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1878 - 29 June 1950

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari

1900 - 29 May 1980

Zulaykha al-Shihabi

1903 - 13 May 1992

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

1905 - 21 May 1985

26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997

Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih

1907 - 8 January 2001

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

1910 - 26 February 1971

Anwar Nusseibeh

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil

Hind al-Husseini

25 April 1916 - 13 September 1994

1917 - 12 December 2003

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

1923 - 12 May 2004

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999

1925 - 10 April 1973

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

1926 - 23 January 1984

1927 - 13 January 2005

13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967

Issam Abd al-Hadi

1928 - 8 August 2013

1928 - 1 September 2020

1929 - 2 June 2016

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012

Bassam Shak’a

1930 - 22 July 2019

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

Anis Abdullah Sayigh

3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009

13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

1934 - 14 September 2021

9 May 1935 - 10 April 1973

Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Ahmad Ismail Yasin

June 1936 - 22 March 2004

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1937 - 12 July 2025

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

Mustafa al-Zibri (Abu Ali Mustafa)

14 May 1938 - 27 August 2001

1939 - 19 August 2014

Faisal al-Husseini

17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001

4 January 1951 - 26 October 1995

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

1962 - 31 July 2024

9 February 1963

Events

8th Zionist Congress Is Held in the Hague

14 July 1907 - 21 July 1907

The Issue of the Administration of Transjordan

25 July 1920 - 31 December 1920

Signing of a Franco-British Convention on Mandate Boundaries

23 December 1920

British-French Demarcation of Line Between Palestine (Including Transjordan) and Syria (Including Lebanon)

The Palestine Archeological Museum Opens Its Doors in Jerusalem

13 January 1938

The British Mandate Issues the Defence (Emergency) Regulations

27 September 1945

Fate of Diplomatic Representations in Jerusalem

11 February 1948 - 1 May 1948

London Conference on Suez

16 August 1956 - 23 August 1956

Ben-Gurion Addresses the Issue of Suez

Military Order No. 58, Concerning Abandoned Property (Private Property)

Small Fraction of 1967 War Refugees to Return to the West Bank

14 August 1967 - 19 October 1967

Fatah Guerrilla Resistance in the West Bank

4th Arab Summit Convenes in Khartoum

29 August 1967 - 1 September 1967

Israel Conducts a Census of Palestinians in East-Jerusalem

27 September 1967

Palestinians Reorganize

11 December 1967 - 19 January 1968

First Communiqué of Fatah to the World Press in English and Arabic

Israeli Military Confrontation with Jordan and Palestinian Guerrillas

14 February 1968 - 15 February 1968

27th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

9 June 1968 - 19 June 1968

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

10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968

UNGA 2452 (XXIII): Calling upon Israel for Return of Inhabitants to Territories Occupied in 1967

19 December 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)

9 December 1969

5th Arab Summit Meets in Rabat and Ends in Failure

21 December 1969 - 23 December 1969

UNGA 2628 (XXV): Urging Speedy Implementation of SC Res. 242 (1967)

4 November 1970

UNGA 2672 (XXV): People of Palestine Entitled to Equal Rights and Self-determination; Calling upon Israel for Return of Displaced in 1967

8 December 1970

28th Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem

18 January 1972 - 28 January 1972

6 October 1973 - 27 October 1973

Arab Oil, a Weapon in the Battle

17 October 1973 - 21 October 1973

SC Res. 338: Calling for Cease-fire and Deciding to Start Immediately Negotiations for Just Durable and Peace

22 October 1973

Draft SC Res. S/11940 to Affirm Palestinian Rights, Vetoed by US

26 January 1976

Joint US-Soviet Statement on Geneva Conference

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

Foreign Embassies Leave Jerusalem

20 August 1980 - September 1980

Fahd Plan Is Announced

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

Jordanian Parliament Revived

9 January 1984 - 18 January 1984

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

Arafat addresses the UN General Assembly in Geneva

13 December 1988 - 14 December 1988

UNGA 43/177: The PLO to Be Designated as Palestine in the UN System; Territorial Scope

15 December 1988

Draft SC S/21326 to Dispatch a SC Commission to Palestinian Territory to Recommend Ways of Protecting Civilians Vetoed by US

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

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

Palestinians Agree to Return to Washington Negotiations

Palestinian-Israeli Declaration of Principles Signed in Washington

13 September 1993

Hebron Massacre

25 February 1994 - 18 March 1994

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

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

Israeli-Jordanian Peace Treaty Signed near Aqaba

26 October 1994

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

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

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

UNGA ES-10/3: Emphasizing Personal Responsibilities Arising from Grave Breaches of Geneva Convention

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

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Gaza

2 February 2000 - 3 February 2000

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

20 October 2000

Draft Security Council Resolution S/2000/1171

18 December 2000

Israeli Idea of Security Fence (Separation Wall) Begins to Take Shape

26 December 2000 - 3 January 2001

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

New Threshold Crossed with Suicide Bombing and Warplanes

18 May 2001 - 4 June 2001

Israel's "Efforts" to Provoke Escalation

4 July 2001 - 14 August 2001

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

Israel Decides to Create Buffer Zones (Separation Wall)

14 April 2002 - 25 April 2002

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

20 December 2002

Mahmoud Abbas Forms the Palestinian Government

19 March 2003 - 29 April 2003

Palestinian Peace Gestures

1 December 2003 - 7 January 2004

Reactions to Bush's Assurances to Sharon RE Disengagement Plan

15 April 2004 - 6 May 2004

UNGA Res. 58/292: Affirming that Status of Palestinian Territory Remains one of Military Occupation

Legal Status of the Gaza Strip after the Disengagement: Foreign Territory?

12 September 2005 - 21 September 2005

The Prisoners' Initiative: National Conciliation Document

10 May 2006 - 13 May 2006

Haniyeh Proposes a Long-term Cease-fire and Peace

Settlement Expansion in Jabal Abu Ghunaym/ Har Homa

4 December 2007

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status: Israeli's Security Demands

28 February 2008 - 11 May 2008

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status: A Disappointing Abbas-Bush Meeting

War on Gaza, Day 1, Start of Phase 1

27 December 2008

SC Res. 1860: Calling for a Gaza Ceasefire and Arrangements to Prevent Arms Trafficking

UNGA Res. 64/10: Endorsing the Goldstone Report and Calling Upon both Sides to Investigate the Violations Reported in it

5 November 2009

The US Tries to Launch Israeli-Palestinian Talks Through Letters of Guarantee

16 December 2009 - 4 January 2010

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

6 July 2010 - 23 August 2010

The Palestinian State: Recognition and Upgrade Drive, Mostly in Latin and Central America and Europe

1 December 2010 - 19 January 2012

Draft SC Res. S/2011/24 Reaffirming that Israeli Settlements in OPT Are Illegal Vetoed by US

18 February 2011

On Nakba Day, Palestinians Head Up Toward Cease-Fire Lines with Israel

15 May 2011 - 5 June 2011

Abbas Confirms Palestinian UN Bid for Statehood

US President Barack Obama Gives a Major Speech on the Middle East

19 May 2011 - 22 May 2011

Diplomatic Efforts to Avert Palestinian Statehood Bid at the UN

2 June 2011 - 11 July 2011

The Quartet Proposes a Vague Timetable for the Resumption of Negotiations

23 September 2011 - 14 December 2011

John Kerry Conducts Shuttle Diplomacy for Resumption of Negotiations

4 March 2013 - 8 May 2013

Arab League Delegation in Washington Discusses the Arab Peace Initiative

Kerry's Shuttle Diplomacy for the Resumption of Talks Intensifies and Apparently Succeeds

23 May 2013 - 19 July 2013

Terms of Talk Resumption as Sponsored by Kerry

Palestinians in the West Bank Protest Israeli Settlement Expansion

31 January 2014 - 7 February 2014

Kerry Draws Up a Working Draft Framework for Negotiations

17 February 2014

Settlement Plans Continue and Weigh Heavily on Negotiations

13 March 2014 - 20 March 2014

Kerry Prepares Another Working Draft Framework for Negotiations

25th Arab Summit Meets in Kuwait

25 March 2014 - 26 March 2014

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

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah

26 April 2014 - 27 April 2014

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

The PLO Strives for a Security Council Resolution Specifying a Timetable for Ending the Occupation

26 September 2014 - 28 November 2014

Heightened Tension at Haram al-Sharif

30 September 2014 - 22 December 2014

French Efforts in Favor of a Draft UNSC Resolution on Palestinian-Israeli Peace

2 December 2014 - 17 December 2014

Conference on the 4th Geneva Convention Addresses the 2014 Gaza War

17 December 2014

Draft SC Res. S/2014/916 Containing Palestinian Principles for a Negotiated Solution Rejected by SC

30 December 2014

President Abbas Signs Acceptance of the ICC Jurisdiction and Accession to the ICC Rome Statute

31 December 2014 - 7 January 2015

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah

4 March 2015 - 5 March 2015

Settlers Set Fire to Two Palestinian Family Homes in Duma, West Bank

31 July 2015 - 9 August 2015

Abbas Outlines Six Potential Legal Steps in Speech at the UNGA

30 September 2015

EU Guidelines on Goods from the Occupied Territories

11 November 2015

The PLO Executive Committee Decides to Boycott the Quartet

3 July 2016 - 10 July 2016

Continued Violation of the Status Quo at Haram al-Sharif

SC Res. 2334: Condemning Israel's Settlement Activities without Enforcement Mechanism

23 December 2016

Kerry's "Farewell" Speech on Palestinian-Israeli Peace

28 December 2016

Hamas New Charter

PLO President Mahmoud Abbas Meets with US President Donald Trump at the White House

100-Year Anniversary of the Balfour Declaration

1 November 2017 - 2 November 2017

President Trump Announces the Official US Recognition of Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel

6 December 2017

Emergency Meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation on Jerusalem

13 December 2017

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

18 December 2017

The Knesset Passes an Amendment to Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capital of Israel

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah

14 January 2018 - 6 February 2018

President Mahmoud Abbas Presents Palestinian Peace Plan to Security Council

20 February 2018

The Knesset Passes Legislation that Allows to Revoke Permanent Residency from East Jerusalemites

PA Requests Membership of International Treaties and Conventions in Response to US Embassy Move

24 March 2018 - 6 June 2018

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

14 May 2018 - 15 May 2018

PA President Abbas Signs Accession Papers for 11 International Organizations

15 November 2018

UNGA Res. 73/89: Reaffirming Support for the Two-State Solution of Israel and Palestine

6 December 2018

Formation of the Munich Group

15 February 2020 - 24 September 2020

International and Palestinian Responses to Israel’s Annexation Plans

18 May 2020 - 23 June 2020

US Erases the 4-June Line

28 October 2020 - 19 November 2020

Israel Launches COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign but Excludes Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza

19 December 2020 - 22 December 2020

ICC Rules that it has Jurisdiction in Occupied Palestinian Territories; Investigation Announced

5 February 2021 - 2 April 2021

Historical Texts

Message of the General Syrian Congress To the King-Crane Commission

League of Nations - Mandate for Palestine

The Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)

Peel Commission Report

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement

24 February 1949

Lebanon-Israel General Armistice Agreement

Syria–Israel General Armistice Agreement

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

Exchange of Notes Between Lebanon and UNRWA

26 November 1954

Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA

15 December 1956

Palestine National (qawmi) Charter

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

20 May 1966 - 24 May 1966

UNSC Resolution 237

Exchange of Letters Between Israel and UNRWA

Lyndon B. Johnson: Statement on Principles for Peace in the Middle East

UNGA Resolution 2252 (ES-V)

UNGA Resolution 2253 (ES-V)

UNGA Resolution 2254 (ES-V)

Fourth Arab Summit: Resolutions

1 September 1967

UNSC Resolution 242

22 November 1967

Fatah: The Palestine National Liberation Movement, Press Release

UNSC Resolution 252

Palestine National Council, 4th Session: Political Resolutions

10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968

UNGA Resolution 2443 (XXIII)

19 December 1968

UNGA Resolution 2452 (XXIII)

19 December 1968

Palestine National Council, 5th Session: Political Statement

4 February 1969

UNSC Resolution 267

Palestine National Council, 6th Session: Political Statement

6 September 1969

UNSC Resolution 271

15 September 1969

9 December 1969

UNGA Resolution 2535 (XXIV)

10 December 1969

Palestinian National Council, Emergency Session: Resolutions

UNGA Resolution 2628 (XXV)

4 November 1970

UNGA Resolution 2672 (XXV)

8 December 1970

Palestine National Council, 8th Session: Interim Political Program of the Palestine Revolution

Palestine National Council, 9th Session: Final Statement

UNSC Resolution 298

25 September 1971

UNGA Resolution 2792 (XXVI)

6 December 1971

Palestine National Council, 10th Session (Extraordinary): Political program

Programme of the Palestine National Front in the Occupied Territory

UNSC Resolution 338

22 October 1973

Sixth Arab Summit: Confidential Decisions

28 November 1973

Sixth Arab Summit: Policy Statement

28 November 1973

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

Draft of UNSC Resolution 11940

23 January 1976

The Koenig Memorandum

Joint US-USSR Communiqué on Reconvening the Geneva Conference on the Middle East

Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset

20 November 1977

Framework for Peace in the Middle East (Camp David Accords)

17 September 1978

Ninth Arab Summit: Final Statement

2 November 1978 - 5 November 1978

UNSC Resolution 446

Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt

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

28 January 1980

UNSC Resolution 465

The Venice Declaration

Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capital of Israel

Sadat’s Letter to Begin Following Israel’s Enactment of Basic Law on Jerusalem

UNSC Resolution 478

Crown Prince Fahd Peace Plan

UNSC Resolution 497

17 December 1981

Draft of UNSC Resolution 14832/Rev.1

19 January 1982

Israel's Proposals for the Self-Governing Authority in the West Bank and Gaza

31 January 1982

UNGA Resolution ES-9/1

5 February 1982

Draft of UNSC Resolution 14943

Draft of UNSC Resolution 14985

Draft of UNSC Resolution 15185

1 September 1982

Twelfth Arab Summit: the Fez Initiative

9 September 1982

Draft of UNSC Resolution 15895

UNGA Resolution 38/58

13 December 1983

Secretary-General Report A/39/130 - S/16409

Palestinian-Jordanian Joint Action Agreement

11 February 1985

Draft of UNSC Resolution 17459

12 September 1985

Cairo Declaration on the PLO and Terrorism as read by PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat

7 November 1985

Draft of UNSC Resolution 17769

29 January 1986

UNSC Resolution 605

22 December 1987

UNSC Resolution 607

UNSC Resolution 608

14 January 1988

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

King Hussein’s Address to the Nation on Severing Ties with the West Bank

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Palestine National Council (19th Session) Political Communiqué

15 November 1988

Yasir Arafat’s Speech Before the Forty-Third Session of the United Nations General Assembly

13 December 1988

UNGA Resolution 43/177

15 December 1988

Draft of UNSC Resolution 20463

17 February 1989

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1989: Resolution on the Palestine Question

23 May 1989 - 26 May 1989

Draft of UNSC Resolution 20677

UNSC Resolution 641

Draft of UNSC Resolution 20945/Rev.1

6 November 1989

Draft of UNSC Resolution 21326

UNSC Resolution 672

12 October 1990

UNSC Resolution 681

20 December 1990

Note by the S.C. President: On the International Conference for Peace in the Middle East

20 December 1990

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

UNSC Resolution 694

Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement

28 September 1991

U.S. Letter of Assurances to the Palestinians

18 October 1991

Speech of Haydar Abd al-Shafi at the Madrid Conference

31 October 1991

UNSC Resolution 726

UNSC Resolution 799

18 December 1992

Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (Oslo I Accord)

13 September 1993

Fundamental Agreement Between The Holy See And The State Of Israel

30 December 1993

UNSC Resolution 904

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area

The Knesset Law Concerning the Implementation of the Agreement on Gaza and Jericho Areas (Restrictions of Activity) 1994

26 December 1994

Draft of UNSC Resolution 1995/394

Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip

28 September 1995

Yitzhak Rabin’s Address to Knesset after Israeli-Palestinian Agreement

The Beilin – Abu Mazen Document

31 October 1995

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

22 April 1996 - 25 April 1996

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1996: Resolution on the Palestine Question

21 June 1996 - 23 June 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

List of Transitional Issues Not Implemented by the Israeli Side, According to the PA Negotiations Affairs Department (in Arabic)

9 February 2000

UNSC Resolution 1322

UNGA Resolution ES-10/7

20 October 2000

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 2000: Communiqué

21 October 2000 - 22 October 2000

PLO Negotiation Affairs Department Assessment of US Policy

20 January 2001

The “Moratinos Non-Paper” on the Outcome of the Taba Talks (21-27 January 2001)

27 January 2001

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2001/270

Thirteenth Arab Summit: Final Statement (in Arabic)

27 March 2001 - 28 March 2001

The Mitchell Report

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2001/1199

14 December 2001

Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants Law

UNSC Resolution 1397

Letter of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon

Fourteenth Arab Summit: The Arab Peace Initiative

UNSC Resolution 1402

UNSC Resolution 1405

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

President George W. Bush’s Speech US Policy in the Middle East

UNSC Resolution 1435

24 September 2002

Draft of UNSC Resolution S/2002/1385

20 December 2002

Fifteenth Arab Summit: Final Statement (in Arabic)

Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law

A Performance-Based Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

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

UNSC Resolution 1515

19 November 2003

UNGA Resolution ES-10/14

12 December 2003

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2004/240

UNGA Resolution 58/292

UNSC Resolution 1544

UNGA Resolution ES-10/15

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2004/783

Palestinian Authority's Declaration on Institutional Renewal

Seventeenth Arab Summit: The Algiers Declaration (in Arabic)

22 March 2005 - 23 March 2005

Eighteenth Arab Summit: The Khartoum Declaration (in Arabic)

28 March 2006 - 29 March 2006

National Conciliation Document

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

Twentieth Arab Summit: The Damascus Declaration (in Arabic)

29 March 2008 - 30 March 2008

PLO Central Council, Resolutions (in Arabic)

23 November 2008 - 24 November 2008

UNSC Resolution 1860

UNGA Resolution ES-18

23 January 2009

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

Letter Dated 4 May 2009 from the Secretary-General Addressed to the President of the Security Council

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

Fatah Sixth General Conference: Political Program (in Arabic)

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

25 September 2009

UNGA Resolution 64/10

1 December 2009

Twenty-Second Arab Summit: The Sirte Declaration (in Arabic)

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2011/24

18 February 2011

Mahmoud Abbas's Op-Ed in the New York Times: The Long Overdue Palestinian State

President Barack Obama's Address to the State Department Reframing U.S. Middle East Policy

Application of Palestine for admission to membership in the United Nations

23 September 2011

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

China's Four-Point Proposal for Settlement of Palestinian Question

Twenty-Fifth Arab Summit: Resolutions (in Arabic)

25 March 2014 - 26 March 2014

PLO Central Council, Resolutions (in Arabic)

26 April 2014 - 27 April 2014

HRC Resolution S-21/1

Conference of High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention Declaration

17 December 2014

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 UNHِQ Board of Inquiry Into Incidents Affecting UNRWA Schools during the 2014 Gaza War

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

Council of the European Union: Conclusions on the Middle East Peace Process

18 January 2016

Middle East Peace initiative: Joint Communiqué

Report of the Middle East Quartet

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

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

UNSC Resolution 2334

23 December 2016

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

Middle East Peace Conference Joint Declaration

15 January 2017

Law for the Regularization of Settlement in Judea and Samaria, 5777-2017

6 February 2017

UNESCWA Report on Israeli Apartheid

Twenty-Eighth Arab Summit: The Amman Declaration (in Arabic)

Marwan Barghouti’s Op-Ed in The New York Times: Why We Are on Hunger Strike in Israel’s Prisons

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas): Document of General Principles and Policies

China’s Four-Point Proposal on Promoting the Settlement of the Palestinian Issue

Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee: Lebanese Working Group on Palestinian Refugee Affairs: A Unified Lebanese Vision For the Palestinian Refugees Affairs In Lebanon

Bezalel Smotrich: Israel's Decisive Plan

7 September 2017

Agreement Between Fatah and Hamas to End Palestinian Division

12 October 2017

Mahmoud Abbas’s Op-Ed in The Guardian: Britain Must Atone for the Balfour Declaration – and 100 years of Suffering

1 November 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

Draft of UNSC Resolution S/2017/1060

18 December 2017

UNGA Resolution ES-10/19

21 December 2017

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

15 January 2018

Twenty-Ninth Arab Summit (The Jerusalem Summit): Dhahran Declaration

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

UNGA Resolution 73/89

6 December 2018

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

28 February 2019

President Donald Trump: Proclamation on Recognizing the Golan Heights as Part of the State of Israel

30th Arab Summit: Tunis Declaration

Statement of ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda On Opening an Investigation into War Crimes in Palestine

20 December 2019

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

3 September 2020

Abraham Accords Peace Agreement: Treaty of Peace, Diplomatic Relations and Full Normalization Between the United Arab Emirates and the State of Israel

15 September 2020

Joint Statement of the Foreign Ministers of France, Germany, Egypt and Jordan (The Munich Group)

11 January 2021

B’Tselem: A Regime of Jewish Supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid

12 January 2021

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

Historical Media

Emergency Refugee Camp, East Jordan: June 1967

Continuing Exodus: Jordan River

Palestine: A Homeland Denied

Highlights

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)

After the Nakba

The Palestinian Communist Movement

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp

Palestinian Youth in Conflict

A Childhood Denied

Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti) Refugee Camp

Marka Refugee Camp

The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps

Perpetuating the Temporary

Balata Refugee Camp

Baqa‘a Refugee Camp

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

Fawwar Refugee Camp

Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp

Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp

Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp

Sbeineh Refugee Camp

Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine

A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact

Talbieh Refugee Camp

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Wihdat Refugee Camp

Dera‘a Refugee Camp

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip

Thwarting Resettlement Schemes

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

The Palestinian Flag

A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Preservation of Heritage in Palestine

A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure

Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine

Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

The Palestinian Short Story

Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor

Palestinian Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

Palestinian Visual Arts (II)

Pathfinders (1955-1965)

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

Palestinian Photographers before 1948

Documenting Life in a Time of Change

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City

Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

Resolution 242, 22 November 1967

Ambiguous Parameters for a Middle East Settlement

Camp David Accords, 1978-1979

Shattering the Arab Front

Palestine and International Justice

The Long and Tortuous Quest for Accountability

The European Union and the Palestine Question

From Promising Ambitions to Crippling Divisions

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

Mexico and the Palestine Question

Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor

The New South Africa and the Palestine Question

From Good Offices to Total Support

Spain and the Palestine Question

Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel

Turkey and the Palestine Question

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

The USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991

Between Ideology and Realism

Battle of al-Karama, 21 March 1968

A Triggering Moment For the Palestinian Resistance

The War on Gaza, 2008–2009

Israel’s Strategic Quandary

The Israeli Military

The Myth of “the Most Moral Army in the World”

World Zionist Organization

Setting the Stage for a Jewish State in Palestine

Palestinian Citizenship in Israel

An Unwanted Minority Asserts Its Narrative and Identity

Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”

Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History

The Judaization of the Galilee

A Long-Lasting Strategy Faced by a Bulwark of Palestinian Tenacity

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

Jewish Identity at the Expense of Citizen Equality

Israel’s Gaza Redeployment, 2005

Exacerbating the Siege and Targeting the Land of the West Bank

Israel’s Apartheid Regime

Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians

Israel's Nation-State Law, 2018

Enshrining Discrimination

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP

The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

Demography and the Palestine Question (I)

Demography and the Palestine Question (II)

Palestinian Informal Justice

Thriving in the Shadow of Colonialism

Palestinian Women in the Labor Market

A Burgeoning Workforce Curbed by Israel’s Colonialism

Nablus Soap Production

The Decline of an Ancient Heritage

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Perpetuating Israel’s Structural Dominance

UNRWA's Education System

A Palestinian-Shaped Undertaking

Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

A Vulnerable Yet Vibrant Community

Palestinian Refugees in Syria

Fully Integrated, for Better and for Worse

Palestinians in Jordan, 1948-1967

The Making of the “Jordanians of Palestinian Origin”

Palestinians in Jordan Since 1967

A Never-Ending Normalization

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

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip Since 1967

Incubators of Resistance

Israel’s Policy toward Refugees in the Gaza Strip

A Site of Continual Displacement

Palestinian Emigration (I)

Palestinian Emigration (II)

The Palestinians in Chile

A Large Community, Fully Chilean, Fully Engaged for Palestine

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

Palestinian Declaration of Independence, 15 November 1988

Historic Undertakings For the Sake of Statehood

Palestine Liberation Organization (II)

From the Limelight to the Backstage

The Palestinian National Initiative Movement - Al-Mubadara

Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails

Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance

The Palestinians in Sweden

Engaged for Palestine beyond their Diverse Legal Statuses

A Watershed in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

October 1973 War

A Daring Arab Initiative Followed by Ambivalent Results

Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966

Governing the Lives of a Confined Population

VI. Rise of The Palestinian National Movement

VII. After 1973 War: Separate Peace and Civil War

The May 2021 Gaza War

Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes

Palestinian Labor in Israel

A Fluctuating Market Subject to Israel’s Interests

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

The Palestinians in Germany

From Melancholia to Anger

The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question

Solidarity of the Colonized

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

Palestine Liberation Organization (I)

The Reemergence of the Palestinian National Movement

The IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism

Delegitimizing Criticism of Israel

The Second Intifada, 2000-2005

Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations

Periods

VI. Rise of the Palestinian National Movement

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology

1966 - 1967