Category: 1. Palestine

A baseball fan at the Pirates-Cubs game fell over the outfield wall and landed on the playing field.

A baseball fan fell from the 21-foot (6.4-metre) Clemente Wall in right field at PNC Park during Wednesday night’s game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs.

The man was tended to for approximately five minutes before being removed from the field.

Numerous players were seen saying prayers or taking a knee. Pittsburgh Public Safety posted on X that the man was in critical condition…

GAZA, (PIC)

Amid feelings of grief and sorrow, the Deir al-Balah refugee camp bid farewell to the martyr Abdullah Abu Al-Atta (42 years old), who was killed by an Israeli drone strike that targeted his home in the camp on Saturday afternoon.

Abdullah was a model of kindness and high morals. He departed, leaving behind a grieving wife, five young daughters, and his little son, Abdul Rahim, who had not yet turned two. The entire camp mourned him with tearful voices and broken hearts….

More than 1,000 religious schools have been shut and people have begun readying walled bunkers.

Authorities in Pakistan-administered Kashmir have shut more than 1,000 religious schools over fears of possible retaliatory military action from India over last week’s deadly attack in the disputed region, as tensions soar between the nuclear-armed neighbours.

India blames Pakistan for the gun attack that killed 26 people on April 22 in Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir, with Prime Minister…

Gaza (Quds News Network)- At least three Palestinian farmers were killed on Thursday morning in an Israeli attack in southern Gaza, targeted while on their way to work their land amid an ongoing Israeli blockade.

In the eastern part of Khan Younis, three farmers were killed in an Israeli attack this morning. According to witnesses, they were on their way to their farm when at least one Israeli drone attack killed them. They were trying to farm and grow food.

Since March 2, Israel…

Ukraine’s parliament is expected to ratify a controversial minerals deal with the United States in a decisive step towards securing the latter’s long-term commitment to the war-battered country amid stalled efforts to strike a Ukraine-Russia ceasefire.

The deal, signed by Kyiv and Washington on Wednesday, pushed by US President Donald Trump and after protracted negotiations, marks an inflection point of sorts in the war, granting the US priority access to Ukraine’s critical minerals as…

Clashes have erupted in Jaramana and Ashrafiyat Sahnaya on the outskirts of the Syrian capital, Damascus, this week.

The violence, which initially involved local armed men from the Druze religious minority and unknown gunmen from other towns, has killed at least 30 people.

Syrian security forces intervened to restore calm, but then Israel attacked Syria, claiming it was “defending the Druze”.

The unrest comes as the Syrian government, in power since the fall of former President Bashar…

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Renewed Israeli bombardment of Gaza sparks calls for global protests and immediate sanctions.

Israeli aerial and artillery attacks have intensified across the Gaza Strip, resulting in scores of casualties.

According to Al-Jazeera, three Palestinians were killed and others wounded in an Israeli strike on Beit Lahia in northern Gaza. 

In the south, two people were killed when an Israeli…

As extreme weather events become the new normal, informal workers across South Asia are bearing the growing brunt of intersecting crises. Labour rights violations and poor social protections are worsening under the climate crisis. In India, amid the ongoing heatwave, we may have come to a boiling point as street vendors, waste pickers, and other informal workers rise in defiance, coming together in solidarity.

Their demands for compensation for losses and other damages are aimed squarely at…

NABLUS, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) imposed a hermetic closure on Beita village in southern Nablus since yesterday, Wednesday, after an Israeli soldier was seriously injured in the blast of an explosive device in an IOF military vehicle.

The Beita Municipality said in a statement on Thursday that the IOF closed all entrances leading to the village and stormed the village in big numbers while firing at citizens’ homes and their water tanks.

It added that the IOF…