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Establishment of European and American Consulates in Jerusalem

Young Turk Revolution

Establishment of the Arab-Ottoman Brotherhood Society in Istanbul

2 September 1908 - April 1909

Elections Held for Third Ottoman Parliament; Five Representatives from Regions in Palestine

17 December 1908 - 17 January 1912

Enactment of the Ottoman Associations Law

Formation of the Moderate Liberal Party and the Entente Libérale Party in Istanbul

30 October 1909 - 8 November 1911

Formation of the Ottoman Party for Administrative Decentralization in Cairo

The Arab Congress Meets in Paris

17 June 1913 - 24 June 1913

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

Establishment of Muslim-Christian Societies: Towards National Representation in Palestine

8 May 1918 - December 1918

Appointment of the King-Crane Commission

20 March 1919 - 21 July 1919

3rd Palestinian National Congress Meets in Haifa

13 December 1920 - 19 December 1920

Regulation Concerning the Supreme Moslem Sharia Council

20 December 1921 - 9 January 1922

The [Palestine] Arab Executive Committee Orders the Return of its Delegation from London

7 July 1922 - 31 July 1922

Establishment of the Palestine Arab Workers Society

21 March 1925 - 11 January 1930

1st Palestine Arab Women's Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

26 October 1929

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

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

A Conference in Nablus Debates Resorting to Arms

Pan-Islamic Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

7 December 1931 - 17 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 Arab National Fund

September 1932 - 8 August 1935

General Strike and Demonstrations in Palestine

8 October 1933 - 3 November 1933

Death of Musa Kazim Husseini

Oil Pipeline Connecting Northern Iraq to Haifa Opens Officially

Joint Memorandum of Palestinian Parties

25 November 1935

Outbreak of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

15 April 1936 - 30 April 1936

First Phase of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

15 April 1936 - 23 July 1937

The Arab Higher Committee is Formed

Start of General Strike and Armed Resistance

7 May 1936 - 31 May 1936

Memorandum of Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

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

11 October 1936

Great Britain Issues the Palestine (Defence) Order in Council, 1937

18 March 1937 - 24 March 1937

Palestinians Reject Peel Commission Report

Second Phase of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

23 July 1937 - September 1938

Formation of the Arab National League (ANL) in New York

August 1937 - May 1941

Arab National Congress Convenes in Bludan

8 September 1937 - 9 September 1937

Arab Higher Committee Is Banned

October 1937 - November 1937

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

London Round Table Conference Convenes

7 February 1939 - 27 March 1939

Formation of a British-Arab Committee on Hussein-McMahon Correspondence at the London Round Table Conference

15 February 1939 - 16 March 1939

The Palestine Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper

Military Recruitment in Palestine

3 September 1939

Support in the United States for a Jewish Army

British Recommend Partition

Establishment of the Institute of Arab American Affairs (IAAA) in New York

25 November 1944 - 31 January 1950

Pledge to Buy US Armament for the Haganah

Truman and Jewish Immigration to Palestine

Arab Office (AO) Is Opened in Washington

September 1945 - December 1947

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

Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry Publishes its Report after a Visit to Palestine

6 March 1946 - 20 April 1946

Formation of the (Palestinian) Arab Higher Front in Opposition to the Palestine Arab Party

President Truman Supports Jewish Immigration to Palestine

Arab League Meets in Bludan and Reacts to the Recommendations of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

8 June 1946 - 12 June 1946

Arab League Supervises the Establishment of a Unified Palestinian Arab Higher Committee

Anglo-American Conference Meets in London and Proposes the Morrison-Grady Federal Plan

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

23 September 1946

UN General Assembly Session on Palestine

28 April 1947 - 9 May 1947

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

Majority of UNSCOP Members Recommend Partition

15 June 1947 - 3 September 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

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

First Phase of Palestine War: Offensive Defense versus Active Defense

29 November 1947 - 10 March 1948

The Haganah Implements Plan Gimmel

1 December 1947

Arab League Rejects Partition Plan

8 December 1947 - 16 December 1947

Arab Liberation Army Organized

1 January 1948 - 10 January 1948

Zionist Military Preparations

14 January 1948 - 20 February 1948

US Apparent Hesitancy Toward Partition

18 March 1948 - 30 March 1948

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

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

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

26 April 1948 - 11 May 1948

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

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

The Arab League and the Establishment of a Provisional Palestinian Civil Administration

