Category: 1. Palestine

Nawaf Salam meets Ahmed al-Sharaa to discuss border security, refugees, and past political killings under ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has held talks in Damascus with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, in his first official visit to Syria, in an effort to recalibrate relations between the two nations, which have been strained for decades.

The diplomatic shuttle on Monday marks the highest-level Lebanese delegation visiting Syria since Beirut’s new…

The United Nations and rights groups are calling for an end to the violence in Sudan as the second anniversary of its civil war looms and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has intensified its attacks in Darfur, killing dozens of people in recent days.

As representatives from dozens of countries are to meet in London on Tuesday to try to resolve the Sudan crisis, Human Rights Watch urged the international community to “urgently work to protect civilians and guarantee safe,…

In 2022, the National Council of Chiefs and Elders of Liberia (NACCEL) announced a three-year moratorium on female genital mutilation (FGM). A year later, the council made another proclamation to ban FGM and then held ceremonies to end the practice in five of the 11 counties where FGM is practised.

However, despite the ban, there have been continuing reports of FGM activity. In September 2024, the National Coalition Against Harmful Practices (NACAPH), a coalition of civil society actors,…

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Hamas details its conditions for releasing all Israeli captives in Gaza, demanding a comprehensive prisoner exchange, ceasefire, and complete Israeli withdrawal.

A senior figure in the Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas, Taher El-Nounou, stated today that the organization is prepared to release all Israeli captives held in the Gaza Strip in exchange for a serious prisoner swap deal, a ceasefire, and…

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Israeli occupation forces also barred Palestinian Christians from the occupied West Bank on Sunday from entering occupied Jerusalem to participate in Palm Sunday celebrations.

The Israeli army demolished the statue of Saint George in south Lebanon as Christians were celebrating Palm Sunday, Lebanese media reported.

The statue was razed in the…

The strikes in eastern Ukraine follow an attack in Sumy that killed more than 30 people, sparking condemnation.

Russian strikes on eastern Ukraine have killed at least four civilians, a day after one of the deadliest attacks in recent months left more than 30 people dead in Sumy in the northeast and drew condemnation.

Local officials in the Kharkiv region reported that artillery and rocket fire on Monday hit the town of Kupiansk, a strategic rail junction once held by Russian forces and…

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Four Palestinians were also shot and injured during raids in the occupied West Bank.

An Israeli police officer was injured during a car ramming operation in the occupied West Bank town of Hebron (Al-Khalil) on Monday, while four Palestinians were shot and injured by Israeli occupation forces in separate incidents.

According to the Israeli newspaper…

United States President Donald Trump has threatened new tariffs on Chinese electronic goods, three days after his administration announced exemptions on smartphones, laptops, flash drives and a host of other tech products from levies he has announced since April 2.

Those exemptions provided relief to US tech companies reliant on Chinese manufacturing, like Apple and chip company Nvidia, which saw their stocks rise considerably after the release of Friday’s notice.

Then came Monday’s…