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Musa Kazim Husseini

1853 - 26 March 1934

1859 - 21 July 1921

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

Jurji Habib Hanania

1878 - 29 June 1950

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

1880 - 16 June 1946

Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar

1882 - 22 April 1942

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

1882 - 29 June 1963

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

1885 - 19 December 1953

Mu‘in al-Madi

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Abd al-Hamid Shuman

1888 - 9 September 1974

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

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

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari

1900 - 29 May 1980

1902 - 27 August 1984

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih

1907 - 8 January 2001

1907 - 27 July 2006

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Sami Taha Hamran

1911 - 11 September 1947

Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud

1913 - 13 July 1948

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

1923 - 12 May 2004

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967

Issam Abd al-Hadi

1928 - 8 August 2013

1928 - 1 September 2020

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

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

Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003

1936 - 3 August 1978

Ahmad Ismail Yasin

June 1936 - 22 March 2004

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

Faisal al-Husseini

17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

Abd al-Aziz Rantisi

1947 - 17 April 2004

1962 - 31 July 2024

9 February 1963

Events

Great Britain Invades and Occupies Egypt

France and the Ottoman Empire Sign the Mytilene Agreements

2 November 1901 - 10 November 1901

World War I, the Ottomans Enter the War

1 August 1914 - February 1915

Start of the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans

Limited British Advances; Stabilization of the Military Front

21 December 1917 - 21 April 1918

Third Stage of British Palestine Campaign: Completion of the Conquest of Palestine

19 September 1918 - 25 September 1918

British Conquest of Transjordan Is Achieved

22 September 1918 - 27 September 1918

Conquest of Damascus; Faisal Enters Liberated City

26 September 1918 - 3 October 1918

Palestine Gendarmerie Is Established

1 July 1921 - 24 April 1922

League of Nations Approves Exclusion of Transjordan Territory from the Jewish National Home

14 September 1922 - 16 September 1922

White Paper (Amery) on Status Quo at al-Buraq / Western Wall

19 November 1928 - 27 December 1928

MacDonald's Reassurance to Weizmann

13 February 1931

Establishment of the National Defense Party

2 December 1934

Establishment of the Reform Party

British Secure Military Reinforcements and Arm a Jewish Settlement Police

May 1936 - September 1936

Second Phase of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

23 July 1937 - September 1938

New Wave of Zionist Anti-British Attacks

9 September 1946 - 2 December 1946

Round Table Conference on Palestine Held in London

10 September 1946 - 3 October 1946

Majority of UNSCOP Members Recommend Partition

15 June 1947 - 3 September 1947

Arab League Meeting on Palestine in Aley, Lebanon

7 October 1947 - 15 October 1947

Establishment of All-Palestine Government in Gaza

22 September 1948 - 2 October 1948

Israel Strengthens Its Political Control over Jerusalem; Military Government Dissolved

20 December 1948 - 17 February 1949

France Recognizes Israel on a de facto Basis

24 January 1949

UNCCP Convenes the Lausanne Conference

27 April 1949 - 12 September 1949

Israel Decides to Issue Temporary Residency Permits for Palestinians Not Included in the Census

Arab Information Center (AIC) Is Opened in New York

Renewal of Egyptian-Israeli Clashes

22 August 1955 - 4 September 1955

Egyptian-Israeli Armed Incidents

17 August 1956 - 11 September 1956

Escalation Across Jordanian-Israeli Lines

10 September 1956 - 26 September 1956

Egypt and Syria Unite and Form the United Arab Republic

1 February 1958 - 28 September 1961

Lebanon Establishes a Higher Commission for Palestine Affairs

Death of Ahmad Hilmi Abd al-Baqi; Ahmad al-Shuqairi as Palestine Delegate to the Arab League

29 June 1963 - 19 September 1963

Fatah Opens Its First Office in Algeria

23 September 1963

Reservations of Lebanon, Kuwait and Libya to the Casablanca Protocol on the Treatment of Palestinians in Arab States

Fatah Guerrilla Resistance in the West Bank

Settlement Attempt in Hebron

12 April 1968 - 16 June 1968

Civil Aviation in the Conflict

23 July 1968 - 29 August 1969

5th Arab Summit Meets in Rabat and Ends in Failure

21 December 1969 - 23 December 1969

PFLP Hijack Operations

6 September 1970 - 12 September 1970

Black September in Jordan

15 September 1970 - 25 September 1970

Emergency Arab Summit Meets in Cairo to Force a Palestinian-Jordanian Agreement

21 September 1970 - 28 September 1970

8th Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo

28 February 1971 - 5 March 1971

Wasfi al-Tal, Jordan's Prime Minister, Is Assassinated by Black September Members in Cairo

