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Biographies

Biography
Najib Nassar
1865 - 3 March 1948
Biography
Bendali Saliba al-Jawzi
1871 - 1942
Biography
Omar al-Bitar
1880 - 16 June 1946
Biography
Alfred Roch
1882 - 22 April 1942
Biography
Abd al-Latif Salah
1884 - 8 November 1952
Biography
Adil Jabir
1885 - 19 December 1953
Biography
Mu‘in al-Madi
1887 - 1957
Biography
Kulthum Odeh
2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965
Biography
Issa al-Sifri
1894 - 19 March 1949
Biography
Matiel Mogannam
15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992
Biography
Zulaykha al-Shihabi
1903 - 13 May 1992
Biography
Ihsan al-Nimr
1905 - 21 May 1985
Biography
Badr Lama
23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947
Biography
Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini
1908 - 8 April 1948
Biography
Sami Taha Hamran
1911 - 11 September 1947
Biography
Fouad Nassar
28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976
Biography
Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil
1915 - 2007
Biography
Ihsan Abbas
2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003
Biography
Emile Habibi
29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996
Biography
Samiha Khalil
20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999
Biography
Kamal Nasser
1925 - 10 April 1973
Biography
Samira Azzam
13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967
Biography
Hanna Abu Hanna
16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022
Biography
Tawfiq Zayyad
7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994
Biography
Anis Abdullah Sayigh
3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009
Biography
Shafiq al-Hout
13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009
Biography
Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)
10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988
Biography
Nayef Hawatmeh
November 1935
Biography
Ezzedine Kalak
1936 - 3 August 1978
Biography
Naji al-Ali
1936 - 29 August 1987
Biography
Ghassan Kanafani
9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972
Biography
Youssef Sami al-Youssef
1938 - 2 May 2013
Biography
Hanan Ashrawi
8 October 1946
Biography
Dalal al-Mughrabi
29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978
Biography
Khalida Jarrar
9 February 1963

Events

Event
Zionist Attempt to Buy 1.5 Million Dunams in the Jordan Valley
March 1909 - July 1909
Event
Third Stage of British Palestine Campaign: Completion of the Conquest of Palestine
19 September 1918 - 25 September 1918
Event
British Conquest of Transjordan Is Achieved
22 September 1918 - 27 September 1918
Event
Scheduled Second Palestinian National Congress Cannot Meet
15 May 1920
Event
Municipal Elections Are Held in Palestine
April 1927
Event
Zionist Conquest of Eastern Galilee
28 April 1948 - 25 May 1948
Event
Israeli Military Confrontation with Jordan and Palestinian Guerrillas
14 February 1968 - 15 February 1968
Event
Israeli-Jordanian Clashes
4 June 1968
Event
Assassination of Ghassan Kanafani in Beirut
8 July 1972
Event
Attempted Assassination of Bassam Abu Sharif in Beirut
25 July 1972
Event
The Baker Five-Point Plan
10 October 1989
Event
US Voices Dissatisfaction with Israel
23 February 1990 - 3 March 1990
Event
Dial 1-202-456-1414
13 June 1990
Event
Secretary Baker Second Stage Diplomacy
21 July 1991 - 13 October 1991
Event
US-Soviet Invitation to the Madrid Peace Conference
18 October 1991
Event
Lebanese MPs challenge the Constitutionality of Equating Immovable Property Acquisition by Palestinian Refugees with their Resettlement
19 April 2001
Event
Israel Unable to Quell Palestinian Attacks
10 October 2002 - 5 January 2003
Event
James Wolfensohn Appointed to Follow Economic-Related Disengagement Matters
14 April 2005 - 20 June 2005
Event
Post Disengagement: Agreement on Movement and Access
15 November 2005
Event
Pressure on Palestinians; Gaza on the Brink of a Humanitarian Crisis
1 March 2006 - 25 April 2006
Event
Hamas-Led PA Ministry of Interior Establishes the Executive Support Force in Gaza
20 April 2006 - 25 May 2006
Event
Fatah-Hamas Clashes
26 May 2006 - 24 June 2006
Event
Israel Steps up Military Actions in Gaza
29 May 2006 - 15 June 2006
Event
Israel Retaliates Against Shalit's Capture: Operation Summer Rains
28 June 2006 - 8 July 2006
Event
Intra-Palestinian Dynamics: Demonstrations and Violence
28 August 2006 - 23 October 2006
Event
Israel's Operation Summer Rains Enters its 4th Month
1 October 2006 - 31 October 2006
Event
Israel Escalates Attacks in Gaza and the West Bank
3 April 2007 - 29 May 2007
Event
Fatah-Hamas Infighting Resumes
11 May 2007 - 20 May 2007
Event
Tony Blair Appointed Quartet Special Representative
27 June 2007
Event
Both Authorities in West Bank and Gaza Reorganize Security Forces
2 November 2007 - 4 December 2007
Event
Israeli Supreme Court Endorses Economic Sanction Against Gaza
30 January 2008
Event
War on Gaza, Day 2
28 December 2008
Event
War on Gaza, Day 11: Dramatic Surge in Palestinian Civilian Casualties
6 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 13
8 January 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 United Nations Human Rights Council Establishes a Fact-Finding Mission on the Mavi Marmara Incident
2 June 2010 - 27 September 2010
Event
Israeli Government "Legalizes" Three Jewish Settlement Outposts
22 April 2012 - 24 April 2012
Event
Palestinians in West Bank Mobilize in Support of Gaza
8 July 2014 - 22 August 2014
Event
UNHRC Res. A/HRC/RES/S-21/1: Condemning Israel's Assault on Gaza, Dispatching Commission of Inquiry
23 July 2014
Event
The UN Human Rights Council Decides to Establish a Database of Firms Contributing to Israeli Settlement Activities
24 March 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
100-Year Anniversary of the Balfour Declaration
1 November 2017 - 2 November 2017
Event
UN Human Rights Council Establishes Commission into Israel’s Attacks on the Great March of Return Protesters
18 May 2018
Event
Colombia Recognizes the State of Palestine
3 August 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
Beirut Port Explosion
4 August 2020 - 7 August 2020
Event
Israel Raids and Closes Offices of Human Rights Organizations in the West Bank
28 February 2021 - 15 September 2021
Event
Gilbo Prison Escape
6 September 2021 - 21 May 2022
Event
Israel Designates Palestinian Rights Organizations as Terrorist Organizations
22 October 2021 - 17 November 2021

