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Events
Event
Tax Revolt in Jerusalem
1825 - 1826
Event
International Zionist Conference Meets in London
July 1920
Event
Palestine Police Ordinance Is Issued
15 March 1921
Event
Collective Responsibility for Crime Ordinance Comes into Force
1 January 1922
Event
Prevention of Crime (Tribal and Village Areas) Ordinance Goes into Effect
1 January 1925
Event
Collective Punishments Ordinance Is Issued
16 May 1926
Event
Land Settlement Ordinance No. 9
30 May 1928
Event
1st Palestine Arab Women's Congress Is Held in Jerusalem
26 October 1929
Event
The British Issue the Collective Fines Ordinance
4 August 1936
Event
Second Phase of the Great Palestinian Rebellion
23 July 1937 - September 1938
Event
The Palestine Archeological Museum Opens Its Doors in Jerusalem
13 January 1938
Event
Anti-British Operation and British Retaliation in al-Bassa
6 September 1938 - 10 September 1938
Event
Israel Conducts its First Population Census
8 November 1948 - 1 February 1949
Event
Palestinians in Israel Stage a General Strike to Protest the Kafr Qasim Massacre
6 January 1957
Event
Shaykh Ahmad Yasin's Islamic Center Is Established in Gaza
7 September 1973
Event
9th Arab Summit Meets in Baghdad and Condemns the Camp David Accords
5 November 1978
Event
3rd Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Herzliya
25 June 1979 - 26 June 1979
Event
Palestinian Internal Polarization
27 March 1984 - 20 May 1984
Event
PLO-Israel Protocol on Economic Relations Is Signed in Paris
29 April 1994
Event
Draft SC Res. S/2001/270 Calling for Cessation of Settlement Activities and Protection of Palestinian Civilians Vetoed by US
27 March 2001
Event
13th Arab Summit Meets in Amman
27 March 2001 - 28 March 2001
Event
Palestinian Legislative Election Results: Initial Israeli and International Reactions
27 January 2006 - 5 February 2006
Event
US-Israel Plan to Destabilize a Hamas-Led PA
17 February 2006 - 19 February 2006
Event
Formation of the Hamas-Led Cabinet
19 March 2006 - 28 March 2006
Event
UNGA Res. ES-10/17: Establishing the Register of Damage Caused by the Construction of the Wall in the OPT
15 December 2006
Event
Israeli Supreme Court Endorses Economic Sanction Against Gaza
30 January 2008
Event
An Amendment to the Lebanese Social Security Law Grants Palestinian Refugees Right to End-of-Service and Occupational Emergency Compensations
24 August 2010
Event
After Palestine's UNESCO Admission, Israel Suspends Transfer of Taxes to the PA
1 November 2011 - 30 November 2011
Event
Israel Freezes Transfer of Tax Revenues to the Palestinian Authority
2 December 2012 - 25 March 2013
Event
A Joint Lebanese-Palestinian Civil Document Is Launched
16 April 2014
Event
UNHRC Res. A/HRC/RES/S-21/1: Condemning Israel's Assault on Gaza, Dispatching Commission of Inquiry
23 July 2014
Event
Israel Freezes Transfer of Tax Revenues to the Palestinian Authority
1 January 2015 - 21 April 2015
Event
A Third Intifada or a Temporary Outburst?
2 October 2015 - 31 January 2016
Event
In Retaliation to Palestinian Attacks, Yatta and Hebron Towns Are Collectively Targeted
8 June 2016 - 11 August 2016
Event
Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad Meets in Istanbul
25 February 2017 - 26 February 2017
Event
Airstrikes and Rockets in Wake of Casualties during Great March of Return Protest
26 May 2018 - 20 August 2018
Event
Knesset Passes Law to Deduct Funds from the PA Tax Revenue
2 July 2018 - 3 July 2018
Event
UNGA Res. 73/5 Accords Privileges to Palestine as Chair of Group of 77 for 2019
16 October 2018
Event
Israel Deducts Funds from the PA’s Tax Revenue
17 February 2019 - 2 May 2019
Event
The PA and Israel Agree that the PA Can Collect Fuel Taxes
22 August 2019
Event
The Israel Electric Corporation Cuts Power in the West Bank
22 September 2019 - 29 December 2019
Event
PA Starts Receiving Part of Tax Revenue from Israel Despite Deduction
3 October 2019 - 29 December 2019
Event
PA Finances Suffer
2 July 2020 - 27 July 2020
Event
Israel Attack Gaza over Incendiary Protest Balloons
6 August 2020 - 1 September 2020
Biographies
Biography
Ali al-Rimawi
1860 - 1919
Biography
Najib Nassar
1865 - 3 March 1948
Biography
Khalil Baidas
1875 - 9 February 1949
Biography
Isa al-Isa
1878 - 29 June 1950
Biography
Abdallah Mukhlis
27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947
Biography
Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar
1880 - 1949
Biography
Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi
1882 - 29 June 1963
Biography
Tawfiq Canaan
24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964
Biography
Isaaf al-Nashashibi
1885 - 22 January 1948
Biography
May Ziadeh
11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941
Biography
Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani
1888 - 20 January 1954
Biography
Abd al-Hamid Shuman
1888 - 9 September 1974
Biography
Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim
1889 - 1953
Biography
Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali
1889 - 7 July 1973
Biography
George Antonius
1891 - 1942
Biography
Aref al-Aref
1892 - 1973
Biography
Kulthum Odeh
2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965
Biography
Karimeh Abbud
1893 - 27 April 1940
Biography
Izzat Tannous
27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993
Biography
Musa Nasir
4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971
Biography
Muhammad Ali al-Taher
1896 - 22 August 1974
Biography
Wasif Jawhariyyeh
1897 - 1973
Biography
Mustafa al-Dabbagh
1897 - 1 October 1989
Biography
Musa Alami
8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984
Biography
Matiel Mogannam
15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992
Biography
Ibrahim Tuqan
1905 - 2 May 1941
Biography
Asma Tubi
1905 - 1983
Biography
Ihsan al-Nimr
1905 - 21 May 1985
Biography
Sophie Halaby
26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997
Biography
Nicola Ziadeh
1907 - 27 July 2006
Biography
Ahmad al-Shuqairi
1908 - 25 February 1980
Biography
Abd al-Karim al-Karmi
1909 - 11 October 1980
Biography
Qudsia Khourshid
5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009
Biography
Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud
1913 - 13 July 1948
Biography
Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil
1915 - 2007
Biography
Hind al-Husseini
25 April 1916 - 13 September 1994
Biography
Fadwa Tuqan
1917 - 12 December 2003
Biography
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994
Biography
Ihsan Abbas
2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003
Biography
Emile Habibi
29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996
Biography
Samiha Khalil
20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999
Biography
Salma Khadra Jayyusi
16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023
Biography
Muin Bseiso
1926 - 23 January 1984
Biography
Samira Azzam
13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967
Biography
Samira Abu Ghazaleh
1928 - 12 January 2017
Biography
Hanna Abu Hanna
16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022
Biography
Tawfiq Zayyad
7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994
Biography
Yasir Arafat
24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004
Biography
Ezzedine Kalak
1936 - 3 August 1978
Biography
Ghassan Kanafani
9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972
Biography
Ahmad Ismail Yasin
June 1936 - 22 March 2004
Biography
Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout
1937
Biography
Samih al-Qasim
1939 - 19 August 2014
Biography
May Sayegh
1941 - 5 February 2023
Biography
Mahmoud Darwish
13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008
Biography
Kamal Boullata
1942 - 6 August 2019
Biography
Fathi Shiqaqi
4 January 1951 - 26 October 1995
Biography
François Abou Salem
16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011
Biography
Ismail Haniyeh
1962 - 31 July 2024
Historical Texts
Document
Sykes-Picot Agreement
16 May 1916
Document
Message of the General Syrian Congress To the King-Crane Commission
3 July 1919
Document
Palin Commission Report
1 July 1920
Document
Report by the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry into the May 1921 Jaffa Riots
10 August 1921
Document
The Supreme Islamic Shari'a Council Order
20 December 1921
Document
Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development (The Hope-Simpson Report)
22 August 1930
Document
The Murison Commission Report
4 January 1934
Document
Peel Commission Report
July 1937
Document
British Government Statement on the Partition (Woodhead) Commission's Report
11 November 1938
Document
The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945
22 September 1945
Document
Arab Constitutional Proposals at London Roundtable Conference
30 September 1946
Document
Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance No. 33, 5708-1948
23 September 1948
Document
United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Fourth Progress Report
22 September 1949
Document
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
Document
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
14 March 1951
Document
Basic Law of the PLO
2 June 1964
Document
Amended Basic Law of the Palestine Liberation Organization
17 July 1968
Document
UNGA Resolution 2452 (XXIII)
19 December 1968
Document
Palestine National Council, 5th Session: Political Statement
4 February 1969
Document
Palestine National Council, 6th Session: Political Statement
6 September 1969
Document
UNGA Resolution 2535 (XXIV)
10 December 1969
Document
Palestine National Council, 7th Session: Resolutions
4 June 1970
Document
UNGA Resolution 2672 (XXV)
8 December 1970
Document
Palestine National Council, 9th Session: Final Statement
13 July 1971
Document
UNGA Resolution 2792 (XXVI)
6 December 1971
Document
Speech by Jordan’S King Hussein, Proposing a United Arab Kingdom in the Event of a Peaceful Settlement
15 March 1972
Document
Sixth Arab Summit: Policy Statement
28 November 1973
Document
Seventh Arab Summit: The Palestine Resolution
29 October 1974
Document
The Koenig Memorandum
1 March 1976
Document
Eighth Arab Summit: Statement
25 October 1976 - 26 October 1976
Document
Ninth Arab Summit: Final Statement
2 November 1978 - 5 November 1978
Document
Palestine National Council, 14th Session: National Unity Programme
15 January 1979 - 22 January 1979
Document
Israeli Model for the Self-Governing Authority
16 January 1980
Document
Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement
11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981
Document
UNGA Resolution ES-9/1
5 February 1982
Document
Plan for the Departure from Lebanon of the PLO Leadership, Offices, and Combatants in Beirut
20 August 1982
Document
Kahan Commission of Inquiry Report into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut
7 February 1983
Document
Palestine National Council, 16th Session: Final Statement
14 February 1983 - 22 February 1983
Document
Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1985: Final Communiqué
7 August 1985 - 9 August 1985
Document
Secretary of State George Shultz: A Statement for Palestinians
26 February 1988
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 19780
14 April 1988
Document
Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)
18 August 1988
Document
Palestinian Declaration of Independence
15 November 1988
Document
Yasir Arafat’s Speech Before the Forty-Third Session of the United Nations General Assembly
13 December 1988
Document
Palestinian West Bank – Gaza Delegation: Memorandum to U.S. Secretary James Baker
12 March 1991
Document
Speech of Haydar Abd al-Shafi at the Madrid Conference
31 October 1991
Document
Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (Oslo I Accord)
13 September 1993
Document
Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations
29 April 1994
Document
Wye River Memorandum
23 October 1998
Document
Declaration of the Heads of State or Government of the European Union On the Middle East Peace Process: The Berlin Declaration
25 March 1999
Document
Sharm el Sheikh Memorandum
4 September 1999
Document
Basic Agreement Between the Holy See and the Palestine Liberation Organization
15 February 2000
Document
Palestinian and Israeli Positions on Refugees
22 January 2001 - 23 January 2001
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 2001/270
26 March 2001
Document
The Mitchell Report
30 April 2001
Document
Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law
18 March 2003
Document
Israel and the Road Map
23 May 2003 - 25 May 2003
Document
The Geneva Accord
12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003
Document
Prime Minister Elect Ismail Haniyeh Presents New Government’s Program To the Palestinian Legislative Council
27 March 2006
Document
UNGA Resolution ES-10/17
24 January 2007
Document
Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s Address at al-Quds University: Statehood in Two Years
22 June 2009
Document
Report of the Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (Goldstone Report)
25 September 2009
Document
HRC Resolution S-21/1
23 July 2014
Document
Report of the UNHِQ Board of Inquiry Into Incidents Affecting UNRWA Schools during the 2014 Gaza War
27 April 2015
Document
Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict
24 June 2015
Document
UNSC Resolution 2334
23 December 2016
Document
Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace
28 December 2016
Document
Middle East Peace Conference Joint Declaration
15 January 2017
Document
UNESCWA Report on Israeli Apartheid
15 March 2017
Document
Marwan Barghouti’s Op-Ed in The New York Times: Why We Are on Hunger Strike in Israel’s Prisons
17 April 2017
Document
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas): Document of General Principles and Policies
1 May 2017
Document
Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee: Lebanese Working Group on Palestinian Refugee Affairs: A Unified Lebanese Vision For the Palestinian Refugees Affairs In Lebanon
20 July 2017
Document
Agreement Between Fatah and Hamas to End Palestinian Division
12 October 2017
Document
Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry: On the Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
28 February 2019
Document
Joint Statement of the Foreign Ministers of France, Germany, Egypt and Jordan (The Munich Group)
11 January 2021
Document
The Dignity and Hope Manifesto: The Unity Intifada
18 May 2021
Document
HRC Res. S-30/1: Establishing an Ongoing Commission of Inquiry on Palestine
27 May 2021
Highlights
Highlight
The Palestinian Short Story
Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor
Highlight
Palestinian Theater
The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art
Highlight
Preservation of Heritage in Palestine
A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure
Highlight
Palestinian Citizenship in Israel
An Unwanted Minority Asserts Its Narrative and Identity
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (III)
Explorers (1965-1995)
Highlight
Present Absentees in Israel
Exiled in Their Own Homeland
Highlight
Israel’s Policy toward Refugees in the Gaza Strip
A Site of Continual Displacement
Highlight
Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip Since 1967
Incubators of Resistance
Highlight
Palestinian Informal Justice
Thriving in the Shadow of Colonialism
Highlight
The First Intifada, 1987-1993
Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom
Highlight
Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa
Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field
Highlight
Palestinian Cinema
From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression
Highlight
Sumud
Steadfastness as Everyday Resistance
Highlight
Colonization and Dispossession
Zionism's Imagined Geography
Highlight
III. Late Mandate
1936-1947
Highlight
UNRWA's Education System
A Palestinian-Shaped Undertaking
Highlight
The October 2000 Events in Israel
The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst
Highlight
World Zionist Organization
Setting the Stage for a Jewish State in Palestine
Highlight
Demography and the Palestine Question (I)
1850s-1948
Highlight
UNRWA
From Relief Provider to Vector of Identity
Highlight
The Education of Palestinians in Israel
Struggling to Break Free from a System of Marginalization
Highlight
Israel’s Apartheid Regime
Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians
Highlight
Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule
Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition
Highlight
Israel’s Basic Law on Human Dignity and Liberty, 1992
Jewish Identity at the Expense of Citizen Equality
Highlight
Lebanon War, 1982
A Setback for the PLO and for Israel's 'Grand Design'
Highlight
Kafr Qasim, 29 October 1956
Israel’s Army Massacres Its Own Peaceful Citizens
Highlight
The Palestine Exploration Fund
Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming
Highlight
Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse
A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism
Highlight
Jabal al-Hussein Refugee Camp
Jordan
Highlight
Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp
West Bank
Highlight
Jaramana Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
The King-Crane Commission of 1919
Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives
Highlight
Meanings of the Nakba
Transformations through Time and Place
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (I)
Beginners (1795-1955)
Highlight
Ein el Tal (Handarat) Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Palestinian Youth in Conflict
A Childhood Denied
Highlight
Demography and the Palestine Question (II)
1948-2048
Highlight
Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939
A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression
Highlight
The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine
1980–present
Highlight
Marka Refugee Camp
Jordan
Highlight
Sabra and Shatila, 16-18 September 1982
A Massacre by Proxy
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)
Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)
Highlight
June 1967 War
A Watershed in the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Highlight
Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966
Governing the Lives of a Confined Population
Highlight
China and the Palestine Question
From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support
Highlight
Dheisheh Refugee Camp
West Bank
Highlight
Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine
A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact
Highlight
Talbieh Refugee Camp
Jordan
Highlight
Shatila Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Yarmouk Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Palestinians in Germany
From Melancholia to Anger
Highlight
Beddawi Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
The Palestinian Poster
Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols
Highlight
Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity
1948-1993
Highlight
Dera‘a Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails
Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance
Highlight
The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, 14 May 1948
An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status
Highlight
The Algerians of Palestine
1830-1948
Highlight
The New South Africa and the Palestine Question
From Good Offices to Total Support
Thematic Chronologies
Thematic Chronology
Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine
1920 - 1945
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