Category: 1. Palestine

Gaza (Quds News Network)- Dr. Munir al-Bursh, Director of Gaza’s Health Ministry, has urged the United Nations to formally declare a state of famine in the Gaza Strip, as Israel’s blockade—now entering its third month—continues to severely restrict access to food and essential supplies, alongside ongoing bombardment of the enclave.

“We call on the United Nations to issue an official declaration of famine in Gaza, given that field indicators and medical and humanitarian…

Geneva (Quds News Network)- WHO’s executive director, Michael Ryan, has implored the international community to act as Gaza’s children suffer under a crippling two-month Israeli blockade.

“We are breaking the bodies and minds of the children of Gaza. We are starving the children of Gaza. We are complicit,” Ryan told reporters at the WHO’s headquarters in Geneva. “As a physician, I am angry. It is an abomination.”

Since March 2, Israel has maintained the closure of…

By Tamar Fleishman

At the Qalandiya checkpoint, Fadi — a disabled Palestinian fruit vendor — is humiliated by Israeli police, exposing not just his suffering, but a deeper truth.

Coming to Qalandiya on a day suspended between two memorials is like stepping into open, bleeding wounds — theirs and mine, of the past and the present.

Pain is no longer something we talk about. We simply…

HRW said that the compensation promises did not meet basic international standards for compensation, which require redress proportional to the harm suffered.

Jordan has forcibly evicted and demolished homes and shops in an informal Palestinian refugee camp in Amman as part of a road expansion project, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).

The eviction took place “without adequate consultation, notice, compensation…

The foreign minister of Oman has announced that a fourth round of talks with the United States about Iran’s nuclear programme had been postponed.

Minister Badr bin Hamad al-Busaidi made the announcement on the social media platform X on Thursday, just days before the talks were expected to begin in Rome.

“For logistical reasons we are rescheduling the US Iran meeting provisionally planned for Saturday May 3rd,” he wrote. “New dates will be announced when mutually…

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Israeli settlers also torched Palestinian-owned farmlands and stabbed a Palestinian in the town of Duma, south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.

Dozens of illegal Israeli Jewish settlers stormed the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem, under heavy police protection, on Thursday. While in the occupied West Bank, settler mobs intensified…

The airline has asked the Indian government for financial relief equivalent to its estimated losses.

Air India expects to face about $600m in additional costs if a ban from Pakistan’s airspace lasts for a year and has asked the Indian government to compensate it for the hit.

The New Delhi-based air carrier on Sunday asked the government for a “subsidy model” proportionate to the economic hit, estimating a loss of more than $591m (50 billion Indian rupees) for each year the ban lasts,…