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Hafiz al-Sa’id

Musa Kazim Husseini

1853 - 26 March 1934

1859 - 21 July 1921

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

Jurji Habib Hanania

Bendali Saliba al-Jawzi

1875 - 9 February 1949

1878 - 29 June 1950

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar

Izzeddin al-Qassam

1882 - 20 November 1935

1882 - 22 April 1942

Raghib al-Nashashibi

Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi

1885 - 19 December 1953

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Khalil Abdallah Totah

20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955

Mu‘in al-Madi

Abd al-Hamid Shuman

1888 - 9 September 1974

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali

1889 - 7 July 1973

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965

1893 - 27 April 1940

1894 - 19 March 1949

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

Subhi al-Khadra

1895 - 4 July 1954

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

1896 - 27 September 1951

Wasif Jawhariyyeh

Mustafa al-Dabbagh

1897 - 1 October 1989

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Anbara Salam Khalidi

4 August 1897 - 1986

Zulaykha al-Shihabi

1903 - 13 May 1992

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

1907 - 27 July 2006

23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi

1909 - 11 October 1980

1910 - 26 February 1971

Sami Taha Hamran

1911 - 11 September 1947

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud

1913 - 13 July 1948

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil

Hind al-Husseini

25 April 1916 - 13 September 1994

1917 - 12 December 2003

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

1927 - 13 January 2005

Issam Abd al-Hadi

1928 - 8 August 2013

Samira Abu Ghazaleh

1928 - 12 January 2017

1928 - 1 September 2020

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

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

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

1936 - 29 August 1987

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

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

1942 - 6 August 2019

Abd al-Aziz Rantisi

1947 - 17 April 2004

4 January 1951 - 26 October 1995

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

1962 - 31 July 2024

9 February 1963

Events

1st Zionist Congress in Basel Calls for a Jewish Home in Palestine

29 August 1897 - 31 August 1897

2nd Wave of Jewish Immigration to Palestine

Creation of Underground Bar Giora Group

29 September 1907

Foundation of the Zionist Paramilitary Group Hashomer

Establishment of the Literary Club in Istanbul

July 1909 - March 1915

The Arab Congress Meets in Paris

17 June 1913 - 24 June 1913

A Zionist–Arab Incident in Zarnuqa

Hussein-McMahon Correspondence: Prelude to the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans

14 July 1915 - 30 March 1916

Jemal Pasha Orders the Public Hanging of Arab Nationalists from the Levant

21 August 1915 - 6 May 1916

Start of the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans

Balfour Declaration Is Made

2 November 1917

British Failed Attempts to Conquer Transjordan

21 March 1918 - 4 May 1918

Arrival in Palestine of the Zionist Commission

Conquest of Damascus; Faisal Enters Liberated City

26 September 1918 - 3 October 1918

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

San Remo Conference: Distribution of Mandates

Founding of the Haganah, the Jewish Paramilitary Organization

French Occupy Damascus and Establish State of Greater Lebanon

14 July 1920 - 31 August 1920

The Issue of the Administration of Transjordan

25 July 1920 - 31 December 1920

Churchill and Abdullah Reach Preliminary Understanding over Transjordan

2 March 1921 - 30 March 1921

Hybrid Status for Transjordan; Prince Abdullah Becomes Its Emir

May Day Clashes in Jaffa

1 May 1921 - 7 May 1921

White Paper (Churchill) of 1922 Clarifies the Terms of the Balfour Declaration

The League of Nations Confirms Britain’s Mandate over Palestine

The British Issue a Constitution for Palestine in the Form of an Order in Council

5th Palestinian National Congress Meets in Nablus

20 August 1922 - 1 September 1922

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

14 September 1922 - 16 September 1922

British-French Agreement on Boundary Line Between Palestine and Lebanon and Syria

British Formal and Conditional Assurance to Transjordan's Abdullah

25 April 1923 - 25 May 1923

Treaty of Lausanne Is Signed with Ataturk's Turkey

13th Zionist Congress Is Held in Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary)

