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The Rise of Zahir al-Umar al-Zaydani in Northern Palestine

Alliance Between Zahir al-Umar al-Zaydani and Mamluk Leader Ali Bey al-Kabeer: To Conquer Palestine and Syrian Territory

November 1770 - June 1771

Establishment of Palestinian Newspaper al-Karmel in Haifa

Establishment in New York of the Palestine Anti-Zionism Society (Later Renamed Palestine National League)

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

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

The Arab Higher Committee is Formed

Arab Higher Committee Is Banned

October 1937 - November 1937

Attempt to Reconstitute the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine

22 November 1945 - 29 May 1946

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

6 December 1947 - 31 December 1947

Haganah Operations

11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948

Lebanon-Israel Armistice Agreement

Israel Invades Egypt

29 October 1956

UNGA Res. 1123, 1124, 1125 (XI)

19 January 1957 - 3 February 1957

Israel Refuses Full Withdrawal

3 February 1957

Shaykh Ahmad Yasin's Islamic Center Is Established in Gaza

7 September 1973

Palestinian Operation Against Settlers in Hebron

2 May 1980 - 3 May 1980

First Communiqué of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

14 December 1987

US-PLO Official Meeting Takes Place in Carthage, Tunisia

Ahmad Yasin Arrested

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

14 January 1991

Israel Deports 415 Palestinians to South Lebanon

13 December 1992 - 17 December 1992

Attempted Assassination of Khalid Mishal in Amman; Ahmad Yasin Released

25 September 1997 - 1 October 1997

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

Failure to Reach a FAPS by 13 February 2000 Target Date

8 December 1999 - 6 February 2000

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Gaza

2 February 2000 - 3 February 2000

Sharm al-Shaykh Summit

16 October 2000 - 18 October 2000

The Mitchell Committee of Fact-Finding on the Palestinian-Israeli Confrontation

7 November 2000 - 30 December 2000

Draft Security Council Resolution S/2000/1171

18 December 2000

Assassination of Mas'ud Ayyad in Jabaliya

13 February 2001

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

16 April 2001 - 27 April 2001

Assassination of Salah al-Din Darwaza in Nablus

Assassination Attempt of Raed Karmi in Tulkarm

6 September 2001

Grave Escalation from Both Sides

9 January 2002 - 21 February 2002

Assassination of Raed Karmi in Tulkarm

14 January 2002

Assassination of Salah Shehadeh in Gaza City

Aftermath of Salah Shehadeh's Assassination

22 July 2002 - 14 August 2002

15th Arab Summit Meets in Sharm al-Shaykh

Assassination of Mahmud Salah in Bethlehem

Palestinian Peace Gestures

1 December 2003 - 7 January 2004

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

Assassination of Ra'fat Abu Assi and Hazim Irhayim in Gaza City

Abbas-Sharon Summit in Sharm al-Shaykh

8 February 2005

Resumption of Israeli-Palestinian Security Coordination

15 February 2005 - 30 April 2005

Palestinian Dialogue Conference Held in Cairo

15 March 2005 - 17 March 2005

Assassination of Muhammad Shaykh Khalil and Nasr Barhum in Gaza City

25 September 2005

Assassination of Mahmoud Arqan in Rafah

7 December 2005

Assassination of Ra'id Ubayyat in Beit Sahour

Assassination of Raed Abu al-Ful in Beit Lahiya

17 January 2008

War on Gaza, Day 16

11 January 2009

War on Gaza, Day 18

13 January 2009

War on Gaza, Day 20

15 January 2009

Donor Conference for Gaza Reconstruction, Sharm al-Shaykh

The Mavi Marmara Incident

30 May 2010 - 5 June 2010

Direct Israeli-Palestinian Talks, Mediated by George Mitchell, Formally Relaunched in Washington

1 September 2010 - 2 September 2010

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

Assassination of Ahmad Shaykh Khalil, Muhammad Ashur, Bassem Abu al-Ata, Hassan al-Khadari, and Abd al-Karim Shatat in Rafah

29 October 2011

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

5 February 2012 - 23 February 2012

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

23 October 2012

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza, Day 4

17 November 2012

Arab League Delegation in Washington Discusses the Arab Peace Initiative

Assassination of Raed al-Attar, Muhammad Abu Shammaleh and Muhammad Barhoum in Rafah

Arab Parties in Israel Form a Joint List For the Knesset Elections

22 January 2015

26th Arab Summit Meets in Sharm al-Shaykh

28 March 2015 - 29 March 2015

Israel Outlaws the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement

16 November 2015 - 28 November 2015

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

14 February 2019 - 17 March 2019

PA Issues Building Permits in Area C

Hightened Tension over Attempts to Evict Palestinian Families from Sheikh Jarrah

15 February 2021 - 9 May 2021

Bennett-Lapid Government Takes Office in Israel

Jewish National Fund Begins Forestation Project in the Naqab to Displace Palestinians

10 January 2022 - 15 January 2022

Salah Hammouri is Placed in Administrative Detention Before Being Deported from Palestine to France

10 March 2022 - 18 December 2022

Biographies

Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi

1859 - 21 July 1921

1860 - 13 April 1930

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

Jurji Habib Hanania

1865 - 3 March 1948

1868 - October 1930

Freih Abu Middein

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

1880 - 16 June 1946

Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar

Izzeddin al-Qassam

1882 - 20 November 1935

1882 - 22 April 1942

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi

Abd al-Latif Salah

1884 - 8 November 1952

Isaaf al-Nashashibi

1885 - 22 January 1948

1885 - 19 December 1953

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

Rafiq al-Tamimi

2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

1896 - 27 September 1951

Wasif Jawhariyyeh

Mustafa al-Dabbagh

1897 - 1 October 1989

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Anbara Salam Khalidi

4 August 1897 - 1986

Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih

1907 - 8 January 2001

23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi (Abu Salma)

1909 - 11 October 1980

Sami Taha Hamran

1911 - 11 September 1947

Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud

1913 - 13 July 1948

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

1925 - 10 April 1973

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

1926 - 23 January 1984

1927 - 13 January 2005

1929 - 2 June 2016

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

1936 - 3 August 1978

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Ahmad Ismail Yasin

June 1936 - 22 March 2004

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1937 - 12 July 2025

1938 - 16 December 2020

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

Abd al-Aziz Rantisi

1947 - 17 April 2004

4 January 1951 - 26 October 1995

1962 - 31 July 2024

Historical Texts

Palin Commission Report

Statement of the Arab National Conference

13 December 1931

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

Land Transfers Regulations, 1940

20 February 1940

Speech of Ahmad al-Shuqairi, Head of the Palestine Delegation, before the UN Special Political Committee (in Arabic)

5 November 1963

Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset

20 November 1977

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

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

28 September 1995

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

Protocol Concerning Safe Passage Between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip

Palestinian-Israeli Security Implementation Work Plan (Tenet Cease-Fire Plan)

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

Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s Address at al-Quds University: Statehood in Two Years

Agreement Between Fatah and Hamas to End Palestinian Division

12 October 2017

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

28 February 2019

Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry to HRC

Historical Media

Arab Higher Committee Members

Highlights

Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917

Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries

A Watershed in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)

Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

The Village of al-Araqib

Rebuilding Home for the Hundredth Time and Beyond

Land Day, 30 March 1976

A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948

A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP

The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Balata Refugee Camp

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

The King-Crane Commission of 1919

Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

VI. Rise of The Palestinian National Movement

VII. After 1973 War: Separate Peace and Civil War

IX. First Intifada and Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations

X. Oslo Process: Towards Failure

XIII. A Growingly Intractable Deadlock

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)

After the Nakba

The Second Intifada, 2000-2005

Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations

Shatila Refugee Camp

The Bosnians of Palestine

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

Dera‘a Refugee Camp

The Algerians of Palestine

Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation

XI. Second Intifada and the Post-Arafat Era

XII. Gaza Strip Separated and Assaulted

Stages of a Forced Displacement

The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948

An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

V. Reverberations Of the Palestine War

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Places

al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa

al-Sawafir al-Gharbiyya

al-Shaykh Muwannis

Khirbat al-Wa'ra al-Sawda'

al-Zuq al-Tahtani

'Arab al-Samniyya

Balad al-Shaykh

Dayr Abu Salama

Ghuwayr Abu Shusha

Ijlil al-Qibliyya

Ijlil al-Shamaliyya

'Iraq al-Manshiyya

al-Jammasin al-Gharbi

al-Jammasin al-Sharqi

Khirbat al-Lawz

Khirbat al-Majdal

Khirbat Karraza

Khirbat Qumbaza

Khiyam al-Walid

Mansurat al-Khayt

Sarafand al-'Amar