Category: 1. Palestine

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

The investigation highlights the severe shortcomings in leadership, inadequate equipment, and unpreparedness that left the Zikim base vulnerable to the Hamas attack.

The Israeli military has released the results of its investigation into the events that unfolded at the Zikim military base during the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack, shedding light on the severe challenges faced by…

Marches ‘against Islamophobia’ have been organised throughout France in the victim’s memory.

A man suspected of killing a Muslim worshipper in a mosque in southern France remains on the run, authorities say, in an incident that Prime Minister Francois Bayrou has branded as “Islamophobic”.

Both men were alone in the mosque in La Grand-Combe, a former mining town in the Gard region, on Friday when the victim was fatally stabbed. The assailant reportedly recorded the attack on his…

Gaza (Quds News Network)- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced today that its flour supplies in Gaza have completely run out.

In a post on its official X account, UNRWA said, “The World Food Programme (WFP) declared on April 25 that its food stock in Gaza is fully depleted. UNRWA’s flour supplies also ran out earlier this week.”

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Qatar says ‘a bit of progress’ made in Israel-Hamas ceasefire talks as the food crisis in the Palestinian territory worsens.

Qatar says there has been “a bit of progress” in the talks aimed at securing a new truce in Israel’s war on Gaza as the United Nations makes an urgent appeal for Israel to lift the “total and complete blockade” of the besieged Palestinian territory.

Qatar’s prime minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, on Sunday met with Turkish…

Russia launched a sweeping drone assault and air attacks across Ukraine, killing at least four people, officials say, a day after United States President Donald Trump cast doubt over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s willingness to end the war.

According to a Facebook post by the Donetsk regional prosecutor’s office, Russia dropped three glide bombs on the city, about 10km (6 miles) from the front line, on Sunday. Russian forces have inched closer towards it over the past year.

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The modest tomb draws huge queues on the first day of public viewing a day after tens of thousands attended his funeral.

Thousands of mourners have gathered in Rome to pay their respects at the tomb of Pope Francis, a day after his funeral drew world leaders and hundreds of thousands of the faithful.

On Sunday, queues were seen at the tomb, which opened to the public on the second of nine days of official mourning, with a conclave to select his successor expected between May 5 and May 10.

Is Bangladesh heading towards real reform or just trading one elite for another? Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and chief adviser of Bangladesh’s interim government talks to Al Jazeera about the country’s fragile transition, promises of democracy and whether the interim government will truly break from the past or entrench a new ruling class