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Biographies

Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi

Hafiz al-Sa’id

1860 - 13 April 1930

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

Izzeddin al-Qassam

1882 - 20 November 1935

Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

1896 - 27 September 1951

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Zulaykha al-Shihabi

1903 - 13 May 1992

1907 - 27 July 2006

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

Mustafa al-Zabri (Abu Ali Mustafa)

14 May 1938 - 27 August 2001

13 July 1949 - 18 February 2026

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

6 December 1966 - 24 March 2018

Events

Seven Jewish Colonies Are Established in Palestine in the 1880s

Conquest of Damascus; Faisal Enters Liberated City

26 September 1918 - 3 October 1918

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

10 January 1920

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

Attempt to Reconstitute the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine

22 November 1945 - 29 May 1946

The Palestine Commission Submits First Reports to Security Council

29 January 1948 - 16 February 1948

Individual Return of Tens of Thousands of Palestinian Refugees; Israel Launches "War on Infiltration"

January 1949 - December 1956

Republic of China Recognizes Israel; People’s Republic Revokes Recognition of Israel

1 March 1949 - 9 January 1950

Israel and the Lavon Affair

July 1954 - 17 February 1955

Israel Carries out an Intelligence Operation in Syria and the First Airline Hijacking in the History of the Conflict

8 December 1954 - 14 December 1954

With Mounting Tension In and Around Gaza, a Turning Point for Egypt and Opportunities for Israel

3 April 1955 - 27 September 1955

David Ben-Gurion Replaces Moshe Sharett as Prime Minister

3 November 1955

France and Israel Sign Arms Deal and Prepare for War

22 June 1956 - 29 July 1956

Israel Prepares for War with US Consent

2 June 1967 - 4 June 1967

Settlement Attempt in Hebron

12 April 1968 - 16 June 1968

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

Tal Rumayda Settlement in Hebron

The Intifada and Israel's Response: Another Stage in the Confrontation

11 March 1988 - 29 March 1988

US Voices Dissatisfaction with Israel

23 February 1990 - 3 March 1990

China and Israel Establish Diplomatic Relations

24 January 1992

Separation Fence

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

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

14 July 2006 - 16 July 2006

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

17 December 2007 - 1 February 2008

Fayyad's Speech at Al-Quds University on Setting the Goal for Statehood in Two Years

Israeli Government "Legalizes" Three Jewish Settlement Outposts

22 April 2012 - 24 April 2012

Historical Texts

Sykes-Picot Agreement

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 Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)

Agreement between Great Britain and Transjordan Emirate

20 February 1928

The Hope Simpson Report

MacDonald's Letter to Weizmann

13 February 1931

The Murison Commission Report

Peel Commission Report

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead Commission) Report

9 November 1938

Treaty of Alliance between Great Britain and Transjordan, 1946

Assembly of the League of Nations Resolution on Mandates

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

Statement by the Council of the Arab League on the Anglo-American Committee's Report on Palestine

The Grady-Morrison Plan

UNSCOP Recommendations Approved Unanimously or by Substantial Majority

3 September 1947

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

UN Palestine Commission First Report

29 January 1948

UN Palestine Commission Report on Security in Palestine

16 February 1948

Statement by the Governments of the Arab League States on their Military Intervention in Palestine

Israel: Law and Administration Ordinance

Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement

24 February 1949

Jordan-Israel General Armistice Agreement

Israel Law of Return and its Amendments

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

Palestine National Council, 4th Session: Political Resolutions

10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968

Amended Basic Law of the Palestine Liberation Organization

9 December 1969

Palestine National Council, 11th Session: Political Program

12 December 1973

The Koenig Memorandum

Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset

20 November 1977

Statement by Palestinian Institutions in the Occupied Territories on Sadat’s Visit to Israel

8 December 1977

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

28 January 1980

Eleventh Arab Summit: Final Communiqué

25 November 1980 - 27 November 1980

Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement

11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981

1 September 1982

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

7 February 1983

Palestine National Council (19th Session) Political Communiqué

15 November 1988

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

13 December 1988

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

Palestinian West Bank – Gaza Delegation: 1st Memorandum to US Secretary James Baker

Palestinian West Bank – Gaza Delegation: 4th Memorandum to US Secretary James Baker

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

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1996: Resolution on the Palestine Question

21 June 1996 - 23 June 1996

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

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

Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict

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

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

6 February 2017

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas): Document of General Principles and Policies

Bezalel Smotrich: Israel's Decisive Plan

7 September 2017

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

28 February 2019

Database of All Business Enterprises Involved in Israeli Settlement Activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

12 February 2020

ICC Decision on its Jurisdiction in Palestine

5 February 2021

Amnesty Report on Israeli Apartheid

1 February 2022

Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry to HRC

UNGA Resolution 77/247

30 December 2022

Historical Media

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

2 November 1932

Arab Higher Committee Members

Smashing the Palestinian Political Infrastructure

15 December 1938

London Conference

Highlights

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

A Watershed in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Demography and the Palestine Question (II)

Palestinian Youth in Conflict

A Childhood Denied

Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

A Vulnerable Yet Vibrant Community

Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine

Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement

Israel’s Policy toward Refugees in the Gaza Strip

A Site of Continual Displacement

The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps

Perpetuating the Temporary

The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

Palestine Police During the British Mandate

Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

VI. Rise of The Palestinian National Movement

The Palestinian National Initiative Movement - Al-Mubadara

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

Palestinian Emigration (I)

Palestinian Emigration (II)

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

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

An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status

The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse

A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism

Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule

Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition

Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti) Refugee Camp

Palestinians in Germany

From Melancholia to Anger

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Perpetuating Israel’s Structural Dominance

The Great March of Return

Peaceful Demonstrations, Bloody Crackdown

XII. Gaza Strip Separated and Assaulted

Israel’s Apartheid Regime

Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails

Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

Periods

VII. After 1973 War: Separate Peace and Civil War

Places

al-Shaykh Muwannis

'Arab al-Samniyya

Khirbat Bayt Lid

Ghabat Kafr Sur

'Iraq al-Manshiyya

Khirbat al-Burj

Khirbat al-Lawz

Khirbat al-Muntar

Khirbat al-Shuna

Sarafand al-Kharab

Sarafand al-'Amar