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Biographies

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

1868 - October 1930

Freih Abu Middein

Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar

Rafiq al-Tamimi

Subhi al-Khadra

1895 - 4 July 1954

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

1936 - 29 August 1987

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

1962 - 31 July 2024

Events

Jerusalem Area Designated as a Sanjaq

Conquest of Damascus; Faisal Enters Liberated City

26 September 1918 - 3 October 1918

1st Palestinian National Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

27 January 1919 - 10 February 1919

A General Palestinian Congress Meets in Damascus

27 February 1920

Operation Horev Against Egyptian Forces

22 December 1948 - 6 January 1949

UNRWA Signs Agreement with Egypt as Administrator of Refugee Host Area

12 September 1950

Israeli-Jordanian Battle at al-Samu' after a Fatah Operation

11 November 1966 - 13 November 1966

Security Council Resolution S/RES/228

25 November 1966

Israel Retaliates Against South Lebanon

12 May 1969 - 13 May 1969

UNGA 2649 (XXV): Condemning Denial of Right to Self-Determination to Peoples of South Africa and Palestine

30 November 1970

Israeli Military Operation in South Lebanon

25 February 1972 - 28 February 1972

Israeli Military Operation in South Lebanon

21 June 1972 - 24 June 1972

Violent Israeli Retaliation in South Lebanon

16 September 1972 - 17 September 1972

Palestinian Operations from South Lebanon

5 March 1975 - 20 November 1975

Premeditated Israeli Air Attack Against Palestinians in Lebanon

2 December 1975

Fatah Commando Operation and Israel's "Litani Operation"

11 March 1978 - 18 March 1978

SC Res. 425: Calling upon Israel to Withdraw its Forces from Lebanon, and Establishing UNIFIL

Israel Establishes a "Security Zone" in South Lebanon

A Probable Israeli Nuclear Test Explosion in the Ocean near South Africa

22 September 1979

Severe Israeli-Palestinian Clashes in Lebanon

10 July 1981 - 20 July 1981

Israeli Aerial Bombardment and Palestinian Artillery Across the Lebanon-Israel Border

4 June 1982 - 5 June 1982

Israeli Military Pressure on West Beirut

27 June 1982 - 11 July 1982

Israeli-Lebanese Negotiations

28 December 1982

Israel-Lebanon 17 May Agreement

17 May 1983 - 14 June 1983

Israeli Army Withdraws from Saida Region

16 February 1985

Resurgence of Intifada, Worsening of Repression

3 May 1989 - 16 May 1989

Israel Deports Four Palestinians from Gaza to South Lebanon

8th Negotiation Round, Washington

7 December 1992 - 16 December 1992

Settlement Activity Around Jerusalem

19 January 1995 - 1 February 1995

Israel Launches Operation Grapes of Wrath Against Lebanon

11 April 1996 - 26 April 1996

Sharm al-Shaykh Memorandum (Wye II Accord)

4 September 1999

Implementation of Sharm al-Shaykh Memorandum (Wye II)

10 September 1999 - 20 March 2000

Mounting Malaise in the Palestinian Territories

17 February 2000 - 18 May 2000

Start of the Second Intifada

29 September 2000 - 4 October 2000

Israel Adopts Plan for Second Phase of Separation Wall

Israel Launches Operation Southern Arrow

30 March 2006 - 14 May 2006

Israel Retaliates Against Shalit's Capture: Operation Summer Rains

28 June 2006 - 8 July 2006

New Israeli Pattern of Battering Gaza

11 July 2006 - 15 August 2006

Hizballah Fighters Capture Israeli Soldiers

July War: Israel Launches an Air War Against Hizballah

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: Israel Attempts to Establish a Limited Foothold in Southern Lebanon

19 July 2006 - 29 July 2006

July War: Massacre in Qana; 48-Hour Partial Suspension of Air Strikes

30 July 2006 - 2 August 2006

July War: Israel Attempts to Create a Special Security Zone

2 August 2006 - 10 August 2006

July War: Diplomatic Efforts for a Cease-Fire

5 August 2006 - 9 August 2006

SC Res. 1701: Calling for a Cessation of Hostilities to End Israel's War on Lebanon

July War: Israel Attempts a Ground Offensive in Southern Lebanon

11 August 2006 - 14 August 2006

July War: Israel Begins Withdrawing from Southern Lebanon

14 August 2006 - 17 August 2006

Israel Breaks the Gaza Cease-Fire

4 November 2008 - 30 November 2008

War on Gaza, Day 9: Start of Phase 2

War on Gaza, Day 10; Gaza Strip Segmented into 3 Operational Zones

War on Gaza, Day 11: Dramatic Surge in Palestinian Civilian Casualties

War on Gaza, Day 20

15 January 2009

Gaza Tenuous Cease-Fire

27 January 2009 - 12 February 2009

Israel Settlement Activity Taken up Again in Earnest

27 September 2011 - 1 November 2011

Dangerous Surge of Israeli-Palestinian Violence in and across Gaza

14 October 2012 - 13 November 2012

Settlement Construction

30 January 2015

Botched Undercover Israeli Operation in Gaza Sparks Exchange of Fire

11 November 2018 - 13 November 2018

Gaza-Israel Exchange of Fire after Assassination of Baha Abu al-Ata

12 November 2019 - 15 November 2019

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 9

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 10

Historical Texts

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

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

1 December 1930

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

Peel Commission Report

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

London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence

Land Transfers Regulations, 1940

20 February 1940

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

UNGA Resolution 194 (III)

11 December 1948

Jordan-Israel General Armistice Agreement

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

UNGA Resolution 303

9 December 1949

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

UNSC Resolution 228

25 November 1966

Fatah: The Palestine National Liberation Movement, Press Release

UNGA Resolution 2649 (XXV)

30 November 1970

UNSC Resolution 425

Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt

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

7 February 1983

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1987: Resolutions

8 November 1987 - 11 November 1987

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1989: Resolution on the Palestine Question

23 May 1989 - 26 May 1989

Speech of Haydar Abd al-Shafi at the Madrid Conference

31 October 1991

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1996: Resolution on the Palestine Question

21 June 1996 - 23 June 1996

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

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 2000: Communiqué

21 October 2000 - 22 October 2000

UNSC Resolution 1701

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

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

UNESCWA Report on Israeli Apartheid

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

28 February 2019

President Donald Trump: Proclamation on Recognizing the Golan Heights as Part of the State of Israel

Highlights

Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine

Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement

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 Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party

Palestinian Informal Justice

Thriving in the Shadow of Colonialism

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

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

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

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

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

Camp David Accords, 1978-1979

Shattering the Arab Front

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP

The Separation Wall

Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians

Israel’s Apartheid Regime

Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians

Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule

Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition

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

Lebanon War, 1982

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

Kafr Qasim, 29 October 1956

Israel’s Army Massacres Its Own Peaceful Citizens

Palestine Liberation Organization (II)

From the Limelight to the Backstage

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

The Israeli Military

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

Jaramana Refugee Camp

The King-Crane Commission of 1919

Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives

Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917

Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

Sabra and Shatila, 16-18 September 1982

A Massacre by Proxy

The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps

Perpetuating the Temporary

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

Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine

A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Shatila Refugee Camp

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947

Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba

The War on Gaza, 2008–2009

Israel’s Strategic Quandary

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

Beddawi Refugee Camp

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

The May 2021 Gaza War

Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes

Stages of a Forced Displacement

Dera‘a Refugee Camp

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

The New South Africa and the Palestine Question

From Good Offices to Total Support

Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948

A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art