Establishment of All-Palestine Government in Gaza

22 September 1948 - 2 October 1948

Israel's Application for UN Membership Fails to Obtain Security Council Approval

17 December 1948

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

January 1949 - December 1956

The US Recognizes Transjordan on a de jure Basis

31 January 1949

Arab Sacrifice Brigade Formed and Dissolved

1 March 1949 - 30 November 1950

General Refugee Congress Meets in Ramallah

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

4 May 1949 - 9 May 1949

Israel Decides to Issue Temporary Residency Permits for Palestinians Not Included in the Census

Elections at al-Urwa al-Wuthqa Society

UNRWA Signs Agreement with Egypt as Administrator of Refugee Host Area

12 September 1950

Palestinian Memorandum to UNCCP, Beirut

27 January 1951

UNRWA Signs Agreement with Jordan as Refugee Host Country

14 March 1951 - 20 August 1951

Israel and the Lavon Affair

July 1954 - 17 February 1955

Exchange of Notes between Lebanon and UNRWA

26 November 1954

Palestinians in Gaza Rise Up Against Resettlement Projects

1 March 1955 - 6 March 1955

Arab Information Center (AIC) Is Opened in New York

The Knesset adopts the Basic Law: The Knesset

12 February 1958

Anti-Monarchic Coup in Iraq

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

The Arab League and Implementation of Palestinian Entity

29 May 1961 - 26 June 1961

Palestine Arab Delegation (PAD) Office Is Opened in New York

26 June 1961 - 26 June 2001

The Constitutional Statute for the Gaza Strip

Palestinian Delegation at the UN

18 October 1963 - 5 November 1963

1st Palestine National Council Is Held in Jerusalem: Establishment of the PLO

28 May 1964 - 2 June 1964

Opening an Office of the PLO in Lebanon

23 October 1964 - 13 November 1964

The PLO Executive Committee Adopts its Bylaws

2nd Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo

31 May 1965 - 4 June 1965

June War, 4th Day

Palestinians Reorganize

11 December 1967 - 19 January 1968

Yasir Arafat Assumes Prominence within Fatah

4th Palestine National Council in Cairo Adopts a Revised National Charter

10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968

UNGA 2443 (XXIII): Establishing Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting Human Rights in Occupied Territories

19 December 1968

5th Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo

1 February 1969 - 4 February 1969

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

3 November 1969

7th Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo

30 May 1970 - 4 June 1970

PFLP Hijack Operations

6 September 1970 - 12 September 1970

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

21 September 1970 - 28 September 1970

The PFLP Announces It Has Abandoned the Tactic of Hijacking Planes

Black September Hijack Operation

11th Palestine National Council Meets in Cairo

6 January 1973 - 12 January 1973

Black September Operation in Khartoum

1 March 1973 - 4 March 1973

Basil al-Kubaisi Assassinated in Paris

American Airlift

14 October 1973 - 14 November 1973

Israeli Army Crosses the Suez Canal Westwards

15 October 1973 - 22 October 1973

American-Soviet Agreement on a Cease-fire

21 October 1973

Opening of an Arab-Israeli Peace Conference in Geneva

21 December 1973

Arafat Addresses the UN General Assembly

13 November 1974

A General Congress to Defend Arab Lands Meets in Nazareth

18 October 1975

UNGA 3376 (XXX): Establishing a Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People

10 November 1975

Palestinians in Israel Mobilize Against Confiscation

1 January 1976 - 6 March 1976

Palestinian "Land Day"

Failed Attempt to Open a PLO Information Office in Washington

19 November 1976

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

28 December 1977

A Palestine Information Office (PIO) Is Opened in Washington

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

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

14 July 1980 - 15 July 1980

Majid Abu Sharar Is Assassinated in Rome

Popular Resistance and Israeli Measures in West Bank

16 February 1982 - 30 March 1982

Palestinian Mayors Stand with Those Dismissed by Israel

Several Israeli Attempts to Assassinate Yasir Arafat During Invasion of Lebanon

15 June 1982 - 30 August 1982

PLO and Jordan Agree on Idea of Palestinian-Jordanian Confederation

9 October 1982 - 10 November 1982

Failed Attempt of Palestinian-Jordanian Coordination

31 March 1983 - 8 April 1983

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Tunis

3 August 1983 - 7 August 1983

Operations Against French and US Contingents in Beirut

23 October 1983

Palestinian-Jordanian Coordination for Peace Talks

26 February 1984 - 1 March 1984

PLO Executive on Palestinian-Jordanian Joint Action Agreement

18 February 1985

Elections in Gaza Professional Unions

21 February 1987

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

31st Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem

6 December 1987 - 10 December 1987

Arafat addresses the UN General Assembly in Geneva

13 December 1988 - 14 December 1988

Start of US-PLO Dialogue

14 December 1988

US-PLO Official Meeting Takes Place in Carthage, Tunisia

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Tunis

31 March 1989 - 2 April 1989

The PLO Executive Committee Rejects Israel's Peace Initiative

Responses to the Baker Five-Point Plan

16 October 1989 - 18 December 1989

The Issue of Hamas's Participation in the Palestine National Council

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

14 January 1991

Secretary Baker First Stage Diplomacy

9 March 1991 - 22 May 1991

20th Palestine National Council Is Held in Algiers

23 September 1991 - 28 September 1991

2nd Negotiation Round, Washington

10 December 1991 - 18 December 1991

5th Negotiation Round, Washington

27 April 1992 - 30 April 1992

Palestinian-Israeli Declaration of Principles Initialed and Approved

20 August 1993 - 30 August 1993

PLO Central Council Meeting in Tunis Prepares the Implementation of the DOP

10 October 1993 - 12 October 1993

Final Chapter of Gaza-Jericho Negotiations

31 March 1994 - 1 May 1994

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

Arafat's Decree N° 1: Pre-1967 Laws in West Bank and Gaza Are still in Force

Settlement Activity Around Jerusalem

19 January 1995 - 1 February 1995

Further Transfer of Powers and Responsibilities

21st Palestine National Council Is Held in Gaza

22 April 1996 - 24 April 1996

Ceremonious Start of Permanent Status Negotiations, Taba

5 May 1996 - 7 May 1996

First Netanyahu-Arafat Meeting

4 September 1996

Protocol on Redeployment in Hebron Signed

6 October 1996 - 16 January 1997

Israeli Settlement Activities Amid Attempts to Resume Talks

10 September 1997 - 6 November 1997

US Position on Further Redeployment and Palestinian Obligations

5 December 1997 - 3 September 1998

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

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Gaza

27 April 1999 - 29 April 1999

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

30 April 2000 - 8 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

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Gaza

2 July 2000 - 3 July 2000

The PA Releases First Batch of New Textbooks

2 September 2000

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Gaza

9 September 2000 - 10 September 2000

Arab and International Support of Palestinian Uprising

30 September 2000 - 7 October 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

Operation Bronze and Escalation

7 March 2001 - 16 May 2001

The Mitchell Report Is Issued

30 April 2001 - 15 May 2001

Death of Faisal al-Husseini

Israel Closes Orient House and Other Jerusalem Institutions

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

16 December 2001 - 27 December 2001

Israeli and International Pressures for a PA Reform

7 May 2002 - 5 June 2002

On the Road to Reform: First Palestinian Steps and Plans

15 May 2002 - 24 June 2002

Israeli Leaders Push for an American War Against Iraq

16 October 2002 - 9 February 2003

Assassination of Mustafa Sabah in Gaza City

4 December 2002

Arafat Accepts the Creation of a Prime Minister Position

9 February 2003 - 6 March 2003

15th Arab Summit Meets in Sharm al-Shaykh

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah

8 March 2003 - 9 March 2003

The PLO Approves the Road Map

3 May 2003 - 11 May 2003

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

7 September 2003 - 12 November 2003

Extending Retaliation to Syrian Territory; Operation Root Canal in Rafah

4 October 2003 - 30 October 2003

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

7 July 2004 - 27 July 2004

Assassination Attempt of Muhammad Abu Nusayra in Khan Yunis

27 September 2004

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

Abbas-Sharon Summit in Sharm al-Shaykh

8 February 2005

Resumption of Israeli-Palestinian Security Coordination

15 February 2005 - 30 April 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

The Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee Is Established

25 November 2005

Assassination of Mahmoud Arqan in Rafah

7 December 2005

Assassination of Husam Abu Nada, Muhammad Jiha, Rashad Rahim, and Hamdan Mahana in Gaza City

14 December 2005

Palestinian Legislative Election Results: Initial Palestinian Reactions

27 January 2006 - 4 May 2006

PA New Legislature and Consultations to Form a New Cabinet

18 February 2006 - 16 March 2006

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

1 March 2006 - 25 April 2006

Abbas's Control Over PA Security Forces

5 April 2006 - 11 April 2006

A “Temporary International Mechanism” to Channel Funds Through Abbas’s Office

9 May 2006 - 27 July 2006

The Prisoners' Initiative: National Conciliation Document

10 May 2006 - 13 May 2006

Israel Steps up Military Actions in Gaza

29 May 2006 - 15 June 2006

Assassination of Imad Asaliyya and Majdi Hammad in Jabaliya

Hamas Operation Dispel Illusion: Capture of Gilad Shalit

25 June 2006 - 1 July 2006

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

28 March 2007 - 29 March 2007

Abbas-Olmert Meetings to Reach Understandings Before the International Conference

6 August 2007 - 10 September 2007

Ongoing Military Confrontation: Israel Declares Gaza a "Hostile Territory"

16 August 2007 - 3 November 2007

Palestinian and Israeli Teams to Prepare Annapolis International Conference

20 September 2007 - 25 November 2007

Assassination of Mubarak Hasanat in Deir al-Balah

23 October 2007

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

27 November 2007

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

17 December 2007 - 1 February 2008

Relentless Israeli-Palestinian Confrontation in Gaza

15 January 2008 - 22 January 2008

Assassination of Raed Abu al-Ful in Beit Lahiya

17 January 2008

Assassination of Amer Qarmout in Beit Lahiya

4 February 2008

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status Intensify

4 February 2008 - 24 February 2008

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status (Almost) Suspended

Israel Announces New Settlement Construction Plans

9 March 2008 - 2 April 2008

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

24 March 2008 - 4 May 2008

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status to Nowhere

27 May 2008 - 30 August 2008

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

31 August 2008 - 16 September 2008

Post-Annapolis Talks: Palestinian Stocktaking

War on Gaza, Day 7

War on Gaza, Day 12

War on Gaza, Day 13

War on Gaza, Day 20

15 January 2009

Palestinian National Unity Talks Resume in Cairo

25 February 2009 - 18 May 2009

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

18 May 2009 - 1 June 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

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

3 March 2010 - 7 March 2010

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

22 April 2010 - 20 May 2010

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

6 July 2010 - 23 August 2010

Amid US Pressure for Direct Talks, Provocative Settlement Measures Continue

29 July 2010 - 15 August 2010

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

Israel's Temporary and Partial Settlement Freeze Is not Extended

20 September 2010 - 26 September 2010

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

30 September 2010 - 15 December 2010

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

1 December 2010 - 19 January 2012

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

Impact of the Democracy Drive in the Arab World on Palestinian Popular Politics

2 February 2011 - 15 March 2011

The Knesset Passes the "Admissions Committees Law"

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

4 May 2011 - 17 May 2011

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

Assassination of Kamal al-Nairab and Imad Hamad in Rafah

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

23 September 2011

Fate of the Palestinian UN Admission Request

28 September 2011 - 8 November 2011

Palestinian Reconciliation Meetings in Cairo

20 December 2011 - 22 December 2011

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

Fatah and Hamas Sign an Agreement on an Implementation Timetable in Cairo

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

14 November 2012

Hamas and Fatah Exchange Reconciliation Gestures

22 November 2012 - 7 February 2013

Tension and Hostilities Mount Across Gaza

14 June 2014 - 2 July 2014

Battir Landscape Is Inscribed in the World Heritage List

Renewal of Settlement Activity

31 August 2014 - 24 December 2014

Israel Freezes Transfer of Tax Revenues to the Palestinian Authority

1 January 2015 - 21 April 2015

The Palestinian Unity Government Still Does not Administer Gaza

11 January 2015 - 19 April 2015

Settlement Construction

30 January 2015

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

9 February 2015 - 2 March 2015

37th Zionist Congress, Jerusalem

20 October 2015 - 22 October 2015

Sanctions Against 3 Palestinian Knesset Members

4 February 2016 - 8 February 2016

The PLO Executive Committee Decides to Boycott the Quartet

3 July 2016 - 10 July 2016

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

Donald Trump Is Elected the 45th American President

8 November 2016

Fatah Seventh General Conference Renews Its Governing Bodies

4 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

Donald Trump Is Officially Inaugurated as the 45th American President

20 January 2017

Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad Meets in Istanbul

25 February 2017 - 26 February 2017

Hamas Forms a Committee to Administer Gaza Strip

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

Gaza and the Electricity Issue

27 April 2017 - 1 August 2017

Palestinian Prisoners in Israel End Hunger Strike

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

4 July 2017 - 7 July 2017

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

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

12 October 2017

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

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah

14 January 2018 - 6 February 2018

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

22 January 2018 - 13 March 2018

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

Assassination Attempt on PA PM Hamdallah and Intel Chief Faraj in Bayt Hanun

13 March 2018 - 19 March 2018

International Community Alleviates Some of the UNRWA's Financial Crisis

23rd Palestine National Council Convenes in Ramallah

30 April 2018 - 3 May 2018

The Knesset Passes Basic Law: Israel the Nation-State of the Jewish People

19 July 2018 - 30 July 2018

Qatar's Assistance to Gaza

9 October 2018 - 8 November 2018

Conditions Worsen for Palestinian Prisoners

2 January 2019 - 12 May 2019

Israeli Harassment and Mass Arrests in Issawiyya

1 June 2019 - 1 September 2019

Israel Prevents US Congresswomen from Visiting the West Bank and Israel

15 August 2019 - 16 August 2019

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

19 September 2019

Palestinian Court Orders to Block Access to Dozens of Websites

17 October 2019

Great March of Return Organizers Suspend Weekly Protests

26 December 2019 - 27 December 2019

After Threats of Annexation, Normalization Reignites Palestinian Reconciliation Talks

3 September 2020 - 24 September 2020

Palestinian Reconciliation Comes again to a Standstill

1 October 2020 - 17 November 2020

Hanan Ashrawi Resigns from PLO Executive Committee

9 December 2020

Israel Raids and Closes Offices of Human Rights Organizations in the West Bank

28 February 2021 - 15 September 2021

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

7 April 2021 - 23 September 2021

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 8

The General Strike of the Unity Intifada

May 2021 Gaza War: A Balance Sheet

Meetings Resume between PA and Israeli Ministers

29 August 2021 - 28 December 2021

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

17 October 2021 - 29 October 2021

Israel Designates Palestinian Rights Organizations as Terrorist Organizations

22 October 2021 - 17 November 2021

Biographies

Hafiz al-Sa’id

Musa Kazim Husseini

1853 - 26 March 1934

1859 - 21 July 1921

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

Bendali Saliba al-Jawzi

Freih Abu Middein

1878 - 29 June 1950

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

1880 - 16 June 1946

Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar

1882 - 22 April 1942

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

Raghib al-Nashashibi

Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

1882 - 29 June 1963

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

Isaaf al-Nashashibi

1885 - 22 January 1948

1885 - 19 December 1953

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Khalil Abdallah Totah

20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955

Mu‘in al-Madi

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani

1888 - 20 January 1954

Abd al-Hamid Shuman

1888 - 9 September 1974

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

Rafiq al-Tamimi

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

George Antonius

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965

1893 - 27 April 1940

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

Subhi al-Khadra

1895 - 4 July 1954

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

1896 - 27 September 1951

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

Mustafa al-Dabbagh

1897 - 1 October 1989

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Anbara Salam Khalidi

4 August 1897 - 1986

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari

1900 - 29 May 1980

1902 - 27 August 1984

Zulaykha al-Shihabi

1903 - 13 May 1992

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

1905 - 2 May 1941

1905 - 21 May 1985

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

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi

1909 - 11 October 1980

1910 - 26 February 1971

Sami Taha Hamran

1911 - 11 September 1947

Qudsia Khourshid

5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009

Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud

1913 - 13 July 1948

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil

Hind al-Husseini

25 April 1916 - 13 September 1994

1917 - 12 December 2003

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

1923 - 12 May 2004

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

1926 - 23 January 1984

1927 - 13 January 2005

13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967

Issam Abd al-Hadi

1928 - 8 August 2013

Samira Abu Ghazaleh

1928 - 12 January 2017

1928 - 1 September 2020

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

1929 - 2 June 2016

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012

Bassam Shak’a

1930 - 22 July 2019

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

Anis Abdullah Sayigh

3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009

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

Ahmad Ismail Yasin

June 1936 - 22 March 2004

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

1939 - 19 August 2014

Faisal al-Husseini

17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001

1941 - 5 February 2023

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

1942 - 6 August 2019

Abd al-Wahhab Darawshah

12 October 1943

1962 - 31 July 2024

9 February 1963

Historical Texts

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

Letter from Sir Henry McMahon to Sharif Hussein

25 October 1915

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

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

Proclamation of the Independence of Syria

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

Statement of the Executive Committee of the 4th Palestinian National Congress Rejecting the British Mandate (in Arabic)

League of Nations - Mandate for Palestine

The Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)

Palestine Legislative Council Election Order, 1922

Statement of the Executive Committee of the 5th Palestinian National Congress on Boycotting the Legislative Council Elections (in Arabic)

1 September 1922

Arab Executive Committee's Response to High Commissioner's Offer to Form an Arab Agency Similar to the Jewish Agency in Palestine (in Arabic)

12 October 1923

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

Statement of the Arab National Conference

13 December 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

London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence

MacDonald White Paper

Reply of Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper

Biltmore Conference Declaration

The Alexandria Protocol on Forming the League of Arab States

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 43: Calling for an Immediate Truce in Palestine

UNSC Resolution 46

UNGA Resolution 186 (S-2)

Israel: Law and Administration Ordinance

Abandoned Areas Ordinance

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

Progress Report of the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte)

16 September 1948

UNSC Resolution 61

4 November 1948

Al-Dawayima Massacre, 29 October 1948 An Israeli Soldier Eye-Witness Account

8 November 1948

UNGA Resolution 212 (III)

19 November 1948

UNGA Resolution 194 (III)

11 December 1948

Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement

24 February 1949

Jordan-Israel General Armistice Agreement

Ad Hoc Political Committee Resolution on Israel’s Application for UN Membership

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

UNGA Resolution 393 (V)

2 December 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

Exchange of Notes Between Lebanon and UNRWA

26 November 1954

Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA

15 December 1956

Proclamation of the Constitutional Statute of Gaza, 1962

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

5 November 1963

Palestine National (qawmi) Charter

Basic Law of the PLO

Bylaws of the Executive Committee of the PLO (in Arabic)

Lyndon B. Johnson: Statement on Principles for Peace in the Middle East

UNGA Resolution 2252 (ES-V)

Fourth Arab Summit: Resolutions

1 September 1967

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 2443 (XXIII)

19 December 1968

UNGA Resolution 2452 (XXIII)