6 August 1923 - 18 August 1923

14th Zionist Congress Is Held in Vienna

18 August 1925 - 31 August 1925

Agreement between Great Britain and Transjordan Emirate

20 February 1928

General Conference of Palestine Arab Workers, Haifa

11 January 1930

An Arab National Conference Meets on the Sidelines of the Pan-Islamic Congress

13 December 1931

18th Zionist Congress Is Held in Prague

21 August 1933 - 3 September 1933

Establishment of the National Bloc Party

British Violent Repression

May 1936 - June 1936

Criminal Code Ordinance of 1936

Peel Commission Report Proposes Partition of Palestine

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

11 November 1938

London Round Table Conference Convenes

7 February 1939 - 27 March 1939

MacDonald White Paper of 1939: Limited Concessions to Palestinians

17 May 1939 - 23 May 1939

The Palestine Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper

League of Nations Passes on Supervision over Mandates to the UN

Independence of the Emirate of Transjordan and Establishment of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Series of Zionist Anti-British Attacks

17 June 1946 - 22 July 1946

London Round Table Conference Reopens and Fails

27 January 1947 - 18 February 1947

First Phase of Palestine War: Offensive Defense versus Active Defense

29 November 1947 - 10 March 1948

Palestinian Attacks

14 January 1948 - 19 February 1948

Palestinian Operations

11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948

US Apparent Hesitancy Toward Partition

18 March 1948 - 30 March 1948

Early Responses to Truce and Trusteeship Ideas

19 March 1948 - 20 March 1948

Operation Hametz and the Fall of Jaffa

24 April 1948 - 13 May 1948

Operations Makkabi and Ben-Nun in al-Latrun Area

8 May 1948 - 31 May 1948

Arab States Explain Reasons for Intervening in Palestine

Count Bernadotte's Palestine Plan

Israel Establishes Military Government in Palestinian Areas

21 October 1948

Israel Conducts its First Population Census

8 November 1948 - 1 February 1949

Emergency Regulations Regarding Absentee Property

2 December 1948

UNGA 194 (III): Establishment of a Conciliation Commission for Palestine (UNCCP)

11 December 1948

Individual Return of Tens of Thousands of Palestinian Refugees; Israel Launches "War on Infiltration"

January 1949 - December 1956

Great Britain Recognizes Israel on a de facto Basis

30 January 1949

The US Recognizes Transjordan on a de jure Basis

31 January 1949

Palestinians Testify Before the UNCCP

Palestinian Memorandum to UNCCP, Beirut

27 January 1951

Palestinian Memorandum to UNCCP, Ramallah

The Knesset Enacts the Nationality Law

The Knesset Adopts the Law of State Education

Israeli Operation Against Jordan

Palestine Arab Refugee Office (PARO) Is Opened in New York

25 June 1955 - 15 January 1962

Basic Law for the Gaza Strip

25 February 1958 - 15 March 1958

Fatah and the Palestinian Entity

Palestinian Delegation at the UN

18 October 1963 - 5 November 1963

1st Arab Summit Meets in Cairo, Deals with Israeli Diversion of the Jordan River

13 January 1964 - 17 January 1964

1st Palestine National Council Is Held in Jerusalem: Establishment of the PLO

28 May 1964 - 2 June 1964

Second Palestinian Exodus

10 June 1967 - 31 December 1967

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

14 August 1967 - 19 October 1967

4th Arab Summit Convenes in Khartoum

29 August 1967 - 1 September 1967

Israel Conducts a Census of Palestinians in East-Jerusalem

27 September 1967

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

27th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

9 June 1968 - 19 June 1968

5th Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo

1 February 1969 - 4 February 1969

Sharon's Pacification of Gaza

August 1970 - December 1971

Mahmoud al-Hamshari Is Assassinated in Paris

8 December 1972 - 9 January 1973

UNGA 3236 (XXIX): Recognizing Palestinian Inalienable Rights and Palestinian People as Principal Party for Establishing Peace

22 November 1974

13th Palestine National Council Meets in Cairo

12 March 1977 - 22 March 1977

President Carter for a Palestinian Homeland

16 March 1977 - 26 May 1977

US State Department Releases First Human Rights Report

Palestinian Institutions in the Occupied Territories Express their Dissatisfaction with Sadat's Visit to Jerusalem

8 December 1977

Fahd Plan Is Announced

Tougher Israeli Measures Against the Intifada

17 January 1989

Extraordinary Arab Summit in Baghdad

28 May 1990 - 30 May 1990

A New Constitutional Law Rejects Palestinians' Resettlement in Lebanon

21 September 1990

Israel Deports Four Palestinians from Gaza to South Lebanon

20th Palestine National Council Is Held in Algiers

23 September 1991 - 28 September 1991

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

Har Homa/Jabal Abu Ghunaym Settlement to Be Constructed

26 February 1997

Palestinian Response to Har Homa/Jabal Abu Ghunaym Settlement Project

27 February 1997 - 10 April 1997

Palestinian-Israeli Talks Deadlocked

10 March 1997 - 30 July 1997

Draft SC Res. S/1997/241 to Demand that Israel Cease Construction of Jabal Abu Ghunaym Settlement Vetoed by US

Attempted Assassination of Khalid Mishal in Amman; Ahmad Yasin Released

25 September 1997 - 1 October 1997

Renewed Israeli Settlement Activities and Plans in East Jerusalem

25 May 1998 - 21 June 1998

Feverish Settlement Activities After Wye Memorandum

26 October 1998 - 15 November 1998

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Gaza

2 February 2000 - 3 February 2000

The Stockholm Back Channel - 2nd Session

18 May 2000 - 22 May 2000

Undermining the Talks and Preparing for their Failure: The Settlers and the Israeli Army

15 July 2000 - 8 August 2000

The Mitchell Committee of Fact-Finding on the Palestinian-Israeli Confrontation

7 November 2000 - 30 December 2000

Assassination of Hussein Ubayyat in Beit Sahur, Before a Clinton-Arafat Meeting in Washington

9 November 2000

Assassination of Yusif Abu Sawi in al-Khader

12 December 2000

Assassination of Dr. Thabet Thabet in Tulkarm

31 December 2000

Operation Bronze and Escalation

7 March 2001 - 16 May 2001

Assassination of Ahmad As'ad in Artas

Assassination of Omar Saadeh and Taha al-Aruj in Bethlehem

UN World Conference Against Racism in Durban

31 August 2001 - 8 September 2001

Assassination of Abd al-Rahman Hamad in Qalqilya

14 October 2001

Assassination of Iyad Lafy al-Akhras in Rafah

16 October 2001

Assassination of Jamil Jadallah Qawasmeh in Hebron

31 October 2001

Grave Escalation from Both Sides

9 January 2002 - 21 February 2002

An Uneven Race Between Diplomacy and Violence: Operation Colorful Journey

17 February 2002 - 26 March 2002

Invasion of Jenin Camp: Fierce Battle

3 April 2002 - 19 April 2002

Invasion of Nablus: Fierce Resistance

3 April 2002 - 21 April 2002

Assassination of Mahmud Zatma in Gaza City

Assassination of Mahmud Salah in Bethlehem

Heightened Violence Despite Diplomacy

1 May 2003 - 29 June 2003

Assassination of Fadi Jaradat and Salih Jaradat in Jenin

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

6 September 2003

Extending Retaliation to Syrian Territory; Operation Root Canal in Rafah

4 October 2003 - 30 October 2003

The Geneva "Private" Initiative

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

Assassination of Yasir Abu Aysh, Hussein Abu Aysh and Majdi Khatib in Rafah

2 February 2004

Sharon's Letter to Bush on Disengagement Plan

Timing Another Israeli Escalation with Sharon's Plan

15 April 2004 - 29 April 2004

In Spite of Israeli Raids, Palestinian Military Resistance Remains High in Gaza

2 May 2004 - 13 May 2004

Widening Philadelphi (Salahuddin) Route: Operation Rainbow

16 May 2004 - 24 May 2004

SC Res. 1544: Condemning Israeli Killing of Civilians and Demolition of Homes in Rafah Refugee Camp

The ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Separation Wall

Settlement Activity in Spite of Road Map

2 August 2004 - 23 August 2004

Attempted Assassination of Ahmad Ja'bari in Gaza City

Operation Days of Penitence

29 September 2004 - 15 October 2004

New Palestinian Cabinet under Ahmad Qurai'

24 February 2005

James Wolfensohn Appointed to Follow Economic-Related Disengagement Matters

14 April 2005 - 20 June 2005

Operation Blue Skies and Continuing Escalation

22 December 2005 - 23 January 2006

Israeli Operations in the West Bank

24 May 2006 - 22 June 2006

Israel Retaliates Against Shalit's Capture: Operation Summer Rains

28 June 2006 - 8 July 2006

Fourth Attempted Assassination of Mohammed Deif in Gaza City

July War: Israel's Air War Fails to Knock out Hizballah

14 July 2006 - 16 July 2006

July War: Israel's Special Operations Along the Border

17 July 2006 - 19 July 2006

July War: A Balance Sheet

July War: Israel Begins Withdrawing from Southern Lebanon

14 August 2006 - 17 August 2006

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

Israel's Operation Summer Rains Enters its 4th Month

1 October 2006 - 31 October 2006

Attempted Assassination of Ashraf Farwana in Gaza City

12 October 2006

Israel's Operation Autumn Clouds Against Gaza

1 November 2006 - 12 November 2006

Israeli Operation Hot Winter in Nablus

25 February 2007 - 7 March 2007

Israel Escalates Attacks in Gaza and the West Bank

3 April 2007 - 29 May 2007

The Battle of Nahr el-Bared

20 May 2007 - 2 September 2007

Hamas Seizes Control of Gaza

10 June 2007 - 16 June 2007

Emergency Cabinet in the West Bank

14 June 2007 - 26 June 2007

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah

20 June 2007 - 21 June 2007

Assassination of Mubarak Hasanat in Deir al-Balah

23 October 2007

Both Authorities in West Bank and Gaza Reorganize Security Forces

2 November 2007 - 4 December 2007

Settlement Expansion in Jabal Abu Ghunaym/ Har Homa

4 December 2007

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status: Bad Start

12 December 2007 - 27 December 2007

Nablus Remains a Hot Spot

15 December 2007 - 5 January 2008

The Quartet Expresses "Concern" over Jabal Abu Ghunaym/ Har Homa Expansion

17 December 2007

Bush's Statement on Palestinian Statehood, Jerusalem

10 January 2008

Assassination of Amer Qarmout in Beit Lahiya

4 February 2008

Israel Launches Operation Hot Winter in Gaza

28 February 2008 - 3 March 2008

Assassination of Khaled Atallah and Ibrahim Atallah in Gaza City

Hamas-Fatah Talks in Yemen

18 March 2008 - 28 March 2008

Palestinian-Israeli Clashes in Acre

8 October 2008 - 13 October 2008

Israel Breaks the Gaza Cease-Fire

4 November 2008 - 30 November 2008

War on Gaza, Day 3

29 December 2008

War on Gaza, Day 6

War on Gaza, Day 7

War on Gaza, Day 8: End of Phase 1; Balance Sheet

War on Gaza, Day 9: Start of Phase 2

War on Gaza, Day 12

War on Gaza, Day 15: Intensification of Israeli Attacks

10 January 2009

War on Gaza, Day 17

12 January 2009

War on Gaza, Day 19: Hamas Cease-Fire Offer

14 January 2009

War on Gaza: Parallel Israeli and Hamas Cease-Fires; Balance Sheet

18 January 2009

Israel's Demolition and Eviction Orders Increase in East Jerusalem

2 August 2009 - 9 November 2009

Fatah Sixth General Conference Renews Its Governing Bodies

8 August 2009 - 11 August 2009

Israel Approves a Major Settlement Plan in Gilo, East Jerusalem

17 November 2009

The Deceptive Settlement Freeze

26 November 2009 - 5 January 2010

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah

15 December 2009 - 16 December 2009

Israel's Ramat Shlomo Constructions' Plan During Joe Biden's Visit

8 March 2010 - 11 March 2010

Gaza Cross-Border Situation Deteriorates

11 March 2010 - 1 April 2010

Israel Resumes Provocative Settlement Measures in East Jerusalem

21 June 2010 - 30 June 2010

Escalation in Israel's Settlement Activity

26 September 2010 - 8 November 2010

Israel Approves Settlement Expansion

2 March 2011 - 11 August 2011

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

19 May 2011 - 22 May 2011

Assassination of Kamal al-Nairab and Imad Hamad in Rafah

Israel Settlement Activity Taken up Again in Earnest

27 September 2011 - 1 November 2011

Israeli Settlement Activity Continues, Including Through Expulsion

12 December 2011 - 28 December 2011

A Serious Round of Israeli-Palestinian Violence in Gaza

9 March 2012 - 13 March 2012

Fatah and Hamas Sign an Agreement on an Implementation Timetable in Cairo

Israel’s Settlement Activity

6 June 2012 - 13 August 2012

Settlement Consolidation in the West Bank, Including Jerusalem

6 November 2012 - 12 November 2012

Israel's 2012 Assault on the Gaza Strip, Day 1

14 November 2012

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza, Day 5

18 November 2012

Assassination of Ahmad al-Nahal in al-Shati Refugee Camp

18 November 2012

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza: A Balance Sheet

22 November 2012

Palestinians' Hunger Strikes in Israeli Prisons

19 February 2013 - 22 April 2013

With or Without Negotiations, Israel Continues its Settlement Activities

30 May 2013 - 11 August 2013

Israel Links the First-Stage Release of Palestinian Prisoners with Settlement Expansion

8 August 2013 - 25 August 2013

Israel Once Again Links the Second-Stage Release of Palestinian Prisoners with Settlement Expansion

29 October 2013 - 3 November 2013

Third Group of Prisoner Release as Part of Negotiation Resumption Deal

31 December 2013

For the Third Time, Israel Links the Release of Palestinian Prisoners with Settlement Expansion

6 January 2014 - 22 January 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

Stakes Related to Whether Israel Will Release, as Agreed, the 4th Group of Palestinian Prisoners

17 March 2014 - 29 March 2014

Formation of the Palestinian Unity Government

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

12 June 2014 - 30 June 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Day 2

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 4 and 5

11 July 2014 - 12 July 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 13-15: Dramatic Surge in the Fighting; al-Shuja‘iyya Destruction

20 July 2014 - 22 July 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 21-24

28 July 2014 - 31 July 2014

The 2014 Gaza War: Days 44-50

20 August 2014 - 26 August 2014

The 2014 Gaza War: A Balance Sheet

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

Settlement Construction

30 January 2015

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

2 April 2015 - 19 January 2025

Palestine Submits Files to ICC, and Israel Decides to Interact with It

25 June 2015 - 30 October 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

Israel's Policy Toward the Palestinian Outburst

4 October 2015 - 13 October 2015

Three-Month Balance Sheet of the Palestinian Outburst

31 December 2015

Smaller-Scale Palestinian-Israeli Violence and Israeli Repression Continue

1 January 2016 - 30 June 2016

In Retaliation to Palestinian Attacks, Yatta and Hebron Towns Are Collectively Targeted

8 June 2016 - 11 August 2016

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

Continued Israeli Settlement Activity and Destruction of Palestinian Infrastructure

27 July 2016 - 7 December 2016

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

23 December 2016

Palestinian Attacks Against Soldiers and Settlers

8 January 2017 - 26 September 2017

Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad Meets in Istanbul

25 February 2017 - 26 February 2017

Hamas New Charter

Bezalel Smotrich's "Decisive Plan" for the Complete Land of Israel

7 September 2017

Assassination Attempt on Muhammad Hamdan in Sidon

14 January 2018 - 29 January 2018

The Great March of Return in the Gaza Strip

30 March 2018 - 14 May 2018

Israel Continues to Attack Great March of Return Protesters

17 October 2018 - 1 November 2018

Israel Deducts Funds from the PA’s Tax Revenue

17 February 2019 - 2 May 2019

Israeli Violence Ahead of One-Year Anniversary of Great March of Return; Egyptian Restraint Efforts

22 March 2019 - 29 March 2019

Israeli Supreme Court Approves Demolition of East Jerusalem Neighborhood

16 April 2019 - 17 April 2019

Israeli Harassment and Mass Arrests in Issawiyya

1 June 2019 - 1 September 2019

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

28 September 2019 - 5 November 2019

Assassination of Baha Abu al-Ata in Gaza City

12 November 2019

Assassination Attempt of Akram al-Ajouri in Damascus

12 November 2019

Jerusalem Court Ruling Threatens 700 Palestinians With Eviction

19 January 2020 - 26 January 2020

Israel Uses COVID-19 Against Palestinians

21 March 2020 - 22 September 2020

Israel's Supreme Court Annuls a 2017 Law Regularizing Settlements Retroactively

Israel Attack Gaza over Incendiary Protest Balloons

6 August 2020 - 1 September 2020

Murder Rate Among Palestinian Citizens of Israel Remains High Amid Israeli Police Inaction

21 December 2020

Hightened Tension over Attempts to Evict Palestinian Families from Sheikh Jarrah

15 February 2021 - 9 May 2021

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

25 February 2021 - 2 September 2021

Towards a Unity Intifada

23 April 2021 - 10 May 2021

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 1

Palestinians in Israel at the Heart of the Unified Intifada

10 May 2021 - 3 June 2021

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 5

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 6

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 7

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 12

Death of Nizar Banat after Arrest by PA Forces

24 June 2021 - 21 June 2022

Meetings Resume between PA and Israeli Ministers

29 August 2021 - 28 December 2021

Great Britain Designates Hamas’s Political Wing as a Terrorist Organization

19 November 2021 - 26 November 2021

Historical Texts

Basel (Zionist) Program

Letter from Theodore Herzl to Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi

Letter from Sir Henry McMahon to Sharif Hussein

25 October 1915

Balfour Declaration

2 November 1917

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

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

Proclamation of the Independence of Syria

San Remo Conference Resolutions: Syria, Mesopotamia [Iraq], Palestine Mandates

Palin Commission Report

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

Churchill White Paper

League of Nations - Mandate for Palestine

The Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)

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

16 September 1922

Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development (The Hope-Simpson Report)

Passfield White Paper

20 October 1930

MacDonald's Letter to Weizmann

13 February 1931

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

Statement of the Arab National Conference

13 December 1931

The Murison Commission Report

National Bloc Party: Bylaws

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

Peel Commission Report

Memorandum of the Arab Higher Committee: On the Peel Commission Report

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report

9 November 1938

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

11 November 1938

London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence

MacDonald White Paper

Reply of Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper

Land Transfers Regulations, 1940

20 February 1940

Biltmore Conference Declaration

Memorandum of Conversation between King Abdulaziz Saud and President Roosevelt

14 February 1945

Pact of the League of Arab States

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

Statement by the Governments of the Arab League States on their Military Intervention in Palestine

Statement by the States, Members of the Arab League, on the Entry of Their Armies in Palestine

Suggestions Presented by the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte) to the Two Parties

Progress Report of the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte)

16 September 1948

Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance No. 33, 5708-1948

23 September 1948

UNGA Resolution 212 (III)

19 November 1948

UNGA Resolution 194 (III)

11 December 1948

Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement

24 February 1949

Lebanon-Israel General Armistice Agreement

Jordan-Israel General Armistice Agreement

Report Submitted by the Arab Refugee Congress of Ramallah on al-Dawayima Massacre

Syria–Israel General Armistice Agreement

United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Fourth Progress Report

22 September 1949

Absentees' Property Law, 5710-1950

Prevention of Infiltration (Offences and Jurisdiction) Law 1954 (5714)

Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA

15 December 1956

Proclamation of the Constitutional Statute of Gaza, 1962

First Arab Summit: Statement

13 January 1964 - 17 January 1964

Palestine National (qawmi) Charter

Fatah First Military Communiqué

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

Fatah: The Palestine National Liberation Movement, Press Release

Palestine National Council, 4th Session: Political Resolutions

10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968

Palestine National (watani) Charter

UNGA Resolution 2443 (XXIII)

