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1859 - 21 July 1921

Jurji Habib Hanania

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

1880 - 16 June 1946

Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar

Abd al-Latif Salah

1884 - 8 November 1952

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Khalil Abdallah Totah

20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955

Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali

1889 - 7 July 1973

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

1893 - 27 April 1940

1894 - 19 March 1949

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

1896 - 27 September 1951

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

1902 - 27 August 1984

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

1926 - 23 January 1984

Issam Abd al-Hadi

1928 - 8 August 2013

1928 - 1 September 2020

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Ahmad Ismail Yasin

June 1936 - 22 March 2004

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1937 - 12 July 2025

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

Abd al-Wahhab Darawshah

12 October 1943

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

Events

1st Zionist Congress in Basel Calls for a Jewish Home in Palestine

29 August 1897 - 31 August 1897

Foundation of the Zionist Paramilitary Group Hashomer

The Russian Revolution; Sykes-Picot Agreement Is Published

8 March 1917 - 23 November 1917

The British Form a Commission of Inquiry on Disturbances at al-Buraq / Western Wall

13 September 1929

General Conference of Palestine Arab Workers, Haifa

11 January 1930

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

18 March 1937 - 24 March 1937

Peel Commission Report Proposes Partition of Palestine

Coordinated Zionist Anti-British Activism

1 October 1945 - 31 October 1945

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

Zionist Military Preparations

14 January 1948 - 20 February 1948

Second Phase of the Palestine War: Zionist Offensive

10 March 1948 - 15 May 1948

Operations Nachshon and Har'el to Open Tel Aviv-Jerusalem Road

3 April 1948 - 21 April 1948

Zionist Conquest of Eastern Galilee

28 April 1948 - 25 May 1948

UNGA 212 (III): Establishment of a Special Fund for Palestine refugees

19 November 1948

Elections at al-Urwa al-Wuthqa Society

SC Res. 95: Calling on Egypt to End Restrictions on Commercial Shipping through Suez Canal

1 September 1951

3rd Arab Summit Meets in Casablanca

13 September 1965 - 18 September 1965

28th Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem

18 January 1972 - 28 January 1972

11th Palestine National Council Meets in Cairo

6 January 1973 - 12 January 1973

Commemorating the Sabra-Shatila Massacres

17 September 1984

The Knesset Adopts the Law Concerning the Implementation of the Agreement on Gaza and Jericho Areas (Restrictions of Activity) 1994

26 December 1994

US Congress Passes the "Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995"

23 October 1995 - 8 November 1995

33rd Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

23 December 1997 - 26 December 1997

Commemoration of the Nakba 50th Anniversary

14 May 1998 - 15 May 1998

UNGA Res. ES-10/6: Recommending Holding a Conference to Enforce the 4th Geneva Convention in the OPT

9 February 1999

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Gaza

27 April 1999 - 29 April 1999

Official Resumption of Final Status Talks

13 September 1999 - 6 December 1999

Failure to Reach a FAPS by 13 February 2000 Target Date

8 December 1999 - 6 February 2000

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Gaza

2 February 2000 - 3 February 2000

Mounting Malaise in the Palestinian Territories

17 February 2000 - 18 May 2000

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Gaza

9 September 2000 - 10 September 2000

34th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

17 June 2002 - 20 June 2002

Losses on the Two-Year Anniversary of the Second Intifada

28 September 2002

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah

8 March 2003 - 9 March 2003

Assassination of Khadir al-Husary in Gaza City

1 September 2003

Losses on the Three-Year Anniversary of the Second Intifada

28 September 2003

Reactions to Bush's Assurances to Sharon RE Disengagement Plan

15 April 2004 - 6 May 2004

Losses on the Four-Year Anniversary of the Second Intifada

28 September 2004

Losses on the Five-Year Anniversary of the Second Intifada

28 September 2005

Hizballah Fighters Capture Israeli Soldiers

The PLO Presents "the Palestine Announcement in Lebanon"

After the July War: Winograd Commission's Report on Israel's Handling of the 2006 Lebanon War

30 January 2008

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status: A Disappointing Abbas-Bush Meeting

UNGA Res. 64/10: Endorsing the Goldstone Report and Calling Upon both Sides to Investigate the Violations Reported in it

5 November 2009

US Offers Ambiguous Assurances to the Palestinians

20 April 2010 - 21 April 2010

On Nakba Day, Palestinians Head Up Toward Cease-Fire Lines with Israel

15 May 2011 - 5 June 2011

Fate of the Palestinian UN Admission Request

28 September 2011 - 8 November 2011

Hamas and Fatah Exchange Reconciliation Gestures

22 November 2012 - 7 February 2013

Hamas's Khalid Mishal Visits the Gaza Strip

8 December 2012

Symbolic Erection of Bab al-Shams and Bab al-Karama villages in the West Bank

11 January 2013 - 20 January 2013

24th Arab Summit Meets in Doha

26 March 2013 - 27 March 2013

The 2014 Gaza War, Day 25: Breakdown of 72-Hour Cease-Fire Due to Activation of the Hannibal Directive

International Donor Conference for Gaza Reconstruction

12 October 2014

President Abbas Signs Acceptance of the ICC Jurisdiction and Accession to the ICC Rome Statute

31 December 2014 - 7 January 2015

Israel's Policy Toward the Palestinian Outburst

4 October 2015 - 13 October 2015

PLO President Mahmoud Abbas Meets with US President Donald Trump at the White House

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

100-Year Anniversary of the Balfour Declaration

1 November 2017 - 2 November 2017

The Great March of Return in the Gaza Strip

30 March 2018 - 14 May 2018

PA-Hamas Disagreements Lead to Temporary Closure of Rafah Crossing

7 January 2019 - 3 February 2019

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

22 March 2019 - 29 March 2019

Great March of Return Anniversary and Land Day

29 March 2019 - 30 March 2019

30th Arab Summit Meets in Tunis

Historical Texts

Basel (Zionist) Program

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

Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement

Sykes-Picot Agreement

Proclamation of Martial Law in Jerusalem

11 December 1917

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

League of Nations - Mandate for Palestine

The Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)

Palestine Legislative Council Election Order, 1922

Agreement between Great Britain and Transjordan Emirate

20 February 1928

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

Palestine (Western or Wailing Wall) Order in Council, 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

British Government Statement on the Partition (Woodhead) Commission's Report

11 November 1938

London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence

MacDonald White Paper

Reply of Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper

Land Transfers Regulations, 1940

20 February 1940

Biltmore Conference Declaration

Pact of the League of Arab States

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

The Grady-Morrison Plan

Arab Constitutional Proposals at London Roundtable Conference

30 September 1946

UNGA Resolution 106 (S-1)

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

UNSC Resolution 46

UNSC Resolution 48

UNGA Resolution 186 (S-2)

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

Israel: Law and Administration Ordinance

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

Jordan-Israel Agreement: For the Demilitarization of Mount Scopus Area

UNSC Resolution 54

Progress Report of the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte)

16 September 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

Lebanon-Israel General Armistice Agreement

Jordan-Israel General Armistice Agreement

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

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 394 (V)

14 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

UNSC Resolution 95

1 September 1951

UNGA Resolution 512 (VI)

26 January 1952

UNGA Resolution 513 (VI)

26 January 1952

UNRWA-Egypt Agreement on Economic and Engineering Surveys

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

UNSC Resolution 106

Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA

15 December 1956

Proclamation of the Constitutional Statute of Gaza, 1962

UNSC Resolution 171

First Arab Summit: Statement

13 January 1964 - 17 January 1964

Basic Law of the PLO

Protocol for the Treatment of Palestinians in Arab States

11 September 1965

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

Fourth Arab Summit: Resolutions

1 September 1967

Amended Basic Law of the Palestine Liberation Organization

UNGA Resolution 2443 (XXIII)

19 December 1968

Palestine National Council, 5th Session: Political Statement

4 February 1969

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

UNGA Resolution 2628 (XXV)

4 November 1970

UNGA Resolution 2649 (XXV)

30 November 1970

Palestine National Council, 8th Session: Interim Political Program of the Palestine Revolution

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

Sixth Arab Summit: Confidential Decisions

28 November 1973

Palestine National Council, 11th Session: Political Program

12 December 1973

Separation of Forces Agreement Between Israel and Syria

UNGA Resolution 3237 (XXIX)

22 November 1974

Memorandum of Agreement between the U.S. and Israel Regarding the Reconvening of the Geneva Conference

1 September 1975

UNGA Resolution 3376 (XXX)

10 November 1975

UNGA Resolution 3375 (XXX)

10 November 1975

Draft of UNSC Resolution 11940

23 January 1976

The Koenig Memorandum

Eighth Arab Summit: Statement

25 October 1976 - 26 October 1976

Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset

20 November 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

UNSC Resolution 446

Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt

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 Venice Declaration

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

Israel's Proposals for the Self-Governing Authority in the West Bank and Gaza

31 January 1982

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

1 September 1982

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

7 February 1983

UNGA Resolution 38/58

13 December 1983

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

Cairo Declaration on the PLO and Terrorism as read by PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat

7 November 1985

Palestine National Council, 18th Session: Final Statement

20 April 1987 - 25 April 1987

Secretary of State George Shultz: A Statement for Palestinians

26 February 1988

The Shultz Negotiations Plan

UNGA Resolution 42/230

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

UNGA Resolution 43/160

9 December 1988

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

13 December 1988

UNGA Resolution 43/177

15 December 1988

Israel's "Peace Initiative"

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1989: Resolution on the Palestine Question

23 May 1989 - 26 May 1989

Draft of UNSC Resolution 21326

UNSC Resolution 681

20 December 1990

Speech of Haydar Abd al-Shafi at the Madrid Conference

31 October 1991

Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (Oslo I Accord)

13 September 1993

UNSC Resolution 904

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area

The Knesset Law Concerning the Implementation of the Agreement on Gaza and Jericho Areas (Restrictions of Activity) 1994

26 December 1994

Draft of UNSC Resolution 1995/394

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

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1996: Resolution on the Palestine Question

21 June 1996 - 23 June 1996

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

UNGA Resolution ES-10/2

UNGA Resolution ES-10/3

UNGA Resolution 52/250

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

Basic Agreement Between the Holy See and the Palestine Liberation Organization

15 February 2000

UNSC Resolution 1322

UNGA Resolution ES-10/7

20 October 2000

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 2000: Communiqué

21 October 2000 - 22 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

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

27 January 2001

The Mitchell Report

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

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

UNGA Resolution ES-10/12

25 September 2003

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

UNGA Resolution ES-10/13

27 October 2003

Palestinian Authority's Declaration on Institutional Renewal

Prime Minister Elect Ismail Haniyeh Presents New Government’s Program To the Palestinian Legislative Council

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2006/508

UNSC Resolution 1701

UNGA Resolution ES-10/17

24 January 2007

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

UNGA Resolution ES-18

23 January 2009

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

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

UNGA Resolution 64/10

1 December 2009

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2011/24

18 February 2011

Palestinian National Conciliation Agreement: Related Understandings Between Fatah and Hamas

Statement by Middle East Quartet

23 September 2011

UNGA Resolution 67/19

29 November 2012

Jordanian-Palestinian Agreement on Holy Sites in Jerusalem

China's Four-Point Proposal for Settlement of Palestinian Question

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

UNGA Resolution 69/320

10 September 2015

Mahmoud Abbas’s Speech at the 70th Session of the UNGA

30 September 2015

Scope of Database of Firms Contributing to Israeli Settlement Activities

Report of the Middle East Quartet

UNSC Resolution 2334

23 December 2016

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

Middle East Peace Conference Joint Declaration

15 January 2017

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

6 February 2017

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

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

UNGA Resolution 73/5

16 October 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

Statement of ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda On Opening an Investigation into War Crimes in Palestine

20 December 2019

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

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

Historical Media

Arab League Warnings

Third Anniversary of Al Karameh Battle

Mother Palestine

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology

The UN and Palestine: Security Council Vetoed Draft Resolutions

1963 - present

Highlights

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

The Palestinian Short Story

Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor

Palestinian Citizenship in Israel

An Unwanted Minority Asserts Its Narrative and Identity

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

Present Absentees in Israel

Exiled in Their Own Homeland

Israel’s Policy toward Refugees in the Gaza Strip

A Site of Continual Displacement

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

UNRWA's Education System

A Palestinian-Shaped Undertaking

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

October 1973 War

A Daring Arab Initiative Followed by Ambivalent Results

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP

The Separation Wall

Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians

Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule

Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition

Israel’s Basic Law on Human Dignity and Liberty, 1992

Jewish Identity at the Expense of Citizen Equality

France and the Palestine Question before 1948

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

Kafr Qasim, 29 October 1956

Israel’s Army Massacres Its Own Peaceful Citizens

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

The Palestinian Flag

A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Demography and the Palestine Question (II)

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

Resolution 242, 22 November 1967

Ambiguous Parameters for a Middle East Settlement

The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps

Perpetuating the Temporary

Fawwar Refugee Camp

Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp

Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp

Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine

A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

Mexico and the Palestine Question

Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Wihdat Refugee Camp

Beddawi Refugee Camp

Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank

Determined to Stay High on the National Agenda

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

The May 2021 Gaza War

Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes

Dera‘a Refugee Camp

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails

Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art

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

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Perpetuating Israel’s Structural Dominance

Palestine Liberation Organization (I)

The Reemergence of the Palestinian National Movement

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

Places