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Sa'id Lulu owns the 'Kiosk of the Graduates' in besieged Gaza. (Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour, The Palestine Chronicle) By Palestine Chronicle Staff ‘Kiosk of the Graduates’ is Sa’id Lulu’s way of making money and raising a family of seven.  Sa’id, however, had a different plan.  When he graduated from Azhar University in Gaza in 2007, the young graduate in media and international relations wanted to work in his field, and pursue a higher degree.  That was the year that Gaza was placed under a hermetic Israeli siege, ending Sa’id hope, and those of many like him. After moving from one job to another, some lasting weeks, others months, Sa’id decided to go a different route, away from NGOs and their short-term contracts. He began selling tea and coffee on t...

‘You will pay the price’: Shin Bet threatens Palestinian NGO directors Al-Haq's executive director Shawan Jabarin, next to Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh, speaks to the media after the Israeli army raided the offices of several Palestinian NGOs, Ramallah, the West Bank, August 18, 2022. (Oren Ziv). Undeterred by foreign criticism, Israel warns heads of two human rights groups of imprisonment and prosecution days after raiding their offices. By: Oren Ziv This article was published in partnership with Local Call.  On Sunday, the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, made threatening calls and summoned for interrogation the heads of two Palestinian NGOs whose offices were raided by the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank last week. Khaled Q...

Why Benny Gantz is one of Israel’s most dangerous leadersBenny Gantz is undoubtedly one of the most dangerous officials in Israel’s recent history. The latest testament to this was on display across Ramallah on Thursday, when the Israeli army — which falls under Gantz’s purview as defense minister — raided the offices of seven leading Palestinian human rights groups, welded their doors shut, and declared them “illegal.” Shortly after, the Shin Bet threatened two of the organizations’ Palestinian directors, promising they would “pay the price” if they continued their work. The soldiers who stormed the offices, and the intelligence agents who issued the threats, were following an executive order issued a year ago which designated the NGOs as “terrorist organizations” — an order signed b...

Nazi Soldiers Abduct Three Palestinians, Including A Child, In Ramallah, Nablus, And Jenin Nazi soldiers abducted a Palestinian child in Khirbat Abu Falah village, northeast of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and two Palestinians near Nablus and Jenin, in the northern West Bank. Media sources several Nazi military vehicles carried the invasion out and drove through several neighborhoods. They added that the soldiers abducted a child, Ala’ Ehab Sheikh Hamayel, 14, and took him to a nearby military base. In related news, the army invaded Deir Nitham village, northwest of Ramallah, leading to protests, before the soldiers fired rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades; there have been no reports of injuries. It is worth mentioning that Deir N...