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Looking Toward Marj Ibn Amir

Yusuf Diya-uddin Pasha al-Khalidi

Young Turks Revolution

The Constitutional School

Arab Revolt in Aqaba

Jemal Pasha Reviews His Troops

British Troops with Machine Guns

Town of Safad, Northern Galilee

Arrival in Palestine of Sir Hebert Samuel, High Commissioner

Third Palestinian National Congress, Haifa

14 December 1920

Mr. and Mrs. Winston Churchill at Government House Reception

Sixth Palestinian National Congress, Jaffa

Khalil Raad's Shop

Fourth Palestinian Delegation in London

Pan-Islamic Congress, 1931

16 December 1931

Members of the Istiqlal (Independence) Party

Arab Demonstrations on Oct. 13 and 27, 1933, in Jerusalem and Jaffa

Aftermath Outside of the New Gate

13 October 1933

Musa Kazim Husseini's Funeral, Damascus Gate

Palestine and Oil

Laying Siege to Jaffa's Old City

British Soldiers Enforce a Daytime Curfew on Lydda

Oath of Allegiance

Arab Higher Committee Members

Volunteers from Arab Countries

Peel Commission and Partition

11 November 1936

Arab Revolt 1936 - Royal Commission

11 January 1937

Arab Revolt 1936 - Arab Higher Committee

12 January 1937

British Troops Regain Control of Jerusalem's Old City

Smashing the Palestinian Political Infrastructure

15 December 1938

Arab Demonstration at Yatta

18 December 1938

London Conference

Palestine Broadcasting Station's "Oriental Band"

Illegal Immigration (I)

Illegal Immigration (II)

Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

King David Hotel

Haifa Railroad Station

20 September 1946

Hostage Taking by the Irgun

The Haganah Starts Its Offensive

Cairo Street Rejects Palestine Partition

Burning of the Rex Cinema

2 December 1947

Zionist Terrorism

29 December 1947

al-Manshiyya Quarter

All-Palestine Government

Battle for the Roads

Scenes of Destruction

Grand Serai in Ruins

'Palestine Post' Explosion

1 February 1948

Fawzi al-Qawuqji

Arab Liberation Army (ALA) Members

Attack on Jewish Agency Headquarters

Haganah in Jerusalem

Funeral of Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

Abandoning Ship

Israeli Attacks on Jordan

Mahane Yehuda Explosion

22 November 1968

Old City of Jerusalem from the Church of the Savior

Events

Acre Under Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar

Tax Revolt in Jerusalem

Ibrahim Pasha in Palestine

October 1831 - 1834

International Intervention against Egyptian Rule in the Levant

The Tanzimat Are Issued

18 February 1856

Ottoman Law of the Provinces: Administrative Reorganization in Syria and Palestine

7 November 1864

Law Granting Foreigners the Right to Own Real Estate in the Ottoman Empire., 7 Safar 1284

Sultan Abd al-Hamid II and the Ottoman Constitution

31 August 1876 - 19 December 1876

Establishment of Petah Tikva, the First Zionist Colony in Palestine

Jewish Nationalism in Eastern Europe

The Ottoman Government Sets Out Principles Governing Jewish Immigration to the Empire

24 November 1881

European Powers Press the Ottomans on Jewish Immigration

2 March 1888 - 4 October 1888

Establishment of the Jewish Colonization Association

Local Control of Zionist Land Purchases in the Sanjaq of Jerusalem

2nd Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

28 August 1898 - 31 August 1898

Herzl Correspondence with Jerusalem Mayor

3rd Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

15 August 1899 - 18 August 1899

4th Zionist Congress Is Held in London

13 August 1900 - 16 August 1900

Ottoman Consolidated Regulations on Jewish Residence and Land Purchase in Palestine

29 November 1900 - 28 January 1901

Palestinian Peasants in Tiberias Score a Rare Success Against Zionist Land Acquisition

8 December 1900 - 11 November 1901

France and the Ottoman Empire Sign the Mytilene Agreements

2 November 1901 - 10 November 1901

5th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

26 December 1901 - 30 December 1901

Establishment of the Anglo-Palestine Company

7 July 1903 - 24 November 1903

6th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

23 August 1903 - 28 August 1903

2nd Wave of Jewish Immigration to Palestine

Theodor Herzl Dies; Replaced by David Wolffsohn

Palestinian-Zionist Tension at al-Shajara - Sejera in the Tiberias Region

August 1904 - September 1904

Completion of the Hijaz Railway

7th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

27 July 1905 - 2 August 1905

Establishment of the Rawdat al-Ma'arif al-Wataniyya al-'Uthmaniyya al-Islamiyya in Jerusalem

8th Zionist Congress Is Held in the Hague

14 July 1907 - 21 July 1907

Zionist Evasion of Ottoman Regulations

The Zionist Organization Opens an Office in Jaffa

Zionist-Palestinian Violence Breaks out in Jaffa

Establishment of al-Madrasa al-Dusturiyya, Jerusalem

Zionist Attempt to Buy 1.5 Million Dunams in the Jordan Valley

March 1909 - July 1909

Palestinians Clash with Settlers of Sejera Colony

3 April 1909 - 12 April 1909

Foundation of the Zionist Paramilitary Group Hashomer

Palestinian Members of the Ottoman Parliament Express Opposition to Zionist Objectives

June 1909 - 2 November 1909

10th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

9 August 1911 - 15 August 1911

Publication of Zionism by Najib Nassar

A Zionist–Arab Incident in Zarnuqa

11th Zionist Congress Meets in Vienna

2 September 1913 - 9 September 1913

Railway Lines in Palestine

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

The Sykes-Picot Agreement Defines the British and French Spheres of Influence over the Ottoman Arab Provinces

23 November 1915 - 16 May 1916

Arrival in Palestine of the Zionist Commission

Proclamations No. 75 and No. 76 on Immovable Property

18 November 1918

Appointment of the King-Crane Commission

20 March 1919 - 21 July 1919

The General Syrian Congress and the King-Crane Commission

2 July 1919 - 3 July 1919

The Mandate System: Article 22 of the League of Nations Covenant

10 January 1920

The General Syrian National Congress Proclaims the Independence of Syria

7 March 1920 - 8 March 1920

Palin Commission of Inquiry

12 April 1920 - 1 July 1920

Scheduled Second Palestinian National Congress Cannot Meet

International Zionist Conference Meets in London

Palestine Civil Government and Appointment of Herbert Samuel as High Commisioner

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

Mahlul Land Ordinance

Advisory Council for Palestine Is Established

Establishment of the Histadrut

May Day Clashes in Jaffa

1 May 1921 - 7 May 1921

Amin al-Husseini Elected Mufti of Jerusalem

4th Palestinian National Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

29 May 1921 - 4 June 1921

The Palestinian Delegation Conducts Sterile Negotiations in London

2 July 1921 - 31 July 1922

12th Zionist Congress Is Held in Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary)

1 September 1921 - 14 September 1921

Regulation Concerning the Supreme Moslem Sharia Council

20 December 1921 - 9 January 1922

House of Lords and House of Commons Conflicting Views on Palestine

20 June 1922 - 4 July 1922

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

Palestinians Boycott Elections

February 1923 - March 1923

6th Palestinian National Congress Is Held in Jaffa

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

6 August 1923 - 18 August 1923

Palestinians Reject Arab Agency Scheme

12 October 1923

Establishment of the Zionist Revisionist Movement

Prevention of Crime (Tribal and Village Areas) Ordinance Goes into Effect

Establishment of the Palestine Arab Workers Society

21 March 1925 - 11 January 1930

Powerful Earthquake in Palestine and Transjordan

15th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

30 August 1927 - 11 September 1927

Land Settlement Ordinance No. 9

7th Palestinian National Congress Meets in Jerusalem

20 June 1928 - 27 June 1928

Tension Over al-Buraq/ Western Wall

23 September 1928 - 30 October 1928

Islamic Conference in Defense of al-Buraq and Muslim Holy Places in Jerusalem

1 November 1928

White Paper (Amery) on Status Quo at al-Buraq / Western Wall

19 November 1928 - 27 December 1928

16th Zionist Congress Is Held in Zurich

28 July 1929 - 11 August 1929

The British Form a Commission of Inquiry on Disturbances at al-Buraq / Western Wall

13 September 1929

General Conference of Palestine Arab Workers, Haifa

11 January 1930

League of Nations Council Approves the Appointment of an International Commission on al-Buraq / Western Wall

14 January 1930 - 15 May 1930

Shaw Commission Report on al-Buraq / Western Wall Disturbances

4th Palestinian Delegation to London

1 April 1930 - 23 May 1930

John Hope Simpson Sent to Palestine to Investigate Questions of Immigration, Land Settlement and Development

Hanging of Palestinian Militants

White Paper (Passfield) of 1930 Is Published

20 October 1930

Report of the International Commission on al-Buraq / Western Wall

1 December 1930

MacDonald's Reassurance to Weizmann

13 February 1931

The [Palestine] Arab Executive Committee Denounces MacDonald's Reassurance to Weizmann

Establishment of Irgun

17th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

30 June 1931 - 15 July 1931

Lewis French and the Palestine Development Scheme

19 July 1931 - April 1932

Great Britain Issues the Palestine (Defence) Order in Council, 1931

Pan-Islamic Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

7 December 1931 - 17 December 1931

Challenging the Pan-Islamic Congress, a Conference of the Palestinian Islamic Nation Is Convened

11 December 1931

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

13 December 1931

Arab Youth Congress Meets in Jaffa

Establishment of the Istiqlal Party

Establishment of the Arab National Fund

September 1932 - 8 August 1935

Creation of the Arab Agricultural Bank

Increase in Jewish Immigration from Germany

18th Zionist Congress Is Held in Prague

21 August 1933 - 3 September 1933

Protection of Cultivators Ordinance, No. 37

General Strike and Demonstrations in Palestine

8 October 1933 - 3 November 1933

Murison Commission of Inquiry

Death of Musa Kazim Husseini

Establishment of the Palestine Arab Party

Establishment of the Reform Party

19th Zionist Congress Meets in Lucerne

20 August 1935 - 4 September 1935

Nuremberg Laws and Jewish Immigration

15 September 1935

Arms Shipment to the Haganah

Establishment of the National Bloc Party

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

12 November 1935 - 21 November 1935

Joint Memorandum of Palestinian Parties

25 November 1935

Revival of the Legislative Council Idea

December 1935 - March 1936

The Arab Higher Committee is Formed

British Violent Repression

May 1936 - June 1936

Appointment of the Peel Commission

Memorandum of Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

The British Issue the Collective Fines Ordinance

Fawzi al-Qawuqji Aids the Great Palestine Rebellion

General Strike Called Off; Consent to Appear before the Peel Commission

11 October 1936

Peel Commission Investigates the Cause of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

11 November 1936 - 24 January 1937

Avner Defense Plan

Palestinians Reject Peel Commission Report

Second Phase of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

23 July 1937 - September 1938

20th Zionist Congress Meets in Zürich

3 August 1937 - 16 August 1937

Arab National Congress Convenes in Bludan

8 September 1937 - 9 September 1937

British Commissioner Is Assassinated

26 September 1937

Arab Higher Committee Is Banned

October 1937 - November 1937

Irgun Attacks on Palestinians

11 November 1937 - 14 November 1937

Charles Tegart's Means of Control

3 December 1937

Appointment of the Palestine Partition (Woodhead) Commission

Establishment of Hanita Settlement in Western Galilee

Irgun Attacks Against Palestinians Intensify

July 1938 - August 1938

Anti-British Operation and British Retaliation in al-Bassa

6 September 1938 - 10 September 1938

British Military Officers Replace Civilian Commissioners

Third Phase of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

October 1938 - September 1939

The "International Parliamentarian Congress of Arab and Islamic Countries in Support of Palestine" Is Held in Cairo

7 October 1938 - 11 October 1938

British "Divide-and-Rule" Policy

November 1938 - May 1939

Partition (Woodhead) Commission Report Is Published

9 November 1938

Jewish-Arab Attacks Resume

30 January 1939 - 26 February 1939

Killing of Abd al-Rahim al-Hajj Muhammad

MacDonald White Paper of 1939: Limited Concessions to Palestinians

17 May 1939 - 23 May 1939

Military Recruitment in Palestine

3 September 1939

Palmach Underground Is Established

Killing of Avraham Stern

Support in the United States for a Jewish Army

Haganah Stockpiles Weapons

Arab National Fund Reestablished

British Labour Party Favors Transfer of Palestinians

Alexandria Protocol and the League of Arab States

Stern Gang Assassinates Lord Moyne in Cairo

6 November 1944

Establishment of Lebanese Consulate General in Palestine

30 December 1944 - 23 May 1945

Roosevelt and Ibn Saud Meet

14 February 1945

Pact of the League of Arab States; Annex on Palestine

Vice-President Harry Truman Becomes President of the US

End of World War II

8 May 1945 - 15 August 1945

Pledge to Buy US Armament for the Haganah

Labor Victory in Great Britain

Truman and Jewish Immigration to Palestine

Bevin's Statement on Palestine; Formation of an Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

13 November 1945

Attempt to Reconstitute the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine

22 November 1945 - 29 May 1946

Organized Irgun and Lehi Anti-British Attacks

24 November 1945 - 19 January 1946

The US Congress Endorses the Biltmore Program

17 December 1945 - 19 December 1945

Lebanon Ends Granting Import Licenses for Palestine Goods

League of Nations Passes on Supervision over Mandates to the UN

An Irgun Attack on British

Haganah's Plan Gimmel

Arab League Holds its First Summit on Palestine in Anshas

28 May 1946 - 29 May 1946

President Truman Supports Jewish Immigration to Palestine

Jewish Agency Partition Plan Secures US Endorsement

5 August 1946 - 14 August 1946

New Wave of Zionist Anti-British Attacks

9 September 1946 - 2 December 1946

Enactment of Lebanese Labor Law and Its Subsequent Impact on Palestine Refugees

23 September 1946

Arab Delegations Put Forward Constitutional Proposals to the London Round Table Conference on Palestine

30 September 1946

22nd Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

9 December 1946 - 24 December 1946

More Irgun Operations Against the British

29 December 1946 - 28 January 1947

London Round Table Conference Reopens and Fails

27 January 1947 - 18 February 1947

Deadly Zionist Anti-British Attacks

28 February 1947 - 1 March 1947

Great Britain Refers the question of Palestine to the UN

Continuation of Zionist-British Confrontation

16 April 1947 - 26 April 1947

UN General Assembly Session on Palestine

28 April 1947 - 9 May 1947

UNGA 106 (S-1): Creation of a Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP)

Zionist Attacks Against Palestinians

21 May 1947 - 15 August 1947

Stern Gang Letter Bombs Against Officials in London

Majority of UNSCOP Members Recommend Partition

15 June 1947 - 3 September 1947

Irgun Kidnaps and Murders Two British Sergeants

11 July 1947 - 31 July 1947

Arab League Meeting on Palestine, in Sofar, Lebanon

16 September 1947 - 19 September 1947

Ad Hoc Committee on the Palestinian Question

23 September 1947 - 25 November 1947

British to Terminate Palestine Mandate

26 September 1947

Palestinians and Zionists on UNSCOP Partition Plan

29 September 1947 - 3 October 1947

Arab League Meeting on Palestine in Aley, Lebanon

7 October 1947 - 15 October 1947

US and USSR Endorse Partition

11 October 1947 - 13 October 1947

Palestinian Strike Against Partition Plan and Palestinian-Zionist Clashes

2 December 1947

Series of Zionist Attacks on Palestinians in the Wake of the Partition Plan

6 December 1947 - 31 December 1947

Arab Liberation Army Organized

1 January 1948 - 10 January 1948

Series of Zionist Attacks

2 January 1948 - 26 January 1948

Palestinian Attacks

14 January 1948 - 19 February 1948

Zionist Military Preparations

14 January 1948 - 20 February 1948

Contingents of ALA Volunteers

21 January 1948 - 28 January 1948

The Palestine Commission Submits First Reports to Security Council

31 January 1948 - 16 February 1948

British Break Arab Attacks

6 February 1948 - 10 February 1948

Fate of Diplomatic Representations in Jerusalem

11 February 1948 - 1 May 1948

Zionist Attacks

15 February 1948 - 5 March 1948

Fawzi al-Qawuqji Enters Palestine

SC Res. 42: Appealing Permanent Members for Guidance on Palestine

Haganah Operations

11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948

Palestinian Operations

11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948

SC Res. 43: Calling for an Immediate Truce in Palestine

Arms for the Zionist Forces

1 April 1948 - 14 May 1948

Operations Nachshon and Har'el to Open Tel Aviv-Jerusalem Road

3 April 1948 - 21 April 1948

The Battle for Haifa and Its Surroundings

4 April 1948 - 22 April 1948

Massacre in Deir Yasin

9 April 1948 - 11 April 1948

Unit of Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Attacks Kfar Darom

Fighting Around Jerusalem

12 April 1948 - 23 April 1948

Fall of Tiberias

16 April 1948 - 18 April 1948

SC Res. 46: Calling upon All Parties to Cease Military Activities in Palestine

Trusteeship Plan for Palestine

Operation Hametz and the Fall of Jaffa

24 April 1948 - 13 May 1948

Lebanon Sets up a Central Committee and Regional Committees to Deal with Refugees from Palestine

26 April 1948 - 11 May 1948

Zionist Conquest of Eastern Galilee

28 April 1948 - 25 May 1948

Operation Barak Toward the South

9 May 1948 - 13 May 1948

Operation Ben-Ami in Western Galilee

13 May 1948 - 21 May 1948

Control of Coastal Plain Haifa-Tel Aviv

13 May 1948 - 23 May 1948

UNGA 186 (S-2): Appointment of a UN Mediator in Palestine

Operations Shfifon and Kilshon in Jerusalem

14 May 1948 - 28 May 1948

Arab Armies Cross Palestine Borders

15 May 1948 - 10 June 1948

West Bank to Be Placed under Jordanian Military Government

16 May 1948 - 24 May 1948

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

Israel's Law and Administration Ordinance

First Palestine Truce, Israeli Reinforcements and Destruction of Palestinian Villages

11 June 1948 - 8 July 1948

Ahmad Hilmi Abd al-Baqi Is Appointed Military Governor of Jerusalem

Abandoned Areas Ordinance

Count Bernadotte's Palestine Plan

Israeli Intelligence Report on the Depopulation of Palestine until 31 May 1948

Responses to Bernadotte's Plan

2 July 1948 - 5 July 1948

Israel Declares Jerusalem Occupied City

Bernadotte's New Plan

16 September 1948

Israel's Area of Jurisdiction and Powers Ordinance

16 September 1948

UN Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte Is Assassinated by Lehi in Jerusalem

17 September 1948

US in Favor of Bernadotte's New Plan

21 September 1948

Establishment of All-Palestine Government in Gaza

22 September 1948 - 2 October 1948

Pro-Jordanian Amman Conference

Arab Responses to Formation of the All-Palestine Government

5 October 1948 - 14 October 1948

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

15 October 1948 - 4 November 1948

A Massacre in al-Dawayima

29 October 1948

Emergency Regulations Regarding Absentee Property

2 December 1948

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

11 December 1948

Operation Horev Against Egyptian Forces

22 December 1948 - 6 January 1949

General Refugee Congress Meets in Ramallah

Palestinians Testify Before the UNCCP

UNCCP Convenes the Lausanne Conference

27 April 1949 - 12 September 1949

The UNGA Ad Hoc Political Committee, Dealing with Israel's Admission Application, Requests Clarifications

4 May 1949 - 9 May 1949

UNGA 302 (IV): Establishment of Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA)

8 December 1949

UNGA 303 (IV): To Place Jerusalem under a Permanent International Regime

9 December 1949

Jordan Amends the Parliamentary Election Law

13 December 1949

Cross-Border Attacks from Gaza

Jordan Issues National Guard Law

17 January 1950

Absentee Property Law, 5710-1950

Special International Regime for Jerusalem

Expulsion from Hebron Area

Tripartite Declaration

Development Authority (Transfer of Property) Law, 5710-1950

UNGA 393 (V): Economic Reintegration of Refugees in the Middle East

2 December 1950

UNGA 394 (V): UNCCP to Establish Office on Compensation to Refugees

14 December 1950

Palestinian Memorandum to UNCCP, Beirut

27 January 1951

Palestinian Memorandum to UNCCP, Ramallah

Assassination of King Abdullah

20 July 1951 - 11 August 1952

23rd Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

14 August 1951 - 30 August 1951

Publication of the Constitution of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

UNGA 513 (VI): UNRWA to Carry Refugee Relief and Reintegration for 3 Years

26 January 1952

UNGA 512 (VI): UNCCP to Continue its Efforts

26 January 1952

The Egyptian Revolution of 1952

The Zionist Organization/Jewish Agency Status Law

24 November 1952

Israeli Operation in Jordan

28 January 1953

Land Acquisition (Validation of Acts and Compensation) Law

King Hussein’s Formal Accession to the Throne

Israel's Foreign Ministry Moves to Jerusalem

10 July 1953 - 12 July 1953

Israeli Operation in Gaza

Israeli Operation Against Qibya

14 October 1953

Anti-Israeli Demonstrations in Jordan

21 October 1953

SC Res. 101: Censuring Israel for Its Retaliatory Action in Qibya in Violation of the Israel-Jordan Armistice

24 November 1953

Arab League and Jordan River Waters

15 February 1954

Israeli Operation Against Jordan

The US and Jordan River Waters

25 June 1954 - 6 July 1954

Covenant between Zionist Organization and Israel

Egypt Detains Israeli Freighter

28 September 1954

Exchange of Notes between Lebanon and UNRWA

26 November 1954

24 February 1955

Gaza's Basic Law

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

25 June 1955 - 15 January 1962

Egypt Restricts Passage Through Strait of Tiran

11 September 1955

Egyptian-Czech Arms Deal

27 September 1955

Israeli Attack on Syria (Operation Olive Leaves)

10 December 1955 - 11 December 1955

Security Council Resolution S/RES/111

19 January 1956

Clashes Across Gaza Borders

2 April 1956 - 14 April 1956

24th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

24 April 1956 - 7 May 1956

Egypt Blocks Greek Freighter

France and Israel Sign Arms Deal and Prepare for War

22 June 1956 - 29 July 1956

US Withdraws Aswan Funding

Nationalization of the Suez Canal

London Conference on Suez

16 August 1956 - 23 August 1956

Ben-Gurion Addresses the Issue of Suez

Situation on Jordanian-Israeli Lines Continues to Deteriorate; Israeli Raid on Qalqilya

4 October 1956 - 11 October 1956

Kafr Qasim Massacre

29 October 1956

Israel Invades Egypt

29 October 1956

Britain and France Join the War

31 October 1956

Israel Occupies Gaza

1 November 1956 - 7 March 1957

Soviet Union Threatens Intervention

5 November 1956

British and French Troops Invade Canal Zone

5 November 1956

UNGA 998 (ES-I): Creating the UN Emergency Force (UNEF)

5 November 1956

Israel Addresses the Future of Sinai

7 November 1956 - 8 November 1956

Israel Addresses the Future of Gaza

10 November 1956 - 3 February 1957

The United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) Deploys in Sinai

12 November 1956 - 12 March 1957

UNRWA Director Issues Special Report on Situation in Gaza Strip

15 December 1956

GA Resolutions 1123, 1124, 1125 (XI)

19 January 1957 - 3 February 1957

Israel Refuses Full Withdrawal

3 February 1957

Pressures and Assurances to Israel on Gulf of Aqaba and Gaza

20 February 1957 - 1 March 1957

Israel Withdraws from Gaza and Sinai

7 March 1957 - 12 March 1957

Fatah Is Founded

The Arab League and Palestinian Entity

Lebanon Establishes the Department of Palestinian Refugee Affairs at the Ministry of Interior

Iraq and a "Palestinian Republic"

15 December 1959

Basic Law: Israel Lands

Israel Land Administration Law, 5720-1960

25th Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem

27 December 1960 - 11 January 1961

GA Resolution 1604 (XV)

Appointment of Special Representative of the UNCCP

Palestinians in Israel Demonstrate

21 September 1961

The Constitutional Statute for the Gaza Strip

Israeli Raid Against Syria

16 March 1962 - 17 March 1962

SC Res. 171: Determining Israel's Attack on Syria a Violation of SC Res. 111

Proposals Announced by Joseph Johnson, Special Representative of the UNCCP

Israeli and Arab Responses to Joseph Johnson's Proposals

5 October 1962 - 17 October 1962

Death of Ahmad Hilmi Abd al-Baqi; Ahmad al-Shuqairi as Palestine Delegate to the Arab League

29 June 1963 - 19 September 1963

Syrian-Israeli Clashes

19 August 1963 - 20 August 1963

Draft Security Council Resolution S/5407

3 September 1963

Fatah Opens Its First Office in Algeria

23 September 1963

New Lebanese Social Security Law Implicitly Excludes Palestinian Refugees from its Benefits

26 September 1963

Palestinian Delegation at the UN

18 October 1963 - 5 November 1963

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

18 September 1964

Opening an Office of the PLO in Lebanon

23 October 1964 - 13 November 1964

Fatah Issues Its First Military Communiqué

President Bourguiba and 1947 Partition Plan

27 February 1965 - 11 March 1965

Israel Carries out an Operation in Jordan in Response to Fatah Raids

2nd Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo

31 May 1965 - 4 June 1965

The Council of the Arab League Adopts the Casablanca Protocol on the Treatment of Palestinians in the Arab States

11 September 1965

Military Training for Palestinians

11 October 1965

3rd Palestine National Council Is Held in Gaza

20 May 1966 - 24 May 1966

Israeli Air Force Carries out a Raid in Syria in Response to Fatah Operations

Reservations of Lebanon, Kuwait and Libya to the Casablanca Protocol on the Treatment of Palestinians in Arab States

Draft Security Council Resolution S/7575/Rev.1

4 November 1966

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

11 November 1966 - 13 November 1966

Demonstrations in Jordan

20 November 1966 - 25 November 1966

Security Council Resolution S/RES/228

25 November 1966

Israeli-Syrian Aerial Battle

7 April 1967 - 21 April 1967

Reports on Israeli Plans Against Syria

12 May 1967 - 14 May 1967

Egypt Reacts to Israeli Threats Against Syria

15 May 1967 - 22 May 1967

Israel Prepares for War with US Consent

2 June 1967 - 4 June 1967

June War, 1st Day

5 June 1967 - 10 June 1967

June War, 2nd Day

June War, 3rd Day

June War, 4th Day

June War, 5th Day

June War, 6th Day

Second Palestinian Exodus

10 June 1967 - 31 December 1967

Israel Razes Maghribi Quarter in Jerusalem Old City and Expels its Inhabitants

Emergency Special Session of the UN General Assembly

13 June 1967 - 21 July 1967

Security Council Resolution S/RES/237

Exchange of Letters Between Israel and UNRWA

General Assembly Resolution 2252 (ES-V)

General Assembly Resolutions 2253 and 2254 (ES-V)

4 July 1967 - 14 July 1967

Military Order No. 58, Concerning Abandoned Property (Private Property)

Formation of a Higher Islamic Council in Jerusalem

Military Order No. 59, Concerning State Property

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

14 August 1967 - 19 October 1967

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

Fatah Guerrilla Resistance in the West Bank

Security Council Resolution S/RES/242

22 November 1967

Palestinians Reorganize

11 December 1967 - 19 January 1968

Guerrilla Resistance in Gaza Strip

Israeli Military Confrontation with Jordan and Palestinian Guerrillas

14 February 1968 - 15 February 1968

Settlement Attempt in Hebron

12 April 1968 - 16 June 1968

Yasir Arafat Assumes Prominence within Fatah

Israel Land Requisition in Old City of Jerusalem

SC Res. 252: Considering all Israeli Measures to Change Jerusalem's Legal Status as Invalid

Israeli-Jordanian Clashes

27th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

9 June 1968 - 19 June 1968

Civil Aviation in the Conflict

23 July 1968 - 29 August 1969

Explosion in Mahane Yehuda in West Jerusalem

22 November 1968 - 28 November 1968

Military Order No. 291 on Land Settlement

19 December 1968

Hunger Strike of Palestinian Women in Jerusalem

26 January 1969 - 28 January 1969

Fatah Reaffirms its Political Objective

28 January 1969

5th Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo

1 February 1969 - 4 February 1969

Students Demonstrate in Gaza

2 February 1969

Egypt's War of Attrition

8 March 1969 - 7 August 1970

Golda Meir Becomes Prime Minister of Israel

Military Order No. 321 Concerning Land Law (Acquisition for Public Purposes)

Israel Strengthens its Control over East Jerusalem

27 April 1969 - 26 June 1969

Israel Retaliates Against South Lebanon

12 May 1969 - 13 May 1969

Deportation from West Bank

9 June 1969 - 6 October 1969

SC Res. 267: Calling once more upon Israel to Rescind all Measures which May Change the Status of Jerusalem

6th Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo

1 September 1969 - 9 September 1969

PLO-Lebanon Cairo Agreement Regulates Palestinian Civil and Military Presence in the Country

3 November 1969

UNGA 2535 (XXIV): Reiterating Past Resolutions on UNRWA; Affirming Inalienable Rights of People of Palestine

10 December 1969

Military Order No. 363, Concerning the Protection of Nature Reserves

22 December 1969

Jordanian-Palestinian Clashes

11 February 1970

Israel and Refugee Camps in Gaza and West Bank

18 February 1970

Palestinian-Israeli Clashes in South Lebanon and Jordan Valley

22 May 1970 - 29 May 1970

7th Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo

30 May 1970 - 4 June 1970

Assassination Attempt of Wadi Haddad in Beirut

Assassination Attempt of George Habash in Bsaba Village

Sharon's Pacification of Gaza

August 1970 - December 1971

1st Extraordinary Session of the Palestine National Council Is Held in Amman

27 August 1970 - 28 August 1970

PFLP Hijack Operations

6 September 1970 - 12 September 1970

Black September in Jordan

15 September 1970 - 25 September 1970

Emergency Arab Summit Meets in Cairo to Force a Palestinian-Jordanian Agreement

21 September 1970 - 28 September 1970

Jordanian Army Tightens Control

1 October 1970 - 23 July 1971

UNGA 2628 (XXV): Urging Speedy Implementation of SC Res. 242 (1967)

4 November 1970

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

30 November 1970

UNGA 2672 (XXV): People of Palestine Entitled to Equal Rights and Self-determination; Calling upon Israel for Return of Displaced in 1967

8 December 1970

President Sadat Suggests Partial Israeli Withdrawal from Suez Canal

4 February 1971

The US and Palestinian Rights

25 February 1971

8th Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo

28 February 1971 - 5 March 1971

9th Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo

7 July 1971 - 13 July 1971

Municipal Elections in West Bank Are Announced

26 November 1971

UNGA 2792 (XXVI): Deploring Israel's Operations in the Gaza Strip

6 December 1971

28th Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem

18 January 1972 - 28 January 1972

Israeli Military Operation in South Lebanon

25 February 1972 - 28 February 1972

SC Res. 313: Demanding that Israel Refrain Immediately from Military Action against Lebanon

28 February 1972

The PFLP Announces It Has Abandoned the Tactic of Hijacking Planes

King Hussein Proposes a "United Arab Kingdom"

10th (Extraordinary) Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo

6 April 1972 - 12 April 1972

Black September Hijack Operation

Japanese Red Army at Lod Airport

Israeli Military Operation in South Lebanon

21 June 1972 - 24 June 1972

SC Res. 316: Condemning the Repeated Attacks of Israeli Forces on Lebanon

Attempted Assassination of Anis Sayigh in Beirut

Attempted Assassination of Bassam Abu Sharif in Beirut

Gaza Red Crescent Society Is Established

Black September in Munich Olympic Games

5 September 1972 - 6 September 1972

Violent Israeli Retaliation in South Lebanon

16 September 1972 - 17 September 1972

Wa'el Zuaiter Is Assassinated in Rome

16 October 1972

Black September Hijack Operation

29 October 1972 - 30 October 1972

Mahmoud al-Hamshari Is Assassinated in Paris

8 December 1972 - 9 January 1973

Israeli Travel Documents for Palestinians in West Bank

10 December 1972

11th Palestine National Council Meets in Cairo

6 January 1973 - 12 January 1973

Hussein Bashir Abu al-Khayr Is Assassinated in Nicosia

24 January 1973

Libyan Civilian Aircraft Is Shot Down Over the Sinai

21 February 1973

Black September Operation in Khartoum

1 March 1973 - 4 March 1973

Muhammad al-Aswad Is Killed in Gaza

Basil al-Kubaisi Assassinated in Paris

Israeli Operation in Beirut Against Palestinian Leaders

Assassination of Zaid Muqsi in Athens

Lebanese-Palestinian Confrontation

2 May 1973 - 23 May 1973

Absentees' Property (Compensation) Law, 5733-1973

Mohammad Boudia Assassinated in Paris

Ahmed Bouchiki Assassinated in Lillehammer

Shaykh Ahmad Yasin's Islamic Center Is Established in Gaza

7 September 1973

October War, 1st Day

October War, 2nd Day

October War, 3rd Day

October War, 4th Day

October War, From the 6th to 10th Day

11 October 1973 - 14 October 1973

American Airlift

14 October 1973 - 14 November 1973

Israeli Army Crosses the Suez Canal Westwards

15 October 1973 - 22 October 1973

Arab Oil, a Weapon in the Battle

17 October 1973 - 21 October 1973

American-Soviet Agreement on a Cease-fire

21 October 1973

SC Res. 338: Calling for Cease-fire and Deciding to Start Immediately Negotiations for Just Durable and Peace

22 October 1973

Israeli Advance Continues and an International Nuclear Crisis Looms

23 October 1973 - 27 October 1973

Kilometer 101 Talks

11 November 1973

6th Arab Summit Is Held in Algiers

26 November 1973 - 28 November 1973

Opening of an Arab-Israeli Peace Conference in Geneva

21 December 1973

Sinai I Agreement

18 January 1974 - 3 March 1974

Arab Oil Embargo Is Lifted

Attrition in the Golan

12 March 1974 - 15 April 1974

Palestinian Operations in Northern Israel

Israel and Syria Sign a Disengagement Agreement

Egypt and Syria Support PLO Representativeness

21 September 1974

Palestinian Rejection Front

10 October 1974

UNGA 3210 (XXIX): Inviting the PLO to Participate in GA Deliberations on Question of Palestine

14 October 1974

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

22 November 1974

Palestinian Operations from South Lebanon

5 March 1975 - 20 November 1975

Negotiations for Sinai II Fail

7 March 1975 - 22 March 1975

Sinai II Agreement Reached

20 August 1975 - 4 September 1975

Assassination Attempt of PLO Senior Leadership in Beirut

PLO Official Office in Paris

31 October 1975

Civil Disobedience in West Bank

November 1975 - March 1976

PLO Observer at the Food and Agriculture Organization

8 November 1975

UNGA 3379 (XXX): Determining that Zionism is a Form of Racism and Racial Discrimination

10 November 1975

UNGA 3375 (XXX): Calling for Inviting PLO to any UN Efforts on the Middle East on Equal Footing with Other Parties

10 November 1975

Premeditated Israeli Air Attack Against Palestinians in Lebanon

2 December 1975

The PLO at the Security Council

4 December 1975

Draft SC Res S/11898 to Condemn Israeli Attacks against Lebanon, Vetoed by US

8 December 1975

Palestinians in Israel Mobilize Against Confiscation

1 January 1976 - 6 March 1976

The PLO Invited again to Security Council's Debate

12 January 1976

Draft SC Res. S/11940 to Affirm Palestinian Rights, Vetoed by US

26 January 1976

The Koenig Memorandum on Israeli Policy toward the Palestinians in Israel

1 March 1976 - April 1976

Draft SC Res. S/12022 to Deplore Israeli Policies that Could Change Jerusalem Status, Vetoed by US

Palestinian "Land Day"

Syrian Forces Enter Lebanon

Evacuation of US Nationals from Beirut with PLO Assistance

16 June 1976 - 20 June 1976

Plane Hijacked to Entebbe

27 June 1976 - 4 July 1976

Draft SC Res. S/12119 to Affirm Palestinian Rights, as Requested by GA, Vetoed by US

Fall of Tal al-Za'atar

PLO Becomes a Full Member of the Arab League

9 September 1976

Six-Party Arab Summit in Riyadh on Palestinian-Syrian Ceasefire in Lebanon

16 October 1976 - 18 October 1976

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

Likud's Victory in Israeli Elections

Menachem Begin: "Territories Are Not Occupied"

Municipalities in the West Bank and Gaza Affirm the PLO Program in a Message to the US and USSR

Israel's Conditions for Geneva Conference

25 September 1977

Joint US-Soviet Statement on Geneva Conference

US Steps Back from the US-Soviet Statement on the Geneva Conference

Sadat's Visit to Jerusalem

19 November 1977 - 21 November 1977

Arab States Take Position Against Sadat's Visit to Jerusalem

5 December 1977

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

8 December 1977

Israel's Autonomy Plan for the West Bank and Gaza Strip

28 December 1977

29th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

20 February 1978 - 1 March 1978

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

Camp David Summit; Camp David Accords

5 September 1978 - 17 September 1978

Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Reject the Camp David Autonomy Plan

16 October 1978 - 4 November 1978

9th Arab Summit Meets in Baghdad and Condemns the Camp David Accords

5 November 1978

14th Palestine National Council Is Held in Damascus

15 January 1979 - 22 January 1979

Ali Hassan Salameh Is Killed in Beirut

22 January 1979

SC Res. 446: Establishing a Commission to Examine the Situation Relating to Settlements in the Occupied Territories

Arab Sanctions Against Egypt

27 March 1979 - 31 March 1979

A PLF Operation in Nahariya

1st Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Beersheba

2nd Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Alexandria

11 June 1979 - 12 June 1979

3rd Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Herzliya

25 June 1979 - 26 June 1979

4th Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Alexandria

5 July 1979 - 6 July 1979

5th Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Haifa

5 August 1979 - 6 August 1979

Israelis Are Permitted to Buy Land in Occupied Territories

16 September 1979

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

22 September 1979

6th Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Alexandria

26 September 1979 - 27 September 1979

Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Are Held in London

25 October 1979 - 26 October 1979

Deportation of Bassam Shak'a Reversed After West Bank Mayors Threaten Resignation

11 November 1979 - 5 December 1979

Assassination of Ibrahim Abdul Aziz Brigheeth and Samir Toukan in Cyprus

15 December 1979

7th Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Cairo

18 December 1979 - 19 December 1979

Palestinian Autonomy Is Discussed at the Sadat-Begin Summit in Aswan

7 January 1980 - 10 January 1980

Israeli Model for Palestinian Self-Governing Authority

17 January 1980

Egyptian Model for Palestinian Self-Governing Authority

28 January 1980

Israeli Settlement in the Old City of Hebron

10 February 1980 - 23 March 1980

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

27 February 1980 - 29 February 1980

SC Res. 465: Calling on Israel to Dismantle Settlements and Cease Constructing, Planning New Ones

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

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

1 May 1980 - 7 May 1980

Palestinian Operation Against Settlers in Hebron

2 May 1980 - 3 May 1980

Egypt Decides to Suspend Talks with Israel on Palestinian Autonomy

Venice Declaration

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

14 July 1980 - 15 July 1980

Egypt's Response to Israel's Basic Law on Jerusalem

SC Res. 478: Censuring Israeli Enactment of "Basic Law" on Jerusalem

Birzeit University Is Closed

14 November 1980

15th Palestine National Council Is Held in Damascus

11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981

Israeli-Syrian Mounting Tension in Lebanon

28 April 1981 - 5 May 1981

Severe Israeli-Palestinian Clashes in Lebanon

10 July 1981 - 20 July 1981

Philip Habib's Mediation for Cease-fire in South Lebanon

Palestinian Writers in Occupied Territories Affirm Commitment to Palestine Cause

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

23 September 1981 - 24 September 1981

Majid Abu Sharar Is Assassinated in Rome

Civil Administration Is Established by the Military in the Occupied Territories

8 November 1981 - 1 December 1981

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

11 November 1981 - 12 November 1981

Draft SC Res. S/14832/Rev.1 to Consider Israeli Golan Measures an Act of Agression, Vetoed by US

20 January 1982

Israel's Proposal for the Palestinian Self-Governing Authority

31 January 1982

UNGA Res. ES/9-1: Adopts Content of Vetoed Draft SC Res. on Israeli Golan Measures

5 February 1982

Strike in the Golan Heights Against Annexation

12 February 1982 - 11 May 1982

Popular Resistance and Israeli Measures in West Bank

16 February 1982 - 30 March 1982

Draft SC Res. S/14943 to Denounce Dismissal of Palestinian Mayors, Vetoed by US

Shooting Spree at the Haram al-Sharif

11 April 1982 - 15 April 1982

Draft SC Res. S/14985 to Condemn Shooting of Worshippers at Haram al-Sharif, Vetoed by US

South Lebanon Cease-fire Is Broken

21 April 1982 - 9 May 1982

Last Stage of Israeli Withdrawal from the Sinai

Palestinian Mayors Stand with Those Dismissed by Israel

Sharon Goes to Washington to Get Green Light on Lebanon War

Assassination Attempt of Israeli Ambassador in London

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

4 June 1982 - 5 June 1982

SC Res. 508: Calling Upon all Parties to Cease Military Activities in Lebanon and across Lebanese-Israeli Border

SC Res. 509: Demanding Full and Unconditional Withdrawal of Israeli Forces from Lebanon

Israel Invades Along the Central Axis

6 June 1982 - 11 June 1982

Israel Invades Along the Eastern Axis

6 June 1982 - 12 June 1982

Israeli Invasion Along the Western Axis

6 June 1982 - 14 June 1982

Draft SC Res. S/15185 to Demand again Full and Unconditional Israeli Withdrawal, Vetoed by US

The “Creeping” Cease-fire

10 June 1982 - 26 June 1982

Encirclement of Beirut

11 June 1982 - 20 June 1982

Battle of the Mountain

14 June 1982 - 26 June 1982

Israel and the US Demand PLO Withdrawal from Beirut and Lebanon

15 June 1982 - 27 June 1982

Several Israeli Attempts to Assassinate Yasir Arafat During Invasion of Lebanon

15 June 1982 - 30 August 1982

PLO Debates Withdrawal

16 June 1982 - 2 July 1982

Draft SC Res. S/15255/Rev.2 on a (French) Plan for Military Disengagement in Beirut, Vetoed by US

Israeli Military Pressure on West Beirut

27 June 1982 - 11 July 1982

The PLO 11-Point Document

Israeli Army Attempts to Conquer Beirut

21 July 1982 - 12 August 1982

PLO Accepts Habib’s Plan

29 July 1982 - 31 July 1982

Reagan's "Talking Points" to Begin on Palestinian Issue

Reagan's Plan on the Palestinian Issue

1 September 1982

Lebanon War Casualties

1 September 1982 - 11 October 1982

Israel Rejects the Reagan Plan

2 September 1982

Assassination of Bashir Gemayel and Israeli Occupation of Beirut

14 September 1982 - 16 September 1982

Sabra and Shatila Massacres

16 September 1982 - 18 September 1982

Israel Withdraws from Beirut and the Multinational Force Returns

23 September 1982 - 29 September 1982

PLO and Jordan Agree on Idea of Palestinian-Jordanian Confederation

9 October 1982 - 10 November 1982

30th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

7 December 1982 - 16 December 1982

Israeli-Lebanese Negotiations

28 December 1982

16th Palestine National Council Is Held in Algiers

14 February 1983 - 22 February 1983

Israeli Settlements in the West Bank

21 March 1983 - 11 April 1983

Failed Attempt of Palestinian-Jordanian Coordination

31 March 1983 - 8 April 1983

Israel-Lebanon 17 May Agreement

17 May 1983 - 14 June 1983

Scission within Fatah

18 May 1983 - 15 September 1983

Reactions to Fatah Scission in Occupied Territories

26 June 1983 - 9 November 1983

Tension in Hebron

1 July 1983 - 30 July 1983

Draft SC Res. S/15895 to Condemn Attacks Against Palestinian Civilians in Hebron, Vetoed by US

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Tunis

3 August 1983 - 7 August 1983

Ma'moun Meraish Is Assassinated in Athens

Yasir Arafat in Tripoli, Lebanon, and then Cairo

16 September 1983 - 22 December 1983

Israeli Measures Against Palestinian Universities

2 November 1983 - 30 July 1984

UNGA 38/58: Calling for the Convening of an International Peace Conference on the Middle East

13 December 1983

Jordanian Parliament Revived

9 January 1984 - 18 January 1984

Palestinians in the Occupied Territories Oppose Reactivating the Jordanian Parliament

23 January 1984

Palestinian-Jordanian Coordination for Peace Talks

26 February 1984 - 1 March 1984

S-G Report (A/39/130-S/16409), Pursuant to UNGA Res. 38/58 on ME Peace Conference

Palestinian Internal Polarization

27 March 1984 - 20 May 1984

Palestinians Hijack an Israeli Bus Toward Gaza

Operation of Israeli Occupation Forces Against Ayn al-Hilwa

16 May 1984 - 18 May 1984

Fatah-Democratic Alliance Precarious Reconciliation

27 June 1984 - 2 September 1984

Tal Rumayda Settlement in Hebron

Attempted Assassination of Zaki Hillo in Madrid

Commemorating the Sabra-Shatila Massacres

17 September 1984

Demolitions in the Jordan Valley

1 November 1984 - 11 November 1984

17th Palestine National Council Is Held in Amman

22 November 1984 - 29 November 1984

Israeli Army Withdraws from Saida Region

16 February 1985

PLO Executive on Palestinian-Jordanian Joint Action Agreement

18 February 1985

Attempts to Form a Jordanian-Palestinian Delegation to Meet the US

1 March 1985 - 1 September 1985

Palestinian National Salvation Front Is Formed in Damascus

Extraordinary Arab Summit Meets in Casablanca

7 August 1985 - 9 August 1985

Draft SC Res. S/17459 to Call upon Israel to Stop its Repressive Measures, Vetoed by US

13 September 1985

Israeli Planes Attack PLO Headquarters in Tunis; Arafat Narrowly Escapes

25 September 1985 - 1 October 1985

Achille Lauro Hijacked

7 October 1985 - 11 October 1985

Arafat's "Cairo Declaration" on Terrorism

7 November 1985

US-Palestinian Meeting in Jerusalem

4 December 1985

Breakdown of Jordanian-Palestinian Coordination

25 January 1986 - 1 April 1986

Draft SC Res. S/17769 to Deplore Provocative Acts in the Haram al-Sharif, Vetoed by US

30 January 1986

Assassination of Zafir al-Masri

2 March 1986 - 3 March 1986

Khaled Nazzal Assassinated in Athens

Two Palestinian Newspapers Banned in Jerusalem

US-Palestinian Meeting in Jerusalem

Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance Amended to Prohibit Contact with PLO

Fatah-DFLP-PCP Reconciliation: The Prague Declaration

6 September 1986

Munther Abu Ghazaleh Assassinated in Athens

21 October 1986

Israeli Repression in the Occupied Territories

4 December 1986 - 11 December 1986

Deportation of Muhammad Dahlan

13 December 1986 - 26 January 1987

Clashes in the Occupied Territories

9 February 1987 - 18 February 1987

Elections in Gaza Professional Unions

21 February 1987

Hussein-Peres London Secret Agreement

Detention of Faisal al-Husseini

12 April 1987 - 13 September 1987

Closure of Palestinian Universities

Deportation of Marwan Barghouti and Khalil Achour

Islamic Jihad Operations in Gaza

18 May 1987 - 30 November 1987

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

1st Visit of US Secretary George Shultz to the Region

17 October 1987 - 18 October 1987

Closure of Bethlehem University

28 October 1987

Palestinian Hang-Glider Operation

25 November 1987

31st Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem

6 December 1987 - 10 December 1987

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

Solidarity of Israel's Palestinians with the Intifada

21 December 1987

SC Res. 605: Deploring Israeli Violent Repression of Palestinian Intifada

22 December 1987

Non-Armed Intifada

3 January 1988 - 13 February 1988

Unified National Leadership of the Uprising

The Palestinians' 14 Demands

14 January 1988

Israel's Policy of "Beating"

19 January 1988 - 27 January 1988

Resumption of Diplomatic Activity

30 January 1988 - 10 February 1988

Draft Security Council Resolutions S/19466, S/19780, S/20463, S/20677, and S/20945/Rev.1

1 February 1988 - 7 November 1989

One-Month Closure of Academic Institutions in the West Bank

2 February 1988

2nd Visit of US Secretary George Shultz to the Region; Statement to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza

25 February 1988 - 26 February 1988

ICJ on US Treaty Obligations and the US Position on the PLO Office in New York

9 March 1988 - 11 March 1988

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

11 March 1988 - 29 March 1988

3rd Visit of US Secretary of State Shultz to the Region

3 April 1988 - 8 April 1988

Assassination of Khalil al-Wazir in Tunis

4th Visit of US Secretary of State Shultz to the Region

3 June 1988 - 7 June 1988

Extraordinary Arab Summit in Algiers

7 June 1988 - 9 June 1988

Another Round of Releasing and Detaining Faisal al-Husseini

9 June 1988 - 29 January 1989

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) Issues Its Charter

Elections in Israel

1 November 1988

19th Palestine National Council Meets in Algiers and Proclaims the Palestinian State

12 November 1988 - 15 November 1988

The Intifada First Year Balance Sheet

9 December 1988

UNGA 43/160: Entitling the PLO to Circulate its Communications as GA Official Documents

9 December 1988

Israeli Raid on Palestinian Base South of Beirut; Ahmad Jibril Is Targeted

9 December 1988

Start of US-PLO Dialogue

14 December 1988

UNGA 43/177: The PLO to Be Designated as Palestine in the UN System; Territorial Scope

15 December 1988

Tougher Israeli Measures Against the Intifada

17 January 1989

US-PLO Official Meeting Takes Place in Carthage, Tunisia

Israel Proposes Elections in the West Bank and Gaza

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Tunis

31 March 1989 - 2 April 1989

Yasir Arafat Makes First Official Visit to Paris

2 May 1989 - 4 May 1989

Resurgence of Intifada, Worsening of Repression

3 May 1989 - 16 May 1989

Israel's "Peace Initiative"

The PLO Executive Committee Rejects Israel's Peace Initiative

Ahmad Yasin Arrested

Egypt Proposes a Ten-Point Plan for Palestinian Elections

1 July 1989 - 30 September 1989

US-PLO Official Meeting in Tunis

Israel Deports Five Palestinians

SC Res. 641: Deploring the Continuing Deportation by Israel of Palestinian Civilians

Mass Emigration of Soviet Jews to Israel Is Triggered

1 October 1989 - 14 January 1990

The Baker Five-Point Plan

10 October 1989

Responses to the Baker Five-Point Plan

16 October 1989 - 18 December 1989

Draft UNGA A/44/L.50 to Construe Designation Palestine as the State of Palestine Withdrawn Due to US Threat against UN

6 December 1989

US Voices Dissatisfaction with Israel

23 February 1990 - 3 March 1990

Israel's National Unity Government Collapses

13 March 1990 - 11 June 1990

Rishon LeZion (Uyun Qara) Killings

Draft SC S/21326 to Dispatch a SC Commission to Palestinian Territory to Recommend Ways of Protecting Civilians Vetoed by US

Dial 1-202-456-1414

The US Administration Suspends Dialogue with the PLO

Extraordinary Arab Summit in Cairo

9 August 1990 - 10 August 1990

Haram al-Sharif Killings

SC Res. 672: Condemns Israel's Acts of Violence and Requests the SG to Submit Report on Mission Sent to Region

12 October 1990

Statement S/22027 by SC President on Palestinian Legitimate Political Rights and International Conference

20 December 1990

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

20 December 1990

Assassination of Salah Khalaf (Abu Iyad) and Hayel Abdel Hamid (Abu al-Hol)

14 January 1991

17 January 1991 - 28 February 1991

President Bush Outlines US Goals Following the Gulf War

Israel Deports Four Palestinians from Gaza to South Lebanon

SC Res 694: Deploring Israel's Deportation of Palestinian Civilians

President Bush's Letters to M.E. Leaders on Proposed Peace Conference

1 June 1991 - 14 July 1991

Secretary Baker Second Stage Diplomacy

21 July 1991 - 13 October 1991

Intifada Statistics

US-Soviet Joint Statement on the Middle East, Moscow

20th Palestine National Council Is Held in Algiers

23 September 1991 - 28 September 1991

US Letters of Assurances to Parties to Upcoming Peace Conference

15 October 1991 - 18 October 1991

US-Soviet Invitation to the Madrid Peace Conference

18 October 1991

1st Negotiation Round, Madrid

3 November 1991

2nd Negotiation Round, Washington

10 December 1991 - 18 December 1991

UNGA 46/86: Revoking UNGA 3379 (XXX) that Had Determined Zionism as a Form of Racism

16 December 1991

SC Res. 726: Condemning Israel's Decision to Resume Deportation of Palestinian Civilians

3rd Negotiation Round, Washington

13 January 1992 - 16 January 1992

Conference on Multilateral Peace Talks, Moscow

28 January 1992 - 29 January 1992

4th Negotiation Round, Washington

24 February 1992 - 4 March 1992

Arafat Survives a Plane Crash in Libya

7 April 1992 - 8 April 1992

5th Negotiation Round, Washington

27 April 1992 - 30 April 1992

Multilateral Talks

11 May 1992 - 13 May 1992

Assassination of Atef Bseiso in Paris

Elections in Israel

32nd Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

26 July 1992 - 30 July 1992

6th Negotiation Round, 1st Stage, Washington

24 August 1992 - 3 September 1992

6th Negotiation Round, 2nd Stage, Washington

14 September 1992 - 24 September 1992

A Coalition of 10 Palestinian Organizations Opposed to Negotiations Is Formed in Damascus

16 September 1992

Multilateral Talks

29 October 1992 - 12 November 1992

8th Negotiation Round, Washington

7 December 1992 - 16 December 1992

Bilateral Negotiation Round Delayed

11 January 1993

Norwegian Secret Channel, Exploratory Stage

20 January 1993 - 9 May 1993

Palestinians Agree to Return to Washington Negotiations

9th Negotiation Round, Washington

27 April 1993 - 13 May 1993

Norwegian Secret Channel, Official Stage

20 May 1993 - 20 August 1993

10th Negotiation Round, Washington

15 June 1993 - 1 July 1993

Palestinian-Israeli Declaration of Principles Initialed and Approved

20 August 1993 - 30 August 1993

The Coalition of 10 Palestinian Organizations Reject the Palestinian-Israeli Accord, Damascus

2 September 1993

Mutual Recognition Between Israel and the PLO

9 September 1993 - 10 September 1993

Palestinian-Israeli Declaration of Principles Signed in Washington

13 September 1993

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

11 October 1993

Start of Gaza-Jericho Negotiations, Taba

13 October 1993 - 8 December 1993

President Clinton Signs the Middle East Peace Facilitation Act of 1993

28 October 1993

Start of Israel-PLO Economic Talks in Paris

Multilevel Gaza-Jericho Negotiations

12 December 1993 - 23 February 1994

Fundamental Agreement between the Holy See and the State of Israel

30 December 1993

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

Talks on Security for Palestinians in Hebron

20 March 1994 - 30 March 1994

Final Chapter of Gaza-Jericho Negotiations

31 March 1994 - 1 May 1994

Wave of Hamas and Islamic Jihad Attacks

6 April 1994 - 30 April 1994

Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area Is Signed in Cairo

The Mirage of the 5-Year Countdown to Palestinian Statehood

4 May 1994 - 3 May 1999

Status of Orient House in Jerusalem

29 May 1994 - 7 June 1994

Early Empowerment Accord Is Signed

Palestinian Police Shoot on Demonstrators in Gaza

18 November 1994 - 23 November 1994

Settlement Activity Around Jerusalem

19 January 1995 - 1 February 1995

Anti-Israeli Attacks and Inter-Palestinian Tension

2 April 1995 - 19 April 1995

Separation Fence

Land Expropriation in Jerusalem

27 April 1995 - 3 May 1995

Draft SC S/1995/394 to Condemn Israeli Land Expropriation in Jerusalem Vetoed by the US

Land Expropriation in Jerusalem Suspended

18 May 1995 - 22 May 1995

The Tragedy of the Palestinians in Libya

9 August 1995 - 13 January 1999

Israeli Restrictions on the Palestinian Authority in Jerusalem

17 August 1995 - 31 August 1995

Further Transfer of Powers and Responsibilities

Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (Oslo II)

28 September 1995

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

The Beilin-Abu Mazen Document

31 October 1995

Israeli Army Redeploys from Areas in the West Bank

November 1995 - December 1995

Assassination of Yahya Ayyash in Beit Lahiya

Palestinian Presidential and Legislative Elections

20 January 1996

Suicide Bombings in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem

25 February 1996 - 4 March 1996

Start of the Countdown for the Three-Phase Further Redeployment in the West Bank

Inauguration of the Palestinian Legislative Council in Gaza

Redeployment from Hebron Delayed

Israel Launches Operation Grapes of Wrath Against Lebanon

11 April 1996 - 26 April 1996

21st Palestine National Council Is Held in Gaza

22 April 1996 - 24 April 1996

Likud's Benjamin Netanyahu Is Elected Prime Minister

29 May 1996 - 18 June 1996

Extraordinary Arab Summit in Cairo

21 June 1996 - 23 June 1996

First Netanyahu-Arafat Meeting

4 September 1996

Tunnel Opened by Israel in Old City, Jerusalem; Palestinian-Israeli Clashes

24 September 1996 - 28 September 1996

SC Res. 1073: Calling for the Reversal of all Acts (Opening of Western Wall Tunnel) Aggravating the Situation

28 September 1996

Clinton - Netanyahu - Arafat - Hussein Meeting in Washington

1 October 1996 - 2 October 1996

Protocol on Redeployment in Hebron Signed

6 October 1996 - 16 January 1997

Ambiguous and Weakened Assurances on Further Redeployment

16 January 1997

Har Homa/Jabal Abu Ghunaym Settlement to Be Constructed

26 February 1997

Draft SC Res. S/1997/199 to Call on Israel to Refrain from Settlement Activities (Jabal Abu Ghunaym) Vetoed by US

First Phase of Further Redeployment Not Implemented

9 March 1997 - 12 March 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

UNGA ES-10/2: Condemning Israel's Construction of Jabal Abu Ghunaym Settlement

Suicide Bombings in West Jerusalem: Israeli Reactions and Palestinian Measures

30 July 1997 - 25 September 1997

Israeli Settlement Activities Amid Attempts to Resume Talks

10 September 1997 - 6 November 1997

The Holy See and Israel Sign an Agreement Complementing their 1993 Fundamental Agreement

10 November 1997

Israel's Position on Further Redeployment and on Palestinian Obligations

23 November 1997 - 14 January 1998

US Position on Further Redeployment and Palestinian Obligations

5 December 1997 - 3 September 1998

33rd Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

23 December 1997 - 26 December 1997

Assassination of Mohi al-Din Sharif in Ramallah

Commemoration of the Nakba 50th Anniversary

14 May 1998 - 15 May 1998

Renewed Israeli Settlement Activities and Plans in East Jerusalem

25 May 1998 - 21 June 1998

UNGA Res. 52/250: Granting Palestine Additional Rights and Privileges at the GA

Statement S/PRST/1998/21 by SC President against Israel Broadening Boundaries of Jerusalem

Further Redeployment Talks Intensify

3 September 1998 - 28 September 1998

Assassination of Adel Awadallah and Imad Awadallah in Khirbat al-Taybeh

11 September 1998

Wye River Plantation Meeting; Memorandum Signed

15 October 1998 - 23 October 1998

Several Palestinian Organizations Publicly Oppose Wye Memorandum

26 October 1998

Feverish Settlement Activities After Wye Memorandum

26 October 1998 - 15 November 1998

Israeli Obstacles to Wye River Implementation; First Stage Redeployment Only

30 October 1998 - 17 May 1999

Israel Releases the First Group of Prisoners Pursuant to Oral Understandings at Wye River

19 November 1998 - 20 November 1998

Inauguration of LVGR, the Gaza International Airport

20 November 1998 - 24 November 1998

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Gaza

10 December 1998

President Clinton's Visit to Gaza

14 December 1998

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

28 December 1998 - 25 April 1999

UNGA Res. ES-10/6: Recommending Holding a Conference to Enforce the 4th Geneva Convention in the OPT

9 February 1999

Orient House, Jerusalem and PLO Foreign Relations

1 March 1999 - 11 May 1999

European Union Declaration "Compensating" the PLO for Not Declaring a State

Clinton's Letter of Assurance to Arafat as a "Compensation" for Not Declaring a State

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Gaza

27 April 1999 - 29 April 1999

End of the Oslo Five-Year Interim Period

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

With Barak as Prime Minister, Negotiations on Wye Implementation Resume

11 July 1999 - 3 September 1999

Conference on the 4th Geneva Convention Affirms its Applicability to the OPT

Palestinian Authority Crackdown Against Hamas

3 August 1999 - 26 August 1999

Sharm al-Shaykh Memorandum (Wye II Accord)

4 September 1999

Implementation of Sharm al-Shaykh Memorandum (Wye II)

10 September 1999 - 20 March 2000

Official Resumption of Final Status Talks

13 September 1999 - 6 December 1999

Abu Ali Mustafa, PFLP Deputy Secretary-General Returns to Palestine

30 September 1999

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

10 October 1999 - 10 November 1999

Petition of the Twenty Denouncing the Palestinian Authority

27 November 1999 - 29 November 1999

Setting Up Israeli-Palestinian Back Channel

1 December 1999 - 5 May 2000

Revival and Failure of Syrian-Israeli Talks

7 December 1999 - 26 March 2000

Failure to Reach a FAPS by 13 February 2000 Target Date

8 December 1999 - 6 February 2000

Assassination of Iyad Batat in Bayt Awa

13 December 1999

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Gaza

2 February 2000 - 3 February 2000

Commitments Not Implemented by Israel During the Transitional Period

9 February 2000

Mounting Malaise in the Palestinian Territories

17 February 2000 - 18 May 2000

FAPS Target Date Extended to 13 May: The Bolling Rounds

7 March 2000 - 20 April 2000

George Habash Retires as S-G of PFLP

27 April 2000 - 28 April 2000

Failure to Reach the FAPS by 13 May 2000 Target Date: Eilat Round

30 April 2000 - 8 May 2000

Mounting Anti-Israeli Mobilization

10 May 2000 - 20 May 2000

The Stockholm Back Channel - 1st Session

12 May 2000 - 15 May 2000

The Stockholm Back Channel - 2nd Session

18 May 2000 - 22 May 2000

Israeli-Palestinian (Post-Stockholm) Back Channel

1 June 2000 - 3 June 2000

Syrian President Hafiz al-Asad Dies

10 June 2000 - 11 June 2000

Andrews and Bolling Rounds of Negotiation

13 June 2000 - 17 June 2000

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Gaza

2 July 2000 - 3 July 2000

Clinton Invites Arafat and Barak to a Summit in Camp David

3 July 2000 - 11 July 2000

Failure of Final Status Talks at Camp David Summit

11 July 2000 - 25 July 2000

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

15 July 2000 - 8 August 2000

Attempts to Revive Final Status Talks

16 August 2000 - 28 September 2000

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Gaza

9 September 2000 - 10 September 2000

Ariel Sharon at al-Haram al-Sharif

28 September 2000

Start of the Second Intifada

29 September 2000 - 4 October 2000

US Attempts at Easing Tension, but Confrontation Spikes

4 October 2000 - 12 October 2000

SC Res. 1322: Deploring Provocation at Al-Haram al-Sharif and Excessive Use of Force against Palestinians

