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Events

Ottoman Pledges to Grant Facilities to France: Towards the Capitulations Regime

18 October 1569 - 1613

First Wave of Jewish Immigration to Palestine

Establishment of Foreign Archeological Institutes in Jerusalem

Building of the Jaffa-Jerusalem Railroad Line

31 March 1890 - 26 September 1892

Establishment of the Jewish Colonization Association in London

Publication of The Awakening of the Arab Nation in Asiatic Turkey by Najib Azoury

Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement

Establishment of the Qahtani Society in Istanbul

Zionist Attempt to Buy 1.5 Million Dunams in the Jordan Valley

March 1909 - July 1909

Start of the Arab Revolt Against the Ottomans

Balfour Declaration Is Made

2 November 1917

Appointment of a British Chief Administrator for Palestine

Hybrid Status for Transjordan; Prince Abdullah Becomes Its Emir

MacDonald's Reassurance to Weizmann

13 February 1931

Pact of the League of Arab States; Annex on Palestine

Transjordan's Application for UN Membership Fails to Obtain Security Council Approval

26 June 1946 - 29 August 1946

The British Mandate Ends. The US Recognizes the State of Israel

The USSR Recognizes the State of Israel on a de jure Basis

France Recognizes Israel on a de facto Basis

24 January 1949

Great Britain Recognizes Israel on a de facto Basis

30 January 1949

The US Recognizes the Government of Israel on a de jure Basis

31 January 1949

The US Recognizes Transjordan on a de jure Basis

31 January 1949

Official Name of Jordan as an Issue

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

Great Britain Announces Formal Recognition of Extended Kingdom of Jordan and de jure Recognition of Israel Simultaneously

Ben-Gurion Addresses the Issue of Suez

A Lebanese Decree, Implicitly Applicable to Palestinian Refugees, Regulates Work of Foreigners

18 September 1964

The PLO Opens its First Information Office in New York

22 January 1965 - 29 October 1974

Black September Hijack Operation

Japanese Red Army at Lod Airport

Gaza Red Crescent Society Is Established

A Palestine Information Office (PIO) Is Opened in Washington

Popular Resistance and Israeli Measures in West Bank

16 February 1982 - 30 March 1982

Lebanon's Parliament Votes to Reject 1983 Agreement with Israel and 1969 Agreement with PLO

The US Orders the Closure of the Palestine Information Office (PIO) in Washington

15 September 1987 - 5 August 1988

SC Res. 681: Deploring Israel's Decision to Resume Deportations of Palestinian Civilians

20 December 1990

Status of Orient House in Jerusalem

29 May 1994 - 7 June 1994

French-Palestinian Agreement on Status of French Institutions Under Palestinian Authority

12 December 1997 - 18 December 1997

US and Palestinian Efforts to Stop Israeli Escalation

12 September 2001 - 16 October 2001

UNGA Res. ES-10/14: Requesting an Advisory Opinion from the ICJ on the Legal Consequences of the Wall

8 December 2003

Palestinian Truce Commitment at Risk

18 June 2005 - 21 July 2005

Palestinians in Jaffa Protest Eviction Plans of Israel Land Administration

Fayyad's Emergency Government Becomes a de facto Regular Government

5 July 2007 - 14 July 2007

War on Gaza, Day 12

War on Gaza, Day 13

War on Gaza: US-Israel MOU on Arms Smuggling into Gaza

16 January 2009

Salam Fayyad's Government Issues “Ending the Occupation, Establishing the State” Plan

25 August 2009 - 24 September 2009

Clinton's Disturbing Misstep on Settlements

31 October 2009 - 3 November 2009

Trilateral Agreement for a Red Sea-Dead Sea Link

9 December 2013

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 16-20

23 July 2014 - 27 July 2014

Comprehensive Agreement between the Holy See and the State of Palestine

26 June 2015 - 2 January 2016

Five-Day Violence Along the Gaza Strip Border

3 May 2016 - 7 May 2016

Israel's State Comptroller Publishes Report on Gaza 2014 War

28 February 2017

Palestinian Prisoners in Israel End Hunger Strike

Mass Demolitions in Sur Bahir

Israel Attack Gaza over Incendiary Protest Balloons

6 August 2020 - 1 September 2020

President Biden Visits Israel; Joint Declaration on Strategic Partnership

13 July 2022 - 14 July 2023

Historical Texts

Ottoman-French Capitulation, 1673 (in French)

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

Sykes-Picot Agreement

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

The Hope Simpson Report

Peel Commission Report

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

Pact of the League of Arab States

UN Palestine Commission First Report

29 January 1948

UN Palestine Commission Report on Security in Palestine

16 February 1948

Statement by the Committee of the Christian Union of Palestine

UNGA Resolution 186 (S-2)

US Recognition of the State of Israel

UNGA Resolution 212 (III)

19 November 1948

The US Recognizes Israel on a de jure Basis

31 January 1949

Jordan-Israel General Armistice Agreement

UNGA Resolution 302 (IV)

8 December 1949

UNGA Resolution 393 (V)

2 December 1950

UNGA Resolution 2252 (ES-V)

Palestine National Council, 4th Session: Political Resolutions

10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968

Palestine National Council, 6th Session: Political Statement

6 September 1969

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt

Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement

11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981

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

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

7 February 1983

UNGA Resolution 38/58

13 December 1983

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

Draft of UNSC Resolution 19466

29 January 1988

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

13 December 1988

Draft of UNSC Resolution 20677

UNSC Resolution 681

20 December 1990

Palestinian West Bank – Gaza Delegation: 1st Memorandum to US Secretary James Baker

Palestinian West Bank – Gaza Delegation: 2nd Memorandum to US Secretary James Baker

Palestinian West Bank – Gaza Delegation: 4th Memorandum to US Secretary James Baker

Speech of Haydar Abd al-Shafi at the Madrid Conference

31 October 1991

Fundamental Agreement Between The Holy See And The State Of Israel

30 December 1993

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

28 September 1995

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

UNGA Resolution ES-10/2

UNGA Resolution ES-10/6

9 February 1999

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

UNSC Resolution 1405

Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law

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

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

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

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

Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict

Report of the Middle East Quartet

UNSC Resolution 2334

23 December 2016

UNESCWA Report on Israeli Apartheid

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

Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee: A Unified Lebanese Vision For the Palestinian Refugees Affairs In Lebanon

Bezalel Smotrich: Israel's Decisive Plan

7 September 2017

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2018/516

UNGA Resolution ES-10/20

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

ICC Decision on its Jurisdiction in Palestine

5 February 2021

Amnesty Report on Israeli Apartheid

1 February 2022

Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry to HRC

US-Israel Joint Declaration on Strategic Partnership

31st Arab Summit: Algiers Declaration (in French)

2 November 2022

UNGA Resolution 77/247

30 December 2022

Biographies

Hafiz al-Sa’id

1868 - October 1930

1878 - 29 June 1950

Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

1885 - 19 December 1953

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali

1889 - 7 July 1973

2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965

1893 - 27 April 1940

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

Subhi al-Khadra

1895 - 4 July 1954

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

1896 - 27 September 1951

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

Zulaykha al-Shihabi

1903 - 13 May 1992

1905 - 2 May 1941

26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997

Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih

1907 - 8 January 2001

Constantine Zurayk

18 April 1909 - 12 August 2000

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

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

Rajeh al-Salfiti

1921 - 27 May 1990

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999

1925 - 10 April 1973

Issam Abd al-Hadi

1928 - 8 August 2013

Samira Abu Ghazaleh

1928 - 12 January 2017

1929 - 2 June 2016

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012

Bassam Shak’a

1930 - 22 July 2019

1936 - 3 August 1978

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

1938 - 16 December 2020

Mustafa al-Zabri (Abu Ali Mustafa)

14 May 1938 - 27 August 2001

1939 - 19 August 2014

Faisal al-Husseini

17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001

1942 - 6 August 2019

13 July 1949 - 18 February 2026

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

1962 - 31 July 2024

Yahya al-Sinwar

19 October 1962 - 17 October 2024

6 December 1966 - 24 March 2018

Highlights

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947

Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba

A Watershed in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Madrid and the Oslo Agreement, 1991-1993

Short-Lived Promises of a Negotiated Settlement

Palestinians in Jordan, 1948-1967

The Making of the “Jordanians of Palestinian Origin”

Palestinians in Jordan Since 1967

A Never-Ending Normalization

Palestine Liberation Organization (II)

From the Limelight to the Backstage

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

Palestinian Citizenship in Israel

An Unwanted Minority Asserts Its Narrative and Identity

Palestinian Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

Present Absentees in Israel

Exiled in Their Own Homeland

Palestinian Embroidery

A Rich and Diverse National Heritage

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine

A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP

The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party

The United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine

Negotiating Palestine after the Nakba

The War on Gaza, 2008–2009

Israel’s Strategic Quandary

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Balata Refugee Camp

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

I. Ottoman Rule

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)

After the Nakba

The Palestinian Flag

A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity

The Second Intifada, 2000-2005

Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Wihdat Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Sbeineh Refugee Camp

Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp

Talbieh Refugee Camp

Marka (Hittin) Refugee Camp

France and the Palestine Question Before 1948

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

UNRWA's Education System

A Palestinian-Shaped Undertaking

Palestinians in Peru

A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History

Spain and the Palestine Question

Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

Shatila Refugee Camp

The Bosnians of Palestine

Beddawi Refugee Camp

The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse

A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

Palestinians in Chile

A Large Community, Fully Chilean, Fully Engaged for Palestine

Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Ein el Tal (Handarat) Refugee Camp

Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Mexico and the Palestine Question

Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

The USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991

Between Ideology and Realism

The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question

Solidarity of the Colonized

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Perpetuating Israel’s Structural Dominance

Palestinians in El Salvador

A Prosperous, yet Depoliticized Diaspora

Japan and the Palestine Question

A Policy still Subordinate to the US

Canada and the Palestine Question

Israel First, Palestinians Second

Zarqa Refugee Camp

XI. Second Intifada and the Post-Arafat Era

Stages of a Forced Displacement

The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948

An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come

The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

Aida Refugee Camp

The May 2021 Gaza War

Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

Brazil and the Palestine Question

Competing Solidarities, Fluctuating Policies

Places

al-Ras al-Ahmar

Khirbat al-Muntar

Historical Media

Palestine: A Homeland Denied

Projection of the Final Status Map Presented by Israel - December 2000

Charts

Document

Demography and the Palestine Question (II) - Palestinians in the Diaspora (2)

2000

Document

Demography and the Palestine Question (II) - Palestinians in the Diaspora (1)

2000 - 2010