Historical Texts

Document
1st Palestinian National Congress: Report to Paris Peace Conference (in Arabic)
February 1919
Document
Letter from Palestinian Associations and Clubs to the Syrian Congress Presidency (in Arabic)
15 May 1920
Document
Statement of the Executive Committee of the 4th Palestinian National Congress Rejecting the British Mandate (in Arabic)
8 July 1922
Document
Statement of the Executive Committee of the 5th Palestinian National Congress on Boycotting the Legislative Council Elections (in Arabic)
1 September 1922
Document
The Palestine Arab Party: Bylaws and Internal Regulations (in Arabic)
24 April 1935
Document
Law Promulgating the Basic Law for the Area under the Supervision of the Egyptian Forces in Palestine (in Arabic)
25 February 1958
Document
Lebanon’s Department for Palestinian Refugee Affairs (in Arabic)
31 March 1959
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, 1st Session: Political Resolutions (in Arabic)
28 May 1964 - 2 June 1964
Document
Palestine National Council, 3rd Session: Political Resolutions (in Arabic)
20 May 1966 - 24 May 1966
Document
Palestinian Popular Congress, Statement (in Arabic)
6 April 1972 - 10 April 1972
Document
Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1988: Concluding Statement (in Arabic)
7 June 1988 - 9 June 1988
Document
Hamas’s Memorandum on Restructuring the Palestine National Council (in Arabic)
7 April 1990
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
Seventeenth Arab Summit: The Algiers Declaration (in Arabic)
22 March 2005 - 23 March 2005
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
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
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
Fatah's 7th General Conference: Final Communiqué (in Arabic)
29 November 2016 - 4 December 2016
Document
Closing Statement of the Popular Conference for the Palestinians Abroad (in Arabic)
25 February 2017 - 26 February 2017
Document
Statement Issued Following the Meeting of the Palestinian National Action Factions (in Arabic)
21 November 2017 - 22 November 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
London Conference
February 1939

Highlights

Highlight
Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Palestinian Youth in Conflict
A Childhood Denied
Highlight
The Nakba
Stages of a Forced Displacement
Highlight
The First Intifada, 1987-1993
Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom
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
The Judaization of the Galilee
A Long-Lasting Strategy Faced by a Bulwark of Palestinian Tenacity
Highlight
Israel’s Apartheid Regime
Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians
Highlight
The Palestine Exploration Fund
Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming
Highlight
The Education of Palestinians in Israel
Struggling to Break Free from a System of Marginalization
Highlight
Palestinian Refugees in Syria
Fully Integrated, for Better and for Worse
Highlight
XII. Gaza Strip Separated and Assaulted
2006-2017
Highlight
UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947
Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba