Category: 1. Palestine

The head of the Catholic Church has appeared publicly for the second time since being discharged from hospital after a pneumonia diagnosis.

Pope Francis has held an in-person greeting with the faithful in St Peter’s Square on Palm Sunday in yet another positive public sign of his recovery from a life-threatening battle with double pneumonia.

On Sunday, the 88-year-old pontiff wished more than 20,000 people a “happy Palm Sunday, happy Holy Week” as he sat in a wheelchair without nasal…

By Iqbal Jassat

Now that the freebie propaganda mission has been exposed, it provides fresh opportunities for civil societies as well as the SA government to honour Tutu’s legacy by intensifying the boycott of the apartheid regime.

If anyone is unsure about why South African MPs were treated as royalty in Israel while British MPs were denied entry and chucked out, it is no real mystery and not…

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Despite international observance of Palm Sunday, Israel’s strict restrictions kept thousands of Palestinian Christians from worshipping in occupied Jerusalem.

Israeli forces barred Palestinian Christians from the West Bank from entering occupied Jerusalem on Sunday to take part in Palm Sunday celebrations.

According to the official Palestinian News Agency WAFA,…

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Head of caretaker government and leader of 2023 coup secures XX percent of votes cast on Saturday.

Gabon’s military leader Brice Oligui Nguema has been declared the winner in the presidential race, cementing his grip on power following the first election since he led the 2023 coup.

Gabon’s election body announced provisional results on Sunday that Nguema secured 90 percent in Saturday’s election, against his closest rival, Alain Claude Bilie-By-Nze.

Nguema, who had…

Gaza (Quds News Network)- Most hospitals in the Gaza Strip are now out of service, according to the Health Ministry. Israeli airstrikes have destroyed more than 80 medical centers and over 140 ambulances.

On the eve of Palm Sunday, Israeli warplanes bombed the Baptist Hospital in central Gaza City. The strike targeted the surgical operations building and the medical oxygen station, both essential for intensive care patients.

Israeli forces had warned of the attack minutes before it…

Fighters from Hamas’ Qassam Brigades say they ambushed an Israeli force in Rafah, as air raid sirens sounded in hundreds of locations across Israel amid missile fire from Yemen.

The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Resistance movement Hamas, stated on Sunday that its fighters captured an Israeli force operating in the eastern part of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

In their statement, the Brigades announced…

Virgil van Dijk scores late to send Liverpool 13 points clear and to the verge of clinching their 20th league title.

Virgil van Dijk spared Liverpool’s blushes with a late winner to beat West Ham 2-1 and edge to within six points of the Premier League title.

Andy Robertson’s own goal four minutes from time on Sunday had given the lowly Hammers a deserved equaliser after Luis Diaz put Liverpool in front early on.

Van Dijk, though, swiftly restored the lead to show Liverpool retain the…

Just before a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck central Myanmar, General Zaw Min Tun sat down with Talk to Al Jazeera. In a rare interview, the military government’s spokesperson defended military rule amid growing armed resistance, looming war crimes trials, and international condemnation. Hours later, entire villages were gone, and…