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As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

Jurji Habib Hanania

1868 - October 1930

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

1880 - 16 June 1946

Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

Raghib al-Nashashibi

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Abd al-Hamid Shuman

1888 - 9 September 1974

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

Rafiq al-Tamimi

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965

1894 - 19 March 1949

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

Zulaykha al-Shihabi

1903 - 13 May 1992

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

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

Sami Taha Hamran

1911 - 11 September 1947

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil

1917 - 12 December 2003

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

1923 - 12 May 2004

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

1926 - 23 January 1984

13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967

Issam Abd al-Hadi

1928 - 8 August 2013

Samira Abu Ghazaleh

1928 - 12 January 2017

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

Bassam Shak’a

1930 - 22 July 2019

Ismail Shammout

2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006

13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

1936 - 3 August 1978

1936 - 29 August 1987

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

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

Abd al-Wahhab Darawshah

12 October 1943

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

1962 - 31 July 2024

Historical Texts

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

MacDonald's Letter to Weizmann

13 February 1931

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

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

SC Res. 44: Requesting a GA ٍSpecial Session on Future Palestine Government

UNSC Resolution 46

UNSC Resolution 48

UNGA Resolution 186 (S-2)

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

UNSC Resolution 49

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

UNSC Resolution 53

UNSC Resolution 54

Progress Report of the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte)

16 September 1948

UNSC Resolution 61

4 November 1948

UNGA Resolution 194 (III)

11 December 1948

UNSC Resolution 95

1 September 1951

UNSC Resolution 101

24 November 1953

Proclamation of the Constitutional Statute of Gaza, 1962

Draft of UNSC Resolution 5407

Draft of UNSC Resolution 7575/Rev.1

3 November 1966

Palestine National Council, 4th Session: Political Resolutions

10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968

Palestine National Council, 6th Session: Political Statement

6 September 1969

9 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

Palestine National Council, 9th Session: Final Statement

Speech by Jordan’S King Hussein, Proposing a United Arab Kingdom in the Event of a Peaceful Settlement

Programme of the Palestine National Front in the Occupied Territory

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

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 3375 (XXX)

10 November 1975

Draft of UNSC Resolution 11898

5 December 1975

Draft of UNSC Resolution 11940

23 January 1976

Draft of UNSC Resolution 12022

Draft of UNSC Resolution 12119

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

UNSC Resolution 425

Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement

11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981

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

Palestine National Council, 16th Session: Final Statement

14 February 1983 - 22 February 1983

Draft of UNSC Resolution 15895

UNGA Resolution 38/58

13 December 1983

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

Draft of UNSC Resolution 17459

12 September 1985

Draft of UNSC Resolution 17769

29 January 1986

Palestine National Council, 18th Session: Final Statement

20 April 1987 - 25 April 1987

Draft of UNSC Resolution 19466

29 January 1988

Draft of UNSC Resolution 19780

Palestinian Declaration of Independence

15 November 1988

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

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

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

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

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

28 September 1995

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1996: Resolution on the Palestine Question

21 June 1996 - 23 June 1996

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

PLO Negotiating Team Reservations Concerning President Bill Clinton’s 23 December Proposal for an Israeli-Palestinian Peace Agreement

Palestinian and Israeli Positions on Refugees

22 January 2001 - 23 January 2001

Israeli-Palestinian Joint Statement

27 January 2001

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

The Mitchell Report

UNSC Resolution 1397

Fourteenth Arab Summit: The Arab Peace Initiative

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

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

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

Statement by Middle East Quartet on the Palestinian Legislative Elections

30 January 2006

National Conciliation Document

President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech

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

Statement by Middle East Quartet

23 September 2011

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

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

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

28 February 2019

Events

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

Pan-Islamic Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

7 December 1931 - 17 December 1931

The Eastern Women's Congress in Defense of Palestine Is Held in Cairo

15 October 1938 - 18 October 1938

Partition (Woodhead) Commission Report Is Published

9 November 1938

US and USSR Endorse Partition

11 October 1947 - 13 October 1947

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

Count Bernadotte's Palestine Plan

Bernadotte's New Plan

16 September 1948

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

17 December 1948

Great Britain Recognizes Israel on a de facto Basis

30 January 1949

Great Britain Announces Formal Recognition of Extended Kingdom of Jordan and de jure Recognition of Israel Simultaneously

Egyptian-Czech Arms Deal

27 September 1955

Soviet Union Threatens Intervention

5 November 1956

Egypt and Syria Unite and Form the United Arab Republic

1 February 1958 - 28 September 1961

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

The Constitutional Statute for the Gaza Strip

The Union of Arab Palestinian Women and Palestinian Entity

Draft Security Council Resolution S/5407

3 September 1963

The General Union of Palestinian Women Is Formed in Jerusalem

Draft Security Council Resolution S/7575/Rev.1

4 November 1966

June War, 6th Day

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

22 October 1973

Opening of an Arab-Israeli Peace Conference in Geneva

21 December 1973

29th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

20 February 1978 - 1 March 1978

30th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

7 December 1982 - 16 December 1982

Palestinian-Jordanian Joint Action Agreement

11 February 1985 - 22 February 1985

Extraordinary Arab Summit Meets in Casablanca

7 August 1985 - 9 August 1985

Elections in Gaza Professional Unions

21 February 1987

Mass Emigration of Soviet Jews to Israel Is Triggered

1 October 1989 - 14 January 1990

Extraordinary Arab Summit in Baghdad

28 May 1990 - 30 May 1990

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

US-Soviet Invitation to the Madrid Peace Conference

18 October 1991

32nd Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

26 July 1992 - 30 July 1992

Palestinian Presidential and Legislative Elections

20 January 1996

Orient House, Jerusalem and PLO Foreign Relations

1 March 1999 - 11 May 1999

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

The Stockholm Back Channel - 2nd Session

18 May 2000 - 22 May 2000

Failure of Final Status Talks at Camp David Summit

11 July 2000 - 25 July 2000

Sharm al-Shaykh Summit

16 October 2000 - 18 October 2000

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

16 April 2001 - 27 April 2001

Assassination of Rehavam Ze'evi and its Immediate Aftermath

17 October 2001 - 25 October 2001

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

1 April 2002 - 10 May 2002

Birth of the Middle East "Quartet"

Israeli and International Pressures for a PA Reform

7 May 2002 - 5 June 2002

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

Reactions to Bush's Assurances to Sharon RE Disengagement Plan

15 April 2004 - 6 May 2004

UNGA Res. 58/292: Affirming that Status of Palestinian Territory Remains one of Military Occupation

Disengagement: The Case of Gaza-Egypt Crossing in Rafah

7 September 2005 - 17 September 2005

Post Disengagement: Agreed Principles for Rafah Crossing

15 November 2005 - 23 November 2005

Palestinian Legislative Elections: Registered Party Slates

18 December 2005

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

9 May 2006 - 27 July 2006

Intra-Palestinian Dynamics: Demonstrations and Violence

28 August 2006 - 23 October 2006

A Mixed International Reception to the Palestinian Unity Government

17 March 2007 - 31 March 2007

Reactions to West Bank-Gaza Strip Split

17 June 2007 - 20 June 2007

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

17 December 2007 - 1 February 2008

Gaza Palestinians Break Out into Sinai

23 January 2008 - 3 February 2008

War on Gaza: Calls for Active Diplomacy

4 January 2009 - 5 January 2009

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

21 February 2010 - 25 February 2010

International Reactions to the Mavi Marmara Incident

31 May 2010 - 3 June 2010

Diplomatic Efforts to Avert Palestinian Statehood Bid at the UN

2 June 2011 - 11 July 2011

The State of Palestine Becomes Full Member of the UNESCO

5 October 2011 - 31 October 2011

25th Arab Summit Meets in Kuwait

25 March 2014 - 26 March 2014

Israeli and International Reactions to Announcement of Palestinian Unity Government