19 December 1968

UNGA Resolution 2452 (XXIII)

19 December 1968

Palestine National Council, 5th Session: Political Statement

4 February 1969

Palestine National Council, 6th Session: Political Statement

6 September 1969

9 December 1969

UNGA Resolution 2535 (XXIV)

10 December 1969

Palestine National Council, 7th Session: Final Statement

30 May 1970 - 4 June 1970

Palestinian National Council, Emergency Session: Resolutions

UNGA Resolution 2672 (XXV)

8 December 1970

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

UNGA Resolution 2792 (XXVI)

6 December 1971

Speech by Jordan’S King Hussein, Proposing a United Arab Kingdom in the Event of a Peaceful Settlement

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

Programme of the Palestine National Front in the Occupied Territory

Palestine National Council, 11th Session: Political Program

12 December 1973

PLO Interim Program (Ten-Point Program)

Seventh Arab Summit: The Palestine Resolution

29 October 1974

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

UNGA Resolution 3236 (XXIX)

22 November 1974

UNGA Resolution 3376 (XXX)

10 November 1975

UNGA Resolution 3375 (XXX)

10 November 1975

Draft of UNSC Resolution 11940

23 January 1976

The Koenig Memorandum

Palestine National Council, 13th Session: Political Declaration

12 March 1977 - 22 March 1977

Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset

20 November 1977

PLO Central Council, Statement on Sadat's Visit to Israel

30 November 1977

Statement by Palestinian Institutions in the Occupied Territories on Sadat’s Visit to Israel

8 December 1977

Ninth Arab Summit: Final Statement

2 November 1978 - 5 November 1978

Palestine National Council, 14th Session: National Unity Programme

15 January 1979 - 22 January 1979

Tenth Arab Summit: Final Statement

20 November 1979 - 22 November 1979

Israeli Model for the Self-Governing Authority

16 January 1980

The Regional Committee of the Heads of Arab Local Authorities in Israel Statement On the Assassination Attempts Against West Bank Mayors

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

Eleventh Arab Summit: Final Communiqué

25 November 1980 - 27 November 1980

Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement

11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981

Crown Prince Fahd Peace Plan

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

1 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

Palestine National Council, 17th Session: Final Statement

22 November 1984 - 29 November 1984

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1985: Final Communiqué

7 August 1985 - 9 August 1985

Palestine National Council, 18th Session: Final Statement

20 April 1987 - 25 April 1987

Draft of UNSC Resolution 19780

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

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Palestinian Declaration of Independence

15 November 1988

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

Draft of UNSC Resolution 20945/Rev.1

6 November 1989

Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement

28 September 1991

Speech of Haydar Abd al-Shafi at the Madrid Conference

31 October 1991

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area

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

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

UNGA Resolution ES-10/7

20 October 2000

President Bill Clinton Proposals for a Final Settlement

23 December 2000

PLO Negotiating Team Reservations Concerning President Bill Clinton’s 23 December Proposal for an Israeli-Palestinian Peace Agreement

Palestinian and Israeli Positions on Refugees

22 January 2001 - 23 January 2001

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

27 January 2001

The Mitchell Report

The Durban Declaration

8 September 2001

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

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

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

Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law

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

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement Plan: Key Principles

UNSC Resolution 1544

Prime Minister Elect Ismail Haniyeh Presents New Government’s Program To the Palestinian Legislative Council

National Conciliation Document

President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech

President George W. Bush’s Speech Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process

10 January 2008

Summary Final Report - The Winograd Commission of Inquiry

30 January 2008

Memorandum of Understanding between Israel and the United States Regarding Prevention of the Supply of Arms and Related Materiel to Terrorist Groups

16 January 2009

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

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s Address at al-Quds University: Statehood in Two Years

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

25 September 2009

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

HRC Resolution S-21/1

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

UNSC Resolution 2334

23 December 2016

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

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

6 February 2017

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

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

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

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

1 November 2017

Statement by President Donald Trump On Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel

6 December 2017

Basic Law: Israel - the Nation-State of the Jewish People

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

28 February 2019

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

12 January 2021

The Dignity and Hope Manifesto: The Unity Intifada

Historical Media

Town of Safad, Northern Galilee

Caricature: Balfour and the Woes His Ill-Fated Promise Brought to Palestine (Filastin Newspaper)

2 November 1932

King David Hotel

Homage To Karamah

Palestine: A Homeland Denied

Palestine: A Homeland Denied

Palestine: A Homeland Denied

Death of The Shepherd Boy Fathi, Third Wave of Killing

Implosion, Killing of the Women, Ninth Wave of Killing

Highlights

Palestinians in Jordan, 1948-1967

The Making of the “Jordanians of Palestinian Origin”

Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City

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 Photographers before 1948

Documenting Life in a Time of Change

Palestinian Citizenship in Israel

An Unwanted Minority Asserts Its Narrative and Identity

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

Present Absentees in Israel

Exiled in Their Own Homeland

Israel’s Appropriation of Palestinian Property

Cooking Up Laws for the Sake of Land Grab

Israel’s Policy toward Refugees in the Gaza Strip

A Site of Continual Displacement

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip Since 1967

Incubators of Resistance

The Palestine Communist Party

Palestine Police During the British Mandate

Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

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

World Zionist Organization

Setting the Stage for a Jewish State in Palestine

Israel’s Gaza Redeployment, 2005

Exacerbating the Siege and Targeting the Land of the West Bank

Demography and the Palestine Question (I)

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

From Relief Provider to Vector of Identity

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

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP

Palestinian Emigration (I)

The Separation Wall

Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians

Israel’s Apartheid Regime

Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians

Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule

Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition

Palestinian Women in the Labor Market

A Burgeoning Workforce Curbed by Israel’s Colonialism

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1967

The Political and Social Remodeling of a Cramped Palestinian Space

France and the Palestine Question before 1948

Competition with the British, North African Considerations, Lukewarm Support for Zionism

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

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

A Vulnerable Yet Vibrant Community

Palestinian Emigration (II)

Kafr Qasim, 29 October 1956

Israel’s Army Massacres Its Own Peaceful Citizens

Land Day, 30 March 1976

A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Palestine Liberation Organization (II)

From the Limelight to the Backstage

The Palestinian National Initiative Movement - Al-Mubadara

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)

After the Nakba

The Palestinian Communist Movement

Arab Labor in Mandate Palestine

The Emergence of a Working Class

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Palestinian Refugees in Syria

Fully Integrated, for Better and for Worse

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

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp

Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

The King-Crane Commission of 1919

Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives

The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Palestinian Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

Ein el Tal (Handarat) Refugee Camp

Palestinian Youth in Conflict

A Childhood Denied

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (II)

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

Palestinian Visual Arts (II)

Pathfinders (1955-1965)

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

Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)

Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)

The Palestinians in Peru

A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History

Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966

Governing the Lives of a Confined Population

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

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)

Before the Nakba

Balata Refugee Camp

Baqa‘a Refugee Camp

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

Fawwar Refugee Camp

Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp

Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp

Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine

A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947

Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”

Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History

Turkey and the Palestine Question

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

The War on Gaza, 2008–2009

Israel’s Strategic Quandary

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Palestine and International Justice

The Long and Tortuous Quest for Accountability

Palestinians in Germany

From Melancholia to Anger

The Village of al-Araqib

Rebuilding Home for the Hundredth Time and Beyond

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

Beddawi Refugee Camp

Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank

Determined to Stay High on the National Agenda

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Palestinian Declaration of Independence, 15 November 1988

Historic Undertakings For the Sake of Statehood

The May 2021 Gaza War

Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes

The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948

An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come

Stages of a Forced Displacement

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

Dera‘a Refugee Camp

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails

Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance

The Bosnians of Palestine

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

The Palestinians in Sweden

Engaged for Palestine beyond their Diverse Legal Statuses

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

IX. The First Intifada And The Beginning Of Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations

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

The Second Intifada, 2000-2005

Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations

The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, 14 May 1948

An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status

Palestine Liberation Organization (I)

The Reemergence of the Palestinian National Movement

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948

A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps

The Algerians of Palestine

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

Periods

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate