Rubio expected to push Trump plan to displace Palestinians from Gaza...
TG Staff
The Guardian / February 16, 2025
US secretary of state is making his first trip to region and is expected to advocate Trump’s plan to create ‘Riviera of the Middle East’
The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, will discuss the Gaza ceasefire with Israel’s prime minister in Jerusalem, launching...
Hamas’ options in the second phase of negotiations
Hassan Nafaa
The Palestine Chronicle / February 15, 2025
Hassan Nafaa, Professor of Political Science at Cairo University, argues that Trump may attempt to convince Netanyahu to proceed with the second phase of the agreement and postpone negotiations on the contentious issues.
The ceasefire agreement in Gaza came into effect on Sunday,...
Israeli forces set homes on fire in South Lebanon amid ceasefire...
TPC Staff
The Palestine Chronicle / February 15, 2025
Israeli forces have set homes on fire in southern Lebanon and defied the ceasefire agreement, maintaining occupation in five positions despite international efforts to enforce withdrawal.
Israeli occupation forces have set several homes on fire in the southern Lebanese towns of Houla and...
Freed but scarred: Palestinian prisoners expose occupation’s brutality
TPC Staff
The Palestine Chronicle / February 15, 2025
Palestinian prisoners released in the sixth exchange reveal torture and abuse in Israeli detention, as resistance forces secure their freedom under the ongoing ceasefire agreement.
Israeli occupation authorities released on Saturday the sixth group of Palestinian prisoners as part of the ongoing ceasefire...
Hamas says it will free 3 more hostages – that could...
Samy Magdy & Melanie Lidman
AP / February 14, 2025
CAIRO – Hamas said Thursday it would go ahead with the release of three more Israeli hostages, paving the way toward resolving a major dispute over the ceasefire deal in the Gaza Strip.
The militant group had threatened to delay the next...
Palestinian booksellers decry detention by Israeli police over ‘public disorder’
Julian Borger & Quique Kierszenbaum
The Guardian / February 14, 2025
Mahmoud and Ahmed Muna remain under house arrest until Sunday, despite lack of evidence against them
East Jerusalem – Two East Jerusalem booksellers detained this week on charges their books were causing “public disorder” have said the experience reflected an intensifying...
‘Who is Trump to decide our fate ?’: takeover threat adds...
Malak A Tantesh & Julian Borger
The Guardian / February 14, 2025
Palestinians say the US president will never succeed in his plan to force them from their homes to build a ‘Riviera’
Gaza/Jerusalem – One month after the announcement of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinians of Gaza have...
Israel expands operations in West Bank, plans permanent military sites in...
TPC Staff
The Palestine Chronicle / February 14, 2025
Israeli forces are escalating military operations across the West Bank, killing 25 in Jenin, displacing 20,000, and detaining 380 Palestinians in the past month.
The Israeli news website Walla, citing a senior Israeli officer, reported that the Israeli army plans to expand its...
[ICC case] ‘Failed miserably’ – Israeli general admits Gaza defeat, calls...
TPC Staff
The Palestine Chronicle / February 14, 2025
Retired Israeli General Giora Eiland admits Israel failed in Gaza and continues to advocate ethnic cleansing and using starvation as a weapon.
The Israeli newspaper Maariv has quoted retired Israeli General Giora Eiland, former head of Israel’s National Security Council, as stating that...
UN experts urge Israel to respect ceasefire, withdraw from South Lebanon
TPC Staff
The Palestine Chronicle / February 14, 2025
At least 57 civilians have been killed, and 260 properties destroyed within 60 days of the ceasefire that came into effect in November last year, according to the UN experts.
UN experts have called on Israel to respect the ceasefire agreement with Lebanon,...
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Kwestie Palestina
De ‘Kwestie Palestina’ verwijst naar de strijd van Palestijnen tegen het zionistische, koloniale project in Palestina, waarbij zionistisch-joodse kolonisten vanaf het eind van de 19e eeuw door middel van kolonisatie stelselmatig toewerken naar het omvormen van Palestina in een Joodse Staat. Deze omvorming betekent in de praktijk dat de...
de Palestijnen
Palestina – het gebied dat zich uitstrekt tussen de Middellandse Zee en de rivier de Jordaan – is door de inspanningen van joodse kolonisten/de Staat Israel opgedeeld in drie delen: Palestina’48 (Israel), de Westelijke Jordaanoever (inclusief Oost-Jeruzalem) en de Strook van Gaza.
In 2016 woonden in Palestina woonden 6,5 miljoen...