Putin, to account for the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

European Union foreign ministers, who met in the Ukrainian city of Lviv on Friday, signed off on the tribunal, named the “Lviv statement”, to mark the conclusion of the technical work to draft…

GAZA, (PIC)

The geographical boundaries of the genocide perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinian people have not been limited to the Gaza Strip. It has extended to all Palestinian territories and even refugee camps outside Palestine’s borders. Prisons have become one of the main arenas where the occupation has committed its Nazi-like massacres.

The conditions of prisoners and the prisons themselves, already dire before October 7, have deteriorated beyond what many could…

Instability has plagued Syria in the past two weeks after fighting broke out in two of Damascus’s suburbs and a southern governorate, drawing in government forces and non-state armed factions.

Using the unrest as a pretext, Israel also launched attacks on several locations in Syria.

The fighting and the Israeli attacks add to the difficulties faced by Syria’s new government – which only came to power after the fall of longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad –  as it attempts to rebuild…

By Ramzy Baroud  

The inability to ensure basic aid to Gaza will profoundly question our shared humanity for years to come.

The situation in Gaza today starkly highlights Israeli exceptionalism. Israel is employing the starvation of two million Palestinians in the blockaded and devastated Gaza Strip as a tactic to extract political concessions from…