Category: 1. Palestine

Four wildlife traffickers face sentencing in Kenya after being caught smuggling 5,000 rare queen ants. The species, native to Kenya, sells for over $130 each due to their size, bold colour, and demand in exotic pet colonies.

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

“Zamir is not sugarcoating the facts. He’s telling the leadership to abandon some of their fantasies.”

The Israeli army’s new Chief of Staff, Eyal Zamir, has reportedly warned the government that a shortage of soldiers could limit Tel Aviv’s war ambitions in the Gaza Strip, according to the Israeli YNet news website.

Zamir told…

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has posted an update about his health to social media, after undergoing a sixth abdominal surgery that he says is related to a stabbing he endured on the campaign trail in 2018.

On Tuesday, the embattled far-right leader shared a video of himself walking through a hospital corridor, electrodes taped to his bare chest and a walker keeping his steps steady. A team of medical staff flanked him on either side.

“Don’t give up! Let’s move forward,…

By Ramzy Baroud & Romana Rubeo

We asked Prof. Falk specifically about the Palestinian people’s right to defend themselves, and, specifically, about armed struggle and its consistency (or lack thereof) with international law.

On February 22, 2024, Ma Xinmin, China’s Representative at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), uttered the unexpected.

His testimony, like that of a number of others, was meant to help the…

Malé (Quds News Network)- The Maldives has banned Israelis from entering the country in protest against Israel’s genocide in Gaza and in “resolute solidarity” with the Palestinian people.

The Maldives will no longer allow entry to Israeli passport holders, President Mohamed Muizzu announced on Tuesday, citing the country’s opposition to Israel’s brutal assault in Gaza.

The decision follows the ratification of the Third Amendment to the Maldives Immigration Act, which was…

By Haidar Eid  

Nobody can prevent the BDS movement from expressing principled criticism of any form of normalization with apartheid Israel.

Sometimes, criticism, both constructive and destructive, is directed at the BDS movement, particularly the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). The accusations…

Move comes after Algeria expelled French diplomats, following France’s arrest of an Algerian consular official linked to an alleged kidnap.

France says it will expel 12 Algerian diplomatic and consular staff members and has recalled its ambassador from Algiers, deepening a crisis that threatens to unravel months of attempted reconciliation between the two countries.

The announcement on Tuesday comes a day after Algeria ordered 12 French diplomats to leave within 48 hours.

Algiers announced…

By Robert Inlakesh

Netanyahu has spent the course of the war clearing out all his rivals, from collapsing the emergency War Cabinet to purging his former Defense Minister and replacing him with an inexperienced loyalist.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ongoing feud with the head of his domestic intelligence services (Shin Bet), Ronen Bar, is not only the cause of a series…