Category: 1. Palestine

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

According to Israeli media, Smotrich clashed with army chief Eyal Zamir over the latter’s refusal to make the military responsible for the distribution of aid in Gaza.

Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich reportedly threatened on Wednesday to topple the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if the army does not occupy the Gaza Strip and rule it…

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

More than 15 Palestinians were also detained across the West Bank, including former prisoner Hanan al-Barghouthi.

Israeli occupation forces shot and killed a 12-year-old child in the town of Yamoun, west of Jenin, in the northern occupied West Bank on Wednesday.

The boy, shot with live ammunition, was identified as Mahmoud Mithqal Ali Abu al-Haijja, by…

The report suggested cuts could be as high as 65 percent, and US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said de-escalation talks are needed before trade negotiations continue.

The administration of United States President Donald Trump is mulling lowering US tariffs on Chinese goods amid talks with Beijing, the Reuters news agency has reported, citing an unnamed source.

No action would be made unilaterally, Reuters reported on Wednesday.

The source’s comments followed a report from the Wall Street…

Israel’s national security minister says he met with ‘senior Republican Party’ officials at US President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.

Far-right Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has claimed that top US Republican lawmakers support bombing “food and aid depots” in Gaza.

The statement, made in a social media post on Wednesday, came after the Israeli national security minister said he had met with “senior Republican Party officials at [US President Donald] Trump’s Mar-a-Lago…

Wissam Badawi spends her days waiting and listening, in the hope that she might hear the distinctive honk of a water truck entering her neighborhood. These trucks, manned by local volunteers, have become the last lifeline for the 49-year-old mother of eight along with thousands of Palestinians in Gaza City, amid an increasingly severe water crisis caused by Israel’s ongoing assault on the Strip.

“Most of the water pipelines have been destroyed due to bulldozing…

US president claims a peace deal is close, but accuses Ukrainian leader of making ‘inflammatory statements’.

US President Donald Trump has lashed out at Volodymyr Zelenskyy, accusing the Ukrainian leader of making “very harmful” statements after he pushed back on ceding occupied Crimea to Russia in a potential peace deal.

President Zelenskyy on Tuesday ruled out the idea of Ukraine ceding territory to Russia in any deal before talks on Wednesday in London among US, European and…

Thousands queued at St. Peter’s Basilica to pay respects to Pope Francis, who will lie in state for three days ahead of his funeral Saturday. Pilgrims who travelled across the world wept, prayed, and waited in silence as they gathered for a final glimpse of the late pontiff.