Israel-Palestine war

Israeli and US officials say that the war will last one more month. (Image: Palestine Chronicle) By Palestine Chronicle Editors Despite lofty claims that Israel is ready to fight for years to come, simple discourse analysis, along with even simpler logic, tells us that this is not the case.  The Israeli Army Radio reported on Wednesday that Israel’s own military assessment …

Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres. (Photo: Kuhlmann, MSC, via Wikimedia Commons) By Palestine Chronicle Staff   UN Secretary-General António Guterres invoked, on Wednesday, Article 99 of the founding UN Charter. What does it mean? Article 99 allows the Secretary-General to “bring to the attention of the Security Council any matter which in his opinion may threaten the maintenance of international peace …

Israel has warned that the war will spread to the ‘whole’ of Gaza. That could force other nations to step in. An Israeli soldier reloads the machine gun of a Merkava tank amid a temporary truce between Hamas and Israel, near Gaza, in southern Israel, on November 30, 2023 [Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters] By Zoran Kusovac Published On 1 Dec 20231 Dec 2023 …

What’s with the world’s fascination with dead, dying and orphaned children? Wait, before you condemn what seems to be callousness, my point is this: our focus is to the exclusion of those children’s fathers, uncles and big brothers? Intentional or not.  Fascination or fixation, it’s basically the same – it amounts to a diversion, perhaps to make the toll appear …

All the conflict in Gaza is achieving is civilian misery, and the US can stop it at any time Robert Inlakesh is a political analyst, journalist and documentary filmmaker currently based in London, UK. He has reported from and lived in the Palestinian territories and currently works with Quds News. Director of ‘Steal of the Century: Trump’s Palestine-Israel Catastrophe’.  @falasteen47 This handout …

UN humanitarian official Lynn Hastings has said that the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is only going to get worse amid Israel’s expanding assault [Getty] A UN official warned on Monday that “an even more hellish scenario” looms in Gaza in which humanitarian aid simply grinds to a halt. “The conditions required to deliver aid to the people of Gaza do not exist,” …