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Biographies

Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi

Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

1925 - 10 April 1973

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

1939 - 19 August 2014

13 July 1949 - 18 February 2026

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

1962 - 31 July 2024

9 February 1963

Events

Seven Jewish Colonies Are Established in Palestine in the 1880s

Eight Jewish Colonies Are Established in Palestine between 1899 and 1907

Establishment of Palestinian Newspaper al-Karmel in Haifa

Foundation of the Zionist Paramilitary Group Hashomer

Palestinian Members of the Ottoman Parliament Express Opposition to Zionist Objectives

June 1909 - 2 November 1909

The Battle for Haifa and Its Surroundings

4 April 1948 - 22 April 1948

Zionist Leadership Decides to Proclaim Jewish State on 16 May

Operations Yoav and ha-Har in the South Put End to 2nd Truce

15 October 1948 - 4 November 1948

PFLP Hijack Operations

6 September 1970 - 12 September 1970

Severe Israeli-Palestinian Clashes in Lebanon

10 July 1981 - 20 July 1981

The Intifada and Israel's Response: Another Stage in the Confrontation

11 March 1988 - 29 March 1988

Sharon's Interview on Gaza-Centered Disengagement Plan

12 January 2004 - 2 February 2004

Timing Another Israeli Escalation with Sharon's Interview on Gaza-Centered Disengagement Plan

2 February 2004 - 13 March 2004

Haniyeh Proposes a Long-term Cease-fire and Peace

July War: The Cease-Fire

12 August 2006 - 14 August 2006

War on Gaza: Israel Announces a Unilateral Cease-Fire

17 January 2009

Kerry Draws Up a Working Draft Framework for Negotiations

17 February 2014

Arab Parties in Israel Form a Joint List For the Knesset Elections

22 January 2015

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 11

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 12

Bennett-Lapid Government Takes Office in Israel

Meetings Resume between PA and Israeli Ministers; Palestinians Added to Population Registry

29 August 2021 - 28 December 2021

Jewish National Fund Begins Forestation Project in the Naqab to Displace Palestinians

10 January 2022 - 15 January 2022

Historical Texts

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

Letter from Sir Henry McMahon to Sharif Hussein

25 October 1915

Palin Commission Report

Report by the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry into the May 1921 Jaffa Riots

Palestine (Western or Wailing Wall) Order in Council, 1931

The Murison Commission Report

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead Commission) Report

9 November 1938

Land Transfers Regulations, 1940

20 February 1940

Bevin's Statement on Formation of an Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

13 November 1945

Truman’s Statement on US Efforts for Palestine

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

Progress Report of the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte)

16 September 1948

Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance No. 33, 5708-1948

23 September 1948

Absentees' Property Law, 5710-1950

Israel Law of Return and its Amendments

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

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

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

The Koenig Memorandum

Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset

20 November 1977

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

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

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

The Shultz Negotiations Plan

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

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

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

13 December 1988

Exchange of Letters Between President Bush and Prime Minister Shamir on Proposed Peace Conference

Speech of Haydar Abd al-Shafi at the Madrid Conference

31 October 1991

Protocol Concerning Safe Passage Between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip

The Mitchell Report

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

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

President George W. Bush’s Speech US Policy in the Middle East

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

President George W. Bush’s Speech Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process

10 January 2008

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

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

25 September 2009

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

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

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

6 February 2017

Marwan Barghouti’s Op-Ed in The New York Times: Why We Are on Hunger Strike in Israel’s Prisons

Bezalel Smotrich: Israel's Decisive Plan

7 September 2017

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

6 December 2017

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

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

20 December 2019

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

12 February 2020

Highlights

Palestinian Youth in Conflict

A Childhood Denied

The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party

The Israeli Military

The Myth of “the Most Moral Army in the World”

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

Colonization and Dispossession

Zionism's Imagined Geography

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

An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948

An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

Places

al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa

al-Ghubayya al-Tahta

al-Masmiyya al-Saghira

al-Naghnaghiyya

'Arab al-Zubayd

Balad al-Shaykh

Bayt Umm al-Mays

Daliyat al-Rawha'

Ghuwayr Abu Shusha

Khirbat al-'Umur

Khirbat al-Kasayir

Khirbat al-Muntar

Khirbat al-Tannur

Khiyam al-Walid

Kirad al-Baqqara

Kirad al-Ghannama

Mansurat al-Khayt

Wadi al-Hawarith