2 June 2014 - 3 June 2014

A Lebanese Government Readiness to Facilitate Licensing of Palestinian Associations

The Case of Hamas-Appointed Civil Servants in Gaza

11 September 2014 - 18 December 2014

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

2 December 2014 - 17 December 2014

Tony Blair Resigns as Quartet Representative; Quartet Office Redefined

27 May 2015 - 11 June 2015

EU Guidelines on Goods from the Occupied Territories

11 November 2015

The EU and the Middle East Peace Process

18 January 2016

Palestinian Teachers Go on Strike in the West Bank

7 February 2016 - 12 March 2016

The PLO Executive Committee Decides to Boycott the Quartet

3 July 2016 - 10 July 2016

Paris Conference for Peace in the Middle East

15 January 2017 - 16 January 2017

The Israeli Knesset Passes a Law Regularizing Settlements Retroactively

6 February 2017

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

15 February 2017 - 21 October 2018

Bezalel Smotrich's "Decisive Plan" for the Complete Land of Israel

7 September 2017

International Response to Israeli Attacks on Great March of Return Protesters

30 March 2018 - 14 May 2018

PA President Abbas Signs Accession Papers for 11 International Organizations

15 November 2018

Israel Unilaterally Ends the Temporary International Presence in Hebron

28 January 2019 - 6 February 2019

Israeli Supreme Court Approves Demolition of East Jerusalem Neighborhood

16 April 2019 - 17 April 2019

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

19 September 2019

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

12 November 2019

US Peace Plan – Palestinian and International Reactions

28 January 2020 - 11 February 2020

International and Palestinian Responses to Israel’s Annexation Plans

18 May 2020 - 23 June 2020

EU Anti-Palestinian Clause

PA Finances Suffer

2 July 2020 - 27 July 2020

President Trump Announces Kosovo Will Normalize Relations with Israel

4 September 2020 - 7 September 2020

ICC Rules that it has Jurisdiction in Occupied Palestinian Territories; Investigation Announced

5 February 2021 - 2 April 2021

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

28 February 2021 - 15 September 2021

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

22 July 2021 - 20 February 2023

Israel Designates Palestinian Rights Organizations as Terrorist Organizations

22 October 2021 - 17 November 2021

Historical Media

Partition Plan (UNSCOP Majority Proposal)

15 June 1947 - 3 September 1947

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology

The UN and Palestine: Security Council Vetoed Draft Resolutions

1963 - present

Highlights

Palestinians in Jordan, 1948-1967

The Making of the “Jordanians of Palestinian Origin”

Palestinian Citizenship in Israel

An Unwanted Minority Asserts Its Narrative and Identity

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

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

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

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

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

From Relief Provider to Vector of Identity

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

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

October 1973 War

A Daring Arab Initiative Followed by Ambivalent Results

The Second Intifada, 2000-2005

Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP

Israel’s Apartheid Regime

Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1967

The Political and Social Remodeling of a Cramped Palestinian Space

Land Day, 30 March 1976

A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel

The Palestinian National Initiative Movement - Al-Mubadara

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)

After the Nakba

Madrid and the Oslo Agreement, 1991-1993

Short-Lived Promises of a Negotiated Settlement

The Palestinian Communist Movement

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 Palestinians in Chile

A Large Community, Fully Chilean, Fully Engaged for Palestine

Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp

The Palestinian Flag

A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity

The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression

Palestinian Youth in Conflict

A Childhood Denied

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (II)

The Palestinians in Peru

A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History

A Watershed in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

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

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

The European Union and the Palestine Question

From Promising Ambitions to Crippling Divisions

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp

Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947

Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba

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

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 USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991

Between Ideology and Realism

Beddawi Refugee Camp

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip

Thwarting Resettlement Schemes

Palestinian Labor in Israel

A Fluctuating Market Subject to Israel’s Interests

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 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