Sharm al-Shaykh Summit

16 October 2000 - 18 October 2000

UNGA Res. ES-10/7: Expresses Concern over Israeli-Palestinian Clashes and Respect for 4th Geneva Convention

20 October 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

Toward a Protracted Confrontation

10 November 2000 - 22 December 2000

Israeli Prime Minister Barak Resigns

9 December 2000

Draft Security Council Resolution S/2000/1171

18 December 2000

Resumption of Peace Talks; the Clinton "Proposals"

19 December 2000 - 23 December 2000

Palestinian-Israeli Clashes Abate

23 December 2000 - 6 February 2001

Israeli and Palestinian Response to the Clinton Proposals

28 December 2000 - 3 January 2001

21 January 2001 - 27 January 2001

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

6 February 2001

Israel and the US Put Effective End to Peace Talks

7 February 2001 - 8 February 2001

Intense then Moderate Resurgence of Palestinian-Israeli Clashes

8 February 2001 - 7 March 2001

Operation Bronze and Escalation

7 March 2001 - 16 May 2001

Draft SC Res. S/2001/270 Calling for Cessation of Settlement Activities and Protection of Palestinian Civilians Vetoed by US

A Lebanese Legislative Amendment Equates Immovable Property Acquisition by Palestinian Refugees with their Resettlement

Assassination of Iyad Hardan in Jenin

Jordanian-Egyptian Proposal for a Cease-Fire and a Resumption of Talks

16 April 2001 - 27 April 2001

Lebanese MPs challenge the Constitutionality of Equating Immovable Property Acquisition by Palestinian Refugees with their Resettlement

The Mitchell Report Is Issued

30 April 2001 - 15 May 2001

Lebanon's Constitutional Council Upholds the Prohibition of Real Estate Acquisition by Palestinian Refugees

New Threshold Crossed with Suicide Bombing and Warplanes

18 May 2001 - 4 June 2001

Death of Faisal al-Husseini

The Tenet Cease-Fire Plan

11 June 2001 - 20 June 2001

Israel Closes Orient House and Other Jerusalem Institutions

Palestinian-Israeli Confrontation Escalates

20 August 2001 - 10 September 2001

UN World Conference Against Racism in Durban

31 August 2001 - 8 September 2001

Assassination Attempt of Raed Karmi in Tulkarm

6 September 2001

The 9-11 Attacks on the US

11 September 2001

US and Palestinian Efforts to Stop Israeli Escalation

12 September 2001 - 16 October 2001

President Bush Publicly Endorses the Creation of a Palestinian State

2 October 2001 - 15 October 2001

Assassination of Rehavam Ze'evi and its Immediate Aftermath

17 October 2001 - 25 October 2001

Timid Diplomatic Efforts

2 November 2001 - 19 November 2001

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

26 November 2001 - 15 December 2001

Conference on the 4th Geneva Convention Affirms Responsibility of all Contracting Parties in Ensuring its Respect

5 December 2001

Draft SC Res. S/2001/1199 Demanding Cessation of Violence and Return to Previous Positions Vetoed by the US

15 December 2001

Another Timid Return to Diplomacy: a Peres-Qurai' Draft?

16 December 2001 - 27 December 2001

Karine A Arms Ship Is Captured and Arafat Is Isolated

3 January 2002 - 11 February 2002

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

The Knesset Passes the Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants Law

SC Res. 1397: Affirming a Vision of Two States, Israel and Palestine, Living Side by Side

14th Arab Summit Meets in Beirut and Adopts Saudi Peace Initiative

27 March 2002 - 28 March 2002

Massive Israeli Invasion: Operation Defensive Shield

28 March 2002 - 10 May 2002

Invasion of Ramallah: The Siege of Arafat's Compound

29 March 2002 - 1 May 2002

SC Res. 1402: Calling for Cease-Fire and Withdrawal of Israeli Troops from Palestinian Cities

Invasion of Bethlehem: The Siege of the Church of the Nativity

1 April 2002 - 10 May 2002

Invasion of Jenin Camp: Fierce Battle

3 April 2002 - 19 April 2002

Invasion of Nablus: Fierce Resistance

3 April 2002 - 21 April 2002

US Response to the Israeli Invasion

4 April 2002 - 17 April 2002

Birth of the Middle East "Quartet"

SC Res. 1405: Welcoming SG Initiative to Send Fact-Finding Team to Jenin Refugee Camp

Israeli and International Pressures for a PA Reform

7 May 2002 - 5 June 2002

Security on the Aftermath of Operation Defensive Shield

7 May 2002 - 5 June 2002

On the Road to Reform: First Palestinian Steps and Plans

15 May 2002 - 24 June 2002

Triggered by a Suicide Bombing, Israel Raids West Bank Towns and Shells Arafat's Headquarters

5 June 2002 - 17 June 2002

34th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

17 June 2002 - 20 June 2002

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

18 June 2002 - 16 July 2002

George W. Bush's Major Speech on US Policy for the Middle East

Aftermath of Salah Shehadeh's Assassination

22 July 2002 - 14 August 2002

Toward a "Road Map" to Final Status?

13 August 2002 - 5 November 2002

Israeli Army Refocuses on Gaza Strip

19 August 2002 - 7 October 2002

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

18 September 2002 - 29 September 2002

SC Res. 1435: Concern over Reoccupation of Arafat's Headquarters in Ramallah and Call for Israeli Withdrawal

24 September 2002

Second Attempted Assassination of Mohammed Deif in Gaza City

26 September 2002

Israel Unable to Quell Palestinian Attacks

10 October 2002 - 5 January 2003

Israeli Leaders Push for an American War Against Iraq

16 October 2002 - 9 February 2003

Israel Closes all West Bank District Coordination Offices

3 December 2002 - 11 January 2003

Draft SC Res. S/2002/1385 Demanding Israel's Compliance with 4th Geneva Convention Vetoed by US

20 December 2002

Assassination of Shaman Subuh and Mustafa Qash near Jenin

23 December 2002

Deepest Israeli Incursion in the Gaza Strip

24 January 2003 - 27 January 2003

The Likud Wins the Elections for the Knesset

28 January 2003

Arafat Accepts the Creation of a Prime Minister Position

9 February 2003 - 6 March 2003

Military Confrontation Escalates Again in Gaza

15 February 2003 - 6 March 2003

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah

8 March 2003 - 9 March 2003

The PLC Discusses and Approves Amendments to the Basic Law Creating the Post of Prime Minister

10 March 2003 - 18 March 2003

The US War Against Iraq; Security Developments in the West Bank and Gaza

17 March 2003 - 9 April 2003

Mahmoud Abbas Forms the Palestinian Government

19 March 2003 - 29 April 2003

US formally Presents Israel and the PA with the Road Map

Assassination of Yusuf Abu Hin in Gaza City

Heightened Violence Despite Diplomacy

1 May 2003 - 29 June 2003

The PLO Approves the Road Map

3 May 2003 - 11 May 2003

With US Blessing, Ambivalent Israeli Acceptance of the "Steps Set out in the Road Map"

4 May 2003 - 25 May 2003

Abbas and Sharon Meet in Jerusalem

17 May 2003 - 29 May 2003

Aqaba Summit: Bush, Abdullah, Abbas, and Sharon Meet

The Cease-Fire: Toward Failure

1 July 2003 - 12 August 2003

No Let Up in Confrontation

19 August 2003 - 20 August 2003

Yasir Arafat in the Line of Fire

4 September 2003 - 30 September 2003

Mahmoud Abbas Resigns as Prime Minister

6 September 2003

Ahmad Qurai' Is Appointed PM: A Nine-Week Ministerial Crisis

7 September 2003 - 12 November 2003

Draft SC Res. S/2003/891 Against any Israeli Act of Deportation and any Threat to Arafat's Safety Vetoed by US

16 September 2003

UNGA Res. ES-10/12: Demands Israel to Desist from any Israeli Act of Deportation and any Threat to Arafat's Safety

19 September 2003

Israel Adopts Plan for Second Phase of Separation Wall

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

Draft SC Res. S/2003/980 on Illegality of Wall inside OPT Vetoed by US

14 October 2003

UNGA Res. ES-10/13: Demands that Israel Stop and Reverse Construction of Wall inside OPT

21 October 2003

Violence Abates to a Moderate Level

1 November 2003 - 17 December 2003

SC Res. 1515: Endorsing Quartet Roadmap to a Two-State Solution

19 November 2003

Palestinian Peace Gestures

1 December 2003 - 7 January 2004

Sharon's Speech on Unilateral Disengagement Plan

18 December 2003

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

18 December 2003 - 31 January 2004

Sharon's Interview on Gaza-Centered Disengagement Plan

12 January 2004 - 2 February 2004

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

2 February 2004 - 13 March 2004

Israel Launches Operation Continuous Story Against Palestinian Leaders

14 March 2004 - 5 April 2004

Draft SC Res. S/2004/240 Condemning Extrajudicial Executions (Shaykh Ahmad Yasin) and all Terrorist Acts Vetoed by US

Sharon's Letter to Bush on Disengagement Plan

Bush's Letter to Sharon on the Disengagement Plan

Timing Another Israeli Escalation with Sharon's Plan

15 April 2004 - 29 April 2004

Reactions to Bush's Assurances to Sharon RE Disengagement Plan

15 April 2004 - 6 May 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

An Egyptian Security Plan for the PA

24 May 2004 - 6 July 2004

Life Sentence Against Marwan Barghouti

Israeli Cabinet Ambiguously Endorses Sharon's Disengagement Plan

Annual Zionist General Council (WZO) Meets in Jerusalem

Operation Full Court Press in Nablus

23 June 2004 - 19 August 2004

Operation Active Shield in Gaza; Assassination of Militants in Gaza and West Bank

27 June 2004 - 5 August 2004

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

7 July 2004 - 27 July 2004

UNGA Res. ES-10/15: Demands that Israel Complies with ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Wall; Requests SG to Establish Register of Damage

Settlement Activity in Spite of Road Map

2 August 2004 - 23 August 2004

Israeli-Palestinian Military Confrontation as Routine

18 August 2004 - 27 September 2004

Operation Days of Penitence

29 September 2004 - 15 October 2004

Draft SC Res. S/2004/783 Condemning Israeli Broad Incursion in Northern Gaza Strip Vetoed by US

Arafat's Sudden Illness and Death

12 October 2004 - 12 November 2004

Smooth and Constitutional Transition in PLO and PA Leadership

11 November 2004 - 1 December 2004

Israeli Attacks Resume: Operations Orange Iron, Violet Iron

17 November 2004 - 28 December 2004

Palestinian Presidential Elections: Mahmoud Abbas Is Elected

1 December 2004 - 15 January 2005

First Round of Municipal Elections

23 December 2004 - 27 January 2005

The Knesset Enacts the Prevention of Funding of Terrorism Law, 2005

29 December 2004

Israel Launches Operation Eastern Step

8 January 2005 - 17 January 2005

Palestinian Efforts to Stop Anti-Israeli Attacks: An Informal One-Month Truce

17 January 2005 - 26 January 2005

Abbas-Sharon Summit in Sharm al-Shaykh

8 February 2005

Resumption of Israeli-Palestinian Security Coordination

15 February 2005 - 30 April 2005

New Palestinian Cabinet under Ahmad Qurai'

24 February 2005

London Meeting on Supporting the Palestinian Authority

US Day-to-Day Involvement in Palestinian-Related Security Matters and in the Disengagement Plan

10 March 2005 - 30 June 2005

Palestinian Dialogue Conference Held in Cairo

15 March 2005 - 17 March 2005

Major Construction Plan in Ma'ale Adumim

21 March 2005 - 6 April 2005

17th Arab Summit Meets in Algiers

22 March 2005 - 23 March 2005

James Wolfensohn Appointed to Follow Economic-Related Disengagement Matters

14 April 2005 - 20 June 2005

Second Round of Municipal Elections

The Lebanese Minister of Labor Removes some Restrictions on the Work of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

7 June 2005 - 14 December 2005

Palestinian Truce Commitment at Risk

18 June 2005 - 21 July 2005

Disengagement: Evacuation of Settlers

8 August 2005 - 22 August 2005

Disengagement: Evacuation of Troops; The Case of Gaza-Egypt Border

15 August 2005 - 12 September 2005

Legal Status of the Gaza Strip after the Disengagement: Foreign Territory?

12 September 2005 - 21 September 2005

Disengagement: Celebrations in Gaza

12 September 2005 - 24 September 2005

Ongoing Israeli Raids: Operation First Rain

23 September 2005 - 2 October 2005

Third Round of Municipal Elections

29 September 2005

Palestinian Legislative Elections: Parties and Factions Sign a Code of Conduct

17 October 2005

Israel Launches Operation Starting All Over Again

24 October 2005 - 30 October 2005

Post Disengagement: Agreement on Movement and Access

15 November 2005

Post Disengagement: Agreed Principles for Rafah Crossing

15 November 2005 - 23 November 2005

The Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee Is Established

25 November 2005

Palestinian Legislative Elections: Fatah's Confused Preparation

25 November 2005 - 28 December 2005

After Ongoing Israeli Military Activities, A Surge in Violence

27 November 2005 - 15 December 2005

Fourth Round of Municipal Elections

15 December 2005

Operation Blue Skies and Continuing Escalation

22 December 2005 - 23 January 2006

After a Massive Stroke, Sharon Is Replaced by Ehud Olmert as Acting PM

The Return of Palestinian Diplomatic Representation to Lebanon

6 January 2006 - 17 August 2011

Palestinian Legislative Elections: At the Polls

25 January 2006

Palestinian Legislative Elections Results: Hamas's Victory

26 January 2006 - 29 January 2006

Palestinian Legislative Election Results: Initial Israeli and International Reactions

27 January 2006 - 5 February 2006

Palestinian Legislative Election Results: Initial Palestinian Reactions

27 January 2006 - 4 May 2006

Israeli Operations Resume

3 February 2006 - 11 February 2006

US-Israel Plan to Destabilize a Hamas-Led PA

17 February 2006 - 19 February 2006

Pressure on Palestinians; Gaza on the Brink of a Humanitarian Crisis

1 March 2006 - 25 April 2006

Olmert's Separation Plan

5 March 2006 - 9 March 2006

Israeli Raid on Jericho Jail

14 March 2006 - 18 March 2006

Olmert's Kadima Party Wins the Knesset Elections

28 March 2006 - 4 May 2006

Israel Launches Operation Southern Arrow

30 March 2006 - 14 May 2006

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

1 April 2006 - 6 September 2006

Abbas's Control Over PA Security Forces

5 April 2006 - 11 April 2006

Hamas-Led PA Ministry of Interior Establishes the Executive Support Force in Gaza

20 April 2006 - 25 May 2006

Israeli Operations in the West Bank

24 May 2006 - 22 June 2006

Assassination of Mahmud al-Majzub in Sidon

Fatah-Hamas Clashes

26 May 2006 - 24 June 2006

Israel Steps up Military Actions in Gaza

29 May 2006 - 15 June 2006

35th Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem

19 June 2006 - 22 June 2006

Hamas Operation Dispel Illusion: Capture of Gilad Shalit

25 June 2006 - 1 July 2006

The Knesset Adopts the “Criminal Procedure Law (Detainee Suspected of Security Offence) (Temporary Order)”, 2006

Israel Retaliates Against Shalit's Capture: Operation Summer Rains

28 June 2006 - 8 July 2006

Major Arrest Raid Against Hamas-Affiliated PA Officials

29 June 2006 - 19 August 2006

Lebanon Reregisters the Records of Palestinian Refugees It Had Deleted

New Israeli Pattern of Battering Gaza

11 July 2006 - 15 August 2006

Fourth Attempted Assassination of Mohammed Deif in Gaza City

2nd Israel War on Lebanon: the July War

12 July 2006 - 14 August 2006

July War: Israel Launches an Air War Against Hizballah

Draft SC Res. S/2006/508 Condemning Palestinian Abduction of Israeli Soldier and Israeli Assault on Gaza Vetoed by US

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

Major Israeli Operation in Nablus

19 July 2006 - 21 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: 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: The Cease-Fire

12 August 2006 - 14 August 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

Intra-Palestinian Dynamics: Demonstrations and Violence

28 August 2006 - 23 October 2006

Israel's Operation Summer Rains Enters its 4th Month

1 October 2006 - 31 October 2006

Israel's Operation Autumn Clouds Against Gaza

1 November 2006 - 12 November 2006

Draft SC Res. S/2006/878 Condemning Israel's Attack on Beit Hanoun Vetoed by US

11 November 2006

UNGA Res. ES-10/16: Calling upon Israel to Cease Operations and Withdraw from the Gaza Strip

17 November 2006

Gaza Escalation Followed by a Negotiated Cease-Fire

20 November 2006 - 26 November 2006

Three Dramatic Spikes in Fatah-Hamas Violence

10 December 2006 - 8 February 2007

The US to Strengthen Security Forces Loyal to Abbas

14 December 2006 - 5 January 2007

UNGA Res. ES-10/17: Establishing the Register of Damage Caused by the Construction of the Wall in the OPT

15 December 2006

The US Revisits the Road Map

14 January 2007 - 15 January 2007

International Responses to Palestinian Unity Efforts

2 February 2007 - 19 February 2007

Israeli Operation Hot Winter in Nablus

25 February 2007 - 7 March 2007

19th Arab Summit Meets in Riyadh: Revival of the Arab Peace Initiative

28 March 2007 - 29 March 2007

Israeli and US Reactions to the Revived Arab Peace Initiative

29 March 2007 - 17 April 2007

Israel Escalates Attacks in Gaza and the West Bank

3 April 2007 - 29 May 2007

Palestinians in Jaffa Protest Eviction Plans of Israel Land Administration

After the July War: Winograd Commission Interim Report

Fatah-Hamas Infighting Resumes

11 May 2007 - 20 May 2007

Hamas Seizes Control of Gaza

10 June 2007 - 16 June 2007

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah

20 June 2007 - 21 June 2007

Israeli Operations Against Gaza Resume

24 June 2007 - 12 July 2007

Tony Blair Appointed Quartet Special Representative

Fayyad's Emergency Government Becomes a de facto Regular Government

5 July 2007 - 14 July 2007

Bush's Policy Speech and Call for an International Conference

Abbas-Olmert Meetings to Reach Understandings Before the International Conference

6 August 2007 - 10 September 2007

Palestinian and Israeli Teams to Prepare Annapolis International Conference

20 September 2007 - 25 November 2007

Both Authorities in West Bank and Gaza Reorganize Security Forces

2 November 2007 - 4 December 2007

The Annapolis Conference Opens a New Round of Palestinian-Israeli Talks

27 November 2007

Settlement Expansion in Jabal Abu Ghunaym/ Har Homa

4 December 2007

Effects of the Siege of Gaza on Private Sector Production

9 December 2007 - 9 January 2008

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

Donors' Conference in Paris Supports Abbas's PA; PEGASE to Replace TIM

17 December 2007 - 1 February 2008

The PLO Presents "the Palestine Announcement in Lebanon"

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status: Palestinian Side Sounded Out

7 January 2008 - 27 January 2008

Bush's Statement on Palestinian Statehood, Jerusalem

10 January 2008

Relentless Israeli-Palestinian Confrontation in Gaza

15 January 2008 - 22 January 2008

Gaza Palestinians Break Out into Sinai

23 January 2008 - 3 February 2008

Israeli Supreme Court Endorses Economic Sanction Against Gaza

30 January 2008

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status Intensify

4 February 2008 - 24 February 2008

Assassination of Hizballah's Imad Mughniyah in Damascus

12 February 2008

Israel Launches Operation Hot Winter in Gaza

28 February 2008 - 3 March 2008

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status: Israeli's Security Demands

28 February 2008 - 11 May 2008

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status (Almost) Suspended

Israel Announces New Settlement Construction Plans

9 March 2008 - 2 April 2008

Hamas-Fatah Talks in Yemen

18 March 2008 - 28 March 2008

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status Resume: Refugees and Territory Stumbling Blocks

24 March 2008 - 4 May 2008

Gaza: Military Confrontation Continues and Siege is Tightened

26 March 2008 - 15 May 2008

Israel Refuses an Egyptian-Brokered Gaza Cease-Fire Offer

30 April 2008 - 12 May 2008

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status to Nowhere

27 May 2008 - 30 August 2008

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

7 July 2008 - 15 July 2008

Political Crisis in Israel

30 July 2008 - 10 February 2009

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status: Olmert's Political Gamble

31 August 2008 - 16 September 2008

Palestinian-Israeli Clashes in Acre

8 October 2008 - 13 October 2008

Israel Breaks the Gaza Cease-Fire

4 November 2008 - 30 November 2008

Seal on Gaza Borders Tightened

5 November 2008 - 29 November 2008

Gaza Cease-Fire Falls Apart

14 December 2008 - 21 December 2008

SC Res. 1850: Expressing Support for the Annapolis Negotiations and the Quartet Principles of January 2006

16 December 2008

Prelude to Israel's War on Gaza

21 December 2008 - 26 December 2008

War on Gaza, Day 1, Start of Phase 1

27 December 2008

The War on Gaza (2008-09): Operation Cast Lead/ Battle of al-Furqan

27 December 2008 - 18 January 2009

War on Gaza, Day 3

29 December 2008

War on Gaza, Day 4

30 December 2008

War on Gaza, Day 5

31 December 2008

War on Gaza, Day 6

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

War on Gaza, Day 9: Start of Phase 2

War on Gaza: Calls for Active Diplomacy

4 January 2009 - 5 January 2009

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 12

War on Gaza, Day 13

War on Gaza, Day 14

War on Gaza, Day 16

11 January 2009

War on Gaza, Day 18

13 January 2009

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

14 January 2009

War on Gaza, Day 20

15 January 2009

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

16 January 2009

War on Gaza, Day 21

16 January 2009

War on Gaza, Day 22

17 January 2009

War on Gaza: Israel Announces a Unilateral Cease-Fire

17 January 2009

Israel Completes Its Withdrawal from Gaza

20 January 2009 - 21 January 2009

President Obama Prepares Active Engagement in the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process

22 January 2009 - 4 March 2009

UNGA Res. ES-10/18: Supporting an Immediate Gaza Ceasefire According to Security Council Resolution 1860

23 January 2009

Gaza Tenuous Cease-Fire

27 January 2009 - 12 February 2009

Binyamin Netanyahu of Likud Forms Israeli Cabinet after Close Election Results

10 February 2009 - 31 March 2009

Talks to Consolidate Cease-Fire and Exchange Prisoners End in Failure

13 February 2009 - 18 February 2009

Palestinian National Unity Talks Resume in Cairo

25 February 2009 - 18 May 2009

Donor Conference for Gaza Reconstruction, Sharm al-Shaykh

Western Powers Adopt a Program of Action Against Weapons Smuggling into Gaza

The New Netanyahu Government Prepares its Position on the Palestinian Issue

31 March 2009 - 5 May 2009

The UN Human Rights Council Forms a Fact-Finding Mission on the War on Gaza (the Goldstone Mission)

The Obama Administration Prepares its Peace Initiative with the Arab Side

21 April 2009 - 28 May 2009

War on Gaza: Report of the UN Headquarters Board of Inquiry into Incidents Related to UN Premises

The Obama Administration Prepares its Peace Initiative with the Israeli Side: The Settlements Issue

18 May 2009 - 1 June 2009

Obama's Speech at Cairo University on the United States and the Muslim World

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University on Peace and Security for Israel

US-Israel Disagreement Over the Settlements Freeze

26 June 2009 - 28 July 2009

Hamas's Heavy-Handed Control of a Salafi Group in Gaza

22 July 2009 - 15 August 2009

Israel Land Administration Law

Fatah Sixth General Conference Is Held in Bethlehem

4 August 2009 - 8 August 2009

Fatah Sixth General Conference Renews Its Governing Bodies

8 August 2009 - 11 August 2009

US Resolve on Settlement Freeze Peters Out

19 August 2009 - 22 September 2009

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

25 August 2009 - 24 September 2009

Palestine National Council Special Meeting Is Held in Ramallah

26 August 2009 - 27 August 2009

Egypt's Efforts for Palestinian Reconciliation Fail Once More

9 September 2009 - 25 October 2009

Goldstone Report on the War on Gaza

15 September 2009 - 25 September 2009

Cross-Border Violence, Gaza

20 September 2009 - 3 October 2009

The Goldstone Report and Palestinian Erratic Decision-Making

29 September 2009 - 16 October 2009

Israel-Hamas Token Preliminary Prisoner Deal

2 October 2009 - 3 October 2009

Clinton's Disturbing Misstep on Settlements

31 October 2009 - 3 November 2009

UNGA Res. 64/10: Endorsing the Goldstone Report and Calling Upon both Sides to Investigate the Violations Reported in it

5 November 2009

Palestinian Legislative and Presidential Elections Postponed

12 November 2009

Israel Approves a Major Settlement Plan in Gilo, East Jerusalem

17 November 2009

Israel's Temporary and Partial Settlement Freeze

25 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

The US Tries to Launch Israeli-Palestinian Talks Through Letters of Guarantee

16 December 2009 - 4 January 2010

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

31 December 2009

The US Tries to Launch Israeli-Palestinian “Proximity” Talks

7 January 2010 - 8 February 2010

Establishment of Palestinian National Dignity Fund

12 January 2010 - 18 May 2010

Assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhuh in Dubai

20 January 2010 - 31 January 2010

Palestinian Municipal Elections Announced and Delayed

8 February 2010 - 12 February 2011

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

21 February 2010 - 25 February 2010

The Arab League and the PLO Endorse Israeli-Palestinian Proximity Talks

3 March 2010 - 7 March 2010

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

8 March 2010 - 11 March 2010

US Demands on Israel After the Ramat Shlomo Plan

9 March 2010 - 25 March 2010

Gaza Cross-Border Situation Deteriorates

11 March 2010 - 1 April 2010

The US Shies Away from Its Strong Demands on Israel

19 March 2010 - 30 April 2010

22nd Arab Summit Meets in Sirte

With the Arab League Blessing, Israeli-Palestinian Proximity Talks Are Launched

22 April 2010 - 20 May 2010

International Reactions to the Mavi Marmara Incident

31 May 2010 - 3 June 2010

Statement S/PRST/2010/9 by SC President on the Mavi Marmara Incident

Egypt Announces a Restricted Opening of its Border with Gaza after the Mavi Marmara Incident

The United Nations Human Rights Council Establishes a Fact-Finding Mission on the Mavi Marmara Incident

2 June 2010 - 27 September 2010

Israel Announces Easing of Gaza Blockade

8 June 2010 - 5 July 2010

Israel Forms (Turkel) Commission to Examine the Mavi Marmara Incident

36th Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem

15 June 2010 - 17 June 2010

Israel Resumes Provocative Settlement Measures in East Jerusalem

21 June 2010 - 30 June 2010

President Obama Meets Netanyahu and Pushes the Palestinians for Direct Talks with Israel

6 July 2010 - 23 August 2010

The UN Secretary-General Establishes a Panel of Inquiry on the Mavi Marmara Incident (Palmer Commission)

An Amendment to the Lebanese Social Security Law Grants Palestinian Refugees Right to End-of-Service and Occupational Emergency Compensations

An Amendment to the Lebanese Labor Law Exempts Palestinian Refugees from some Conditions Imposed on Foreign Workers

Direct Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations Held in Sharm al-Shaykh and Jerusalem

14 September 2010 - 15 September 2010

Israel's Temporary and Partial Settlement Freeze Is not Extended

20 September 2010 - 26 September 2010

Escalation in Israel's Settlement Activity

26 September 2010 - 8 November 2010

Abbas, Backed by the Arab League, Halts Palestinian-Israeli Direct Talks

30 September 2010 - 15 December 2010

Pro-Democracy Revolts and Demonstrations in Several Arab Countries

17 December 2010 - 11 February 2011

Fatah Dispute with Muhammad Dahlan

28 December 2010 - 12 June 2011

Al Jazeera Satellite TV and the Guardian Release the Palestine Papers

23 January 2011

Draft SC Res. S/2011/24 Reaffirming that Israeli Settlements in OPT Are Illegal Vetoed by US

18 February 2011

The Knesset passes the Law on Disclosure Requirements for Recipients of Support from a Foreign State Entity

Israel Approves Settlement Expansion

2 March 2011 - 11 August 2011

Two Spates of Clashes Across Gaza Border

16 March 2011 - 10 April 2011

The Knesset Passes the Citizenship Law (Amendment No. 10) Conditioning Citizenship on Loyalty

Abbas and Mishal Sign in Cairo a Record of Understandings Related to the 2009 National Conciliation Draft Agreement

4 May 2011 - 17 May 2011

On Nakba Day, Palestinians Head Up Toward Cease-Fire Lines with Israel

15 May 2011 - 5 June 2011

Abbas Confirms Palestinian UN Bid for Statehood

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

19 May 2011 - 22 May 2011

Diplomatic Efforts to Avert Palestinian Statehood Bid at the UN

2 June 2011 - 11 July 2011

Palestinian Reconciliation Accord Put on Hold

14 June 2011 - 7 August 2011

The Knesset Passes the "Anti-Boycott Law"

The Knesset Passes Israeli Prisons Law (Amendment No. 40) (Meetings with Lawyers)

Report of the Panel of Inquiry on the Mavi Marmara Incident (Palmer Commission)

2 September 2011

Despite US, European, and Arab Pressure, Abbas Submits a Request for Full UN Membership

12 September 2011 - 23 September 2011

State of Palestine: Application for Admission to Membership in the United Nations

23 September 2011

The Quartet Proposes a Vague Timetable for the Resumption of Negotiations

23 September 2011 - 14 December 2011

Israel Settlement Activity Taken up Again in Earnest

27 September 2011 - 1 November 2011

Fate of the Palestinian UN Admission Request

28 September 2011 - 8 November 2011

The State of Palestine Becomes Full Member of the UNESCO

5 October 2011 - 31 October 2011

A Prisoner Swap Deal Between Hamas and Israel

11 October 2011

After Palestine's UNESCO Admission, Israel Suspends Transfer of Taxes to the PA

1 November 2011 - 30 November 2011

Assassination of Issam al-Batsh in Gaza City

8 December 2011

Israeli Settlement Activity Continues, Including Through Expulsion

12 December 2011 - 28 December 2011

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

17 December 2011 - 1 April 2012

Palestinian Reconciliation Meetings in Cairo

20 December 2011 - 22 December 2011

Israeli-Palestinian “Exploratory Talks” in Amman

3 January 2012 - 25 January 2012

In Contrast with Islamic Jihad, Hamas Leadership Leaves Syria

17 January 2012 - 12 March 2012

Abbas and Mishal Sign the Doha Declaration and Then Agree on its Suspension

5 February 2012 - 23 February 2012

Assassination of Zuhair al-Qaissi and Mahmoud Hanani in Gaza City

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

Palestinian Mass Hunger Strike in Israeli Prisons

17 April 2012 - 14 May 2012

Israeli Government "Legalizes" Three Jewish Settlement Outposts

22 April 2012 - 24 April 2012

Fayyad's Cabinet Reshuffle

Abbas Announces Intent to Apply for Observer State Status in Speech at UN General Assembly

27 September 2012

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

Visit of Qatar’s Emir Shaykh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani to Gaza

23 October 2012

Reelection of President Barack Obama

6 November 2012

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

14 November 2012

Assassination of Ahmad Ja'bari in Gaza City

14 November 2012

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza, Day 2

15 November 2012

Palestinians in the West Bank Protest Israel's Assault on Gaza

16 November 2012 - 21 November 2012

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza, Day 4

17 November 2012

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza, Day 5

18 November 2012

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza, Day 6

19 November 2012

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza, Day 7

20 November 2012

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza, Day 8

21 November 2012

Hamas and Fatah Exchange Reconciliation Gestures

22 November 2012 - 7 February 2013

UNGA Res. 67/19: According Palestine Non-Member Observer State Status in the UN

29 November 2012

Surge in Settlement Expansion

30 November 2012 - 10 February 2013

Israel Freezes Transfer of Tax Revenues to the Palestinian Authority

2 December 2012 - 25 March 2013

Hamas's Khalid Mishal Visits the Gaza Strip

8 December 2012

Rami Hamdallah Forms New Palestinian Government

2 June 2013 - 6 June 2013

Mohamed Morsi, President of Egypt, Is Ousted by the Military

Launch of Kerry-Sponsored Palestinian-Israeli Direct Negotiations in Washington

29 July 2013 - 30 July 2013

Kerry Draws Up a Working Draft Framework for Negotiations

17 February 2014

Abbas Meeting with Kerry in Paris Ends in Total Failure

19 February 2014 - 21 February 2014

The Israeli Knesset Adopts a Basic Law on Referendum

Heavy Fire Exchange Across the Gaza Strip

12 March 2014 - 13 March 2014

Kerry Prepares Another Working Draft Framework for Negotiations

Abbas's Meeting With Obama in Washington Tests US Credibility

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

17 March 2014 - 29 March 2014

25th Arab Summit Meets in Kuwait

25 March 2014 - 26 March 2014

Settlement Announcement in the Midst of a Crisis Regarding the Negotiations

Despite the Negotiation Crisis, Palestinian and Israeli Representatives Pursue Talks in Jerusalem

3 April 2014 - 22 April 2014

A Joint Lebanese-Palestinian Civil Document Is Launched

Abbas Sets Three Conditions for Extension of Negotiations

A PLO-Hamas Agreement (the Shati' Agreement) to Form a Conciliation Cabinet

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah

26 April 2014 - 27 April 2014

Settlement Balance Sheet with Breakdown of the Kerry Negotiation Round

Israel Uses the Palestinian Cabinet Formation as a Pretext to Launch a New Wave of Settlement Plans

Battir Landscape Is Inscribed in the World Heritage List

Dangerous Escalation on the Gaza Front

3 July 2014 - 7 July 2014

Palestinians in West Bank Mobilize in Support of Gaza

8 July 2014 - 22 August 2014

Egypt's Noncoordinated Cease-Fire Initiative Fails

14 July 2014 - 16 July 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 9 and 10

16 July 2014 - 17 July 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 11 and 12

18 July 2014 - 19 July 2014

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

The 2014 Gaza War: The Intermittent Cease-Fires (Phase III)

31 July 2014 - 26 August 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 26-28: Fighting Continues

2 August 2014 - 4 August 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 32-42: Three Days of Fighting Followed by Eight Days of Truce

8 August 2014 - 18 August 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Day 43

The 2014 Gaza War: Days 44-50

20 August 2014 - 26 August 2014

The 2014 Gaza War: Toward an Open-Ended Cease-Fire

23 August 2014 - 26 August 2014

Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism

16 September 2014

No Effective Resumption of Gaza Postwar Talks in Cairo

23 September 2014

The PLO Strives for a Security Council Resolution Specifying a Timetable for Ending the Occupation

26 September 2014 - 28 November 2014

Heightened Tension at Haram al-Sharif

30 September 2014 - 22 December 2014

International Donor Conference for Gaza Reconstruction

12 October 2014

Steps, Mostly Parliamentary, Toward European Recognition of Palestinian State

13 October 2014 - 22 December 2015

French Efforts in Favor of a Draft UNSC Resolution on Palestinian-Israeli Peace

2 December 2014 - 17 December 2014

Early Elections Announced in Israel

3 December 2014

Ziad Abu Ain Dies After Being Struck by Israeli Soldiers During a Peaceful Demonstration

10 December 2014 - 11 December 2014

Palestinian Leadership Debates End of Security Coordination with Israel

10 December 2014 - 14 December 2014

President Abbas Signs Acceptance of the ICC Jurisdiction and Accession to the ICC Rome Statute

31 December 2014 - 7 January 2015

Israeli Police Acts Against Palestinians in the Negev

14 January 2015 - 27 January 2015

France and Arab League Consider Resuscitating Securty Council Initiative

15 January 2015 - 29 June 2015

Hamas's Military Wing Outlawed in Egypt

31 January 2015 - 28 February 2015

Palestinians in the West Bank Boycott Israeli Dairy and Processed Food Products

9 February 2015 - 2 March 2015

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah

4 March 2015 - 5 March 2015

Israeli Elections: Likud's Victory and Strengthening of Arab Representation

17 March 2015 - 19 March 2015

The 2014 Gaza War: Report of the UN Headquarters Board of Inquiry into Incidents Affecting UNRWA Schools

UNHRC Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict

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

25 June 2015 - 30 October 2015

Comprehensive Agreement between the Holy See and the State of Palestine

26 June 2015 - 2 January 2016

Settlement Construction

23 July 2015 - 17 November 2015

Clashes at Haram al-Sharif

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

With the Haram al-Sharif Tensions, Protests Spread to the Occupied Territories

13 September 2015 - 30 September 2015

Abbas Outlines Six Potential Legal Steps in Speech at the UNGA

30 September 2015

A Day of Escalation in the West Bank

Israel's Policy Toward the Palestinian Outburst

4 October 2015 - 13 October 2015

37th Zionist Congress, Jerusalem

20 October 2015 - 22 October 2015

Netanyahu Reaffirms Status Quo at Haram al-Sharif; Cameras at Haram al-Sharif?

22 October 2015 - 24 October 2015

No Cameras at Haram al-Sharif

25 October 2015 - 26 October 2015

The Knesset Adopts an Amendment to the Penal Code Imposing Minimum Sentences for Stone-Throwers

2 November 2015

EU Guidelines on Goods from the Occupied Territories

11 November 2015

Muhammad al-Qeeq Stages a 94-day Hunger Strike and Compels His Jailers to Release Him

21 November 2015 - 21 May 2016

US Legislation against Palestinian Recourse to International Criminal Court

18 December 2015

Three-Month Balance Sheet of the Palestinian Outburst

31 December 2015

The EU and the Middle East Peace Process

18 January 2016

France Plans to Resume its Peace Initiative

29 January 2016 - 16 February 2016

Sanctions Against 3 Palestinian Knesset Members

4 February 2016 - 8 February 2016

Palestinian Teachers Go on Strike in the West Bank

7 February 2016 - 12 March 2016

Three Rounds of Hamas-Fatah Talks in Doha Come to Naught

7 February 2016 - 18 June 2016

The US, Egypt, Jordan and Israel Hold a Secret Summit Meeting in Aqaba

21 February 2016

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

9 March 2016 - 23 May 2016

Israel Pursues its Confiscation of Palestinian Land in the West Bank

10 March 2016 - 21 April 2016

Palestinians Thwart the Setting Up of Cameras at Haram al-Sharif

18 March 2016 - 18 April 2016

The UN Human Rights Council Decides to Establish a Database of Firms Contributing to Israeli Settlement Activities

Five-Day Violence Along the Gaza Strip Border

3 May 2016 - 7 May 2016

France Hosts a Ministerial Meeting as First Stage of its Peace Initiative

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

8 June 2016 - 11 August 2016

The Knesset Adopts the "Anti-Terror" (Counter-Terrorism) Law

Attempts at Holding Palestinian Municipal Elections

21 June 2016 - 31 January 2017

Provocative Israeli Decision Related to Haram al-Sharif

26 June 2016 - 5 July 2016

The Quartet Issues a Report on the Impediments to Palestinian-Israeli Settlement

The PLO Executive Committee Decides to Boycott the Quartet

3 July 2016 - 10 July 2016

The Knesset adopts the NGO “Funding Transparency” Law

Continued Violation of the Status Quo at Haram al-Sharif

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

27th Arab Summit Meets in Nouakchott

Continued Israeli Settlement Activity and Destruction of Palestinian Infrastructure

27 July 2016 - 7 December 2016

A Doubtful Israel-Palestinian Postal Service Memorandum of Understanding

4 September 2016 - 15 August 2018

Abbas Launches Diplomatic Activity at the UN to Get a Security Council Resolution on Israeli Settlements

22 September 2016 - 22 December 2016

The Convening of Fatah's 7th General Conference Is Announced in Effort to Consolidate Abbas's Leadership

1 November 2016

President-Elect Trump for the "Ultimate Deal" Between Israel and the Palestinians

11 November 2016

Assassination of Muhammad Zuwari in Sfax

15 December 2016

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

23 December 2016

Kerry's "Farewell" Speech on Palestinian-Israeli Peace

28 December 2016

Palestinian Reconciliation Meetings Renewed in Doha, Beirut and Moscow, with No Results

5 January 2017 - 17 January 2017

Israeli-Palestinian Joint Water Committee Reactivated

15 January 2017

Paris Conference for Peace in the Middle East

15 January 2017 - 16 January 2017

Israel Races for Settlement Activities with an Eye on Trump

22 January 2017 - 1 February 2017

First Trump Administration Statement on Israeli Settlements

2 February 2017

Settlers Attempt to Modify the Status Quo at Haram al-Sharif

5 February 2017 - 24 May 2017

The Israeli Knesset Passes a Law Regularizing Settlements Retroactively

6 February 2017

Trump's Ambiguous Statement on Palestinian-Israeli Issues after his First Meeting as President with Netanyahu

15 February 2017

Palestinians and International Partners Fight Against Israel’s Planned Demolition of Khan al-Ahmar

15 February 2017 - 21 October 2018

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

Israel’s Knesset Passes Amendment No. 28 to Entry into Israel Law

Palestinians Protest Israel's Killing of Basel al-Araj and Palestinian-Israeli Security Coordination

6 March 2017 - 28 March 2017

First Phone Contact Between Trump and Abbas

10 March 2017 - 12 March 2017

Amendment No. 46 of Basic Law: The Knesset Gives Additional Reasons for Disqualifying Arab Candidates

UNESCWA and the Report on Israeli Apartheid

Israel Names the Palestine National Fund a Terrorist Organization for Assisting Prisoners' Families

Hamas Forms a Committee to Administer Gaza Strip

UN SG Antonio Guterres Distances Himself from ESCWA Report; Executive Secretary Rima Khalaf Resigns

16 March 2017 - 17 March 2017

US-Israel Preliminary Talks on Settlements

19 March 2017 - 23 March 2017

28th Arab Summit Meets at the Dead Sea

The Knesset Adopts Amendment No. 116 to the Planning and Building Law (Kaminitz Law)

Palestinians Start Hunger Strike in Israeli Prisons

17 April 2017 - 26 May 2017

Gaza and the Electricity Issue

27 April 2017 - 1 August 2017

Hamas New Charter

PLO President Mahmoud Abbas Meets with US President Donald Trump at the White House

Municipal Elections in the West Bank

President Trump's Visit to Israel

22 May 2017 - 23 May 2017

President Trump's Visit to Bethlehem

Palestinian Prisoners in Israel End Hunger Strike

Trump Signs the 6-Month Waiver Delaying the Application of the Jerusalem Embassy Act

The PA Forces Early Retirement on Part of Its Employees in Gaza

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

4 July 2017 - 7 July 2017

White House Statement on Israeli Settlement Activity

Israel Closes Off the Haram al-Sharif Following a Palestinian Operation in the Old City of Jerusalem

14 July 2017 - 15 July 2017

Palestinian Official Response to Israel's Measures over the Haram al-Sharif

14 July 2017 - 21 July 2017

Palestinian Popular Response to Israel's Measures over the Haram al-Sharif

16 July 2017 - 23 July 2017

China's New Four-Point Proposal for Settlement of Palestinian Question

A Unified Lebanese Vision on Issues of Palestinian Refugees Living in Lebanon

Two Jordanians Killed at Israeli Embassy in Amman

23 July 2017 - 24 July 2017

Trump's Aides Seem Ready to Embark on Devising a Peace Plan

The Internal Palestinian Reconciliation Process Is Relaunched with Some Credibility This Time

26 August 2017 - 10 October 2017

The State of Palestine Admitted as Full Member of Interpol

27 September 2017

Fatah and Hamas Sign in Cairo an Agreement to End Palestinian Division

12 October 2017

100-Year Anniversary of the Balfour Declaration

1 November 2017 - 2 November 2017

Despite a Good Start, the Egypt-Sponsored Fatah-Hamas Agreement Finally Fails

1 November 2017 - 10 December 2017

President Trump Announces the Official US Recognition of Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel

6 December 2017

Palestinian Diplomatic Activity after US Recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's Capital

6 December 2017 - 20 December 2017

Popular Protests Against US Recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's Capital

7 December 2017 - 31 December 2017

Emergency Meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation on Jerusalem

13 December 2017

Draft SC Res. S/2017/1060 to Oppose Establishment of Diplomatic Missions in Jerusalem Vetoed by US

18 December 2017

Abbas Signs 22 Treaties as a Response to Trump's Move on Jerusalem

18 December 2017

UNGA Res. ES-10/19 Opposes Establishment of Diplomatic Missions in Jerusalem

21 December 2017

Israeli Moves Against the BDS Movement

29 December 2017 - 7 January 2018

With Trump as President, Huge Settlement Growth in 2017

31 December 2017

The Knesset Passes an Amendment to Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capital of Israel

The Arab League Jerusalem Committee Meets to Discuss Trump's Jerusalem Announcement

Assassination Attempt on Muhammad Hamdan in Sidon

14 January 2018 - 29 January 2018

Trump Administration Defunds the UNRWA

16 January 2018 - 25 January 2018

Amendment by the Knesset of Its Code of Ethics to Allow Restricting Palestinian Members' Travel Abroad

22 January 2018 - 13 March 2018

US President Trump Declares Jerusalem “Off the Table”

25 January 2018

President Mahmoud Abbas Presents Palestinian Peace Plan to Security Council

20 February 2018

Church of the Holy Sepulchre Temporarily Closes in Protest

25 February 2018 - 28 February 2018

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

The Knesset Passes Legislation Withholding Bodies of Palestinians killed by Israeli Forces

International Community Alleviates Some of the UNRWA's Financial Crisis

Taylor Force Act Signed into Law

PA Requests Membership of International Treaties and Conventions in Response to US Embassy Move

24 March 2018 - 6 June 2018

International Response to Israeli Attacks on Great March of Return Protesters

30 March 2018 - 14 May 2018

29th Arab Summit Meets in Dhahran

Palestinian Professor of Engineering Fadi al-Batsh Assassinated in Kuala Lumpur

The US Opens its Embassy in Jerusalem; Guatemala and Paraguay (Temporarily) Follow Suit

14 May 2018 - 15 May 2018

UN Human Rights Council Establishes Commission into Israel’s Attacks on the Great March of Return Protesters

PA Asks the ICC to Investigate Israeli Settlement Policies

Airstrikes and Rockets in Wake of Casualties during Great March of Return Protest

26 May 2018 - 20 August 2018

Draft SC Res. S/2018/516 Calling for the Protection of Palestinian Civilians Vetoed by the US

UNGA Res. ES-10/20 Calls for the Protection of the Palestinian Civilian Population

Trump Peace Negotiating Team to Travel to Middle East

15 June 2018 - 24 June 2018

Knesset Passes Law to Deduct Funds from the PA Tax Revenue

2 July 2018 - 3 July 2018

Colombia Recognizes the State of Palestine

Talks for a Long-Term Gaza Cease-Fire

7 August 2018 - 10 November 2018

Long-Term Cease-Fire Linked to Palestinian Reconciliation

7 August 2018 - 31 December 2018

Qatar's Assistance to Gaza

9 October 2018 - 8 November 2018

UNGA Res. 73/5 Accords Privileges to Palestine as Chair of Group of 77 for 2019

16 October 2018

Israel Continues to Attack Great March of Return Protesters

17 October 2018 - 1 November 2018

The US Replaces its Consulate General in Jerusalem by a Palestinian Affairs Unit within its New Embassy

18 October 2018

Botched Undercover Israeli Operation in Gaza Sparks Exchange of Fire

11 November 2018 - 13 November 2018

PA President Abbas Signs Accession Papers for 11 International Organizations

15 November 2018

UNRWA Says International Community Almost Covers Budget Deficit

19 November 2018

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

19 November 2018 - 9 April 2019

The UNGA Votes Down a US-Proposed Draft Resolution Condemning Hamas

6 December 2018

UNGA Res. 73/89: Reaffirming Support for the Two-State Solution of Israel and Palestine

6 December 2018

The Palestinian Constitutional Court Considers the Legislative Council to Be Dissolved

12 December 2018 - 22 December 2018

Australia Recognizes West Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel

15 December 2018

PM Hamdallah Rejects any US Assistance Related to ATCA

26 December 2018 - 1 February 2019

Settlement Construction in 2018 Remains High

31 December 2018

Conditions Worsen for Palestinian Prisoners

2 January 2019 - 12 May 2019

PA-Hamas Disagreements Lead to Temporary Closure of Rafah Crossing

7 January 2019 - 3 February 2019

Opening of the “Apartheid Road”

10 January 2019

Israel Begins Public Normalization Push

20 January 2019

Israel Unilaterally Ends the Temporary International Presence in Hebron

28 January 2019 - 6 February 2019

Hamdallah Resigns, Is Replaced by Mohammad Shtayyeh

29 January 2019 - 13 April 2019

Warsaw Conference

13 February 2019 - 14 February 2019

The Waqf Reopens Bab al-Rahma at the Haram al-Sharif Compound

14 February 2019 - 17 March 2019

UNHRC Report on Israeli Attacks on Great March of Return Protesters

28 February 2019

The US Consulate General in Jerusalem Is Merged in US Embassy in the City

The US Recognizes the Golan Heights as Part of Israel

21 March 2019 - 25 March 2019

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

22 March 2019 - 29 March 2019

Great March of Return Anniversary and Land Day

29 March 2019 - 30 March 2019

30th Arab Summit Meets in Tunis

Israeli Bombing Resumes Against Gaza

1 May 2019 - 5 May 2019

Assassination of Hamed al-Khoudary in Gaza City

Extraordinary Arab Summit in Mecca

Israeli Harassment and Mass Arrests in Issawiyya

1 June 2019 - 1 September 2019

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

US ‘Peace to Prosperity’ Plan and Conference

22 June 2019 - 26 June 2019

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

Israel Prevents Palestine Cup Final

3 July 2019 - 25 September 2019

Israeli Court Finds PA Liable for Attacks During Second Intifada

Mass Demolitions in Sur Bahir

US Blocks UNSC Statement Condemning Sur Bahir Demolitions

UNRWA Financial Situation Worsened after Misconduct Allegations

29 July 2019 - 13 December 2019

Israeli Government Allows Jewish Visitors to Tour the Haram al-Sharif Compound on Eid al-Adha

11 August 2019 - 18 August 2019

Israel Prevents US Congresswomen from Visiting the West Bank and Israel

15 August 2019 - 16 August 2019

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

Israeli Supreme Court Greenlights Withholding Palestinian Corpses

9 September 2019

Israeli Forces Raid Addameer and General Union of Service Sector Workers Offices in Ramallah

19 September 2019

The Israel Electric Corporation Cuts Power in the West Bank

22 September 2019 - 29 December 2019

PA President Mahmoud Abbas Tells UNGA that He Plans General Elections

26 September 2019 - 10 December 2019

Palestinian Court Orders to Block Access to Dozens of Websites

17 October 2019

EU court Rules that Israeli Settlement Products May not be Labeled “Made in Israel”

12 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

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

12 November 2019 - 15 November 2019

Israel Announces Plans to Double Settler Population in Hebron

1 December 2019

US Congress Amends ATCA to Resume Funding for PA Security Forces

20 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

Surge in the Number of Settlers Touring Haram al-Sharif in 2019

31 December 2019

Israeli Settlement Construction Continues Unbated in Third Year of Trump Administration

31 December 2019

US Peace Plan – Palestinian and International Reactions

28 January 2020 - 11 February 2020

Inconclusive Results of Elections for the Knesset in Israel

2 March 2020 - 17 May 2020

International and Palestinian Responses to Israel’s Annexation Plans

18 May 2020 - 23 June 2020

Four Countries to Open Embassies to Israel in Jerusalem

20 September 2020 - 2 December 2020

Hanan Ashrawi Resigns from PLO Executive Committee

9 December 2020

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

25 February 2021 - 2 September 2021

US Announces Resumption of UNRWA Funding and Forces UNRWA to Make Severe Policy Changes

7 April 2021 - 23 September 2021

The May 2021 Gaza War

10 May 2021 - 21 May 2021

UN Human Rights Council Establishes an Ongoing Commission of Inquiry on Palestine

27 May 2021 - 22 July 2021

Death of Nizar Banat after Arrest by PA Forces

24 June 2021 - 21 June 2022

Israel Is Readmitted as an Observer Country to the African Union, Later Suspended

22 July 2021 - 20 February 2023

Israel Demolishes Parts of al-Yusufiya Cemetery to Make Space for Biblical Park

17 October 2021 - 29 October 2021

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As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

Jurji Habib Hanania

1865 - 3 March 1948

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Bendali Saliba al-Jawzi

Freih Abu Middein

1875 - 9 February 1949

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

1880 - 16 June 1946

Izzeddin al-Qassam

1882 - 20 November 1935

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

1882 - 29 June 1963

1885 - 19 December 1953

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

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

Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali

1889 - 7 July 1973

George Antonius

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

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

Anbara Salam Khalidi

4 August 1897 - 1986

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

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997

Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih

1907 - 8 January 2001

1907 - 27 July 2006

23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947

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

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil

1917 - 12 December 2003

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

1923 - 12 May 2004

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 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

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

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

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

1939 - 19 August 2014

1941 - 5 February 2023

1942 - 6 August 2019

Abd al-Aziz Rantisi

1947 - 17 April 2004

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

1962 - 31 July 2024

Charts

Document

Demography and the Palestine Question (I) - Population Growth

1860 - 1948

Historical Texts

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

Letter from Sir Henry McMahon to Sharif Hussein

25 October 1915

Sykes-Picot Agreement

Balfour Declaration

2 November 1917

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

The Covenant of the League of Nations: Article 22

10 January 1920

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 Supreme Islamic Shari'a Council Order

20 December 1921

Churchill White Paper

League of Nations - Mandate for Palestine

The Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)

Palestine Legislative Council Election Order, 1922

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

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

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

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

UNSC Resolution 46

UNSC Resolution 48

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 50

Abandoned Areas Ordinance

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

Jordan-Israel Agreement: For the Demilitarization of Mount Scopus Area

UNSC Resolution 54

Progress Report of the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte)

16 September 1948

Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance No. 33, 5708-1948

23 September 1948

UNSC Resolution 61

4 November 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

UNGA Resolution 273 (III)

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

Declaration of Jordan’s National Assembly, On the Unity between the Eastern and Western Banks of Jordan

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

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

UNGA Resolution 513 (VI)

26 January 1952

UNRWA-Egypt Agreement on Economic and Engineering Surveys

UNSC Resolution 101

24 November 1953

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

Exchange of Notes Between Lebanon and UNRWA

26 November 1954

UNGA Resolution 998 (ES-I)

4 November 1956

Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA

15 December 1956

UNGA Resolution 1604 (XV)

Proclamation of the Constitutional Statute of Gaza, 1962

Draft of UNSC Resolution 5407

Palestine National (qawmi) Charter

Basic Law of the PLO

Draft of UNSC Resolution 7575/Rev.1

3 November 1966

Exchange of Letters Between Israel and UNRWA

UNGA Resolution 2254 (ES-V)

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

Amended Basic Law of the Palestine Liberation Organization

UNGA Resolution 2452 (XXIII)

19 December 1968

Palestine National Council, 5th Session: Political Statement

4 February 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 2649 (XXV)

30 November 1970

UNGA Resolution 2672 (XXV)

8 December 1970

Palestine National Council, 9th Session: Final Statement

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

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

Seventh Arab Summit: The Palestine Resolution

29 October 1974

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

Memorandum of Agreement between the U.S. and Israel Regarding the Reconvening of the Geneva Conference

1 September 1975

UNGA Resolution 3376 (XXX)

10 November 1975

UNGA Resolution 3379 (XXX)

10 November 1975

UNGA Resolution 3375 (XXX)

10 November 1975

The Koenig Memorandum

Palestine National Council, 13th Session: Political Declaration

12 March 1977 - 22 March 1977

Joint US-USSR Communiqué on Reconvening the Geneva Conference on the Middle East

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

Begin's Autonomy Plan

28 December 1977

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

17 September 1978

Palestine National Council, 14th Session: National Unity Programme

15 January 1979 - 22 January 1979

UNSC Resolution 446

Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt

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

Eleventh Arab Summit: Final Communiqué

25 November 1980 - 27 November 1980

Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement

11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981

Draft of UNSC Resolution 14832/Rev.1

19 January 1982

Israel's Proposals for the Self-Governing Authority in the West Bank and Gaza

31 January 1982

UNGA Resolution ES-9/1

5 February 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

Israeli Cabinet Communiqué on President Reagan's Peace Proposal

2 September 1982

Twelfth Arab Summit: the Fez Initiative

9 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

UNGA Resolution 38/58

13 December 1983

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

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1985: Final Communiqué

7 August 1985 - 9 August 1985

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

7 November 1985

The London Agreement

Palestine National Council, 18th Session: Final Statement

20 April 1987 - 25 April 1987

UNGA Resolution 42/210

17 December 1987

UNSC Resolution 605

22 December 1987

UNGA Resolution 42/229

The Shultz Negotiations Plan

UNGA Resolution 42/230

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

UNGA Resolution 43/160

9 December 1988

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

13 December 1988

Statement by President Reagan on Opening American-PLO Dialogue

14 December 1988

UNGA Resolution 43/177

15 December 1988

Israel's "Peace Initiative"

Draft of UNSC Resolution 20677

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

Draft of UNSC Resolution 20945/Rev.1

6 November 1989

Draft of UNSC Resolution 21326

UNSC Resolution 672

12 October 1990

UNSC Resolution 673

24 October 1990

UNSC Resolution 681

20 December 1990

President George Bush Address to Joint Session of Congress on the Middle East

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

Exchange of Letters Between President Bush and Prime Minister Shamir on Proposed Peace Conference

Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement

28 September 1991

U.S. Letter of Assurances to the Palestinians

18 October 1991

U.S.-Soviet Letter of Invitation to Peace Talks in Madrid

18 October 1991

Speech of Haydar Abd al-Shafi at the Madrid Conference

31 October 1991

Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty

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

13 September 1993

Fundamental Agreement Between The Holy See And The State Of Israel

30 December 1993

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area

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

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1996: Resolution on the Palestine Question

21 June 1996 - 23 June 1996

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

Draft of UNSC Resolution 1997/241

UNGA Resolution ES-10/2

Legal Personality Agreement Between Israel and the Holy See

10 November 1997

UNGA Resolution 52/250

Wye River Memorandum

23 October 1998

Declaration of the Heads of State or Government of the European Union On the Middle East Peace Process: The Berlin Declaration

Sharm el Sheikh Memorandum

4 September 1999

Protocol Concerning Safe Passage Between The West Bank And The Gaza Strip

Basic Agreement Between the Holy See and the Palestine Liberation Organization

15 February 2000

UNSC Resolution 1322

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

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2001/270

The Mitchell Report

Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants Law

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

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

Basic Law: The Knesset Amendment No. 35

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

Israel and the Road Map

23 May 2003 - 25 May 2003

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2003/891

16 September 2003

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

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

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement Plan: Key Principles

UNGA Resolution 58/292

Palestinian Authority's Declaration on Institutional Renewal

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

17 October 2005

Agreed Principles for Rafah Crossing In Connection with the Gaza Disengagement

15 November 2005

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

UNSC Resolution 1701

UNGA Resolution ES-10/17

24 January 2007

Joint Understanding Between Israel and the PLO Read by President Bush

27 November 2007

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

10 January 2008

Summary Final Report - The Winograd Commission of Inquiry

30 January 2008

Basic Law: The Knesset Amendment No. 39

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

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2011/24

18 February 2011

Palestinian National Conciliation Agreement: Related Understandings Between Fatah and Hamas

President Barack Obama's Address to the State Department Reframing U.S. Middle East Policy

Statement by Middle East Quartet

23 September 2011

Application of Palestine for admission to membership in the United Nations

23 September 2011

UNGA Resolution 67/19

29 November 2012

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

Council of the European Union: Conclusions on the Middle East Peace Process

18 January 2016

Report of the Middle East Quartet

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

Middle East Peace Conference Joint Declaration

15 January 2017

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

6 February 2017

Basic Law: The Knesset Amendment No. 46

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

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2018/516

UNGA Resolution ES-10/20

UNGA Resolution 73/5

16 October 2018

Palestinian Prime Minister's Letter to Secretary of State on No Longer Accepting US Assistance

26 December 2018

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

28 February 2019

30th Arab Summit: Tunis Declaration

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

Abraham Accords Peace Agreement: Treaty of Peace, Diplomatic Relations and Full Normalization Between the United Arab Emirates and the State of Israel

15 September 2020

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

12 January 2021

HRC Res. S-30/1: Establishing an Ongoing Commission of Inquiry on Palestine

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

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

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

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

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

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

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

Camp David Accords, 1978-1979

Shattering the Arab Front

The Second Intifada, 2000-2005

Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations

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

Palestinian Women in the Labor Market

A Burgeoning Workforce Curbed by Israel’s Colonialism

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

Jewish Identity at the Expense of Citizen Equality

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

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

Palestine Liberation Organization (I)

The Reemergence of the Palestinian National Movement

Palestine Liberation Organization (II)

From the Limelight to the Backstage

The Palestinian National Initiative Movement - Al-Mubadara

Madrid and the Oslo Agreement, 1991-1993

Short-Lived Promises of a Negotiated Settlement

The Palestinian Communist Movement

Arab Labor in Mandate Palestine

The Emergence of a Working Class

Palestinian Refugees in Syria

Fully Integrated, for Better and for Worse

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949

Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests

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”

Jabal al-Hussein Refugee Camp

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

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

The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

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)

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

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

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

A Watershed in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

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

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp

Burj al-Barajneh 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

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Talbieh Refugee Camp

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Shatila Refugee Camp

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

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

The War on Gaza, 2008–2009

Israel’s Strategic Quandary

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

Tal al-Za‘atar 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 March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip

Thwarting Resettlement Schemes

The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948

An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come

Stages of a Forced Displacement

Dera‘a Refugee Camp

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

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

Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails

Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance

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

An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status

The Algerians of Palestine

The Bosnians of Palestine

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

The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question

Solidarity of the Colonized

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 Labor in Israel

A Fluctuating Market Subject to Israel’s Interests

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology

The UN and Palestine: General Assembly Resolutions

1947 - present

Thematic Chronology

The Annapolis Negotiation Rounds

2007 - 2008

Thematic Chronology

Kerry-Sponsored Palestinian-Israeli Negotiations

2013 - 2014

Thematic Chronology

The UN and Palestine: Security Council Resolutions

1948 - present

Periods

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

Places