Category: 1. Palestine

Heavy rains have lashed parts of earthquake-hit Myanmar, complicating relief efforts and raising the risk of disease as the death toll from the powerful quakes that struck the country on March 28 rose to at least 3,471.

Aid workers in the hard-hit city of Mandalay, near the epicentre of the earthquake, said on Sunday that rains and winds hit tent camps in the area overnight and in the morning, soaking survivors and their belongings.

More bouts of rain were expected later in the day, while…

Israel’s assault on the West Bank continues with military raids, arrests, and settler violence, while Palestinian resistance responds with gunfire and explosives.

Palestinian resistance fighters targeted Israeli occupation forces in Qalqilya and Nablus, as two Palestinians were wounded by Israeli gunfire amid fresh military raids across the occupied West Bank on Saturday night and into…

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Scores of Palestinians were killed and wounded early Sunday in Israeli airstrikes on Khan Yunis and Gaza City, as Israeli occupation forces expanded their incursions across the Gaza Strip.

Nine Palestinians were killed and 20 others injured when Israeli aircraft targeted a tent housing displaced persons in the Al-Mawasi area and a house in the Al-Amal neighborhood west of Khan Yunis in the…

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

“If the flow of water from Mekorot is not restored soon, Gaza will face a full-blown water crisis.”

The Israeli army on Saturday halted the flow of water from Israeli company Mekorot to the Gaza Strip, effectively cutting off 70 percent of the enclave’s total water supply.

According to Gaza municipality spokesperson Hosni Mehanna, the disconnection affects the main…

As war of words over nuclear weapons deal escalates, FM Araghchi says he wants talks on ‘equal footing’.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has described the prospect of direct negotiations on its nuclear programme with the United States as “meaningless” amid mounting tensions between the two countries.

Araghchi’s remarks came in a statement on Sunday, after Trump said last month in a letter sent to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that he hoped there would be a…

New York (Quds News Network)- The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has renewed Francesca Albanese’s mandate as Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories for another three years despite an intense Israeli smear campaign. The decision came Friday, during the final session of the Council’s 58th session in Geneva.

The move followed months of pressure from zionist groups and Western allies, including the United States. These groups launched an aggressive…