28 November 1971

Black September Hijack Operation

Black September in Munich Olympic Games

5 September 1972 - 6 September 1972

Black September Hijack Operation

29 October 1972 - 30 October 1972

Black September Operation in Khartoum

1 March 1973 - 4 March 1973

Mohammad Boudia Assassinated in Paris

Sinai II Agreement Reached

20 August 1975 - 4 September 1975

Committee Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Cairo

14 July 1980 - 15 July 1980

The Knesset Issues Amendment 1 to Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance

Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Cairo

11 November 1981 - 12 November 1981

Israeli Invasion of Lebanon

6 June 1982 - 29 September 1982

Agreement on Withdrawal of Palestinian Forces from Beirut Reached and Implemented

20 August 1982 - 2 September 1982

Assassination of Bashir Gemayel and Israeli Occupation of Beirut

14 September 1982 - 16 September 1982

Scission within Fatah

18 May 1983 - 15 September 1983

Fatah-Democratic Alliance Precarious Reconciliation

27 June 1984 - 2 September 1984

The War of the (Palestinian) Camps in Lebanon

19 May 1985 - 7 April 1987

Extraordinary Arab Summit Meets in Casablanca

7 August 1985 - 9 August 1985

Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance Amended to Prohibit Contact with PLO

Detention of Faisal al-Husseini

12 April 1987 - 13 September 1987

18th Palestine National Council Is Held in Algiers: Restoration of Unity

20 April 1987 - 25 April 1987

Extraordinary Arab Summit Meets in Amman

8 November 1987 - 11 November 1987

Another Round of Releasing and Detaining Faisal al-Husseini

9 June 1988 - 29 January 1989

Israel's "Peace Initiative"

Egypt Proposes a Ten-Point Plan for Palestinian Elections

1 July 1989 - 30 September 1989

The Baker Five-Point Plan

10 October 1989

Palestinian Response to the Invasion of Kuwait

3 August 1990 - 17 January 1991

A New Constitutional Law Rejects Palestinians' Resettlement in Lebanon

21 September 1990

Secretary Baker Second Stage Diplomacy

21 July 1991 - 13 October 1991

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Tunis

17 October 1991

6th Negotiation Round, 1st Stage, Washington

24 August 1992 - 3 September 1992

Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance Amended to Repeal Prohibition of Contact with PLO

19 January 1993

The Coalition of 10 Palestinian Organizations Reject the Palestinian-Israeli Accord, Damascus

2 September 1993

President Clinton Signs the Middle East Peace Facilitation Act of 1993

28 October 1993

The Mirage of the 5-Year Countdown to Palestinian Statehood

4 May 1994 - 3 May 1999

The Tragedy of the Palestinians in Libya

9 August 1995 - 13 January 1999

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

28 September 1995

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

Ceremonious Start of Permanent Status Negotiations, Taba

5 May 1996 - 7 May 1996

Suicide Bombings in West Jerusalem: Israeli Reactions and Palestinian Measures

30 July 1997 - 25 September 1997

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

Commemoration of the Nakba 50th Anniversary

14 May 1998 - 15 May 1998

Statement S/PRST/1998/21 by SC President against Israel Broadening Boundaries of Jerusalem

Further Redeployment Talks Intensify

3 September 1998 - 28 September 1998

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Gaza

10 December 1998

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

28 December 1998 - 25 April 1999

With Barak as Prime Minister, Negotiations on Wye Implementation Resume

11 July 1999 - 3 September 1999

Sharm al-Shaykh Memorandum (Wye II Accord)

4 September 1999

Implementation of Sharm al-Shaykh Memorandum (Wye II)

10 September 1999 - 20 March 2000

Official Resumption of Final Status Talks

13 September 1999 - 6 December 1999

Abu Ali Mustafa, PFLP Deputy Secretary-General Returns to Palestine

30 September 1999

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Gaza

2 July 2000 - 3 July 2000

Clinton Invites Arafat and Barak to a Summit in Camp David

3 July 2000 - 11 July 2000

Attempts to Revive Final Status Talks

16 August 2000 - 28 September 2000

Arab and International Support of Palestinian Uprising

30 September 2000 - 7 October 2000

US Attempts at Easing Tension, but Confrontation Spikes

4 October 2000 - 12 October 2000

SC Res. 1322: Deploring Provocation at Al-Haram al-Sharif and Excessive Use of Force against Palestinians