19 December 1968

Palestine National Council, 6th Session: Political Statement

6 September 1969

Cairo Agreement between the Lebanese Authorities and the Palestinian Guerrilla Organizations

3 November 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, 8th Session: Interim Political Program of the Palestine Revolution

Palestine National Council, 9th Session: Final Statement

UNGA Resolution 2792 (XXVI)

6 December 1971

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

PLO Interim Program (Ten-Point Program)

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

UNGA Resolution 3376 (XXX)

10 November 1975

UNGA Resolution 3379 (XXX)

10 November 1975

The Koenig Memorandum

Draft of UNSC Resolution 12119

Eighth Arab Summit: Statement

25 October 1976 - 26 October 1976

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

PLO Central Council, Statement on Sadat's Visit to Israel

30 November 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

Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt

Joint Letter from President Sadat and Prime Minister Begin to President Carter Concerning Negotiations on Self-Governing Authority in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

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

The Regional Committee of the Heads of Arab Local Authorities in Israel Statement On the Assassination Attempts Against West Bank Mayors

Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capital of Israel

Sadat’s Letter to Begin Following Israel’s Enactment of Basic Law on Jerusalem

Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement

11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981

Statement of First National Festival of Palestinian Literature in the Occupied Land

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

Draft of UNSC Resolution 14985

Plan for the Departure from Lebanon of the PLO Leadership, Offices, and Combatants in Beirut

1 September 1982

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

Palestine National Council, 17th Session: Final Statement

22 November 1984 - 29 November 1984

Statement of the PLO Executive Committee on the Palestinian-Jordanian Joint Action Agreement (in Arabic)

18 February 1985

The London Agreement

Palestine National Council, 18th Session: Final Statement

20 April 1987 - 25 April 1987

UNGA Resolution 42/210

17 December 1987

Draft of UNSC Resolution 19466

29 January 1988

UNGA Resolution 42/229

UNGA Resolution 42/230

King Hussein’s Address to the Nation on Severing Ties with the West Bank

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

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

Statement by President Reagan on Opening American-PLO Dialogue

14 December 1988

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1989: Resolution on the Palestine Question

23 May 1989 - 26 May 1989

Egypt's Ten-Point Response to Israel's Election Plan in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

Draft of UNGA Resolution A/44/L.50

29 November 1989

UNSC Resolution 681

20 December 1990

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

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 Israel

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

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

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

Wye River Memorandum

23 October 1998

UNGA Resolution ES-10/6

9 February 1999

Sharm el Sheikh Memorandum

4 September 1999

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

UNGA Resolution ES-10/7

20 October 2000

PLO Negotiation Affairs Department Assessment of US Policy

20 January 2001

Palestinian and Israeli Positions on Refugees

22 January 2001 - 23 January 2001

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2001/270

Jordanian-Egyptian Proposal For an Israeli-Palestinian Cease-Fire and Resumption of Negotiations

The Mitchell Report

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

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2001/1199

14 December 2001

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

Fourteenth Arab Summit: The Arab Peace Initiative

UNSC Resolution 1402

The Quartet (UN, EU, Russia, US) Communiqué on the Situation in the Occupied Territories

UNSC Resolution 1405

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

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

UNGA Resolution ES-10/13

27 October 2003

UNGA Resolution ES-10/14

12 December 2003

President Bush's letter to Prime Minister Sharon

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement Plan: Key Principles

UNGA Resolution ES-10/15

Palestinian Authority's Declaration on Institutional Renewal

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

17 October 2005

Agreement on Movement and Access In Connection with the Gaza Disengagement

15 November 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

National Conciliation Document

Mecca Agreement

8 February 2007

President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech

Joint Understanding Between Israel and the PLO Read by President Bush

27 November 2007

Summary Final Report - The Winograd Commission of Inquiry

30 January 2008

Basic Law: The Knesset Amendment No. 39

UNSC Resolution 1860

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

Palestinian National Conciliation Agreement: Related Understandings Between Fatah and Hamas

Mahmoud Abbas's Op-Ed in the New York Times: The Long Overdue Palestinian State

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

HRC Resolution S-21/1

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

Scope of Database of Firms Contributing to Israeli Settlement Activities

Report of the Middle East Quartet

Statement of the PLO Executive Committee on the Report of the Quartet (in Arabic)

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

Statement of the Preparatory Committee for the Palestine National Council (in Arabic)

11 January 2017

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

Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee: Lebanese Working Group on Palestinian Refugee Affairs: A Unified Lebanese Vision For the Palestinian Refugees Affairs In Lebanon

Agreement Between Fatah and Hamas to End Palestinian Division

12 October 2017

Mahmoud Abbas’s Op-Ed in The Guardian: Britain Must Atone for the Balfour Declaration – and 100 years of Suffering

1 November 2017

Statement by President Donald Trump On Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel

6 December 2017

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2018/516

UNGA Resolution ES-10/20

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

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

12 February 2020

Abraham Accords: Declaration of Peace, Cooperation, and Constructive Diplomatic and Friendly Relations, Announced by the State of Israel and the Kingdom of Bahrain

15 September 2020

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

Joint Statement of the Foreign Ministers of France, Germany, Egypt and Jordan (The Munich Group)

11 January 2021

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

12 January 2021

Historical Media

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

2 November 1932

Oath of Allegiance

Arab Higher Committee Members

Arab Revolt 1936 - Arab Higher Committee

12 January 1937

Smashing the Palestinian Political Infrastructure

15 December 1938

Arab Demonstration at Yatta

18 December 1938

Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

Partition Plan (Ad Hoc Committee Proposal)

29 November 1947

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

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

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

Palestine Police During the British Mandate

Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals

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

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

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

XI. The Al-Aqsa Intifada and the End of an Era in Palestinian Politics

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

V. Reverberations Of 1948 Palestine War And The Arab-Israeli Conflict

October 1973 War

A Daring Arab Initiative Followed by Ambivalent Results

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

Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

A Vulnerable Yet Vibrant Community

Palestinian Emigration (II)

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 Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Palestine Liberation Organization (II)

From the Limelight to the Backstage

The Palestinian National Initiative Movement - Al-Mubadara

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)

After the Nakba

The Palestinian Communist Movement

Arab Labor in Mandate Palestine

The Emergence of a Working Class

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Palestinian Refugees in Syria

Fully Integrated, for Better and for Worse

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse

A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism

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

Palestinians in Jordan Since 1967

A Never-Ending Normalization

Jabal al-Hussein Refugee Camp

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp

Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

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

Ein el Tal (Handarat) Refugee Camp

Palestinian Youth in Conflict

A Childhood Denied

Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti) Refugee Camp

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (II)

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

Israel's Nation-State Law, 2018

Enshrining Discrimination

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

Resolution 242, 22 November 1967

Ambiguous Parameters for a Middle East Settlement

Marka Refugee Camp

Sabra and Shatila, 16-18 September 1982

A Massacre by Proxy

The Palestinians in Peru

A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History

Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966

Governing the Lives of a Confined Population

The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps

Perpetuating the Temporary

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)

Before the Nakba

Balata Refugee Camp

Baqa‘a Refugee Camp

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

Fawwar Refugee Camp

Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp

Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp

Sbeineh Refugee Camp

Talbieh Refugee Camp

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Shatila Refugee Camp

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

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

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

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

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

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

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 Bosnians of Palestine

The New South Africa and the Palestine Question

From Good Offices to Total Support

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 Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

Madrid and the Oslo Agreement, 1991-1993

Short-Lived Promises of a Negotiated Settlement

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

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

The Second Intifada, 2000-2005

Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations

Palestinian Labor in Israel

A Fluctuating Market Subject to Israel’s Interests

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

An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status

Palestine Liberation Organization (I)

The Reemergence of the Palestinian National Movement

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948

A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps

The Algerians of Palestine

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Perpetuating Israel’s Structural Dominance

Camp David Accords, 1978-1979

Shattering the Arab Front

The IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism

Delegitimizing Criticism of Israel