By Palestine Chronicle Staff   Senior Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya has said that the movement is ready to agree on a long truce with Israel if Palestine becomes a fully sovereign state and Palestinian refugees are allowed to return. During an interview with the Associated Press on Wednesday, al-Hayya said that Israel has no option but a political solution, since it did not manage to dismantle Hamas.  “Israel has hit the Resistance with great blows, but has not ended it, and they say so,” al-Hayya said.  “They have not destroyed more than 20 percent of Hamas’ capabilities, neit ..read more

Scores of Palestinians were killed and many others were wounded on Thursday, in the ongoing Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip, which has now entered its 202nd day. According to the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza, Israeli forces committed 5 massacres in the Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours, killing 43 Palestinian and wounding 64 more. The official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that four civilians were killed and several others were wounded when a drone targeted a group of Palestinians on the Wadi Gaza Bridge. Furthermore, civil defense teams retrieved the body of a Palestin ..read more

By Palestine Chronicle Staff   Israeli forces  killed and wounded scores of Palestinians in new strikes, targeting Rafah and Nuseirat, in the southern and central Gaza Strip. Palestinian factions warned of the catastrophic repercussions of an Israeli invasion of Rafah, noting that the United States and the international community would bear responsibility for it.  Top Hamas official Khalil Al-Hayya told Associated Press that the group is willing to agree to a five-year-truce and would convert into a political party if an independent Palestinian state is established.  Accord ..read more

By Palestine Chronicle Staff   “According to the plan, the operation will move forward in stages, based on a regional division of the Gazan city into defined areas.” The Pentagon has said that while it shares Israel’s “objective to see Hamas defeated in Rafah,” it still has some concerns about a ground assault of the southern Gaza town. Israeli media reports, meanwhile, indicate that the invasion of Rafah, which houses more than 1.4 million displaced Palestinians, is imminent. “I can tell you that coming out of the recent meeting that was hosted by the White House, the U.S. and Israel hav ..read more

By Ramzy Baroud   It goes without saying that Ben-Gvir, and his threats to topple Netanyahu’s coalition government, have been the main driving force behind the genocide in Gaza. Throughout history, fringe religious Zionist parties have had limited success in achieving the kind of electoral victories that would allow them an actual share in the country’s political decision-making. The impressive number of 17 seats won by Israel’s extremist religious party, Shas, in the 1999 elections, was a watershed moment in the history of these parties, whose ideological roots go back to Avraham It ..read more

By Iqbal Jassat It is abundantly clear that despite various attempts by the apartheid regime to garner and maintain global support for its terrorism in Gaza, it has turned out to be a dismal failure. Gaza’s killing fields by the settler colonial regime has now entered the seventh month, without any reprieve for the besieged Strip’s millions of refugees. Official records reveal that on day 200 (April 23) of the barbaric Zionist genocide, 3,025 massacres have been perpetrated, 42,510 innocent civilians mercilessly butchered, including 15,780 children slaughtered. An estimated 7,000 missing under ..read more

By Palestine Chronicle Staff   The US, along with Germany and more than a dozen other countries suspended funding to UNRWA at the end of January following Israeli allegations. Germany has announced it will resume funding the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Gaza. The decision comes after an independent investigation led by former French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna found that Israeli authorities had not yet provided sufficient evidence to support its claims that the organization’s employees were involved in the October 7 operation carried out by the Palestinian Resistance ..read more

By Abdallah Aljamal – Gaza The Palestine Chronicle spoke with three Palestinians who used to live in the Al-Sahli Tower, and whose houses were destroyed by Israel in the ongoing assault. The massive destruction of residential buildings, vital services and infrastructure in Gaza has been described as a form of ‘domicide’ – the “systematic or widespread violation of the right to adequate housing”. According to a statement issued by UN experts six months into Israel’s genocidal war on the Strip, “more housing and civilian infrastructure has now been destroyed in Gaza as a percentage, compared to ..read more

By Robert Inlakesh By striking military targets in the north of Akka, triggering sirens that caused hysteria among Israeli settlers, Hezbollah have just expanded confrontation between Lebanon and the Israeli regime. The Lebanese Resistance Movement Hezbollah has expanded the range of its strikes against the Israeli military, marking 200 days since the beginning of Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza and the initiation of Operation al-Aqsa Flood by the Palestinian resistance. On October 8, Hezbollah opened up what is referred to as the ‘northern front’ to support the Palestinian Resistance groups ..read more

By Palestine Chronicle Staff   The funding allocated to Israel reportedly provides more than $5 billion to replenish the Iron Dome, David’s Sling and Iron Beam defense systems. The US Senate approved a $95 billion aid package for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan on Tuesday, with a bipartisan majority backing the measure. The final vote stood at 80 to 19, the New York Times reported. According to the paper, “in order to steer around opposition from right-wing Republicans in the House, Speaker Mike Johnson (..) used a convoluted plan to pass it over the weekend”. The aid package was broken into t ..read more