Extraordinary Arab Summit in Cairo

21 October 2000 - 22 October 2000

13th Arab Summit Meets in Amman

27 March 2001 - 28 March 2001

Jordanian-Egyptian Proposal for a Cease-Fire and a Resumption of Talks

16 April 2001 - 27 April 2001

The Tenet Cease-Fire Plan

11 June 2001 - 20 June 2001

Fallout of Abu Ali Mustafa's Assassination

28 August 2001 - 10 September 2001

UN World Conference Against Racism in Durban

31 August 2001 - 8 September 2001

US and Palestinian Efforts to Stop Israeli Escalation

12 September 2001 - 16 October 2001

Losses During the 1st Year of the Second Intifada

28 September 2001

Draft SC Res. S/2001/1199 Demanding Cessation of Violence and Return to Previous Positions Vetoed by the US

15 December 2001

Assassination of Raed Karmi in Tulkarm

14 January 2002

Israel Decides to Create Buffer Zones (Separation Wall)

14 April 2002 - 25 April 2002

Toward a "Road Map" to Final Status?

13 August 2002 - 5 November 2002

Israeli Army Refocuses on Gaza Strip

19 August 2002 - 7 October 2002

Israeli Operation Matter of Time; Siege on Arafat Tightened; Protests All Over Occupied Territories

18 September 2002 - 29 September 2002

SC Res. 1435: Concern over Reoccupation of Arafat's Headquarters in Ramallah and Call for Israeli Withdrawal

24 September 2002

Losses on the Two-Year Anniversary of the Second Intifada

28 September 2002

No Let Up in Confrontation

19 August 2003 - 20 August 2003

Assassination of Khalid Massud near Gaza City

Yasir Arafat in the Line of Fire

4 September 2003 - 30 September 2003

Assassination Attempt of Hamas Leadership, Including Ahmad Yasin, in Gaza City

6 September 2003

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

7 September 2003 - 12 November 2003

Losses on the Three-Year Anniversary of the Second Intifada

28 September 2003

Israeli-Palestinian Military Confrontation as Routine

18 August 2004 - 27 September 2004

Losses on the Four-Year Anniversary of the Second Intifada

28 September 2004

Operation Days of Penitence

29 September 2004 - 15 October 2004

Assassination of Majdi Mar'i, Fadi al-Sarwan, and Jihad Abu Salhieh in Nablus

1 November 2004

Smooth and Constitutional Transition in PLO and PA Leadership

11 November 2004 - 1 December 2004

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

The Lebanese Minister of Labor Removes some Restrictions on the Work of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

7 June 2005 - 14 December 2005

Implementation of Israel's Disengagement from Gaza

9 July 2005 - 23 November 2005

Disengagement: Evacuation of Troops; The Case of Gaza-Egypt Border

15 August 2005 - 12 September 2005

Disengagement: Israeli-Egyptian Protocol on Gaza-Egypt Border

1 September 2005 - 12 September 2005

Disengagement: The Case of Gaza-Egypt Crossing in Rafah

7 September 2005 - 17 September 2005

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

12 September 2005 - 21 September 2005

Disengagement: Celebrations in Gaza

12 September 2005 - 24 September 2005

Ongoing Israeli Raids: Operation First Rain

23 September 2005 - 2 October 2005

Losses on the Five-Year Anniversary of the Second Intifada

28 September 2005

The Return of Palestinian Diplomatic Representation to Lebanon

6 January 2006 - 17 August 2011

Israel’s Campaign Against Non-ID Holders in the West Bank

1 April 2006 - 6 September 2006

Israel Retaliates Against Shalit's Capture: Operation Summer Rains

28 June 2006 - 8 July 2006

Major Arrest Raid Against Hamas-Affiliated PA Officials

29 June 2006 - 19 August 2006

Fourth Attempted Assassination of Mohammed Deif in Gaza City

Israel's Operation Summer Rains Against Gaza Continues

15 August 2006 - 9 September 2006

Olmert's Convergence Plan Put Aside; Settlement Activity Resumes

18 August 2006 - 21 September 2006

Intra-Palestinian Dynamics: The False Hopes of National Unity Talks

25 August 2006 - 23 September 2006

Intra-Palestinian Dynamics: Demonstrations and Violence

28 August 2006 - 23 October 2006

Abbas-Olmert Meetings to Reach Understandings Before the International Conference

6 August 2007 - 10 September 2007

Ongoing Military Confrontation: Israel Declares Gaza a "Hostile Territory"

16 August 2007 - 3 November 2007

Palestinian and Israeli Teams to Prepare Annapolis International Conference

20 September 2007 - 25 November 2007

The Annapolis Conference Opens a New Round of Palestinian-Israeli Talks

27 November 2007

Israeli Supreme Court Endorses Economic Sanction Against Gaza

30 January 2008

Assassination of Amer Qarmout in Beit Lahiya

4 February 2008

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status to Nowhere

27 May 2008 - 30 August 2008

Hamas and Israel Agree on a Six-Month Gaza Cease-Fire; Blockade Marginally Eased

17 June 2008 - 4 November 2008

Political Crisis in Israel

30 July 2008 - 10 February 2009

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status: Olmert's Political Gamble

31 August 2008 - 16 September 2008

US Resolve on Settlement Freeze Peters Out

19 August 2009 - 22 September 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

Goldstone Report on the War on Gaza

15 September 2009 - 25 September 2009

Cross-Border Violence, Gaza

20 September 2009 - 3 October 2009

The Goldstone Report and Palestinian Erratic Decision-Making

29 September 2009 - 16 October 2009

Israel's Temporary and Partial Settlement Freeze

25 November 2009

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

22 April 2010 - 20 May 2010

The United Nations Human Rights Council Establishes a Fact-Finding Mission on the Mavi Marmara Incident

2 June 2010 - 27 September 2010

36th Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem

15 June 2010 - 17 June 2010

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

6 July 2010 - 23 August 2010

Direct Israeli-Palestinian Talks, Mediated by George Mitchell, Formally Relaunched in Washington

1 September 2010 - 2 September 2010

Direct Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations Held in Sharm al-Shaykh and Jerusalem

14 September 2010 - 15 September 2010

Israel's Temporary and Partial Settlement Freeze Is not Extended

20 September 2010 - 26 September 2010

US Makes Incredible Offer to Israel in Exchange for a Two-Month Partial Settlement Freeze

29 September 2010 - 12 December 2010

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

30 September 2010 - 15 December 2010

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

1 December 2010 - 19 January 2012

Impact of Democracy Drive in the Arab World on Palestinian Official Politics

14 February 2011 - 27 April 2011

Abbas and Mishal Sign in Cairo a Record of Understandings Related to the 2009 National Conciliation Draft Agreement

4 May 2011 - 17 May 2011

Abbas Confirms Palestinian UN Bid for Statehood

Palestinian Reconciliation Accord Put on Hold

14 June 2011 - 7 August 2011

Despite US, European, and Arab Pressure, Abbas Submits a Request for Full UN Membership

