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Biographies

Hafiz al-Sa’id

1865 - 3 March 1948

Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar

1882 - 22 April 1942

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Zulaykha al-Shihabi

1903 - 13 May 1992

1905 - 21 May 1985

Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil

Hind al-Husseini

25 April 1916 - 13 September 1994

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012

Bassam Shak’a

1930 - 22 July 2019

Ismail Shammout

2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

Faisal al-Husseini

17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001

Abd al-Aziz Rantisi

1947 - 17 April 2004

Events

Establishment of Palestinian Newspaper al-Karmel in Haifa

World War I, the Ottomans Enter the War

1 August 1914 - February 1915

First Stage of British Palestine Campaign: Gaza Does not Fall

28 February 1917 - 19 April 1917

Second Stage of British Palestine Campaign: From Bir al-Sabi' and Gaza to Jerusalem

31 October 1917 - 9 December 1917

Appointment of a British Chief Administrator for Palestine

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

19 September 1918 - 25 September 1918

Establishment of the Palestine Arab Party

British Secure Military Reinforcements and Arm a Jewish Settlement Police

May 1936 - September 1936

The Eastern Women's Congress in Defense of Palestine Is Held in Cairo

15 October 1938 - 18 October 1938

British "Divide-and-Rule" Policy

November 1938 - May 1939

The British Government Rejects the Conclusions of the Partition (Woodhead) Commission

11 November 1938

British Recommend Partition

Stern Gang and Irgun Start Operations Against British

January 1944 - March 1944

Establishment of the Institute of Arab American Affairs (IAAA) in New York

25 November 1944 - 31 January 1950

Arab Office (AO) Is Opened in Washington

September 1945 - December 1947

Operations Yoav and ha-Har in the South Put End to 2nd Truce

15 October 1948 - 4 November 1948

Palestinians in Israel Protest the Nationality law

The Knesset Issues the Prevention of Infiltration Law

Palestinians in Gaza Rise Up Against Resettlement Projects

1 March 1955 - 6 March 1955

Britain and France Join the War

31 October 1956

PFLP Hijack Operations

6 September 1970 - 12 September 1970

Civil Disobedience in West Bank

November 1975 - March 1976

Egypt Proposes a Ten-Point Plan for Palestinian Elections

1 July 1989 - 30 September 1989

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

28 December 1998 - 25 April 1999

Ehud Barak Becomes Prime Minister After a Campaign Focused on Separation Between Israelis and Palestinians

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

26 December 2000 - 3 January 2001

With the Assassination of Abu Hanud, Israeli-Palestinian Confrontation Reaches a New Level

26 November 2001 - 15 December 2001

Israeli Army Refocuses on Gaza Strip

19 August 2002 - 7 October 2002

Timing New Israeli Escalation with Sharon's Speech on Disengagement Plan

18 December 2003 - 31 January 2004

Timing Another Israeli Escalation with Sharon's Interview on Gaza-Centered Disengagement Plan

2 February 2004 - 13 March 2004

Israel Launches Operation Continuous Story Against Palestinian Leaders

14 March 2004 - 5 April 2004

Palestinian Truce Commitment at Risk

18 June 2005 - 21 July 2005

Palestinian Legislative Elections: At the Polls

25 January 2006

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

After the July War: Winograd Commission Interim Report

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status to Nowhere

27 May 2008 - 30 August 2008

To Delink the West Bank from the Gaza Cease-Fire, Israel Escalates in the West Bank

7 July 2008 - 15 July 2008

Israel Breaks the Gaza Cease-Fire

4 November 2008 - 30 November 2008

Prelude to Israel's War on Gaza

21 December 2008 - 26 December 2008

Establishment of Palestinian National Dignity Fund

12 January 2010 - 18 May 2010

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah

26 April 2014 - 27 April 2014

Tension Mounts with the Kidnapping of Three Israeli Settlers in the Hebron Region

12 June 2014 - 30 June 2014

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

Attempts at Holding Palestinian Municipal Elections

21 June 2016 - 31 January 2017

Amendment No. 44 of Basic Law: The Knesset Allows Dismissal of Members

As Israel Backtracks on Its Measures Concerning the Haram al-Sharif, Palestinian Pressure Continues and Succeeds

24 July 2017 - 4 August 2017

Church of the Holy Sepulchre Temporarily Closes in Protest

25 February 2018 - 28 February 2018

International Community Alleviates Some of the UNRWA's Financial Crisis

Airbnb Pressured to End Operations in the West Bank; Reverses Decision After Pressure

19 November 2018 - 9 April 2019

Israeli Bombing Resumes Against Gaza

1 May 2019 - 5 May 2019

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

19 December 2020 - 22 December 2020

Palestinian COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign Begins as the Occupation Hinders an Effective Rollout

2 February 2021 - 20 June 2021

The May 2021 Gaza War

10 May 2021 - 21 May 2021

Historical Texts

Palin Commission Report

Report by the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry into the May 1921 Jaffa Riots

Passfield White Paper

20 October 1930

British Government Statement on the Partition (Woodhead) Commission's Report

11 November 1938

Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA

15 December 1956

Palestine National Council, 4th Session: Political Resolutions

10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968

Cairo Agreement between the Lebanese Authorities and the Palestinian Guerrilla Organizations

3 November 1969

Programme of the Palestine National Front in the Occupied Territory

The Koenig Memorandum

Palestine National Council, 18th Session: Final Statement

20 April 1987 - 25 April 1987

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Palestinian Declaration of Independence

15 November 1988

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

13 September 1993

The Mitchell Report

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

Palestinian Parties and Factions Code of Conduct during the Legislative Electoral Process

17 October 2005

Summary Final Report - The Winograd Commission of Inquiry

30 January 2008

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

25 September 2009

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

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

UNESCWA Report on Israeli Apartheid

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

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

28 February 2019

The Dignity and Hope Manifesto: The Unity Intifada

Historical Media

Smashing the Palestinian Political Infrastructure

15 December 1938

Highlights

Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine

Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip Since 1967

Incubators of Resistance

The Palestine Communist Party

The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party

Steadfastness as Everyday Resistance

Colonization and Dispossession

Zionism's Imagined Geography

III. Late Mandate

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

Israel’s Gaza Redeployment, 2005

Exacerbating the Siege and Targeting the Land of the West Bank

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

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

Palestinian Emigration (I)

Land Day, 30 March 1976

A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel

The Palestinian National Initiative Movement - Al-Mubadara

The Palestinian Communist Movement

The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse

A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism

The Israeli Military

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

The Palestinians in Chile

A Large Community, Fully Chilean, Fully Engaged for Palestine

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

The Palestinian Flag

A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)

Before the Nakba

Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp

Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation

UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947

Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba

The War on Gaza, 2008–2009

Israel’s Strategic Quandary

Spain and the Palestine Question

Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel

Palestinians in Germany

From Melancholia to Anger

The USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991

Between Ideology and Realism

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

The May 2021 Gaza War

Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes

The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip

Thwarting Resettlement Schemes

Stages of a Forced Displacement

Dera‘a Refugee Camp

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

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

The New South Africa and the Palestine Question

From Good Offices to Total Support

The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question

Solidarity of the Colonized

The Second Intifada, 2000-2005

Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology

Israeli Assassination Campaign Within Palestine Borders (I)

1996 - 2004

Thematic Chronology

Israeli Assassination Campaign Within Palestine Borders (II)

2005-2019

Thematic Chronology

Israeli Assassination Campaign Beyond Palestine Borders

1970 - present