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Biographies

Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali

1889 - 7 July 1973

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

1923 - 12 May 2004

20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

Mustafa al-Zabri (Abu Ali Mustafa)

14 May 1938 - 27 August 2001

1962 - 31 July 2024

Historical Texts

Palin Commission Report

UNSCOP Minority Proposal: Federal State Plan

3 September 1947

United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Fourth Progress Report

22 September 1949

UNRWA-Egypt Agreement on Economic and Engineering Surveys

Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA

15 December 1956

Proclamation of the Constitutional Statute of Gaza, 1962

Protocol for the Treatment of Palestinians in Arab States

11 September 1965

Cairo Agreement between the Lebanese Authorities and the Palestinian Guerrilla Organizations

3 November 1969

UNGA Resolution 2792 (XXVI)

6 December 1971

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

Begin's Autonomy Plan

28 December 1977

Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement

11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981

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

7 February 1983

Israel's "Peace Initiative"

Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement

28 September 1991

U.S. Letter of Assurances to the Palestinians

18 October 1991

U.S. Letter of Assurances to Israel

18 October 1991

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

The Beilin – Abu Mazen Document

31 October 1995

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 2000: Communiqué

21 October 2000 - 22 October 2000

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 Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

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

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

UNESCWA Report on Israeli Apartheid

Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee: A Unified Lebanese Vision For the Palestinian Refugees Affairs In Lebanon

Bezalel Smotrich: Israel's Decisive Plan

7 September 2017

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

28 February 2019

Amnesty Report on Israeli Apartheid

1 February 2022

Events

Enactment of Lebanese Labor Law and Its Subsequent Impact on Palestine Refugees

23 September 1946

Israel Decides to Issue Temporary Residency Permits for Palestinians Not Included in the Census

Absentees' Property Law, 5710-1950

Jordanian Nationality Law

16 February 1954

The Knesset Issues the Prevention of Infiltration Law

Palestinians in Gaza Rise Up Against Resettlement Projects

1 March 1955 - 6 March 1955

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

Conditions for the Movement of Lebanon's Palestinian refugees between Lebanon and Syria

28 July 1962 - 2 August 1962

Reservations of Lebanon, Kuwait and Libya to the Casablanca Protocol on the Treatment of Palestinians in Arab States

Naturalization in Lebanon and the Casablanca Protocol on the Treatment of Palestinians in Arab States

PLO-Lebanon Cairo Agreement Regulates Palestinian Civil and Military Presence in the Country

3 November 1969

Absentees' Property (Compensation) Law, 5733-1973

Israel's Autonomy Plan for the West Bank and Gaza Strip

28 December 1977

Sabra and Shatila Massacre

16 September 1982 - 18 September 1982

The Tragedy of the Palestinians in Libya

9 August 1995 - 13 January 1999

The Stockholm Back Channel - 2nd Session

18 May 2000 - 22 May 2000

The Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee Is Established

25 November 2005

The Battle of Nahr el-Bared

20 May 2007 - 2 September 2007

War on Gaza, Day 9: Start of Phase 2

War on Gaza, Day 17

12 January 2009

The Knesset Passes Israel Lands Law (Amendment No. 3) on Foreign Ownership

A Joint Lebanese-Palestinian Civil Document Is Launched

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 6−8

13 July 2014 - 15 July 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 21-24

28 July 2014 - 31 July 2014

EU Anti-Palestinian Clause

Israel Attack Gaza over Incendiary Protest Balloons

6 August 2020 - 1 September 2020

Highlights

A Watershed in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Madrid and the Oslo Agreement, 1991-1993

Short-Lived Promises of a Negotiated Settlement

Palestinians in Jordan, 1948-1967

The Making of the “Jordanians of Palestinian Origin”

Palestinian Youth in Conflict

A Childhood Denied

Palestinians in Jordan Since 1967

A Never-Ending Normalization

Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

A Vulnerable Yet Vibrant Community

Palestinian Refugees in Syria

Fully Integrated, for Better and for Worse

Palestine Liberation Organization (II)

From the Limelight to the Backstage

Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank

Determined to Stay High on the National Agenda

Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine

Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement

Palestinian Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

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

Present Absentees in Israel

Exiled in Their Own Homeland

Israel’s Appropriation of Palestinian Property

Cooking Up Laws for the Sake of Land Grab

Palestinian Embroidery

A Rich and Diverse National Heritage

Israel’s Gaza Redeployment, 2005

Exacerbating the Siege and Targeting the Land of the West Bank

Land Day, 30 March 1976

A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel

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 Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps

Perpetuating the Temporary

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (II)

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

The War on Gaza, 2008–2009

Israel’s Strategic Quandary

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Balata Refugee Camp

Fawwar Refugee Camp

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

The Palestinian National Initiative Movement - Al-Mubadara

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)

Before the Nakba

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Wihdat Refugee Camp

Palestinian Emigration (II)

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Sbeineh Refugee Camp

Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp

Talbieh Refugee Camp

Jabal al-Hussein Refugee Camp

Marka (Hittin) Refugee Camp

Palestinians in Peru

A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

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

Jewish Identity at the Expense of Citizen Equality

Shatila Refugee Camp

The Bosnians of Palestine

Beddawi Refugee Camp

Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp

Palestinians in Sweden

Engaged for Palestine beyond their Diverse Legal Statuses

Palestinians in Chile

A Large Community, Fully Chilean, Fully Engaged for Palestine

Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp

Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti) Refugee Camp

Ein el Tal (Handarat) Refugee Camp

Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp

Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Mexico and the Palestine Question

Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor

Palestinians in Germany

From Melancholia to Anger

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

Dera‘a Refugee Camp

The Algerians of Palestine

The United States and the Palestine Question Before 1944

From Heavenly Jerusalem to Earthly Jerusalem

Canada and the Palestine Question

Israel First, Palestinians Second

Jerash Refugee Camp (Gaza Camp)

Zarqa Refugee Camp

The Great March of Return

Peaceful Demonstrations, Bloody Crackdown

XII. Gaza Strip Separated and Assaulted

Israel’s Apartheid Regime

Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians

Sabra and Shatila, 16-18 September 1982

A Massacre by Proxy

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

Aida Refugee Camp

Baqa‘a Refugee Camp

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Places

'Arab al-Shamalina

Ghuwayr Abu Shusha

Khirbat al-Lawz

Khirbat Umm Burj