12 September 2011 - 23 September 2011

The Quartet Proposes a Vague Timetable for the Resumption of Negotiations

23 September 2011 - 14 December 2011

Israel Settlement Activity Taken up Again in Earnest

27 September 2011 - 1 November 2011

Israeli-Palestinian “Exploratory Talks” in Amman

3 January 2012 - 25 January 2012

Dangerous Surge of Israeli-Palestinian Violence in and across Gaza

14 October 2012 - 13 November 2012

UNGA Res. 67/19: According Palestine Non-Member Observer State Status in the UN

29 November 2012

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

Israeli-Palestinian Direct Talks Take Place in Jerusalem

14 August 2013 - 2 September 2013

Israeli-Palestinian Talks Accelerate for Nothing

25 September 2013 - 23 October 2013

Renewal of Settlement Activity

31 August 2014 - 24 December 2014

Failed Attempt at Empowering the Palestinian Unity Government in Gaza

7 September 2014 - 9 October 2014

The Case of Hamas-Appointed Civil Servants in Gaza

11 September 2014 - 18 December 2014

No Effective Resumption of Gaza Postwar Talks in Cairo

23 September 2014

Heightened Tension at Haram al-Sharif

30 September 2014 - 22 December 2014

Israel Detains Khalida Jarrar, then Releases Her, then Detains Her again

2 April 2015 - 19 January 2025

Settlement Construction

23 July 2015 - 17 November 2015

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

31 July 2015 - 9 August 2015

Tension Escalates at Haram al-Sharif

2 August 2015 - 28 September 2015

UNGA Res. 69/320: Palestine Allowed to Raise Flag at UN

10 September 2015

With the Haram al-Sharif Tensions, Protests Spread to the Occupied Territories

13 September 2015 - 30 September 2015

Attempts at Holding Palestinian Municipal Elections

21 June 2016 - 31 January 2017

Continued Violation of the Status Quo at Haram al-Sharif

Continued Israeli Settlement Activity and Destruction of Palestinian Infrastructure

27 July 2016 - 7 December 2016

The Convening of Fatah's 7th General Conference Is Announced in Effort to Consolidate Abbas's Leadership

1 November 2016

Palestinian Attacks Against Soldiers and Settlers

8 January 2017 - 26 September 2017

Palestinians and International Partners Fight Against Israel’s Planned Demolition of Khan al-Ahmar

15 February 2017 - 21 October 2018

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

President Trump's Visit to Israel

22 May 2017 - 23 May 2017

The Internal Palestinian Reconciliation Process Is Relaunched with Some Credibility This Time

26 August 2017 - 10 October 2017

The Fate of the PLO Diplomatic Office in Washington

17 November 2017

Amendment by the Knesset of Its Code of Ethics to Allow Restricting Palestinian Members' Travel Abroad

22 January 2018 - 13 March 2018

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

14 May 2018 - 15 May 2018

US Cuts Aid to Palestinians

24 August 2018 - 14 September 2018

President Trump Signs the Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act of 2018 (ATCA) into Law

Qatar's Assistance to Gaza

9 October 2018 - 8 November 2018

UNGA Res. 73/5 Accords Privileges to Palestine as Chair of Group of 77 for 2019

16 October 2018

Dissolution of the Knesset; Three Election Rounds to Form a Government in Israel

26 December 2018 - 11 December 2019

Israeli Harassment and Mass Arrests in Issawiyya

1 June 2019 - 1 September 2019

Israel Prevents Palestine Cup Final

3 July 2019 - 25 September 2019

Israeli PM Netanyahu Pledges to Annex Parts of the West Bank if Reelected

10 September 2019 - 6 December 2019

Palestinian Citizens of Israel Protest Israeli Police Inaction in Solving Violent Crimes

28 September 2019 - 5 November 2019

Formation of the Munich Group

15 February 2020 - 24 September 2020

Israel Uses COVID-19 Against Palestinians

21 March 2020 - 22 September 2020

Trump Administration Places Sanctions on International Criminal Court and Its Personnel

11 June 2020 - 2 September 2020

UAE and Bahrain Announce Normalization with Israel

13 August 2020 - 11 September 2020

Sudan to Normalize Ties with Israel in Exchange for US Incentives

25 August 2020 - 23 September 2021

After Threats of Annexation, Normalization Reignites Palestinian Reconciliation Talks

3 September 2020 - 24 September 2020

President Trump Announces Kosovo Will Normalize Relations with Israel

4 September 2020 - 7 September 2020

Cracks in Arab Unity on Palestine

9 September 2020 - 22 September 2020

Palestinian Reconciliation Comes again to a Standstill

1 October 2020 - 17 November 2020

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

5 February 2021 - 2 April 2021

Jewish National Fund Adopts New Policy to Purchase and Claim Lands in the West Bank

25 February 2021 - 2 September 2021

Israel Raids and Closes Offices of Human Rights Organizations in the West Bank

28 February 2021 - 15 September 2021

US Announces Resumption of UNRWA Funding and Forces UNRWA to Make Severe Policy Changes

7 April 2021 - 23 September 2021

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 11

Death of Nizar Banat after Arrest by PA Forces

24 June 2021 - 21 June 2022

Norwegian Wealth Fund and the Pension Fund Divest from Companies Linked to Israeli Settlements

5 July 2021 - 3 September 2021

Gilboa Prison Escape

6 September 2021 - 21 May 2022

Elections for Village Councils in the West Bank

11 December 2021

Historical Texts

Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement

Palin Commission Report

Churchill White Paper

The Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)

Palestine Legislative Council Election Order, 1922

Council of the League of Nations: Article 25 of the Palestine Mandate: Approving the Memorandum by the British Representative

16 September 1922

Amery Memorandum on The Western Wall in Jerusalem

19 November 1928

Report of the Shaw Commission on the al-Buraq / Western Wall Disturbances of August, 1929

Passfield White Paper

20 October 1930

Report “to Determine the Rights and Claims of Moslems and Jews in Connection with the Western or Wailing Wall at Jerusalem”

1 December 1930

Palestine (Western or Wailing Wall) Order in Council, 1931

The Murison Commission Report

Reply of Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper

The Alexandria Protocol on Forming the League of Arab States

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Arab Constitutional Proposals at London Roundtable Conference

30 September 1946

UNGA Resolution 106 (S-1)

Progress Report of the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte)

16 September 1948

Israel: Area of Jurisdiction and Powers Ordinance No. 29 of 1948

16 September 1948

Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance No. 33, 5708-1948

23 September 1948

UNGA Resolution 212 (III)

19 November 1948

United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Fourth Progress Report

22 September 1949

Absentees' Property Law, 5710-1950

Israel Law of Return and its Amendments

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

12 September 1950

UNGA Resolution 394 (V)

14 December 1950

UNSC Resolution 95

1 September 1951

Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA

15 December 1956

Draft of UNSC Resolution 5407

Protocol for the Treatment of Palestinians in Arab States

11 September 1965

Fourth Arab Summit: Resolutions

1 September 1967

UNGA Resolution 2443 (XXIII)

19 December 1968

Palestine National Council, 6th Session: Political Statement

6 September 1969

UNSC Resolution 271

15 September 1969

Palestinian National Council, Emergency Session: Resolutions

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

UNSC Resolution 298

25 September 1971

UNSC Resolution 316

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

Memorandum of Agreement between the U.S. and Israel Regarding the Reconvening of the Geneva Conference

1 September 1975

The Koenig Memorandum

Eighth Arab Summit: Statement

25 October 1976 - 26 October 1976

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

17 September 1978

UNSC Resolution 446

Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt

Joint Letter from President Sadat and Prime Minister Begin to President Carter Concerning Negotiations on Self-Governing Authority in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

Tenth Arab Summit: Final Statement

20 November 1979 - 22 November 1979

UNSC Resolution 465

The Venice Declaration

Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement

11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981

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

31 January 1982

Plan for the Departure from Lebanon of the PLO Leadership, Offices, and Combatants in Beirut

President Reagan's Talking Points Sent to Prime Minister Begin

1 September 1982

Israeli Cabinet Communiqué on President Reagan's Peace Proposal

2 September 1982

Twelfth Arab Summit: the Fez Initiative

9 September 1982

Kahan Commission of Inquiry Report into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut

7 February 1983

Palestine National Council, 16th Session: Final Statement

14 February 1983 - 22 February 1983

UNGA Resolution 38/58

13 December 1983

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

Draft of UNSC Resolution 17459

12 September 1985

Draft of UNSC Resolution 17769

29 January 1986

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

13 December 1988

Egypt's Ten-Point Response to Israel's Election Plan in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

Draft of UNGA Resolution A/44/L.50

29 November 1989

PLO “Assumptions” with Regard to Baker's Five Points

1 December 1989

Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement

28 September 1991

U.S. Letter of Assurances to Israel

18 October 1991

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

13 September 1993

UNSC Resolution 904

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area

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

UNSC Resolution 1073

28 September 1996

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

UNGA Resolution ES-10/2

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

Wye River Memorandum

23 October 1998

Sharm el Sheikh Memorandum

4 September 1999

Protocol Concerning Safe Passage Between The West Bank And The Gaza Strip

UNSC Resolution 1322

UNGA Resolution ES-10/7

20 October 2000

Palestinian and Israeli Positions on Refugees

22 January 2001 - 23 January 2001

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2001/270

Jordanian-Egyptian Proposal For an Israeli-Palestinian Cease-Fire and Resumption of Negotiations

The Mitchell Report

Palestinian-Israeli Security Implementation Work Plan (Tenet Cease-Fire Plan)

The Durban Declaration

8 September 2001

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2001/1199

14 December 2001

UNSC Resolution 1397

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

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

Israel and the Road Map

23 May 2003 - 25 May 2003

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

UNGA Resolution ES-10/15

Agreed Principles for Rafah Crossing In Connection with the Gaza Disengagement

15 November 2005

UNGA Resolution ES-10/16

30 November 2006

President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech

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

President Obama's Speech at Cairo University on the United States and the Muslim World

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

25 September 2009

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

Statement by Middle East Quartet

23 September 2011

Application of Palestine for admission to membership in the United Nations

23 September 2011

UNGA Resolution 67/19

29 November 2012

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

UNGA Resolution 69/320

10 September 2015

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

30 September 2015

UNSC Resolution 2334

23 December 2016

UNGA Resolution ES-10/19

21 December 2017

UNGA Resolution 73/5

16 October 2018

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

28 February 2019

Abraham Accords: Declaration of Peace, Cooperation, and Constructive Diplomatic and Friendly Relations, Announced by the State of Israel and the Kingdom of Bahrain

15 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

Historical Media

Smashing the Palestinian Political Infrastructure

15 December 1938

Haifa Railroad Station

20 September 1946

Death of The Shepherd Boy Fathi, Third Wave of Killing

Highlights

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

The Palestinian Short Story

Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

Present Absentees in Israel

Exiled in Their Own Homeland

Israel’s Policy toward Refugees in the Gaza Strip

A Site of Continual Displacement

The Palestine Communist Party

The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party

Palestine Police During the British Mandate

Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

VII. From A Sense Of Victory To Separate Peace And Civil War

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

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

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

The Education of Palestinians in Israel

Struggling to Break Free from a System of Marginalization

XI. The Al-Aqsa Intifada and the End of an Era in Palestinian Politics

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

V. Reverberations Of 1948 Palestine War And The Arab-Israeli Conflict

October 1973 War

A Daring Arab Initiative Followed by Ambivalent Results

Camp David Accords, 1978-1979

Shattering the Arab Front

The Second Intifada, 2000-2005

Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP

The Separation Wall

Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians

Israel’s Apartheid Regime

Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians

Palestinian Embroidery

A Rich and Diverse National Heritage

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1967

The Political and Social Remodeling of a Cramped Palestinian Space

The Judaization of the Galilee

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

The Peel Commission, 1936–1937

Sowing the Seeds of the Partition

Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

A Vulnerable Yet Vibrant Community

Lebanon War, 1982

A Setback for the PLO and for Israel's 'Grand Design'

Battle of al-Karama, 21 March 1968

A Triggering Moment For the Palestinian Resistance

Palestine Liberation Organization (I)

The Reemergence of the Palestinian National Movement

Palestine Liberation Organization (II)

From the Limelight to the Backstage

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)

After the Nakba

Madrid and the Oslo Agreement, 1991-1993

Short-Lived Promises of a Negotiated Settlement

The Palestinian Communist Movement

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse

A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism

The United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine

Negotiating Palestine after the Nakba

Palestinians in Jordan Since 1967

A Never-Ending Normalization

Jabal al-Hussein Refugee Camp

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

The Palestinian Flag

A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity

The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression

Ein el Tal (Handarat) Refugee Camp

Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917

Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries

Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti) Refugee Camp

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (II)

X. The Oslo Process And The Establishment Of The Palestinian Authority

Israel's Nation-State Law, 2018

Enshrining Discrimination

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

Marka Refugee Camp

Sabra and Shatila, 16-18 September 1982

A Massacre by Proxy

A Watershed in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps

Perpetuating the Temporary

VI. The Rise Of The Palestinian Movement In The Wake Of The 1967 Arab Defeat

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

The European Union and the Palestine Question

From Promising Ambitions to Crippling Divisions

Baqa‘a Refugee Camp

Sbeineh Refugee Camp

Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine

A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact

Talbieh Refugee Camp

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947

Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba

Mexico and the Palestine Question

Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor

The War on Gaza, 2008–2009

Israel’s Strategic Quandary

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Wihdat Refugee Camp

Palestine and International Justice

The Long and Tortuous Quest for Accountability

Spain and the Palestine Question

Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel

The USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991

Between Ideology and Realism

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Palestinian Declaration of Independence, 15 November 1988

Historic Undertakings For the Sake of Statehood

The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip

Thwarting Resettlement Schemes

XII. A Palestinian Authority Divided, Israeli Assaults on Gaza, and Peace Process Setbacks

Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails

Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance

The Algerians of Palestine

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

Palestinian Labor in Israel

A Fluctuating Market Subject to Israel’s Interests

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology

Palestinian-Israeli Final Status Negotiation Rounds

1999 - 2001