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Events

Acre under Zahir al-Umar al-Zaydani Challenges Direct Ottoman Rule

Foundation of Tel Aviv

Oil Pipeline Connecting Northern Iraq to Haifa Opens Officially

Charles Tegart's Means of Control

3 December 1937

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

Arab Armies Cross Palestine Borders

15 May 1948 - 10 June 1948

SC Res. 69: Recommending Admission of Israel to UN Membership

The 1956 War - The Tripartite Aggression

29 October 1956 - 12 March 1957

The Knesset Paves the Way for the Annexation of East Jerusalem

27 June 1967 - 28 June 1967

Black September in Jordan

15 September 1970 - 25 September 1970

Palestinian Operations in Northern Israel

Premeditated Israeli Air Attack Against Palestinians in Lebanon

2 December 1975

The Koenig Memorandum on Israeli Policy toward the Palestinians in Israel

1 March 1976 - April 1976

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

5 November 1978

South Lebanon Cease-fire Is Broken

21 April 1982 - 9 May 1982

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

4 June 1982 - 5 June 1982

Yasir Arafat in Tripoli, Lebanon, and then Cairo

16 September 1983 - 22 December 1983

17th Palestine National Council Is Held in Amman

22 November 1984 - 29 November 1984

Abbas and Sharon Meet in Jerusalem

17 May 2003 - 29 May 2003

Israel Adopts Plan for Second Phase of Separation Wall

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

2 February 2004 - 13 March 2004

Sharon's Letter to Bush on Disengagement Plan

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

27 June 2004 - 5 August 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

Disengagement: Evacuation of Settlers

8 August 2005 - 22 August 2005

After Ongoing Israeli Military Activities, A Surge in Violence

27 November 2005 - 15 December 2005

Operation Blue Skies and Continuing Escalation

22 December 2005 - 23 January 2006

Palestinian Legislative Elections: At the Polls

25 January 2006

Israeli Operations Resume

3 February 2006 - 11 February 2006

Israel Retaliates Against Shalit's Capture: Operation Summer Rains

28 June 2006 - 8 July 2006

New Israeli Pattern of Battering Gaza

11 July 2006 - 15 August 2006

2nd Israel War on Lebanon: the July War

12 July 2006 - 14 August 2006

July War: Israel Launches an Air War Against Hizballah

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

14 July 2006 - 16 July 2006

July War: Israel's Special Operations Along the Border

17 July 2006 - 19 July 2006

July War: Israel Attempts to Establish a Limited Foothold in Southern Lebanon

19 July 2006 - 29 July 2006

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

Gaza Escalation Followed by a Negotiated Cease-Fire

20 November 2006 - 26 November 2006

Israel Launches Operation Hot Winter in Gaza

28 February 2008 - 3 March 2008

War on Gaza, Day 9: Start of Phase 2

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

War on Gaza, Day 16

11 January 2009

The Mavi Marmara Incident

30 May 2010 - 5 June 2010

The Palestinian State: Recognition and Upgrade Drive, Mostly in Latin and Central America and Europe

1 December 2010 - 19 January 2012

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 4 and 5

11 July 2014 - 12 July 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 21-24

28 July 2014 - 31 July 2014

Renewal of Settlement Activity

31 August 2014 - 24 December 2014

Steps, Mostly Parliamentary, Toward European Recognition of Palestinian State

13 October 2014 - 22 December 2015

Palestinians in Israel Express their Concern and Solidarity with the Palestinian Outburst

5 October 2015 - 28 November 2015

Israel Outlaws the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement

16 November 2015 - 28 November 2015

Continued Israeli Settlement Activity and Destruction of Palestinian Infrastructure

27 July 2016 - 7 December 2016

International Response to Israeli Attacks on Great March of Return Protesters

30 March 2018 - 14 May 2018

Israeli PM Netanyahu Pledges to Annex Parts of the West Bank if Reelected

10 September 2019 - 6 December 2019

Repeated Demolition of Khirbet Humsa

3 November 2020 - 27 October 2021

Biographies

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

1962 - 31 July 2024

Historical Texts

Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement

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

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

The Murison Commission Report

Peel Commission Report

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

London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

UNGA Resolution 194 (III)

11 December 1948

UNSC Resolution 69

Jordan-Israel General Armistice Agreement

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

UNGA Resolution 302 (IV)

8 December 1949

UNGA Resolution 303

9 December 1949

UNGA Resolution 393 (V)

2 December 1950

UNGA Resolution 997 (ES-I)

2 November 1956

Draft of UNSC Resolution 5407

Draft of UNSC Resolution 7575/Rev.1

3 November 1966

UNGA Resolution 3376 (XXX)

10 November 1975

UNGA Resolution 3375 (XXX)

10 November 1975

Security Council Decision Inviting the PLO to Participate in its Debate on the Situation in the Middle East

4 December 1975

Draft of UNSC Resolution 11898

5 December 1975

Draft of UNSC Resolution 11940

23 January 1976

The Koenig Memorandum

Draft of UNSC Resolution 12022

Draft of UNSC Resolution 12119

UNSC Resolution 446

Draft of UNSC Resolution 14832/Rev.1

19 January 1982

Draft of UNSC Resolution 14943

Draft of UNSC Resolution 14985

Draft of UNSC Resolution 15185

Draft of UNSC Resolution 15255/Rev.2

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

7 February 1983

Draft of UNSC Resolution 15895

Draft of UNSC Resolution 17459

12 September 1985

Draft of UNSC Resolution 17769

29 January 1986

UNGA Resolution 42/210

17 December 1987

Draft of UNSC Resolution 19466

29 January 1988

UNGA Resolution 42/229

UNGA Resolution 42/230

Draft of UNSC Resolution 19780

UNGA Resolution 43/160

9 December 1988

UNGA Resolution 43/177

15 December 1988

Draft of UNSC Resolution 20463

17 February 1989

Draft of UNSC Resolution 20677

Draft of UNSC Resolution 20945/Rev.1

6 November 1989

Draft of UNSC Resolution 21326

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

U.S. Letter of Assurances to Israel

18 October 1991

Draft of UNSC Resolution 1995/394

Draft of UNSC Resolution 1997/199

Draft of UNSC Resolution 1997/241

Wye River Memorandum

23 October 1998

Sharm el Sheikh Memorandum

4 September 1999

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

Draft of UNSC Resolution S/2002/1385

20 December 2002

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement Plan: Key Principles

UNGA Resolution 58/292

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2004/783

Summary Final Report - The Winograd Commission of Inquiry

30 January 2008

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

25 September 2009

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2011/24

18 February 2011

Report of the UNHِQ Board of Inquiry Into Incidents Affecting UNRWA Schools during the 2014 Gaza War

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

28 February 2019

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

Historical Media

Town of Safad, Northern Galilee

Highlights

Preservation of Heritage in Palestine

A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure

Present Absentees in Israel

Exiled in Their Own Homeland

Palestine Police During the British Mandate

Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

Israel’s Gaza Redeployment, 2005

Exacerbating the Siege and Targeting the Land of the West Bank

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

The Separation Wall

Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians

Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule

Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition

Palestinian Embroidery

A Rich and Diverse National Heritage

The Judaization of the Galilee

A Long-Lasting Strategy Faced by a Bulwark of Palestinian Tenacity

Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

A Vulnerable Yet Vibrant Community

Lebanon War, 1982

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

Land Day, 30 March 1976

A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel

The Israeli Military

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

Jabal al-Hussein Refugee Camp

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp

The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression

Ein el Tal (Handarat) Refugee Camp

Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917

Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

VI. The Rise Of The Palestinian Movement In The Wake Of The 1967 Arab Defeat

Balata Refugee Camp

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp

Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp

Sbeineh Refugee Camp

Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine

A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

The War on Gaza, 2008–2009

Israel’s Strategic Quandary

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

Beddawi Refugee Camp

The May 2021 Gaza War

Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes

Stages of a Forced Displacement

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

Dera‘a Refugee Camp

The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question

Solidarity of the Colonized

The Second Intifada, 2000-2005

Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations

Palestine Liberation Organization (I)

The Reemergence of the Palestinian National Movement

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp