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Ibrahim Pasha in Palestine

October 1831 - 1834

Ottoman Law of the Provinces: Administrative Reorganization in Syria and Palestine

7 November 1864

Completion of the Hijaz Railway

Establishment of Palestinian Newspaper al-Karmel in Haifa

Formation of the Young Arab Society in Paris

Formation of the Covenant Society in Istanbul

28 October 1913

Hussein-McMahon Correspondence: Prelude to the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans

14 July 1915 - 30 March 1916

Jemal Pasha Orders the Public Hanging of Arab Nationalists from the Levant

21 August 1915 - 6 May 1916

Start of the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans

The British Prepare for the Occupation of Palestine

British Failed Attempts to Conquer Transjordan

21 March 1918 - 4 May 1918

Conquest of Damascus; Faisal Enters Liberated City

26 September 1918 - 3 October 1918

A General Palestinian Congress Meets in Damascus

27 February 1920

San Remo Conference: Distribution of Mandates

Scheduled Second Palestinian National Congress Cannot Meet

French Occupy Damascus and Establish State of Greater Lebanon

14 July 1920 - 31 August 1920

The Issue of the Administration of Transjordan

25 July 1920 - 31 December 1920

3rd Palestinian National Congress Meets in Haifa

13 December 1920 - 19 December 1920

Churchill and Abdullah Reach Preliminary Understanding over Transjordan

2 March 1921 - 30 March 1921

Hybrid Status for Transjordan; Prince Abdullah Becomes Its Emir

League of Nations Approves Exclusion of Transjordan Territory from the Jewish National Home

14 September 1922 - 16 September 1922

British-French Agreement on Boundary Line Between Palestine and Lebanon and Syria

British Formal and Conditional Assurance to Transjordan's Abdullah

25 April 1923 - 25 May 1923

Treaty of Lausanne Is Signed with Ataturk's Turkey

Agreement between Great Britain and Transjordan Emirate

20 February 1928

An Arab National Conference Meets on the Sidelines of the Pan-Islamic Congress

13 December 1931

The British Issue the Collective Fines Ordinance

Peel Commission Report Proposes Partition of Palestine

London Round Table Conference Convenes

7 February 1939 - 27 March 1939

League of Nations Passes on Supervision over Mandates to the UN

Independence of the Emirate of Transjordan and Establishment of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

First Phase of Palestine War: Offensive Defense versus Active Defense

29 November 1947 - 10 March 1948

Arab States (Reluctantly) Prepare for Intervention in Palestine

30 April 1948 - 12 May 1948

UNGA 194 (III): Establishment of a Conciliation Commission for Palestine (UNCCP)

11 December 1948

Great Britain Recognizes Israel on a de facto Basis

30 January 1949

The US Recognizes Transjordan on a de jure Basis

31 January 1949

Arab Sacrifice Brigade Formed and Dissolved

1 March 1949 - 30 November 1950

Israeli Raid on Syria Followed by Egyptian-Israeli Confrontation Near al-Auja

23 October 1955 - 3 November 1955

Opening an Office of the PLO in Lebanon

23 October 1964 - 13 November 1964

Israeli-Syrian Aerial Battle

7 April 1967 - 21 April 1967

Reports on Israeli Plans Against Syria

12 May 1967 - 14 May 1967

Civil Aviation in the Conflict

23 July 1968 - 29 August 1969

Al-Aqsa Mosque Is Set on Fire

SC Res. 271: Condemning the Execrable Act of Desecration of al-Aqsa Mosque

15 September 1969

Violent Israeli Retaliation in South Lebanon

16 September 1972 - 17 September 1972

Black September Hijack Operation

29 October 1972 - 30 October 1972

October War, 4th Day

October War, From the 6th to 10th Day

11 October 1973 - 14 October 1973

The PLO Central Council Condemns Sadat's Visit to Jerusalem

30 November 1977

14th Palestine National Council Is Held in Damascus

15 January 1979 - 22 January 1979

A PLF Operation in Nahariya

15th Palestine National Council Is Held in Damascus

11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981

Israel Invades Along the Central Axis

6 June 1982 - 11 June 1982

The “Creeping” Cease-fire

10 June 1982 - 26 June 1982

Palestinian National Salvation Front Is Formed in Damascus

Assassination of Zafir al-Masri

2 March 1986 - 3 March 1986

2nd Visit of US Secretary George Shultz to the Region; Statement to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza

25 February 1988 - 26 February 1988

3rd Visit of US Secretary of State Shultz to the Region

3 April 1988 - 8 April 1988

A Coalition of 10 Palestinian Organizations Opposed to Negotiations Is Formed in Damascus

16 September 1992

The Coalition of 10 Palestinian Organizations Reject the Palestinian-Israeli Accord, Damascus

2 September 1993

Assassination of Fathi Shiqaqi, Islamic Jihad Leader, in Malta

26 October 1995

Statement S/PRST/1998/21 by SC President against Israel Broadening Boundaries of Jerusalem

George Habash Retires as S-G of PFLP

27 April 2000 - 28 April 2000

Arab and International Support of Palestinian Uprising

30 September 2000 - 7 October 2000

Grave Escalation from Both Sides

9 January 2002 - 21 February 2002

Invasion of Bethlehem: The Siege of the Church of the Nativity

1 April 2002 - 10 May 2002

Invasion of Nablus: Fierce Resistance

3 April 2002 - 21 April 2002

Security on the Aftermath of Operation Defensive Shield

7 May 2002 - 5 June 2002

Assassination of Salah Shehadeh in Gaza City

Assassination of Ibrahim Makadama in Gaza City

Unilateral Cease-Fire Announcement and Gaza-First Arrangements

21 June 2003 - 2 July 2003

Extending Retaliation to Syrian Territory; Operation Root Canal in Rafah

4 October 2003 - 30 October 2003

The ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Separation Wall

UNGA Res. ES-10/15: Demands that Israel Complies with ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Wall; Requests SG to Establish Register of Damage

Assassination of Izzeddin Sheikh Khalil in Damascus

26 September 2004

Operation Days of Penitence

29 September 2004 - 15 October 2004

Israel Retaliates Against Shalit's Capture: Operation Summer Rains

28 June 2006 - 8 July 2006

Fourth Attempted Assassination of Mohammed Deif in Gaza City

July War: Israel's Air War Fails to Knock out Hizballah

14 July 2006 - 16 July 2006

July War: A Balance Sheet

Israel's Operation Autumn Clouds Against Gaza

1 November 2006 - 12 November 2006

UNGA Res. ES-10/17: Establishing the Register of Damage Caused by the Construction of the Wall in the OPT

15 December 2006

Israeli Operation Hot Winter in Nablus

25 February 2007 - 7 March 2007

Israel Escalates Attacks in Gaza and the West Bank

3 April 2007 - 29 May 2007

Nablus Remains a Hot Spot

15 December 2007 - 5 January 2008

A Palestinian National Congress Is Held in Damascus

23 January 2008 - 25 January 2008

Assassination of Hizballah's Imad Mughniyah in Damascus

12 February 2008

20th Arab Summit Meets in Damascus

29 March 2008 - 30 March 2008

Palestinian-Israeli Clashes in Acre

8 October 2008 - 13 October 2008

Gaza Cease-Fire Falls Apart

14 December 2008 - 21 December 2008

War on Gaza, Day 3

29 December 2008

War on Gaza, Day 14

War on Gaza, Day 19: Hamas Cease-Fire Offer

14 January 2009

War on Gaza, Day 22

17 January 2009

War on Gaza: Parallel Israeli and Hamas Cease-Fires; Balance Sheet

18 January 2009

War on Gaza: Report of the UN Headquarters Board of Inquiry into Incidents Related to UN Premises

Impact of Democracy Drive in the Arab World on Palestinian Official Politics

14 February 2011 - 27 April 2011

The Knesset Passes the "Anti-Boycott Law"

In Contrast with Islamic Jihad, Hamas Leadership Leaves Syria

17 January 2012 - 12 March 2012

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza: A Balance Sheet

22 November 2012

Heavy Fire Exchange Across the Gaza Strip

12 March 2014 - 13 March 2014

Battir Landscape Is Inscribed in the World Heritage List

The 2014 Gaza War, Day 1

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 4 and 5

11 July 2014 - 12 July 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 9 and 10

16 July 2014 - 17 July 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 26-28: Fighting Continues

2 August 2014 - 4 August 2014

The 2014 Gaza War: A Balance Sheet

The 2014 Gaza War: Report of the UN Headquarters Board of Inquiry into Incidents Affecting UNRWA Schools

Israel Kills Samir Quntar; Hizballah Responds

19 December 2015 - 4 January 2016

A Doubtful Israel-Palestinian Postal Service Memorandum of Understanding

4 September 2016 - 15 August 2018

Assassination Attempt on PA PM Hamdallah and Intel Chief Faraj in Bayt Hanun

13 March 2018 - 19 March 2018

Airstrikes and Rockets in Wake of Casualties during Great March of Return Protest

26 May 2018 - 20 August 2018

Israel Continues to Attack Great March of Return Protesters

17 October 2018 - 1 November 2018

Botched Undercover Israeli Operation in Gaza Sparks Exchange of Fire

11 November 2018 - 13 November 2018

PA President Abbas Signs Accession Papers for 11 International Organizations

15 November 2018

Israeli Bombing Resumes Against Gaza

1 May 2019 - 5 May 2019

US Officials Partake in Inauguration of Large-Scale Settler Project in East Jerusalem

Israel Prevents Palestine Cup Final

3 July 2019 - 25 September 2019

Israeli Court Finds PA Liable for Attacks During Second Intifada

Assassination Attempt of Akram al-Ajouri in Damascus

12 November 2019

Gaza-Israel Exchange of Fire after Assassination of Baha Abu al-Ata

12 November 2019 - 15 November 2019

Israel Attack Gaza over Incendiary Protest Balloons

6 August 2020 - 1 September 2020

Israeli-Imposed Restrictions and Violence at the Haram al-Sharif Compound

13 April 2021 - 10 May 2021

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 3

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 5

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 6

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 7

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 8

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 10

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 11

May 2021 Gaza War: A Balance Sheet

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 12

Biographies

1859 - 21 July 1921

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

1865 - 3 March 1948

1878 - 29 June 1950

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

1882 - 29 June 1963

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

Isaaf al-Nashashibi

1885 - 22 January 1948

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Mu‘in al-Madi

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

Rafiq al-Tamimi

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

Subhi al-Khadra

1895 - 4 July 1954

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Anbara Salam Khalidi

4 August 1897 - 1986

1905 - 21 May 1985

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

1907 - 27 July 2006

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi

1909 - 11 October 1980

1910 - 26 February 1971

Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud

1913 - 13 July 1948

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

1926 - 23 January 1984

1929 - 2 June 2016

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

Bassam Shak’a

1930 - 22 July 2019

Ismail Shammout

2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

Anis Abdullah Sayigh

3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009

13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

1936 - 3 August 1978

1936 - 29 August 1987

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

4 January 1951 - 26 October 1995

Historical Texts

Letter from Sir Henry McMahon to Sharif Hussein

25 October 1915

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

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

Resolutions of the General Palestinian Congress in Damascus (in Arabic)

27 February 1920

Palin Commission Report

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

Churchill White Paper

League of Nations - Mandate for Palestine

Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development (The Hope-Simpson Report)

The Murison Commission Report

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report

9 November 1938

London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence

MacDonald White Paper

Reply of Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

UNGA Resolution 194 (III)

11 December 1948

United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Fourth Progress Report

22 September 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

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

Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA

15 December 1956

UNSC Resolution 228

25 November 1966

Fatah: The Palestine National Liberation Movement, Press Release

Palestine National Council, 4th Session: Political Resolutions

10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968

UNSC Resolution 271

15 September 1969

The Koenig Memorandum

Eighth Arab Summit: Statement

25 October 1976 - 26 October 1976

PLO Central Council, Statement on Sadat's Visit to Israel

30 November 1977

Palestine National Council, 14th Session: National Unity Programme

15 January 1979 - 22 January 1979

Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement

11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981

Draft of UNSC Resolution 14943

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

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

7 February 1983

Press Conference Statement of Yasir Arafat Clarifying His Speech Before the UN General Assembly

14 December 1988

U.S. Letter of Assurances to Israel

18 October 1991

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area

Statement by the President of the Security Council S/PRST/1998/21

Protocol Concerning Safe Passage Between The West Bank And The Gaza Strip

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 2000: Communiqué

21 October 2000 - 22 October 2000

PLO Negotiating Team Reservations Concerning President Bill Clinton’s 23 December Proposal for an Israeli-Palestinian Peace Agreement

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

Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

UNGA Resolution ES-10/15

UNSC Resolution 1701

UNGA Resolution ES-10/17

24 January 2007

Mecca Agreement

8 February 2007

Twentieth Arab Summit: The Damascus Declaration (in Arabic)

29 March 2008 - 30 March 2008

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

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

Report of the Middle East Quartet

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

28 February 2019

Historical Media

Musa Kazim Husseini's Funeral, Damascus Gate

Mahane Yehuda Explosion

22 November 1968

Highlights

Palestinians in Jordan, 1948-1967

The Making of the “Jordanians of Palestinian Origin”

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

The Palestinian Short Story

Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art

Preservation of Heritage in Palestine

A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure

III. Late Mandate

XI. The Al-Aqsa Intifada and the End of an Era in Palestinian Politics

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

V. Reverberations Of 1948 Palestine War And The Arab-Israeli Conflict

The Separation Wall

Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians

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

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Madrid and the Oslo Agreement, 1991-1993

Short-Lived Promises of a Negotiated Settlement

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Palestinian Refugees in Syria

Fully Integrated, for Better and for Worse

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949

Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests

Nablus Soap Production

The Decline of an Ancient Heritage

The United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine

Negotiating Palestine after the Nakba

The Palestinians in Chile

A Large Community, Fully Chilean, Fully Engaged for Palestine

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp

Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

The King-Crane Commission of 1919

Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives

The Palestinian Flag

A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity

Ein el Tal (Handarat) Refugee Camp

Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917

Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries

X. The Oslo Process And The Establishment Of The Palestinian Authority

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

Palestinian Visual Arts (II)

Pathfinders (1955-1965)

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

The Palestinians in Peru

A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History

A Watershed in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966

Governing the Lives of a Confined Population

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)

Before the Nakba

Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp

Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp

Sbeineh Refugee Camp

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Shatila Refugee Camp

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947

Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Mexico and the Palestine Question

Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor

The War on Gaza, 2008–2009

Israel’s Strategic Quandary

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Palestine and International Justice

The Long and Tortuous Quest for Accountability

Spain and the Palestine Question

Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel

Beddawi Refugee Camp

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

XII. A Palestinian Authority Divided, Israeli Assaults on Gaza, and Peace Process Setbacks

The Algerians of Palestine

The Bosnians of Palestine

The New South Africa and the Palestine Question

From Good Offices to Total Support

Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948

A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

The Palestinians in Sweden

Engaged for Palestine beyond their Diverse Legal Statuses