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Palestine Under Zahir al-Umar: Locus of Intra-Mamluk Rivalry

June 1771 - June 1773

Uprising Against Egyptian Rule in Palestine

April 1834 - August 1834

Second Stage of British Palestine Campaign: From Bir al-Sabi' and Gaza to Jerusalem

31 October 1917 - 9 December 1917

Limited British Advances; Stabilization of the Military Front

21 December 1917 - 21 April 1918

Conquest of Damascus; Faisal Enters Liberated City

26 September 1918 - 3 October 1918

General Allenby Issues Guidelines for the Military Occupation of the Levant

23 October 1918

British-French Demarcation of Line Between Palestine (Including Transjordan) and Syria (Including Lebanon)

Avner Defense Plan

Military Recruitment in Palestine

3 September 1939

Palestinian Operations

11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948

Fighting Around Jerusalem

12 April 1948 - 23 April 1948

Operation Jevussi for the Conquest of Jerusalem

26 April 1948 - 30 April 1948

Zionist Conquest of Eastern Galilee

28 April 1948 - 25 May 1948

Ethnic Cleansing During the Second Truce

24 July 1948 - 15 October 1948

Operation Hiram in the North

28 October 1948 - 31 October 1948

Israel Enacts the Emergency Regulations (Security Zones)

24 April 1949 - 27 July 1949

Israel's Construction of the "National Water Carrier"

2 September 1953

Soviet Union Threatens Intervention

5 November 1956

The Knesset Paves the Way for the Annexation of East Jerusalem

27 June 1967 - 28 June 1967

Israeli Invasion Along the Western Axis

6 June 1982 - 14 June 1982

Israeli Invasion of Lebanon

6 June 1982 - 29 September 1982

Start of the Intifada in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank

9 December 1987

Norwegian Secret Channel, Official Stage

20 May 1993 - 20 August 1993

Wave of Hamas and Islamic Jihad Attacks

6 April 1994 - 30 April 1994

Israel Launches Operation Grapes of Wrath Against Lebanon

11 April 1996 - 26 April 1996

Tunnel Opened by Israel in Old City, Jerusalem; Palestinian-Israeli Clashes

24 September 1996 - 28 September 1996

Attempts to Revive Final Status Talks

16 August 2000 - 28 September 2000

Arab and International Support of Palestinian Uprising

30 September 2000 - 7 October 2000

Israeli Idea of Security Fence (Separation Wall) Begins to Take Shape

26 December 2000 - 3 January 2001

Israeli Army Refocuses on Gaza Strip

19 August 2002 - 7 October 2002

Assassination of Khalid Massud near Gaza City

The Knesset Adopts the Disengagement Plan Implementation Law

16 February 2005

July War: Israel Attempts a Ground Offensive in Southern Lebanon

11 August 2006 - 14 August 2006

Israel's Operation Summer Rains Against Gaza Continues

15 August 2006 - 9 September 2006

Israel Announces New Settlement Construction Plans

9 March 2008 - 2 April 2008

War on Gaza, Day 8: End of Phase 1; Balance Sheet

War on Gaza, Day 11: Dramatic Surge in Palestinian Civilian Casualties

War on Gaza, Day 17

12 January 2009

War on Gaza, Day 18

13 January 2009

War on Gaza, Day 20

15 January 2009

War on Gaza: US-Israel MOU on Arms Smuggling into Gaza

16 January 2009

Hamas's Khalid Mishal Visits the Gaza Strip

8 December 2012

The 2014 Gaza War: Israel Launches Ground Invasion (Phase II)

17 July 2014 - 31 July 2014

37th Zionist Congress, Jerusalem

20 October 2015 - 22 October 2015

Israeli Violence Ahead of One-Year Anniversary of Great March of Return; Egyptian Restraint Efforts

22 March 2019 - 29 March 2019

Evyatar Outpost Resettled; Palestinian Protesters Killed or Injured

3 May 2021 - 31 December 2021

Biographies

Jurji Habib Hanania

Bendali Saliba al-Jawzi

Freih Abu Middein

1878 - 29 June 1950

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

Izzeddin al-Qassam

1882 - 20 November 1935

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

Subhi al-Khadra

1895 - 4 July 1954

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

1907 - 27 July 2006

Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

Anwar Nusseibeh

1913 - 22 November 1986

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

1928 - 1 September 2020

9 May 1935 - 10 April 1973

Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

1936 - 3 August 1978

1936 - 29 August 1987

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

9 February 1963

Historical Texts

Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement

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

The Murison Commission Report

Peel Commission Report

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

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead Commission) Report

9 November 1938

Land Transfers Regulations, 1940

20 February 1940

UNSCOP Majority Proposal: Partition Plan

3 September 1947

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

Progress Report of the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte)

16 September 1948

Palestinian National Council: Proclamation of the Independence of Palestine

Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement

24 February 1949

Lebanon-Israel General Armistice Agreement

Jordan-Israel General Armistice Agreement

Syria–Israel General Armistice Agreement

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

The Koenig Memorandum

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

Israeli Cabinet Communiqué on President Reagan's Peace Proposal

2 September 1982

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

7 February 1983

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

Draft of UNSC Resolution 1997/199

Draft of UNSC Resolution 1997/241

The “Moratinos Non-Paper” on the Outcome of the Taba Talks (21-27 January 2001)

27 January 2001

UNGA Resolution 58/292

Letter Dated 4 May 2009 from the Secretary-General Addressed to the President of the Security Council

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

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

25 September 2009

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2011/24

18 February 2011

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

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

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

Highlights

Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917

Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries

Battle of al-Karama, 21 March 1968

A Triggering Moment For the Palestinian Resistance

October 1973 War

A Daring Arab Initiative Followed by Ambivalent Results

Lebanon War, 1982

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

Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City

Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

A Vulnerable Yet Vibrant Community

Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine

Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement

Kafr Qasim, 29 October 1956

Israel’s Army Massacres Its Own Peaceful Citizens

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”

Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History

Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966

Governing the Lives of a Confined Population

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip

Thwarting Resettlement Schemes

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1967

The Political and Social Remodeling of a Cramped Palestinian Space

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip Since 1967

Incubators of Resistance

Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948

A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Fawwar Refugee Camp

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

III. Late Mandate

VI. Rise of The Palestinian National Movement

The Second Intifada, 2000-2005

Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations

Palestinian Emigration (I)

Palestinian Emigration (II)

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Palestinian Labor in Israel

A Fluctuating Market Subject to Israel’s Interests

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Sbeineh Refugee Camp

Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp

Talbieh Refugee Camp

Jabal al-Hussein Refugee Camp

France and the Palestine Question Before 1948

Competition with the British, North African Considerations, Lukewarm Support for Zionism

Spain and the Palestine Question

Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

Beddawi Refugee Camp

Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp

The Separation Wall

Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule

Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition

Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp

Turkey and the Palestine Question

Torn between a Pro-Western Stance, Regional Considerations and Identity

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

The USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991

Between Ideology and Realism

The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question

Solidarity of the Colonized

The New South Africa and the Palestine Question

From Good Offices to Total Support

The Algerians of Palestine

The United Kingdom and the Palestine Question Before 1917

Ideological and Colonialist Path to Conquest

Japan and the Palestine Question

A Policy still Subordinate to the US

Canada and the Palestine Question

Israel First, Palestinians Second

Zarqa Refugee Camp

Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation

XI. Second Intifada and the Post-Arafat Era

The Great March of Return

Peaceful Demonstrations, Bloody Crackdown

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

Israel’s Apartheid Regime

Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

The May 2021 Gaza War

Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes

Baqa‘a Refugee Camp

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

Places

al-Masmiyya al-Kabira

al-Masmiyya al-Saghira

al-Naghnaghiyya

al-Ras al-Ahmar

al-Sawafir al-Gharbiyya

al-Sawafir al-Shamaliyya

al-Shaykh Muwannis

al-Zuq al-Fawqani

al-Zuq al-Tahtani

'Arab al-'Arida

'Arab al-Nufay'at

'Arab al-Shamalina

'Arab al-Zubayd

Balad al-Shaykh

Khirbat Bayt Lid

Bayyarat Hannun

Daliyat al-Rawha'

Dayr Abu Salama

Ghabat Kafr Sur

Ghuwayr Abu Shusha

Ijlil al-Shamaliyya

'Iraq al-Manshiyya

Khirbat 'Iribbin

Khirbat al-'Umur

Khirbat al-Burj

Khirbat al-Jawfa

Khirbat al-Kasayir

Khirbat al-Manara

Khirbat al-Mansura

Khirbat al-Muntar

Khirbat al-Tannur

Khirbat al-Taqa

Khirbat al-Zababida

Khirbat Bayt Far

Khirbat Ism Allah

Khirbat Karraza

Khirbat Umm Burj

Khirbat Zakariyya

Kirad al-Ghannama

Sarafand al-'Amar

Wadi al-Hawarith