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Biographies

1865 - 3 March 1948

1875 - 9 February 1949

Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

Abd al-Latif Salah

1884 - 8 November 1952

Abd al-Hamid Shuman

1888 - 9 September 1974

Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali

1889 - 7 July 1973

1894 - 19 March 1949

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

Subhi al-Khadra

1895 - 4 July 1954

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

1896 - 27 September 1951

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

1905 - 21 May 1985

Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih

1907 - 8 January 2001

1907 - 27 July 2006

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

1910 - 26 February 1971

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

1925 - 10 April 1973

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

1927 - 13 January 2005

Issam Abd al-Hadi

1928 - 8 August 2013

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

Anis Abdullah Sayigh

3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009

13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

Ahmad Ismail Yasin

June 1936 - 22 March 2004

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

Events

France and the Ottoman Empire Sign the Mytilene Agreements

2 November 1901 - 10 November 1901

8th Zionist Congress Is Held in the Hague

14 July 1907 - 21 July 1907

Arrival in Palestine of the Zionist Commission

Appointment of the King-Crane Commission

20 March 1919 - 21 July 1919

Palin Commission of Inquiry

12 April 1920 - 1 July 1920

3rd Palestinian National Congress Meets in Haifa

13 December 1920 - 19 December 1920

The [Palestine] Arab Executive Committee Orders the Return of its Delegation from London

7 July 1922 - 31 July 1922

Establishment of the Palestine Arab Workers Society

21 March 1925 - 11 January 1930

Shaw Commission Report on al-Buraq / Western Wall Disturbances

John Hope Simpson Sent to Palestine to Investigate Questions of Immigration, Land Settlement and Development

White Paper (Passfield) of 1930 Is Published

20 October 1930

The [Palestine] Arab Executive Committee Denounces MacDonald's Reassurance to Weizmann

A Conference in Nablus Debates Resorting to Arms

General Strike and Demonstrations in Palestine

8 October 1933 - 3 November 1933

Death of Musa Kazim Husseini

The Arab Higher Committee is Formed

Appointment of the Peel Commission

Memorandum of Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

General Strike Called Off; Consent to Appear before the Peel Commission

11 October 1936

Peel Commission Investigates the Cause of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

11 November 1936 - 24 January 1937

Palestinians Reject Peel Commission Report

20th Zionist Congress Meets in Zürich

3 August 1937 - 16 August 1937

Arab National Congress Convenes in Bludan

8 September 1937 - 9 September 1937

Arab Higher Committee Is Banned

October 1937 - November 1937

Appointment of the Palestine Partition (Woodhead) Commission

The "International Parliamentarian Congress of Arab and Islamic Countries in Support of Palestine" Is Held in Cairo

7 October 1938 - 11 October 1938

British "Divide-and-Rule" Policy

November 1938 - May 1939

Partition (Woodhead) Commission Report Is Published

9 November 1938

London Round Table Conference Convenes

7 February 1939 - 27 March 1939

Arab Office (AO) Is Opened in Washington

September 1945 - December 1947

Bevin's Statement on Palestine; Formation of an Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

13 November 1945

Attempt to Reconstitute the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine

22 November 1945 - 29 May 1946

Formation of the (Palestinian) Arab Higher Front in Opposition to the Palestine Arab Party

President Truman Supports Jewish Immigration to Palestine

Arab League Supervises the Establishment of a Unified Palestinian Arab Higher Committee

Jewish Agency Partition Plan Secures US Endorsement

5 August 1946 - 14 August 1946

UNGA 106 (S-1): Creation of a Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP)

Arab League Meeting on Palestine, in Sofar, Lebanon

16 September 1947 - 19 September 1947

Palestinians and Zionists on UNSCOP Partition Plan

29 September 1947 - 3 October 1947

First Phase of Palestine War: Offensive Defense versus Active Defense

29 November 1947 - 10 March 1948

UNGA 186 (S-2): Appointment of a UN Mediator in Palestine

Third Phase of the Palestine War: Arab-Israeli War

15 May 1948 - 6 January 1949

SC Res. 50: Calling for a 4-week Cessation of Hostilities in Palestine

UNGA 194 (III): Establishment of a Conciliation Commission for Palestine (UNCCP)

11 December 1948

Israel Strengthens Its Political Control over Jerusalem; Military Government Dissolved

20 December 1948 - 17 February 1949

Individual Return of Tens of Thousands of Palestinian Refugees; Israel Launches "War on Infiltration"

January 1949 - December 1956

France Recognizes Israel on a de facto Basis

24 January 1949

The US Recognizes the Government of Israel on a de jure Basis

31 January 1949

Israel Enacts the Registration of Inhabitants Ordinance

1 February 1949

Republic of China Recognizes Israel; People’s Republic Revokes Recognition of Israel

1 March 1949 - 9 January 1950

Palestinians Testify Before the UNCCP

UNCCP Convenes the Lausanne Conference

27 April 1949 - 12 September 1949

Israel's Measures to Make Jerusalem Its Capital

23 January 1950 - 13 July 1953

Jordanian Parliamentary Elections; Formal Unification of the Two Banks

11 April 1950 - 24 April 1950

UNGA 394 (V): UNCCP to Establish Office on Compensation to Refugees

14 December 1950

Palestinian Memorandum to UNCCP, Ramallah

UNGA 512 (VI): UNCCP to Continue its Efforts

26 January 1952

The Knesset Enacts the Nationality Law

Palestinians in Israel Protest the Nationality law

GA Resolution 1604 (XV)

Appointment of Special Representative of the UNCCP

Israeli and Arab Responses to Joseph Johnson's Proposals

5 October 1962 - 17 October 1962

1st Palestine National Council Is Held in Jerusalem: Establishment of the PLO

28 May 1964 - 2 June 1964

Opening an Office of the PLO in Lebanon

23 October 1964 - 13 November 1964

2nd Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo

31 May 1965 - 4 June 1965

Palestinians Reorganize

11 December 1967 - 19 January 1968

Yasir Arafat Assumes Prominence within Fatah

4th Palestine National Council in Cairo Adopts a Revised National Charter

10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968

5th Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo

1 February 1969 - 4 February 1969

Military Order No. 321 Concerning Land Law (Acquisition for Public Purposes)

Black September Hijack Operation

11th Palestine National Council Meets in Cairo

6 January 1973 - 12 January 1973

Absentees' Property (Compensation) Law, 5733-1973

Arafat Addresses the UN General Assembly

13 November 1974

UNGA 3379 (XXX): Determining that Zionism is a Form of Racism and Racial Discrimination

10 November 1975

Palestinians in Israel Mobilize Against Confiscation

1 January 1976 - 6 March 1976

Palestinian "Land Day"

Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Reject the Camp David Autonomy Plan

16 October 1978 - 4 November 1978

SC Res. 446: Establishing a Commission to Examine the Situation Relating to Settlements in the Occupied Territories

Majid Abu Sharar Is Assassinated in Rome

Popular Resistance and Israeli Measures in West Bank

16 February 1982 - 30 March 1982

Draft SC Res. S/14985 to Condemn Shooting of Worshippers at Haram al-Sharif, Vetoed by US

Israeli-Lebanese Negotiations

28 December 1982

Failed Attempt of Palestinian-Jordanian Coordination

31 March 1983 - 8 April 1983

PLO Executive on Palestinian-Jordanian Joint Action Agreement

18 February 1985

Draft SC Res. S/17459 to Call upon Israel to Stop its Repressive Measures, Vetoed by US

13 September 1985

The Palestinians' 14 Demands

14 January 1988

Start of US-PLO Dialogue

14 December 1988

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Tunis

31 March 1989 - 2 April 1989

The PLO Executive Committee Rejects Israel's Peace Initiative

Responses to the Baker Five-Point Plan

16 October 1989 - 18 December 1989

SC Res. 681: Deploring Israel's Decision to Resume Deportations of Palestinian Civilians

20 December 1990

SC Res 694: Deploring Israel's Deportation of Palestinian Civilians

20th Palestine National Council Is Held in Algiers

23 September 1991 - 28 September 1991

SC Res. 726: Condemning Israel's Decision to Resume Deportation of Palestinian Civilians

The Knesset Enacts the Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty

Palestinian-Israeli Declaration of Principles Initialed and Approved

20 August 1993 - 30 August 1993

PLO Central Council Meeting in Tunis Prepares the Implementation of the DOP

10 October 1993 - 12 October 1993

SC Res. 904: Condemning the Massacre of Palestinian Worshippers in al-Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron

Final Chapter of Gaza-Jericho Negotiations

31 March 1994 - 1 May 1994

Arafat's Decree N° 1: Pre-1967 Laws in West Bank and Gaza Are still in Force

Settlement Activity Around Jerusalem

19 January 1995 - 1 February 1995

Draft SC S/1995/394 to Condemn Israeli Land Expropriation in Jerusalem Vetoed by the US

Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (Oslo II)

28 September 1995

Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin Maps the Shape of the Israeli-Palestinian Permanent Solution

Israeli Army Redeploys from Areas in the West Bank

November 1995 - December 1995

Palestinian Presidential and Legislative Elections

20 January 1996

Start of the Countdown for the Three-Phase Further Redeployment in the West Bank

Redeployment from Hebron Delayed

21st Palestine National Council Is Held in Gaza

22 April 1996 - 24 April 1996

Protocol on Redeployment in Hebron Signed

6 October 1996 - 16 January 1997

Ambiguous and Weakened Assurances on Further Redeployment

16 January 1997

UNGA ES-10/2: Condemning Israel's Construction of Jabal Abu Ghunaym Settlement

Israeli Settlement Activities Amid Attempts to Resume Talks

10 September 1997 - 6 November 1997

US Position on Further Redeployment and Palestinian Obligations

5 December 1997 - 3 September 1998

French-Palestinian Agreement on Status of French Institutions Under Palestinian Authority

12 December 1997 - 18 December 1997

Wye River Plantation Meeting; Memorandum Signed

15 October 1998 - 23 October 1998

Israeli Obstacles to Wye River Implementation; First Stage Redeployment Only

30 October 1998 - 17 May 1999

To Declare a Palestinian State at the End of the Transitional Period?

28 December 1998 - 25 April 1999

UNGA Res. ES-10/6: Recommending Holding a Conference to Enforce the 4th Geneva Convention in the OPT

9 February 1999

Conference on the 4th Geneva Convention Affirms its Applicability to the OPT

Sharm al-Shaykh Memorandum (Wye II Accord)

4 September 1999

The Stockholm Back Channel - 2nd Session

18 May 2000 - 22 May 2000

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Gaza

2 July 2000 - 3 July 2000

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Gaza

9 September 2000 - 10 September 2000

UNGA Res. ES-10/7: Expresses Concern over Israeli-Palestinian Clashes and Respect for 4th Geneva Convention

20 October 2000

Lebanon's Constitutional Council Upholds the Prohibition of Real Estate Acquisition by Palestinian Refugees

Death of Faisal al-Husseini

Conference on the 4th Geneva Convention Affirms Responsibility of all Contracting Parties in Ensuring its Respect

5 December 2001

The Knesset Passes the Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants Law

Birth of the Middle East "Quartet"

Israeli and International Pressures for a PA Reform

7 May 2002 - 5 June 2002

Toward a "Road Map" to Final Status?

13 August 2002 - 5 November 2002

Draft SC Res. S/2002/1385 Demanding Israel's Compliance with 4th Geneva Convention Vetoed by US

20 December 2002

Arafat Accepts the Creation of a Prime Minister Position

9 February 2003 - 6 March 2003

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah

8 March 2003 - 9 March 2003

US formally Presents Israel and the PA with the Road Map

The PLO Approves the Road Map

3 May 2003 - 11 May 2003

Ahmad Qurai' Is Appointed PM: A Nine-Week Ministerial Crisis

7 September 2003 - 12 November 2003

Draft SC Res. S/2003/891 Against any Israeli Act of Deportation and any Threat to Arafat's Safety Vetoed by US

16 September 2003

Draft SC Res. S/2003/980 on Illegality of Wall inside OPT Vetoed by US

14 October 2003

UNGA Res. ES-10/13: Demands that Israel Stop and Reverse Construction of Wall inside OPT

21 October 2003

SC Res. 1515: Endorsing Quartet Roadmap to a Two-State Solution

19 November 2003

UNGA Res. ES-10/14: Requesting an Advisory Opinion from the ICJ on the Legal Consequences of the Wall

8 December 2003

Bush's Letter to Sharon on the Disengagement Plan

Reactions to Bush's Assurances to Sharon RE Disengagement Plan

15 April 2004 - 6 May 2004

Smooth and Constitutional Transition in PLO and PA Leadership

11 November 2004 - 1 December 2004

London Meeting on Supporting the Palestinian Authority

Palestinian Dialogue Conference Held in Cairo

15 March 2005 - 17 March 2005

Major Construction Plan in Ma'ale Adumim

21 March 2005 - 6 April 2005

James Wolfensohn Appointed to Follow Economic-Related Disengagement Matters

14 April 2005 - 20 June 2005

Mahmoud Abbas's First Visit to White House as PA President

Palestinian Legislative Elections: Parties and Factions Sign a Code of Conduct

17 October 2005

Post Disengagement: Agreement on Movement and Access

15 November 2005

Palestinian Legislative Elections: Fatah's Confused Preparation

25 November 2005 - 28 December 2005

After Ongoing Israeli Military Activities, A Surge in Violence

27 November 2005 - 15 December 2005

Palestinian Legislative Elections: Registered Party Slates

18 December 2005

Palestinian Legislative Elections Results: Hamas's Victory

26 January 2006 - 29 January 2006

Palestinian Legislative Election Results: Initial Israeli and International Reactions

27 January 2006 - 5 February 2006

Palestinian Legislative Election Results: Initial Palestinian Reactions

27 January 2006 - 4 May 2006

PA New Legislature and Consultations to Form a New Cabinet

18 February 2006 - 16 March 2006

International Responses to Palestinian Unity Efforts

2 February 2007 - 19 February 2007

Israeli and US Reactions to the Revived Arab Peace Initiative

29 March 2007 - 17 April 2007

After the July War: Winograd Commission Interim Report

Tony Blair Appointed Quartet Special Representative

Bush's Policy Speech and Call for an International Conference

The Quartet Expresses "Concern" over Jabal Abu Ghunaym/ Har Homa Expansion

17 December 2007

Bush's Statement on Palestinian Statehood, Jerusalem

10 January 2008

SC Res. 1850: Expressing Support for the Annapolis Negotiations and the Quartet Principles of January 2006

16 December 2008

War on Gaza, Day 12

War on Gaza, Day 13

Palestinian National Unity Talks Resume in Cairo

25 February 2009 - 18 May 2009

The Obama Administration Prepares its Peace Initiative with the Arab Side

21 April 2009 - 28 May 2009

US-Israel Disagreement Over the Settlements Freeze

26 June 2009 - 28 July 2009

Salam Fayyad's Government Issues “Ending the Occupation, Establishing the State” Plan

25 August 2009 - 24 September 2009

Egypt's Efforts for Palestinian Reconciliation Fail Once More

9 September 2009 - 25 October 2009

Palestinian Legislative and Presidential Elections Postponed

12 November 2009

Palestinian Municipal Elections Announced and Delayed

8 February 2010 - 12 February 2011

The Arab League and the PLO Endorse Israeli-Palestinian Proximity Talks

3 March 2010 - 7 March 2010

US Demands on Israel After the Ramat Shlomo Plan

9 March 2010 - 25 March 2010

With the Arab League Blessing, Israeli-Palestinian Proximity Talks Are Launched

22 April 2010 - 20 May 2010

President Obama Meets Netanyahu and Pushes the Palestinians for Direct Talks with Israel

6 July 2010 - 23 August 2010

Abbas, Backed by the Arab League, Halts Palestinian-Israeli Direct Talks

30 September 2010 - 15 December 2010

The PLO Considers Internationalization as an Alternative to Negotiations

16 October 2010

Fatah Dispute with Muhammad Dahlan

28 December 2010 - 12 June 2011

Diplomatic Efforts to Avert Palestinian Statehood Bid at the UN

2 June 2011 - 11 July 2011

Report of the Panel of Inquiry on the Mavi Marmara Incident (Palmer Commission)

2 September 2011

State of Palestine: Application for Admission to Membership in the United Nations

23 September 2011

The Quartet Proposes a Vague Timetable for the Resumption of Negotiations

23 September 2011 - 14 December 2011

Palestinian Reconciliation Meetings in Cairo

20 December 2011 - 22 December 2011

Israeli-Palestinian “Exploratory Talks” in Amman

3 January 2012 - 25 January 2012

Fatah and Hamas Sign an Agreement on an Implementation Timetable in Cairo

Local Elections in the West Bank Are Announced

10 July 2012 - 5 August 2012

Hamas and Fatah Exchange Reconciliation Gestures

22 November 2012 - 7 February 2013

With the Nonrelease of Prisoners, the Palestinian Leadership Applies for Access to 19 International Conventions

Battir Landscape Is Inscribed in the World Heritage List

UNHRC Res. A/HRC/RES/S-21/1: Condemning Israel's Assault on Gaza, Dispatching Commission of Inquiry

Palestinians in the West Bank Boycott Israeli Dairy and Processed Food Products

9 February 2015 - 2 March 2015

Attempts at Holding Palestinian Municipal Elections

21 June 2016 - 31 January 2017

The Quartet Issues a Report on the Impediments to Palestinian-Israeli Settlement

The PLO Executive Committee Decides to Boycott the Quartet

3 July 2016 - 10 July 2016

Continued Israeli Settlement Activity and Destruction of Palestinian Infrastructure

27 July 2016 - 7 December 2016

Fatah Seventh General Conference Renews Its Governing Bodies

4 December 2016

Israeli-Palestinian Joint Water Committee Reactivated

15 January 2017

Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad Meets in Istanbul

25 February 2017 - 26 February 2017

UNESCWA and the Report on Israeli Apartheid

UN SG Antonio Guterres Distances Himself from ESCWA Report; Executive Secretary Rima Khalaf Resigns

16 March 2017 - 17 March 2017

Municipal Elections in the West Bank

Palestinian Prisoners in Israel End Hunger Strike

Old Cities of Jerusalem and Hebron Inscribed as World Heritage in Danger

4 July 2017 - 7 July 2017

A Unified Lebanese Vision on Issues of Palestinian Refugees Living in Lebanon

Abbas Signs 22 Treaties as a Response to Trump's Move on Jerusalem

18 December 2017

The Arab League Jerusalem Committee Meets to Discuss Trump's Jerusalem Announcement

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah

14 January 2018 - 6 February 2018

23rd Palestine National Council Convenes in Ramallah

30 April 2018 - 3 May 2018

The US Opens its Embassy in Jerusalem; Guatemala and Paraguay (Temporarily) Follow Suit

14 May 2018 - 15 May 2018

The Knesset Passes Basic Law: Israel the Nation-State of the Jewish People

19 July 2018 - 30 July 2018

Qatar's Assistance to Gaza

9 October 2018 - 8 November 2018

PA President Abbas Signs Accession Papers for 11 International Organizations

15 November 2018

Palestinian Reconciliation Comes again to a Standstill

1 October 2020 - 17 November 2020

The General Strike of the Unity Intifada

Israel Demolishes Parts of al-Yusufiya Cemetery to Make Space for Biblical Park

17 October 2021 - 29 October 2021

Historical Texts

Resolutions of the General Palestinian Congress in Damascus (in Arabic)

27 February 1920

Letter from Palestinian Associations and Clubs to the Syrian Congress Presidency (in Arabic)

Statement of the Executive Committee of the 4th Palestinian National Congress Rejecting the British Mandate (in Arabic)

Statement of the Executive Committee of the 5th Palestinian National Congress on Boycotting the Legislative Council Elections (in Arabic)

1 September 1922

Arab Executive Committee's Response to High Commissioner's Offer to Form an Arab Agency Similar to the Jewish Agency in Palestine (in Arabic)

12 October 1923

National Fund: Establishment of Company to Save the Lands of Palestine (in Arabic)

11 October 1932

The Palestine Arab Party: Bylaws and Internal Regulations (in Arabic)

Arab Summit Resolutions, Anshas (in Arabic)

Establishment of a Provisional Palestinian Civil Administration (in Arabic)

UNGA Resolution 212 (III)

19 November 1948

Resolutions of the Jericho Conference on Palestinian-Jordanian Unity (in Arabic)

1 December 1948

The US Recognizes Israel on a de jure Basis

31 January 1949

Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement

24 February 1949

UNSC Resolution 69

Lebanon-Israel General Armistice Agreement

Jordan-Israel General Armistice Agreement

Ad Hoc Political Committee Resolution on Israel’s Application for UN Membership

UNGA Resolution 273 (III)

Report Submitted by the Arab Refugee Congress of Ramallah on al-Dawayima Massacre

Syria–Israel General Armistice Agreement

United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Fourth Progress Report

22 September 1949

UNGA Resolution 302 (IV)

8 December 1949

UNGA Resolution 303

9 December 1949

Absentees' Property Law, 5710-1950

UNGA Resolution 393 (V)

2 December 1950

Agreement between the Government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan And the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East

UNSC Resolution 95

1 September 1951

UNGA Resolution 513 (VI)

26 January 1952

UNSC Resolution 101

24 November 1953

UNSC Resolution 106

UNSC Resolution 111

19 January 1956

UNGA Resolution 997 (ES-I)

2 November 1956

UNGA Resolution 1002 (ES-I)

7 November 1956

UNGA Resolution 1125 (XI)

2 February 1957

Law Promulgating the Basic Law for the Area under the Supervision of the Egyptian Forces in Palestine (in Arabic)

25 February 1958

Lebanon’s Department for Palestinian Refugee Affairs (in Arabic)

UNGA Resolution 1604 (XV)

Speech of Ahmad al-Shuqairi, Head of the Palestine Delegation, before the UN Special Political Committee (in Arabic)

5 November 1963

Palestine National Council, 1st Session: List of Members (in Arabic)

28 May 1964 - 2 June 1964

Basic Law of the Palestinian National Fund (in Arabic)

Bylaws of the Executive Committee of the PLO (in Arabic)

Palestine National Council, 2nd Session: Political Resolutions (in Arabic)

31 May 1965 - 4 June 1965

Palestine National Council, 3rd Session: Political Resolutions (in Arabic)

20 May 1966 - 24 May 1966

UNSC Resolution 237

UNGA Resolution 2252 (ES-V)

UNGA Resolution 2443 (XXIII)

19 December 1968

UNGA Resolution 2452 (XXIII)

19 December 1968

9 December 1969

UNGA Resolution 2535 (XXIV)

10 December 1969

UNGA Resolution 2672 (XXV)

8 December 1970

UNGA Resolution 2792 (XXVI)

6 December 1971

Palestinian Popular Congress, Statement (in Arabic)

6 April 1972 - 10 April 1972

Palestine National Council, 11th Session: Statement (in Arabic)

12 January 1973

Sixth Arab Summit: Statement (in Arabic)

28 November 1973

The Koenig Memorandum

Admission of Palestine as Full Member in Arab League (in Arabic)

9 September 1976

UNSC Resolution 446

Egyptian Model for Palestinian Full Autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

28 January 1980

UNSC Resolution 465

UNSC Resolution 478

UNSC Resolution 497

17 December 1981

UNGA Resolution ES-9/1

5 February 1982

Draft of UNSC Resolution 14943

Draft of UNSC Resolution 14985

Draft of UNSC Resolution 15895

Statement of the PLO Executive Committee on the Palestinian-Jordanian Joint Action Agreement (in Arabic)

18 February 1985

Draft of UNSC Resolution 17459

12 September 1985

Draft of UNSC Resolution 17769

29 January 1986

UNSC Resolution 605

22 December 1987

UNSC Resolution 607

Draft of UNSC Resolution 19466

29 January 1988

Draft of UNSC Resolution 19780

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1988: Concluding Statement (in Arabic)

7 June 1988 - 9 June 1988

Draft of UNSC Resolution 20463

17 February 1989

Draft of UNSC Resolution 20677

UNSC Resolution 641

Draft of UNSC Resolution 20945/Rev.1

6 November 1989

Hamas’s Memorandum on Restructuring the Palestine National Council (in Arabic)

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1990: Statement (in Arabic)

28 May 1990 - 30 May 1990

Draft of UNSC Resolution 21326

UNSC Resolution 681

20 December 1990

Palestinian West Bank – Gaza Delegation: Memorandum to U.S. Secretary James Baker

UNSC Resolution 694

UNSC Resolution 726

UNSC Resolution 799

18 December 1992

UNSC Resolution 904

Draft of UNSC Resolution 1995/394

The Beilin – Abu Mazen Document

31 October 1995

Palestine National Council, 21st Session: Political Resolutions (in Arabic)

22 April 1996 - 25 April 1996

Draft of UNSC Resolution 1997/199

UNGA Resolution ES-10/2

UNGA Resolution ES-10/3

Statement by the President of the Security Council S/PRST/1998/21

UNGA Resolution ES-10/6

9 February 1999

UNSC Resolution 1322

UNGA Resolution ES-10/7

20 October 2000

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2001/270

Thirteenth Arab Summit: Final Statement (in Arabic)

27 March 2001 - 28 March 2001

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2001/1199

14 December 2001

Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants Law

UNSC Resolution 1435

24 September 2002

Draft of UNSC Resolution S/2002/1385

20 December 2002

Fifteenth Arab Summit: Final Statement (in Arabic)

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2003/891

16 September 2003

UNGA Resolution ES-10/12

25 September 2003

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2003/980

14 October 2003

UNGA Resolution ES-10/13

27 October 2003

UNGA Resolution ES-10/14

12 December 2003

President Bush's letter to Prime Minister Sharon

UNGA Resolution 58/292

UNSC Resolution 1544

Sixteenth Arab Summit: Final Statement (in Arabic)

22 May 2004 - 23 May 2004

UNGA Resolution ES-10/15

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2004/783

Palestinian Dialogue Conference (in Arabic)

Eighteenth Arab Summit: The Khartoum Declaration (in Arabic)

28 March 2006 - 29 March 2006

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2006/508

UNSC Resolution 1701

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2006/878

10 November 2006

UNGA Resolution ES-10/16

30 November 2006

Nineteenth Arab Summit: Resolutions (in Arabic)

28 March 2007 - 29 March 2007

Statement of the Central Council of the Palestine Liberation Organization (in Arabic)

PLO Central Council, Statement (in Arabic)

The Palestine Announcement in Lebanon (in Arabic)

President George W. Bush’s Speech Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process

10 January 2008

Final Statement of the Palestinian National Conference (in Arabic)

25 January 2008

Yemen's Initiative for the Resumption of Palestinian Internal Dialogue (in Arabic)

PLO Central Council, Resolutions (in Arabic)

23 November 2008 - 24 November 2008

UNGA Resolution ES-18

23 January 2009

Twenty-First Arab Summit: The Doha Declaration (in Arabic)

Fatah Sixth General Conference: Political Program (in Arabic)

Egypt's View on Ending Palestinian Division (in Arabic)

9 September 2009

Report of the Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (Goldstone Report)

25 September 2009

Agreement on Palestinian National Conciliation (Draft) (in Arabic)

10 October 2009

UNGA Resolution 64/10

1 December 2009

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2011/24

18 February 2011

Implementation Mechanisms of the Palestinian National Conciliation Agreement: Minutes of Palestinian Factions' Meeting (in Arabic)

20 December 2011

The Doha Declaration on Palestinian Reconciliation (in Arabic)

6 February 2012

Twenty-Third Arab Summit: The Baghdad Declaration

UNGA Resolution 67/19

29 November 2012

Twenty-Fourth Arab Summit: The Doha Declaration (in Arabic)

26 March 2013 - 27 March 2013

Twenty-Fifth Arab Summit: Resolutions (in Arabic)

25 March 2014 - 26 March 2014

Statement Issued after a PLO-Hamas Meeting to End Division and Implement the National Reconciliation Agreement (in Arabic)

PLO Central Council, Resolutions (in Arabic)

26 April 2014 - 27 April 2014

HRC Resolution S-21/1

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2014/916

30 December 2014

Twenty-Sixth Arab Summit: Resolutions (in Arabic)

28 March 2015 - 29 March 2015

Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict

Mahmoud Abbas’s Speech at the 70th Session of the UNGA

30 September 2015

Statement of the PLO Executive Committee on the Report of the Quartet (in Arabic)

Twenty-Seventh Arab Summit: The Nouakchott Declaration (in Arabic)

Fatah's 7th General Conference: Final Communiqué (in Arabic)

29 November 2016 - 4 December 2016

UNSC Resolution 2334

23 December 2016

Statement of the Preparatory Committee for the Palestine National Council (in Arabic)

11 January 2017

Closing Statement of the Popular Conference for the Palestinians Abroad (in Arabic)

25 February 2017 - 26 February 2017

Statement Issued Following the Meeting of the Palestinian National Action Factions (in Arabic)

21 November 2017 - 22 November 2017

Emergency Meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (in Arabic)

13 December 2017

PLO Central Council, 28th Session: Final Communiqué (in Arabic)

15 January 2018

Palestine National Council, 23rd Session: Final Communiqué (in Arabic)

30 April 2018 - 4 May 2018

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2018/516

UNGA Resolution ES-10/20

PLO Central Council, 29th Session: Resolutions (in Arabic)

15 August 2018 - 17 August 2018

PLO Central Council, 30th Session: Communiqué (in Arabic)

28 October 2018 - 29 October 2018

Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry: On the Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

28 February 2019

Meeting of Palestinian Organizations' Secretaries-General: Final Communiqué (in Arabic)

3 September 2020

HRC Res. S-30/1: Establishing an Ongoing Commission of Inquiry on Palestine

Ismail Haniyeh: Hamas's Vision for Advancing the Palestinian Cause (in Arabic)

3 November 2021

Historical Media

Oath of Allegiance

Arab Higher Committee Members

Peel Commission and Partition

11 November 1936

Arab Revolt 1936 - Royal Commission

11 January 1937

Arab Revolt 1936 - Arab Higher Committee

12 January 1937

Smashing the Palestinian Political Infrastructure

15 December 1938

Arab Demonstration at Yatta

18 December 1938

Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

Armistice lines of 1949

31 December 1949

Highlights

III. Late Mandate

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

From Relief Provider to Vector of Identity

The Palestinian Communist Movement

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Jabal al-Hussein Refugee Camp

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

Ein el Tal (Handarat) Refugee Camp

Marka Refugee Camp

Balata Refugee Camp

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

Fawwar Refugee Camp

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Shatila Refugee Camp

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Stages of a Forced Displacement

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948

A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps

The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip

Thwarting Resettlement Schemes

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

The Palestinian Short Story

Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

The Peel Commission, 1936–1937

Sowing the Seeds of the Partition

The United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine

Negotiating Palestine after the Nakba

Madrid and the Oslo Agreement, 1991-1993

Short-Lived Promises of a Negotiated Settlement

Palestine and International Justice

The Long and Tortuous Quest for Accountability

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

France and the Palestine Question before 1948

Competition with the British, North African Considerations, Lukewarm Support for Zionism

Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949

Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests

The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse

A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question

Solidarity of the Colonized

Mexico and the Palestine Question

Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor

Turkey and the Palestine Question

Torn between a Pro-Western Stance, Regional Considerations and Identity

Kafr Qasim, 29 October 1956

Israel’s Army Massacres Its Own Peaceful Citizens

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, 14 May 1948

An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status

Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966

Governing the Lives of a Confined Population

Present Absentees in Israel

Exiled in Their Own Homeland

Palestinian Citizenship in Israel

An Unwanted Minority Asserts Its Narrative and Identity

Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”

Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History

Land Day, 30 March 1976

A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel

Israel’s Basic Law on Human Dignity and Liberty, 1992

Jewish Identity at the Expense of Citizen Equality

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

Israel’s Gaza Redeployment, 2005

Exacerbating the Siege and Targeting the Land of the West Bank

The Separation Wall

Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians

Israel's Nation-State Law, 2018

Enshrining Discrimination

The Village of al-Araqib

Rebuilding Home for the Hundredth Time and Beyond

Palestine Liberation Organization (I)

The Reemergence of the Palestinian National Movement

Palestine Liberation Organization (II)

From the Limelight to the Backstage

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (II)

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

The Palestine Communist Party

The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party

The Palestinian National Initiative Movement - Al-Mubadara

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)

Before the Nakba

The Algerians of Palestine

The Bosnians of Palestine

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Perpetuating Israel’s Structural Dominance

The Education of Palestinians in Israel

Struggling to Break Free from a System of Marginalization

UNRWA's Education System

A Palestinian-Shaped Undertaking

Palestinian Refugees in Syria

Fully Integrated, for Better and for Worse

Palestinians in Jordan, 1948-1967

The Making of the “Jordanians of Palestinian Origin”

Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank

Determined to Stay High on the National Agenda

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1967

The Political and Social Remodeling of a Cramped Palestinian Space

Israel’s Policy toward Refugees in the Gaza Strip

A Site of Continual Displacement

Palestinians in Germany

From Melancholia to Anger

V. Reverberations Of the Palestine War

Steadfastness as Everyday Resistance

VI. Rise of The Palestinian National Movement

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

VII. After 1973 War: Separate Peace and Civil War

Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails

Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance

XI. Second Intifada and the Post-Arafat Era