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Ibrahim Pasha in Palestine

October 1831 - 1834

Uprising Against Egyptian Rule in Palestine

April 1834 - August 1834

Palestinians Clash with Settlers of Sejera Colony

3 April 1909 - 12 April 1909

Formation of the Moderate Liberal Party and the Entente Libérale Party in Istanbul

30 October 1909 - 8 November 1911

Appointment of a British Chief Administrator for Palestine

Proclamations No. 75 and No. 76 on Immovable Property

18 November 1918

Scheduled Second Palestinian National Congress Cannot Meet

French Occupy Damascus; Arab Syrian Kingdom Nominally Reduced to Transjordan

14 July 1920 - 31 August 1920

Mahlul Land Ordinance

Treaty of Lausanne Is Signed with Ataturk's Turkey

Lewis French and the Palestine Development Scheme

19 July 1931 - April 1932

Establishment of the Istiqlal Party

Protection of Cultivators Ordinance, No. 37

Death of Musa Kazim Husseini

Establishment of the Reform Party

Death of Shaykh Izzeddin al-Qassam in a Battle with a British Force

12 November 1935 - 21 November 1935

First Phase of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

15 April 1936 - 23 July 1937

The British Issue the Collective Fines Ordinance

Great Britain Issues the Palestine Martial Law (Defence) Order in Council, 1936

30 September 1936

The Settlement of Tel ‘Amal Is Founded Overnight in the Baysan Region

10 December 1936

Formation of the Arab National League (ANL) in New York

August 1937 - May 1941

Establishment of Hanita Settlement in Western Galilee

Arab National Fund Reestablished

Arab Office (AO) Is Opened in Washington

September 1945 - December 1947

Attempt to Reconstitute the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine

22 November 1945 - 29 May 1946

Great Britain Issues the Palestine (Revocations) Order in Council, 1948

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

SC Res. 49: Calling for a Cease-fire and Maintenance of the Truce in Jerusalem

Abandoned Areas Ordinance

Transjordan and Israel Sign Agreement on Demilitarization of Mount Scopus Area

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

Elections at al-Urwa al-Wuthqa Society

UNGA 512 (VI): UNCCP to Continue its Efforts

26 January 1952

The Knesset Enacts the Nationality Law

Land Acquisition (Validation of Acts and Compensation) Law

King Hussein’s Formal Accession to the Throne

The Knesset Issues the Prevention of Infiltration Law

Israeli Attack on Syria (Operation Olive Leaves)

10 December 1955 - 11 December 1955

Nationalization of the Suez Canal

Second Palestinian Exodus

10 June 1967 - 31 December 1967

The Knesset Amends the Municipal Corporations Ordinance to Extend Area of West Jerusalem Municipality

27 June 1967 - 29 June 1967

General Assembly Resolution 2252 (ES-V)

Israeli Military Order Regarding Prohibition of Incitement and Hostile Propaganda Actions (West Bank) No. 101

4th Arab Summit Convenes in Khartoum

29 August 1967 - 1 September 1967

Israeli Military Confrontation with Jordan and Palestinian Guerrillas

14 February 1968 - 15 February 1968

Assassination of Zaid Muqsi in Athens

Absentees' Property (Compensation) Law, 5733-1973

October War, 1st Day

Fall of Tal al-Za'atar

Menachem Begin: "Territories Are Not Occupied"

Assassination of Ibrahim Abdul Aziz Brigheeth and Samir Toukan in Cyprus

15 December 1979

Assassination Attempts Against West Bank Mayors

2 June 1980 - 3 June 1980

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

14 July 1980 - 15 July 1980

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

23 September 1981 - 24 September 1981

Popular Resistance and Israeli Measures in West Bank

16 February 1982 - 30 March 1982

Encirclement of Beirut

11 June 1982 - 20 June 1982

Tal Rumayda Settlement in Hebron

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

15 September 1987 - 5 August 1988

Start of the Intifada in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank

9 December 1987

First Communiqué of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

14 December 1987

SC Res. 607: Calling upon Israel to Refrain from Deporting Palestinians

The Intifada and the Israeli Response in Another Stage in the Confrontation

11 March 1988 - 29 March 1988

Another Round of Releasing and Detaining Faisal al-Husseini

9 June 1988 - 29 January 1989

A US Federal Court Refuses to Order the Closure of the PLO UN Mission

Start of US-PLO Dialogue

14 December 1988

The Baker Five-Point Plan

10 October 1989

Israel Deports Four Palestinians from Gaza to South Lebanon

Intifada Statistics

Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres's Reassurances on Palestinian Institutions in Jerusalem

11 October 1993

Hebron Massacre

25 February 1994 - 18 March 1994

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

Attempted Assassination of Khalid Mishal in Amman; Ahmad Yasin Released

25 September 1997 - 1 October 1997

Further Redeployment Talks Intensify

3 September 1998 - 28 September 1998

Palestinian Authority Crackdown Against Hamas

3 August 1999 - 26 August 1999

Official Colonization Activity and (Very) Partial Removal of Settler Outposts

10 October 1999 - 10 November 1999

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

15 July 2000 - 8 August 2000

The PA Releases First Batch of New Textbooks

2 September 2000

Assassination of Ibrahim Bani Odeh in Nablus

23 November 2000

Ariel Sharon Is Elected Prime Minister of Israel; Intifada Casualties Under Ehud Barak

6 February 2001

Losses During the 1st Year of the Second Intifada

28 September 2001

President Bush Publicly Endorses the Creation of a Palestinian State

2 October 2001 - 15 October 2001

Invasion of Jenin Camp: Fierce Battle

3 April 2002 - 19 April 2002

Israel Decides to Create Buffer Zones (Separation Wall)

14 April 2002 - 25 April 2002

Establishment of al-Mubadara, the Palestinian National Initiative

Triggered by a Suicide Bombing, Israel Carries Out Operation Determined Path

18 June 2002 - 16 July 2002

Amendment No. 29 of Knesset Members (Immunity, Rights and Duties) Law

Aftermath of Salah Shehadeh's Assassination

22 July 2002 - 14 August 2002

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

18 September 2002 - 29 September 2002

Losses on the Two-Year Anniversary of the Second Intifada

28 September 2002

Israel Closes all West Bank District Coordination Offices

3 December 2002 - 11 January 2003

Assassination of Ibrahim Makadama in Gaza City

Losses on the Three-Year Anniversary of the Second Intifada

28 September 2003

Extending Retaliation to Syrian Territory; Operation Root Canal in Rafah

4 October 2003 - 30 October 2003

Assassination of Ibrahim al-Na'nish in Tulkarm Refugee Camp

28 October 2003

Assassination of Trad Jamal, Ibrahim Dayri, and Ammar Hassan near Deir al-Balah

The Palestinian Leadership Faces an Internal Crisis and Risks Loss of Control

7 July 2004 - 27 July 2004

The ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Separation Wall

Losses on the Four-Year Anniversary of the Second Intifada

28 September 2004

Losses on the Five-Year Anniversary of the Second Intifada

28 September 2005

Israel Launches Operation Starting All Over Again

24 October 2005 - 30 October 2005

Palestinian Legislative Elections: Registered Party Slates

18 December 2005

Israeli Raid on Jericho Jail

14 March 2006 - 18 March 2006

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

1 April 2006 - 6 September 2006

Assassination of Ibrahim Abdul Hadi, Mohammed Abdul Hadi, Mohammad Abu al-Husain, Hassan Abu al-Husain, Huthaifa Shubair, and Mohammed Sami Hamdan in Khan Yunis

Lebanon Reregisters the Records of Palestinian Refugees It Had Deleted

New Israeli Pattern of Battering Gaza

11 July 2006 - 15 August 2006

July War: Diplomatic Efforts for a Cease-Fire

5 August 2006 - 9 August 2006

July War: A Balance Sheet

Olmert's Convergence Plan Put Aside; Settlement Activity Resumes

18 August 2006 - 21 September 2006

The Battle of Nahr el-Bared

20 May 2007 - 2 September 2007

Assassination of Ziad Malaisha and Ibrahim Abed in Kafr Dan

Assassination of Majid Harazin, Jihad Dahir, Karim Dahdouh, Na'el Tafesh, Ayman al-'Aileh and Ammar Abu-al-Said in Gaza City

17 December 2007

Assassination of Khaled Atallah and Ibrahim Atallah in Gaza City

Assassination of Ibrahim Abu Olba in Beit Lahiya

Amendment No. 39 of Basic Law: The Knesset Adds Another Reason to Disqualify Arab Candidates to Elections

Palestinian-Israeli Clashes in Acre

8 October 2008 - 13 October 2008

Seal on Gaza Borders Tightened

5 November 2008 - 29 November 2008

War on Gaza, Day 3

29 December 2008

War on Gaza, Day 5

31 December 2008

War on Gaza, Day 7

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 16

11 January 2009

War on Gaza, Day 17

12 January 2009

War on Gaza: Israel Announces a Unilateral Cease-Fire

17 January 2009

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

18 January 2009

The Deceptive Settlement Freeze

26 November 2009 - 5 January 2010

Meaningful Reduction in Rockets Fired from Gaza Since the End of the War Against Gaza

31 December 2009

Israel Declares Two West Bank Shrines as Part of Its National Heritage Sites

21 February 2010 - 25 February 2010

Al Jazeera Satellite TV and the Guardian Release the Palestine Papers

23 January 2011

Assassination of Mu'taz Quraiqe‘ in Gaza City

Four Islamic Jihad Members, Administrative Detainees in Israeli Prisons, Go on Hunger Strike

17 December 2011 - 1 April 2012

A Serious Round of Israeli-Palestinian Violence in Gaza

9 March 2012 - 13 March 2012

Sensing an Insurmountable Deadlock, Abbas Sends a Letter to Netanyahu

Dangerous Surge of Israeli-Palestinian Violence in and across Gaza

14 October 2012 - 13 November 2012

Local Elections in the West Bank

20 October 2012 - 22 December 2012

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza, Day 6

19 November 2012

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza: A Balance Sheet

22 November 2012

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

29 October 2013 - 3 November 2013

Aim of Talks Is No Longer a Comprehensive Agreement but a Framework Agreement

14 November 2013 - 31 January 2014

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

6 January 2014 - 22 January 2014

Abbas Meeting with Kerry in Paris Ends in Total Failure

19 February 2014 - 21 February 2014

Settlement Plans Continue and Weigh Heavily on Negotiations

13 March 2014 - 20 March 2014

Settlement Balance Sheet with Breakdown of the Kerry Negotiation Round

The 2014 Gaza War, Day 25: Breakdown of 72-Hour Cease-Fire Due to Activation of the Hannibal Directive

The 2014 Gaza War: A Balance Sheet

The Case of Hamas-Appointed Civil Servants in Gaza

11 September 2014 - 18 December 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

To Satisfy Israel, France Backpedals on an Important Component of its Peace Initiative

9 March 2016 - 23 May 2016

Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad Meets in Istanbul

25 February 2017 - 26 February 2017

Israel's State Comptroller Publishes Report on Gaza 2014 War

28 February 2017

Old Cities of Jerusalem and Hebron Inscribed as World Heritage in Danger

4 July 2017 - 7 July 2017

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

Long-Term Cease-Fire Linked to Palestinian Reconciliation

7 August 2018 - 31 December 2018

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah

15 August 2018 - 17 August 2018

Qatar's Assistance to Gaza

9 October 2018 - 8 November 2018

Settlement Construction in 2018 Remains High

31 December 2018

PA-Hamas Disagreements Lead to Temporary Closure of Rafah Crossing

7 January 2019 - 3 February 2019

Israel Unilaterally Ends the Temporary International Presence in Hebron

28 January 2019 - 6 February 2019

Israeli Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Settler Organization’s Claim to Three Buildings in the Old City of Jerusalem

US Officials Partake in Inauguration of Large-Scale Settler Project in East Jerusalem

Mass Demolitions in Sur Bahir

The PA and Israel Agree that the PA Can Collect Fuel Taxes

Israel Announces Plans to Double Settler Population in Hebron

1 December 2019

ICC Chief Prosecutor Finds Israel Is Committing War Crimes; Enquires on Scope of Territorial Jurisdiction

20 December 2019 - 28 January 2020

Great March of Return Organizers Suspend Weekly Protests

26 December 2019 - 27 December 2019

Israeli Settlement Construction Continues Unbated in Third Year of Trump Administration

31 December 2019

Israeli Caretaker Government and Opposition Escalate Settlement Advancement and Annexation Discourse

6 January 2020 - 25 February 2020

UN Releases List of Businesses Connected to Israeli Settlements

12 February 2020

Creeping Normalization

19 May 2020 - 25 June 2020

Israel Announces Massive Settlement Expansion after Normalization Deals

14 October 2020 - 15 December 2020

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

21 December 2020

Evyatar Outpost Resettled; Palestinian Protesters Killed or Injured

3 May 2021 - 31 December 2021

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 5

Facebook Censors Palestinians

24 May 2021 - 15 October 2021

Annual Settler March: Israeli Forces Violently Disperse Palestinian Protesters

Israel Designates Palestinian Rights Organizations as Terrorist Organizations

22 October 2021 - 17 November 2021

Deadliest Year for Palestinians Since 2014

31 December 2021

Biographies

Hafiz al-Sa’id

1859 - 21 July 1921

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

Jurji Habib Hanania

1865 - 3 March 1948

1868 - October 1930

Freih Abu Middein

1875 - 9 February 1949

1878 - 29 June 1950

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

1880 - 16 June 1946

Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar

Izzeddin al-Qassam

1882 - 20 November 1935

Raghib al-Nashashibi

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

1882 - 29 June 1963

Abd al-Latif Salah

1884 - 8 November 1952

Isaaf al-Nashashibi

1885 - 22 January 1948

1885 - 19 December 1953

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Khalil Abdallah Totah

20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955

Mu‘in al-Madi

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani

1888 - 20 January 1954

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

George Antonius

1893 - 27 April 1940

1894 - 19 March 1949

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

Subhi al-Khadra

1895 - 4 July 1954

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

Wasif Jawhariyyeh

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari

1900 - 29 May 1980

Zulaykha al-Shihabi

1903 - 13 May 1992

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

1905 - 2 May 1941

1905 - 21 May 1985

26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997

Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih

1907 - 8 January 2001

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

Qudsia Khourshid

5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009

Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud

1913 - 13 July 1948

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

1917 - 12 December 2003

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

1923 - 12 May 2004

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

1925 - 10 April 1973

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

1926 - 23 January 1984

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

1929 - 2 June 2016

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

Ismail Shammout

2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

Anis Abdullah Sayigh

3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009

13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

9 May 1935 - 10 April 1973

Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003

1936 - 29 August 1987

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Ahmad Ismail Yasin

June 1936 - 22 March 2004

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1937 - 12 July 2025

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

1939 - 19 August 2014

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

1942 - 6 August 2019

Abd al-Wahhab Darawshah

12 October 1943

Abd al-Aziz Rantisi

1947 - 17 April 2004

4 January 1951 - 26 October 1995

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

1962 - 31 July 2024

9 February 1963

Historical Texts

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

Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement

Sykes-Picot Agreement

Balfour Declaration

2 November 1917

Proclamation of Martial Law in Jerusalem

11 December 1917

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)

Palestine Legislative Council Election Order, 1922

Agreement between Great Britain and Transjordan Emirate

20 February 1928

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

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

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

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

Proposed New Constitution for Palestine

22 December 1935 - 23 December 1935

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

The Alexandria Protocol on Forming the League of Arab States

Pact of the League of Arab States

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

The Grady-Morrison Plan

Arab Constitutional Proposals at London Roundtable Conference

30 September 1946

British Referral of the Palestine Question to the UN

UNGA Resolution 106 (S-1)

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

US Recognition 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

Israel: Law and Administration Ordinance

UNSC Resolution 49

UNSC Resolution 50

Abandoned Areas Ordinance

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 194 (III)

11 December 1948

The US Recognizes Israel on a de jure Basis

31 January 1949

Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement

24 February 1949

Lebanon-Israel General Armistice Agreement

Jordan-Israel General Armistice Agreement

Ad Hoc Political Committee Resolution on Israel’s Application for UN Membership

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

UNGA Resolution 302 (IV)

8 December 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 393 (V)

2 December 1950

UNGA Resolution 394 (V)

14 December 1950

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

UNSC Resolution 95

1 September 1951

UNGA Resolution 512 (VI)

26 January 1952

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

Exchange of Notes Between Lebanon and UNRWA

26 November 1954

UNSC Resolution 111

19 January 1956

Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA

15 December 1956

UNGA Resolution 1604 (XV)

Proclamation of the Constitutional Statute of Gaza, 1962

UNSC Resolution 171

Draft of UNSC Resolution 5407

Palestine National (qawmi) Charter

Draft of UNSC Resolution 7575/Rev.1

3 November 1966

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

Fourth Arab Summit: Resolutions

1 September 1967

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 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

Palestine National Council, 7th Session: Resolutions

Palestinian National Council, Emergency Session: Resolutions

UNGA Resolution 2628 (XXV)

4 November 1970

UNGA Resolution 2672 (XXV)

8 December 1970

Palestine National Council, 9th Session: Final Statement

UNGA Resolution 2792 (XXVI)

6 December 1971

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

Sixth Arab Summit: Confidential Decisions

28 November 1973

Sixth Arab Summit: Policy Statement

28 November 1973

Palestine National Council, 11th Session: Political Program

12 December 1973

Separation of Forces Agreement Between Israel and Syria

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

UNGA Resolution 3236 (XXIX)

22 November 1974

UNGA Resolution 3376 (XXX)

10 November 1975

The Koenig Memorandum

Draft of UNSC Resolution 12119

Palestine National Council, 13th Session: Political Declaration

12 March 1977 - 22 March 1977

Israel-U.S. Working Paper on the Resumption of the Geneva Peace Conference

Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset

20 November 1977

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

30 November 1977

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

17 September 1978

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

Israeli Model for the Self-Governing Authority

16 January 1980

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

28 January 1980

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

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

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

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

7 November 1985

Palestine National Council, 18th Session: Final Statement

20 April 1987 - 25 April 1987

UNGA Resolution 42/210

17 December 1987

UNSC Resolution 607

UNGA Resolution 42/229

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

Press Conference Statement of Yasir Arafat Clarifying His Speech Before the UN General Assembly

14 December 1988

Statement by President Reagan on Opening American-PLO Dialogue

14 December 1988

Israel's "Peace Initiative"

Draft of UNSC Resolution 20677

UNSC Resolution 641

Secretary of State James Baker's: Five Points Framework for an Israeli-Palestinian Dialogue

10 October 1989

Israeli Cabinet Decision on the Five-Point Plan of Secretary Baker

5 November 1989

UNSC Resolution 673

24 October 1990

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

U.S. Letter of Assurances to the Palestinians

18 October 1991

U.S. Letter of Assurances to Israel

18 October 1991

Speech of Haydar Abd al-Shafi at the Madrid Conference

31 October 1991

UNSC Resolution 726

UNSC Resolution 904

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

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

26 December 1994

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-10/3

Legal Personality Agreement Between Israel and the Holy See

10 November 1997

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

UNGA Resolution ES-10/7

20 October 2000

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 2000: Communiqué

21 October 2000 - 22 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

PLO Negotiation Affairs Department Assessment of US Policy

20 January 2001

Palestinian and Israeli Positions on Refugees

22 January 2001 - 23 January 2001

Israeli-Palestinian Joint Statement

27 January 2001

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

27 January 2001

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

The Mitchell Report

Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants Law

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

The Quartet (UN, EU, Russia, US) Communiqué on the Situation in the Occupied Territories

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

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

Draft of UNSC Resolution S/2002/1385

20 December 2002

Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law

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

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement Plan: Key Principles

UNGA Resolution ES-10/15

Agreement on Movement and Access In Connection with the Gaza Disengagement

15 November 2005

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

Mecca Agreement

8 February 2007

President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech

Summary Final Report - The Winograd Commission of Inquiry

30 January 2008

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

Fatah Sixth General Conference: Five Points of Clarification on Political Program

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

Application of Palestine for admission to membership in the United Nations

23 September 2011

Jordanian-Palestinian Agreement on Holy Sites in Jerusalem

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

Report of the Middle East Quartet

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

Agreement Between Fatah and Hamas to End Palestinian Division

12 October 2017

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

1 November 2017

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

28 February 2019

Secretary Michael R. Pompeo Press Remarks On Israeli Settlements

18 November 2019

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

20 December 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

Members of the Istiqlal (Independence) Party

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

2 November 1932

Smashing the Palestinian Political Infrastructure

15 December 1938

Continuing Exodus: Jordan River

Escape of the Youth, Sixth 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

Preservation of Heritage in Palestine

A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure

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

The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party

Palestinian Informal Justice

Thriving in the Shadow of Colonialism

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

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

XIII. With a Growingly Intractable Deadlock, Whither Palestine?

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

Steadfastness as Everyday Resistance

Colonization and Dispossession

Zionism's Imagined Geography

III. Late Mandate

UNRWA's Education System

A Palestinian-Shaped Undertaking

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

Demography and the Palestine Question (I)

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

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

October 1973 War

A Daring Arab Initiative Followed by Ambivalent Results

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

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

Jewish Identity at the Expense of Citizen Equality

Palestinian Embroidery

A Rich and Diverse National Heritage

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)

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

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

The Palestinian National Initiative Movement - Al-Mubadara

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 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse

A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism

Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949

Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests

Nablus Soap Production

The Decline of an Ancient Heritage

The United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine

Negotiating Palestine after the Nakba

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

Palestinians in Jordan Since 1967

A Never-Ending Normalization

Jabal al-Hussein Refugee Camp

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp

Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

I. Ottoman Rule

The King-Crane Commission of 1919

Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives

The Palestinian Flag

A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Palestinian Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

Ein el Tal (Handarat) Refugee Camp

Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917

Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries

Palestinian Youth in Conflict

A Childhood Denied

Demography and the Palestine Question (II)

Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti) Refugee Camp

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

Resolution 242, 22 November 1967

Ambiguous Parameters for a Middle East Settlement

Marka Refugee Camp

Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)

Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)

The Palestinians in Peru

A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History

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

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

Sbeineh Refugee Camp

Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation

Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine

A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact

Talbieh Refugee Camp

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Shatila Refugee Camp

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”

Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History

Mexico and the Palestine Question

Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor

Turkey and the Palestine Question

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

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

Palestinians in Germany

From Melancholia to Anger

The Village of al-Araqib

Rebuilding Home for the Hundredth Time and Beyond

The USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991

Between Ideology and Realism

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

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

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

The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question

Solidarity of the Colonized

The Palestinians in Sweden

Engaged for Palestine beyond their Diverse Legal Statuses

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art

Madrid and the Oslo Agreement, 1991-1993

Short-Lived Promises of a Negotiated Settlement

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

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

Palestinian Labor in Israel

A Fluctuating Market Subject to Israel’s Interests

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948

A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Perpetuating Israel’s Structural Dominance

Camp David Accords, 1978-1979

Shattering the Arab Front

The IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism

Delegitimizing Criticism of Israel

Palestine Liberation Organization (I)

The Reemergence of the Palestinian National Movement

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)

Before the Nakba

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

The New South Africa and the Palestine Question

From Good Offices to Total Support

The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression

The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip

Thwarting Resettlement Schemes

Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966

Governing the Lives of a Confined Population

The War on Gaza, 2008–2009

Israel’s Strategic Quandary

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

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

Palestine Liberation Organization (II)

From the Limelight to the Backstage

The Algerians of Palestine