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Biographies

Biography
As‘ad al-Shuqairi
1860 - February 1940
Biography
Abd al-Latif Salah
1884 - 8 November 1952
Biography
Mu‘in al-Madi
1887 - 1957
Biography
Awni Abd al-Hadi
1889 - 15 March 1970
Biography
Jamal al-Husseini
1892 - 5 July 1982
Biography
Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani
1909 - 1977
Biography
Sami Taha Hamran
1911 - 11 September 1947
Biography
Fouad Nassar
28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976
Biography
Samiha Khalil
20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999
Biography
Samira Azzam
13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967
Biography
Tawfiq Zayyad
7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994
Biography
Bashir Barghouti
1931 - 9 September 2000
Biography
Shafiq al-Hout
13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009
Biography
Nayef Hawatmeh
November 1935
Biography
Naji al-Ali
1936 - 29 August 1987
Biography
Khalida Jarrar
9 February 1963

Events

Event
Formation of the Moderate Liberal Party and the Entente Libérale Party in Istanbul
30 October 1909 - 8 November 1911
Event
Formation of the Ottoman Party for Administrative Decentralization in Cairo
December 1912
Event
Founding of the Arab National Party in Jerusalem
8 November 1923
Event
Establishment of the Palestine Arab Workers Society
21 March 1925 - 11 January 1930
Event
Establishment of the Istiqlal Party
2 August 1932
Event
Establishment of the National Defense Party
2 December 1934
Event
Establishment of the Palestine Arab Party
27 March 1935
Event
Establishment of the Reform Party
18 June 1935
Event
Establishment of the National Bloc Party
4 October 1935
Event
The Arab Higher Committee is Formed
25 April 1936
Event
Formation of the Arab National League (ANL) in New York
August 1937 - May 1941
Event
British Labour Party Favors Transfer of Palestinians
May 1944
Event
Labor Victory in Great Britain
26 July 1945
Event
Attempt to Reconstitute the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine
22 November 1945 - 29 May 1946
Event
Formation of the (Palestinian) Arab Higher Front in Opposition to the Palestine Arab Party
29 May 1946
Event
Ben-Gurion Addresses the Issue of Suez
26 August 1956
Event
Israel Addresses the Future of Gaza
10 November 1956 - 3 February 1957
Event
Israel Prepares for War with US Consent
2 June 1967 - 4 June 1967
Event
Likud's Victory in Israeli Elections
17 May 1977
Event
A PLF Operation in Nahariya
22 April 1979
Event
Palestinian Internal Polarization
27 March 1984 - 20 May 1984
Event
Fatah-Democratic Alliance Precarious Reconciliation
27 June 1984 - 2 September 1984
Event
Fatah-DFLP-PCP Reconciliation: The Prague Declaration
6 September 1986
Event
Unified National Leadership of the Uprising
8 January 1988
Event
Elections in Israel
1 November 1988
Event
Egypt Proposes a Ten-Point Plan for Palestinian Elections
1 July 1989 - 30 September 1989
Event
Israel Deports Five Palestinians
27 August 1989
Event
Israel's National Unity Government Collapses
13 March 1990 - 11 June 1990
Event
Elections in Israel
23 June 1992
Event
6th Negotiation Round, 1st Stage, Washington
24 August 1992 - 3 September 1992
Event
Israel Launches Operation Grapes of Wrath Against Lebanon
11 April 1996 - 26 April 1996
Event
First Netanyahu-Arafat Meeting
4 September 1996
Event
Several Palestinian Organizations Publicly Oppose Wye Memorandum
26 October 1998
Event
Mounting Malaise in the Palestinian Territories
17 February 2000 - 18 May 2000
Event
Clinton Invites Arafat and Barak to a Summit in Camp David
3 July 2000 - 11 July 2000
Event
Ariel Sharon at al-Haram al-Sharif
28 September 2000
Event
Start of the Second Intifada
29 September 2000 - 4 October 2000
Event
Lebanese MPs challenge the Constitutionality of Equating Immovable Property Acquisition by Palestinian Refugees with their Resettlement
19 April 2001
Event
The Knesset Passes the Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants Law
4 March 2002
Event
The Likud Wins the Elections for the Knesset
28 January 2003
Event
Israeli Cabinet Ambiguously Endorses Sharon's Disengagement Plan
6 June 2004
Event
Palestinian Legislative Elections: Registered Party Slates
18 December 2005
Event
After a Massive Stroke, Sharon Is Replaced by Ehud Olmert as Acting PM
4 January 2006
Event
Pressure on Palestinians; Gaza on the Brink of a Humanitarian Crisis
1 March 2006 - 25 April 2006
Event
Olmert's Separation Plan
5 March 2006 - 9 March 2006
Event
Olmert's Kadima Party Wins the Knesset Elections
28 March 2006 - 4 May 2006
Event
Hizballah Fighters Capture Israeli Soldiers
12 July 2006
Event
2nd Israel War on Lebanon: the July War
12 July 2006 - 14 August 2006
Event
July War: Israel Launches an Air War Against Hizballah
13 July 2006
Event
July War: Israel's Air War Fails to Knock out Hizballah
14 July 2006 - 16 July 2006
Event
July War: Diplomacy Paralyzed by the US
14 July 2006 - 16 July 2006
Event
July War: Israel's Special Operations Along the Border
17 July 2006 - 19 July 2006
Event
Major Israeli Operation in Nablus
19 July 2006 - 21 July 2006
Event
July War: Israel Attempts to Establish a Limited Foothold in Southern Lebanon
19 July 2006 - 29 July 2006
Event
July War: Massacre in Qana; 48-Hour Partial Suspension of Air Strikes
30 July 2006 - 2 August 2006
Event
July War: Israel Attempts to Create a Special Security Zone
2 August 2006 - 10 August 2006
Event
July War: Diplomatic Efforts for a Cease-Fire
5 August 2006 - 9 August 2006
Event
SC Res. 1701: Calling for a Cessation of Hostilities to End Israel's War on Lebanon
11 August 2006
Event
July War: Israel Attempts a Ground Offensive in Southern Lebanon
11 August 2006 - 14 August 2006
Event
July War: The Cease-Fire
12 August 2006 - 14 August 2006
Event
July War: A Balance Sheet
14 August 2006
Event
A Palestinian National Congress Is Held in Damascus
23 January 2008 - 25 January 2008
Event
Israeli Supreme Court Endorses Economic Sanction Against Gaza
30 January 2008
Event
Assassination of Hizballah's Imad Mughniyah in Damascus
12 February 2008
Event
Political Crisis in Israel
30 July 2008 - 10 February 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 13
8 January 2009
Event
Binyamin Netanyahu of Likud Forms Israeli Cabinet after Close Election Results
10 February 2009 - 31 March 2009
Event
The UN Human Rights Council Forms a Fact-Finding Mission on the War on Gaza (the Goldstone Mission)
3 April 2009
Event
Goldstone Report on the War on Gaza
15 September 2009 - 25 September 2009
Event
The Goldstone Report and Palestinian Erratic Decision-Making
29 September 2009 - 16 October 2009
Event
The Mavi Marmara Incident
30 May 2010 - 5 June 2010
Event
The United Nations Human Rights Council Establishes a Fact-Finding Mission on the Mavi Marmara Incident
2 June 2010 - 27 September 2010
Event
UNHRC Res. A/HRC/RES/S-21/1: Condemning Israel's Assault on Gaza, Dispatching Commission of Inquiry
23 July 2014
Event
Israeli Elections: Likud's Victory and Strengthening of Arab Representation
17 March 2015 - 19 March 2015
Event
Tension Escalates at Haram al-Sharif
2 August 2015 - 28 September 2015
Event
The UN Human Rights Council Decides to Establish a Database of Firms Contributing to Israeli Settlement Activities
24 March 2016
Event
Amendment No. 44 of Basic Law: The Knesset Allows Dismissal of Members
19 July 2016
Event
Abbas Launches Diplomatic Activity at the UN to Get a Security Council Resolution on Israeli Settlements
22 September 2016 - 22 December 2016
Event
Palestinian Reconciliation Meetings Renewed in Doha, Beirut and Moscow, with No Results
5 January 2017 - 17 January 2017
Event
President Trump's Visit to Israel
22 May 2017 - 23 May 2017
Event
A Unified Lebanese Vision on Issues of Palestinian Refugees Living in Lebanon
20 July 2017
Event
UN Human Rights Council Establishes Commission into Israel’s Attacks on the Great March of Return Protesters
18 May 2018
Event
UNHRC Report on Israeli Attacks on Great March of Return Protesters
28 February 2019
Event
Israeli Forces Raid Addameer and General Union of Service Sector Workers Offices in Ramallah
19 September 2019
Event
Meetings Resume between PA and Israeli Ministers
29 August 2021 - 28 December 2021
Event
Israel Designates Palestinian Rights Organizations as Terrorist Organizations
22 October 2021 - 17 November 2021

Historical Texts

Document
Communiqué: Formation of the Arab Independence Party; the Party Bylaws (in Arabic)
2 August 1932
Document
National Defense Party: Objectives (in Arabic)
2 December 1934
Document
The Palestine Arab Party: Bylaws and Internal Regulations (in Arabic)
24 April 1935
Document
The Palestinian Arab Reform Party: Objectives (in Arabic)
18 June 1935
Document
Establishment of a Provisional Palestinian Civil Administration (in Arabic)
10 July 1948
Document
Speech of Ahmad al-Shuqairi, Head of the Palestine Delegation, before the UN Special Political Committee (in Arabic)
5 November 1963
Document
Palestine National Council, 1st Session: List of Members (in Arabic)
28 May 1964 - 2 June 1964
Document
Palestine National Council, 2nd Session: Political Resolutions (in Arabic)
31 May 1965 - 4 June 1965
Document
Third Arab Summit: Political Statement (in Arabic)
13 September 1965 - 18 September 1965
Document
Palestinian Popular Congress, Statement (in Arabic)
6 April 1972 - 10 April 1972
Document
Sixth Arab Summit: Statement (in Arabic)
28 November 1973
Document
Statement of the General Congress to Defend Arab Lands in Israel (in Arabic)
18 October 1975
Document
Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1988: Concluding Statement (in Arabic)
7 June 1988 - 9 June 1988
Document
Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1990: Statement (in Arabic)
28 May 1990 - 30 May 1990
Document
Palestine National Council, 21st Session: Political Resolutions (in Arabic)
22 April 1996 - 25 April 1996
Document
Thirteenth Arab Summit: Final Statement (in Arabic)
27 March 2001 - 28 March 2001
Document
Fifteenth Arab Summit: Final Statement (in Arabic)
1 March 2003
Document
Sixteenth Arab Summit: Final Statement (in Arabic)
22 May 2004 - 23 May 2004
Document
Nineteenth Arab Summit: Resolutions (in Arabic)
28 March 2007 - 29 March 2007
Document
Statement of the Central Council of the Palestine Liberation Organization (in Arabic)
21 June 2007
Document
PLO Central Council, Statement (in Arabic)
18 July 2007
Document
The Palestine Announcement in Lebanon (in Arabic)
7 January 2008
Document
Final Statement of the Palestinian National Conference (in Arabic)
25 January 2008
Document
Twentieth Arab Summit: The Damascus Declaration (in Arabic)
29 March 2008 - 30 March 2008
Document
PLO Central Council, Resolutions (in Arabic)
23 November 2008 - 24 November 2008
Document
Twenty-First Arab Summit: The Doha Declaration (in Arabic)
30 March 2009
Document
Fatah Sixth General Conference: Political Program (in Arabic)
7 August 2009
Document
Egypt's View on Ending Palestinian Division (in Arabic)
9 September 2009
Document
Agreement on Palestinian National Conciliation (Draft) (in Arabic)
10 October 2009
Document
Twenty-Second Arab Summit: The Sirte Declaration (in Arabic)
27 March 2010
Document
Provision on Palestinian Workers in Amended Lebanese Social Security Law (in Arabic)
24 August 2010
Document
Implementation Mechanisms of the Palestinian National Conciliation Agreement: Minutes of Palestinian Factions' Meeting (in Arabic)
20 December 2011
Document
Twenty-Third Arab Summit: The Baghdad Declaration
29 March 2012
Document
Twenty-Fifth Arab Summit: Resolutions (in Arabic)
25 March 2014 - 26 March 2014
Document
Statement Issued after a PLO-Hamas Meeting to End Division and Implement the National Reconciliation Agreement (in Arabic)
23 April 2014
Document
PLO Central Council, Resolutions (in Arabic)
26 April 2014 - 27 April 2014
Document
Twenty-Sixth Arab Summit: Resolutions (in Arabic)
28 March 2015 - 29 March 2015
Document
Closing Statement of the Popular Conference for the Palestinians Abroad (in Arabic)
25 February 2017 - 26 February 2017
Document
Emergency Meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (in Arabic)
13 December 2017
Document
Palestine National Council, 23rd Session: Final Communiqué (in Arabic)
30 April 2018 - 4 May 2018
Document
PLO Central Council, 29th Session: Resolutions (in Arabic)
15 August 2018 - 17 August 2018
Document
PLO Central Council, 30th Session: Communiqué (in Arabic)
28 October 2018 - 29 October 2018
Document
Ismail Haniyeh: Hamas's Vision for Advancing the Palestinian Cause (in Arabic)
3 November 2021

Historical Media

Document
Arab Higher Committee Members
25 April 1936
Document
Smashing the Palestinian Political Infrastructure
15 December 1938

Highlights

Highlight
VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival
1982-1987
Highlight
The Palestinian Communist Movement
1948-present
Highlight
The First Intifada, 1987-1993
Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom
Highlight
The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip
Thwarting Resettlement Schemes
Highlight
The Palestinian Novel
Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography
Highlight
Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa
Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field
Highlight
The USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991
Between Ideology and Realism
Highlight
Lebanon War, 1982
A Setback for the PLO and for Israel's 'Grand Design'
Highlight
Sabra and Shatila, 16-18 September 1982
A Massacre by Proxy
Highlight
The War on Gaza, 2008–2009
Israel’s Strategic Quandary
Highlight
The Israeli Military
The Myth of “the Most Moral Army in the World”
Highlight
Palestinian Citizenship in Israel
An Unwanted Minority Asserts Its Narrative and Identity
Highlight
Land Day, 30 March 1976
A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel
Highlight
Israel’s Apartheid Regime
Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians
Highlight
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP
1969-present
Highlight
The Palestine Communist Party
1919–1948
Highlight
The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party
1948-present
Highlight
The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas
1987–present
Highlight
The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine
1980–present
Highlight
Public Contracts during the Mandate
Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals
Highlight
Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948
A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba
Highlight
IX. First Intifada and Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations
1987-1993
Highlight
XII. Gaza Strip Separated and Assaulted
2006-2017
Highlight
The Palestinian National Initiative Movement - Al-Mubadara
2002-present
Highlight
Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails
Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance
Highlight
II. British Occupation and Early Mandate
1917-1936
Highlight
The May 2021 Gaza War
Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes
Highlight
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP
1967-present
Highlight
XI. Second Intifada and the Post-Arafat Era
2000-2006
Highlight
The Palestinians in El Salvador
A Prosperous, yet Depoliticized Diaspora
Highlight
Palestine Liberation Organization (I)
The Reemergence of the Palestinian National Movement
Highlight
The Second Intifada, 2000-2005
Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations