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Ottoman Pledges to Grant Facilities to France: Towards the Capitulations Regime

Jewish Nationalism in Eastern Europe

Nine Jewish Colonies Are Established in Palestine in the 1890s

2nd Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

28 August 1898 - 31 August 1898

3rd Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

15 August 1899 - 18 August 1899

Palestinian Peasants in Tiberias Score a Rare Success Against Zionist Land Acquisition

8 December 1900 - 11 November 1901

5th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

26 December 1901 - 30 December 1901

Establishment of the Anglo-Palestine Company

7 July 1903 - 24 November 1903

Theodor Herzl Dies; Replaced by David Wolffsohn

Palestinian-Zionist Tension at al-Shajara - Sejera in the Tiberias Region

August 1904 - September 1904

Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement

8th Zionist Congress Is Held in the Hague

14 July 1907 - 21 July 1907

Palestinians Clash with Settlers of Sejera Colony

3 April 1909 - 12 April 1909

Foundation of the Zionist Paramilitary Group Hashomer

Formation of the Moderate Liberal Party and the Entente Libérale Party in Istanbul

30 October 1909 - 8 November 1911

Hussein-McMahon Correspondence: Territorial Issues and 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

The Sykes-Picot Agreement Defines the British and French Spheres of Influence over the Ottoman Arab Provinces

23 November 1915 - 16 May 1916

Start of the Arab Revolt Against the Ottomans

Establishment in New York of the Palestine Anti-Zionism Society (Later Renamed Palestine National League)

Second Stage of British Palestine Campaign: From Bir al-Sabi' and Gaza to Jerusalem

31 October 1917 - 9 December 1917

Formal Entry of General Allenby into Jerusalem

11 December 1917

British Failed Attempts to Conquer Transjordan

21 March 1918 - 4 May 1918

Appointment of a British Chief Administrator for Palestine

Third Stage of British Palestine Campaign: Completion of the Conquest of Palestine

19 September 1918 - 25 September 1918

British Conquest of Transjordan Is Achieved

22 September 1918 - 27 September 1918

Conquest of Damascus; Faisal Enters Liberated City

26 September 1918 - 3 October 1918

General Allenby Issues Guidelines for the Military Occupation of the Levant

23 October 1918

The General Syrian Congress and the King-Crane Commission

2 July 1919 - 3 July 1919

The General Syrian National Congress Proclaims the Independence of the Arab Syrian Kingdom

7 March 1920 - 8 March 1920

San Remo Conference: Distribution of Mandates

French Occupy Damascus; Arab Syrian Kingdom Nominally Reduced to Transjordan

14 July 1920 - 31 August 1920

The Issue of the Administration of Transjordan

25 July 1920 - 31 December 1920

Signing of a Franco-British Convention on Mandate Boundaries

23 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

The League of Nations Confirms Britain’s Mandate over Palestine

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

14 September 1922 - 16 September 1922

British-French Demarcation of Line Between Palestine (Including Transjordan) and Syria (Including Lebanon)

British Formal and Conditional Assurance to Transjordan's Abdullah

25 April 1923 - 25 May 1923

Treaty of Lausanne Is Signed with Ataturk's Turkey

Official Onset of British Mandate for Palestine

29 September 1923

Municipal Elections Are Held in Palestine

Powerful Earthquake in Palestine and Transjordan

Agreement between Great Britain and Transjordan Emirate

20 February 1928

Islamic Conference in Defense of al-Buraq and Muslim Holy Places in Jerusalem

1 November 1928

18th Zionist Congress Is Held in Prague

21 August 1933 - 3 September 1933

General Strike and Demonstrations in Palestine

8 October 1933 - 3 November 1933

Death of Shaykh Izzeddin al-Qassam in a Battle with a British Force

12 November 1935 - 21 November 1935

General Strike Called Off; Consent to Appear before the Peel Commission

11 October 1936

Peel Commission Report Proposes Partition of Palestine

Arab National Congress Convenes in Bludan

8 September 1937 - 9 September 1937

The "International Parliamentarian Congress of Arab and Islamic Countries in Support of Palestine" Is Held in Cairo

7 October 1938 - 11 October 1938

The Eastern Women's Congress in Defense of Palestine Is Held in Cairo

15 October 1938 - 18 October 1938

London Round Table Conference Convenes

7 February 1939 - 27 March 1939

Stern Gang and Irgun Start Operations Against British

January 1944 - March 1944

Alexandria Protocol and the League of Arab States

Establishment of the Institute of Arab American Affairs (IAAA) in New York

25 November 1944 - 31 January 1950

Establishment of Lebanese Consulate General in Palestine

30 December 1944 - 23 May 1945

Labor Victory in Great Britain

Arab Office (AO) Is Opened in Washington

September 1945 - December 1947

The British Mandate Issues the Defence (Emergency) Regulations

27 September 1945

Organized Irgun and Lehi Anti-British Attacks

24 November 1945 - 19 January 1946

Treaty of Alliance between Great Britain and Transjordan

League of Nations Passes on Supervision over Mandates to the UN; Acknowledges Transjordan's Independence

Independence of the Emirate of Transjordan; a New Constitution for the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

25 May 1946 - 7 December 1946

Arab League Meets in Bludan and Reacts to the Recommendations of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

8 June 1946 - 12 June 1946

Transjordan's Application for UN Membership Fails to Obtain Security Council Approval

26 June 1946 - 29 August 1946

Round Table Conference on Palestine Held in London

10 September 1946 - 3 October 1946

More Irgun Operations Against the British

29 December 1946 - 28 January 1947

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

Casualties of Zionist Anti-British Attacks

Majority of UNSCOP Members Recommend Partition

15 June 1947 - 3 September 1947

UNGA 181 (II): Palestine Partition Plan

29 November 1947

First Phase of Palestine War: Offensive Defense versus Active Defense

29 November 1947 - 10 March 1948

Series of Zionist Attacks on Palestinians in the Wake of the Partition Plan

6 December 1947 - 31 December 1947

Series of Zionist Attacks

2 January 1948 - 26 January 1948

Palestinian Attacks

14 January 1948 - 19 February 1948

Haganah Operations

11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948

A New Treaty of Alliance between Great Britain and Transjordan

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

3 April 1948 - 21 April 1948

Massacre in Deir Yasin

9 April 1948 - 11 April 1948

Fighting Around Jerusalem

12 April 1948 - 23 April 1948

Fall of Tiberias

16 April 1948 - 18 April 1948

Operation Hametz and the Fall of Jaffa

24 April 1948 - 13 May 1948

Zionist Conquest of Eastern Galilee

28 April 1948 - 25 May 1948

Arab States (Reluctantly) Prepare for Intervention in Palestine

30 April 1948 - 12 May 1948

Operations Makkabi and Ben-Nun in al-Latrun Area

8 May 1948 - 31 May 1948

Operation Barak Toward the South

9 May 1948 - 13 May 1948

Great Britain Issues the Palestine (Revocations) Order in Council, 1948

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

UNGA 186 (S-2): Appointment of a UN Mediator in Palestine

Third Phase of the Palestine War: Arab-Israeli War

15 May 1948 - 6 January 1949

Count Bernadotte's Palestine Plan

Israeli Intelligence Report on the Depopulation of Palestine until 31 May 1948

Bernadotte's New Plan

16 September 1948

Arab Responses to Formation of the All-Palestine Government

5 October 1948 - 14 October 1948

Israel's Application for UN Membership Fails to Obtain Security Council Approval

17 December 1948

First Arab-Israeli Armistice Talks Commence Under UN Supervision in Rhodes

12 January 1949

Great Britain Recognizes Israel on a de facto Basis

30 January 1949

The US Recognizes Transjordan on a de jure Basis

31 January 1949

UNCCP Convenes the Lausanne Conference

27 April 1949 - 12 September 1949

Official Name of Jordan as an Issue

UNGA 303 (IV): To Place Jerusalem Under a Permanent International Regime

9 December 1949

Jordan Amends the Parliamentary Election Law

13 December 1949

Jordanian Parliamentary Elections; Formal Unification of the Two Banks

11 April 1950 - 24 April 1950

Palestinian Memorandum to UNCCP, Beirut

27 January 1951

Palestinian Memorandum to UNCCP, Ramallah

Israel's Construction of the "National Water Carrier"

2 September 1953

Arab League and Jordan River Waters

15 February 1954

The US and Jordan River Waters

25 June 1954 - 6 July 1954

The Knesset Issues the Prevention of Infiltration Law

24 February 1955

Security Council Resolution S/RES/111

19 January 1956

France and Israel Sign Arms Deal and Prepare for War

22 June 1956 - 29 July 1956

Ben-Gurion Addresses the Issue of Suez

Soviet Union Threatens Intervention

5 November 1956

Egypt and Syria Unite and Form the United Arab Republic

1 February 1958 - 28 September 1961

Civil War in Lebanon

May 1958 - October 1958

Palestine Arab Delegation (PAD) Office Is Opened in New York

26 June 1961 - 26 June 2001

SC Res. 171: Determining Israel's Attack on Syria a Violation of SC Res. 111

Syrian-Israeli Clashes

19 August 1963 - 20 August 1963

Draft Security Council Resolution S/5407

3 September 1963

2nd Arab Summit Meets in Alexandria; Welcomes Establishment of PLO

5 September 1964 - 11 September 1964

President Bourguiba and 1947 Partition Plan

27 February 1965 - 11 March 1965

The Council of the Arab League Adopts the Casablanca Protocol on the Treatment of Palestinians in the Arab States

11 September 1965

Israeli Air Force Carries out a Raid in Syria in Response to Fatah Operations

Draft Security Council Resolution S/7575/Rev.1

4 November 1966

Israeli-Syrian Aerial Battle

7 April 1967 - 21 April 1967

Israel Prepares for War with US Consent

2 June 1967 - 4 June 1967

5 June 1967 - 10 June 1967

June War, 5th Day

Security Council Resolution S/RES/242

22 November 1967

7th Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo

30 May 1970 - 4 June 1970

SC Res. 298: Deploring Israel’s Failure to Respect Previous Resolutions on its Measures Affecting Status of Jerusalem

25 September 1971

American Airlift

14 October 1973 - 14 November 1973

Arab Oil, a Weapon in the Battle

17 October 1973 - 21 October 1973

Israeli Advance Continues and an International Nuclear Crisis Looms

23 October 1973 - 27 October 1973

Opening of an Arab-Israeli Peace Conference in Geneva

21 December 1973

Attrition in the Golan

12 March 1974 - 15 April 1974

Israel and Syria Sign a Disengagement Agreement

Egypt and Syria Support PLO Representativeness

21 September 1974

SC Res. 381: Renewing UNDOF Mandate and Deciding to Hold a Future Debate on ME Problem

30 November 1975

Draft SC Res. S/12022 to Deplore Israeli Policies that Could Change Jerusalem Status, Vetoed by US

Six-Party Arab Summit in Riyadh on Palestinian-Syrian Ceasefire in Lebanon

16 October 1976 - 18 October 1976

Likud's Victory in Israeli Elections

Menachem Begin: "Territories Are Not Occupied"

US Steps Back from the US-Soviet Statement on the Geneva Conference

Sadat's Visit to Jerusalem

19 November 1977 - 21 November 1977

Arab States Take Position Against Sadat's Visit to Jerusalem

5 December 1977

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

28 December 1977

Ezzedine Kalak Is Assassinated in Paris

Camp David Summit; Camp David Accords

5 September 1978 - 17 September 1978

Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty Is Signed in Washington, DC

Palestinian Autonomy Is Discussed at the Sadat-Begin Summit in Aswan

7 January 1980 - 10 January 1980

Israeli Model for Palestinian Self-Governing Authority

17 January 1980

Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Scheveningen

27 February 1980 - 29 February 1980

Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Alexandria

Egypt Decides to Suspend Talks with Israel on Palestinian Autonomy

SC Res. 478: Censuring Israeli Enactment of "Basic Law" on Jerusalem

Foreign Embassies Leave Jerusalem

20 August 1980 - September 1980

Israeli-Syrian Mounting Tension in Lebanon

28 April 1981 - 5 May 1981

Philip Habib's Mediation for Cease-fire in South Lebanon

Fahd Plan Is Announced

Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Cairo

23 September 1981 - 24 September 1981

Civil Administration Is Established by the Military in the Occupied Territories

8 November 1981 - 1 December 1981

Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Cairo

11 November 1981 - 12 November 1981

Israel Invades Along the Eastern Axis

6 June 1982 - 12 June 1982

Israel and the US Demand PLO Withdrawal from Beirut and Lebanon

15 June 1982 - 27 June 1982

Reagan's "Talking Points" to Begin on Palestinian Issue

Israel Rejects the Reagan Plan

2 September 1982

Scission within Fatah

18 May 1983 - 15 September 1983

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Tunis

3 August 1983 - 7 August 1983

Palestinian-Jordanian Coordination for Peace Talks

26 February 1984 - 1 March 1984

Palestinian Internal Polarization

27 March 1984 - 20 May 1984

Tal Rumayda Settlement in Hebron

Palestinian National Salvation Front Is Formed in Damascus

Extraordinary Arab Summit Meets in Casablanca

7 August 1985 - 9 August 1985

19th Palestine National Council Meets in Algiers and Proclaims the Palestinian State

12 November 1988 - 15 November 1988

Israel Deports Five Palestinians

US Voices Dissatisfaction with Israel

23 February 1990 - 3 March 1990

Palestinian Response to the Invasion of Kuwait

3 August 1990 - 17 January 1991

Haram al-Sharif Killings

President Bush's Letters to M.E. Leaders on Proposed Peace Conference

1 June 1991 - 14 July 1991

US-Soviet Invitation to the Madrid Peace Conference

18 October 1991

China and Israel Establish Diplomatic Relations

24 January 1992

Hebron Massacre

25 February 1994 - 18 March 1994

Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area Is Signed in Cairo

Extraordinary Arab Summit in Cairo

21 June 1996 - 23 June 1996

Commemoration of the Nakba 50th Anniversary

14 May 1998 - 15 May 1998

Assassination of Adel Awadallah and Imad Awadallah in Khirbat al-Taybeh

11 September 1998

European Union Declaration "Compensating" the PLO for Not Declaring a State

Revival and Failure of Syrian-Israeli Talks

7 December 1999 - 26 March 2000

US Attempts at Easing Tension, but Confrontation Spikes

4 October 2000 - 12 October 2000

Israeli Retaliatory Strategy and First Signs of a "Militarized" Intifada

19 October 2000 - 7 November 2000

Assassination of Hussein Ubayyat in Beit Sahur, Before a Clinton-Arafat Meeting in Washington

9 November 2000

Draft Security Council Resolution S/2000/1171

18 December 2000

Losses During the 1st Year of the Second Intifada

28 September 2001

With the Assassination of Abu Hanud, Israeli-Palestinian Confrontation Reaches a New Level

26 November 2001 - 15 December 2001

SC Res. 1397: Affirming a Vision of Two States, Israel and Palestine, Living Side by Side

SC Res. 1402: Calling for Cease-Fire and Withdrawal of Israeli Troops from Palestinian Cities

Draft SC Res. S/2002/1385 Demanding Israel's Compliance with 4th Geneva Convention Vetoed by US

20 December 2002

Military Confrontation Escalates Again in Gaza

15 February 2003 - 6 March 2003

Sharon's Letter to Bush on Disengagement Plan

Draft SC Res. S/2004/783 Condemning Israeli Broad Incursion in Northern Gaza Strip Vetoed by US

Major Construction Plan in Ma'ale Adumim

21 March 2005 - 6 April 2005

Ongoing Israeli Raids: Operation First Rain

23 September 2005 - 2 October 2005

Post Disengagement: Agreed Principles for Rafah Crossing

15 November 2005 - 23 November 2005

Fourth Round of Municipal Elections

15 December 2005

After a Massive Stroke, Sharon Is Replaced by Ehud Olmert as Acting PM

Formation of the Hamas-Led Cabinet

19 March 2006 - 28 March 2006

Major Arrest Raid Against Hamas-Affiliated PA Officials

29 June 2006 - 19 August 2006

July War: Diplomacy Paralyzed by the US

14 July 2006 - 16 July 2006

July War: Israel's Special Operations Along the Border

17 July 2006 - 19 July 2006

Settlement Expansion in Jabal Abu Ghunaym/ Har Homa

4 December 2007

Israel Launches Operation Hot Winter in Gaza

28 February 2008 - 3 March 2008

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status: Olmert's Political Gamble

31 August 2008 - 16 September 2008

Seal on Gaza Borders Tightened

5 November 2008 - 29 November 2008

War on Gaza, Day 9: Start of Phase 2

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

14 January 2009

War on Gaza: US-Israel MOU on Arms Smuggling into Gaza

16 January 2009

War on Gaza, Day 21

16 January 2009

Western Powers Adopt a Program of Action Against Weapons Smuggling into Gaza

Israel Approves a Major Settlement Plan in Gilo, East Jerusalem

17 November 2009

Establishment of Palestinian National Dignity Fund

12 January 2010 - 18 May 2010

Israel's Ramat Shlomo Constructions' Plan During Joe Biden's Visit

8 March 2010 - 11 March 2010

US Offers Ambiguous Assurances to the Palestinians

20 April 2010 - 21 April 2010

Pro-Democracy Revolts and Demonstrations in Several Arab Countries

17 December 2010 - 11 February 2011

Israel Approves Settlement Expansion

2 March 2011 - 11 August 2011

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

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

15 May 2011 - 5 June 2011

Israel Settlement Activity Taken up Again in Earnest

27 September 2011 - 1 November 2011

Israeli Settlement Activity Continues, Including Through Expulsion

12 December 2011 - 28 December 2011

In Contrast with Islamic Jihad, Hamas Leadership Leaves Syria

17 January 2012 - 12 March 2012

Israel’s Settlement Activity

6 June 2012 - 13 August 2012

Palestinians in the West Bank Protest Israel's Assault on Gaza

16 November 2012 - 21 November 2012

Surge in Settlement Expansion

30 November 2012 - 10 February 2013

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

11 January 2013 - 20 January 2013

Trilateral Agreement for a Red Sea-Dead Sea Link

9 December 2013

Palestinians in the West Bank Protest Israeli Settlement Expansion

31 January 2014 - 7 February 2014

25th Arab Summit Meets in Kuwait

25 March 2014 - 26 March 2014

Settlement Announcement in the Midst of a Crisis Regarding the Negotiations

Muhammad Abu Khdeir, a 16-Year-Old Palestinian, Is Burnt Alive by Settlers in East Jerusalem

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 11 and 12

18 July 2014 - 19 July 2014

Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism

16 September 2014

French Efforts in Favor of a Draft UNSC Resolution on Palestinian-Israeli Peace

2 December 2014 - 17 December 2014

Draft SC Res. S/2014/916 Containing Palestinian Principles for a Negotiated Solution Rejected by SC

30 December 2014

Israel Freezes Transfer of Tax Revenues to the Palestinian Authority

1 January 2015 - 21 April 2015

Settlement Construction

30 January 2015

Hamas's Military Wing Outlawed in Egypt

31 January 2015 - 28 February 2015

Palestinian Militants Build and Rebuild “Gate of Jerusalem” Tent Camp in Abu Dis

3 February 2015 - 27 March 2015

A "Reconstruction Hudna" in Gaza?

2 March 2015 - 14 April 2015

Reports About Indirect Israel-Hamas Talks on Long-Term Cease-Fire

16 June 2015 - 16 June 2015

Palestine Submits Files to ICC, and Israel Decides to Interact with It

25 June 2015 - 30 October 2015

Comprehensive Agreement between the Holy See and the State of Palestine

26 June 2015 - 2 January 2016

Settlers Set Fire to Two Palestinian Family Homes in Duma, West Bank

31 July 2015 - 9 August 2015

With the Haram al-Sharif Tensions, Protests Spread to the Occupied Territories

13 September 2015 - 30 September 2015

Netanyahu Reaffirms Status Quo at Haram al-Sharif; Cameras at Haram al-Sharif?

22 October 2015 - 24 October 2015

France Plans to Resume its Peace Initiative

29 January 2016 - 16 February 2016

Continued Israeli Settlement Activity and Destruction of Palestinian Infrastructure

27 July 2016 - 7 December 2016

Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad Meets in Istanbul

25 February 2017 - 26 February 2017

UNESCWA and the Report on Israeli Apartheid

28th Arab Summit Meets at the Dead Sea

The Fate of the PLO Diplomatic Office in Washington

17 November 2017

Emergency Meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation on Jerusalem

13 December 2017

The Arab League Jerusalem Committee Meets to Discuss Trump's Jerusalem Announcement

PA Asks the ICC to Investigate Israeli Settlement Policies

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah

15 August 2018 - 17 August 2018

The US Replaces its Consulate General in Jerusalem by a Palestinian Affairs Unit within its New Embassy

18 October 2018

PA President Abbas Signs Accession Papers for 11 International Organizations

15 November 2018

The Palestinian Constitutional Court Considers the Legislative Council to Be Dissolved

12 December 2018 - 22 December 2018

PM Hamdallah Rejects any US Assistance Related to ATCA

26 December 2018 - 1 February 2019

Israeli Forces Raid Addameer and General Union of Service Sector Workers Offices in Ramallah

19 September 2019

US Changes Position on Legality of Israeli Settlements

18 November 2019 - 26 November 2019

Israeli Settlement Construction Continues Unbated in Third Year of Trump Administration

31 December 2019

Israel Announces Massive Settlement Expansion after Normalization Deals

14 October 2020 - 15 December 2020

US Erases the 4-June Line

28 October 2020 - 19 November 2020

ICC Rules that it has Jurisdiction in Occupied Palestinian Territories; Investigation Announced

5 February 2021 - 2 April 2021

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 5

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 12

Gilbo Prison Escape

6 September 2021 - 21 May 2022

Israel Designates Palestinian Rights Organizations as Terrorist Organizations

22 October 2021 - 17 November 2021

Biographies

Hafiz al-Sa’id

1859 - 21 July 1921

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

Jurji Habib Hanania

Freih Abu Middein

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

1882 - 29 June 1963

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

Isaaf al-Nashashibi

1885 - 22 January 1948

Mu‘in al-Madi

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

Rafiq al-Tamimi

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

1894 - 19 March 1949

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

Subhi al-Khadra

1895 - 4 July 1954

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari

1900 - 29 May 1980

1902 - 27 August 1984

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

1905 - 21 May 1985

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

1907 - 27 July 2006

23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947

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 (Abu Salma)

1909 - 11 October 1980

Sami Taha Hamran

1911 - 11 September 1947

Qudsia Khourshid

5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009

Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud

1913 - 13 July 1948

Anwar Nusseibeh

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999

1925 - 10 April 1973

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

1926 - 23 January 1984

1927 - 13 January 2005

Samira Abu Ghazaleh

1928 - 12 January 2017

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

1929 - 2 June 2016

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

Anis Abdullah Sayigh

3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009

9 May 1935 - 10 April 1973

1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1937 - 12 July 2025

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

1962 - 31 July 2024

Historical Texts

Proclamation of the Independence of Syria

Palin Commission Report

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

Statement of the Executive Committee of the 4th Palestinian National Congress Rejecting the British Mandate (in Arabic)

The Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)

Shaw Commission Report

The Murison Commission Report

The Palestinian Arab Reform Party: Objectives (in Arabic)

National Bloc Party: Bylaws

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report

9 November 1938

The Alexandria Protocol on Forming the League of Arab States

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

The Grady-Morrison Plan

Arab Constitutional Proposals at London Roundtable Conference

30 September 1946

British Referral of the Palestine Question to the UN

UNGA Resolution 106 (S-1)

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

SC Res. 44: Requesting a GA ٍSpecial Session on Future Palestine Government

UNGA Resolution 186 (S-2)

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

Statement by the Governments of the Arab League States on their Military Intervention in Palestine

Statement by the States, Members of the Arab League, on the Entry of Their Armies in Palestine

Israel: Law and Administration Ordinance

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

Establishment of a Provisional Palestinian Civil Administration (in Arabic)

Provisional Bylaws of All-Palestine Government (in Arabic)

Al-Dawayima Massacre, 29 October 1948 An Israeli Soldier Eye-Witness Account

8 November 1948

Ad Hoc Political Committee Resolution on Israel’s Application for UN Membership

UNGA Resolution 273 (III)

UNGA Resolution 303

9 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

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

Exchange of Notes Between Lebanon and UNRWA

26 November 1954

Law Promulgating the Basic Law for the Area under the Supervision of the Egyptian Forces in Palestine (in Arabic)

25 February 1958

Proclamation of the Constitutional Statute of Gaza, 1962

Speech of Ahmad al-Shuqairi, Head of the Palestine Delegation, before the UN Special Political Committee (in Arabic)

5 November 1963

Palestine National Council, 1st Session: List of Members (in Arabic)

28 May 1964 - 2 June 1964

Palestine National (qawmi) Charter

Bylaws of the Executive Committee of the PLO (in Arabic)

Palestine National (watani) Charter

UNSC Resolution 338

22 October 1973

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

The Koenig Memorandum

Admission of Palestine as Full Member in Arab League (in Arabic)

9 September 1976

Sadat’s Letter to Begin Following Israel’s Enactment of Basic Law on Jerusalem

UNSC Resolution 478

UNSC Resolution 497

17 December 1981

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

7 February 1983

Basic Law: The Knesset Amendment No. 9

Draft of UNSC Resolution 17769

29 January 1986

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1987: Resolutions

8 November 1987 - 11 November 1987

UNGA Resolution 42/210

17 December 1987

UNSC Resolution 607

UNGA Resolution 42/229

UNGA Resolution 42/230

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1988: Concluding Statement (in Arabic)

7 June 1988 - 9 June 1988

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Palestinian Declaration of Independence

15 November 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

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1989: Resolution on the Palestine Question

23 May 1989 - 26 May 1989

UNSC Resolution 641

UNSC Resolution 672

12 October 1990

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

Shimon Peres's Letter Concerning Reassurances on Palestinian Institutions in Jerusalem

11 October 1993

Draft of UNSC Resolution 1995/394

The Beilin – Abu Mazen Document

31 October 1995

UNGA Resolution ES-10/2

Legal Personality Agreement Between Israel and the Holy See

10 November 1997

UNGA Resolution 52/250

UNSC Resolution 1322

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

Thirteenth Arab Summit: Final Statement (in Arabic)

27 March 2001 - 28 March 2001

Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants Law

Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2003/980

14 October 2003

UNGA Resolution ES-10/13

27 October 2003

UNGA Resolution ES-10/14

12 December 2003

UNGA Resolution ES-10/15

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2004/783

List of Jobs and Professions Restricted to Lebanese Citizens (in Arabic)

14 December 2005

UNGA Resolution ES-18

23 January 2009

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

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2011/24

18 February 2011

Mahmoud Abbas's Op-Ed in the New York Times: The Long Overdue Palestinian State

Application of Palestine for admission to membership in the United Nations

23 September 2011

UNGA Resolution 67/19

29 November 2012

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

PLO Central Council, Resolutions (in Arabic)

26 April 2014 - 27 April 2014

HRC Resolution S-21/1

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2014/916

30 December 2014

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

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

30 September 2015

Statement of the PLO Executive Committee on the Report of the Quartet (in Arabic)

UNSC Resolution 2334

23 December 2016

Basic Law: The Knesset Amendment No. 46

Twenty-Eighth Arab Summit: The Amman Declaration (in Arabic)

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas): Document of General Principles and Policies

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

Bezalel Smotrich: Israel's Decisive Plan

7 September 2017

Emergency Meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (in Arabic)

13 December 2017

Draft of UNSC Resolution S/2017/1060

18 December 2017

UNGA Resolution ES-10/19

21 December 2017

PLO Central Council, 28th Session: Final Communiqué (in Arabic)

15 January 2018

Twenty-Ninth Arab Summit (The Jerusalem Summit): Dhahran Declaration

Palestine National Council, 23rd Session: Final Communiqué (in Arabic)

30 April 2018 - 4 May 2018

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2018/516

UNGA Resolution ES-10/20

Basic Law: Israel - the Nation-State of the Jewish People

PLO Central Council, 29th Session: Resolutions (in Arabic)

15 August 2018 - 17 August 2018

UNGA Resolution 73/5

16 October 2018

PLO Central Council, 30th Session: Communiqué (in Arabic)

28 October 2018 - 29 October 2018

UNGA Resolution 73/89

6 December 2018

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

30th Arab Summit: Tunis Declaration

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

12 February 2020

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

Historical Media

Mr. and Mrs. Winston Churchill at Government House Reception

Arab League Warnings

King David Hotel

Haifa Railroad Station

20 September 1946

Land in Jewish Possession (1947)

Hostage Taking by the Irgun

Cairo Street Rejects Palestine Partition

Funeral of Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology

The UN and Palestine: General Assembly Resolutions

1947 - present

Highlights

Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917

Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries

World Zionist Organization

Setting the Stage for a Jewish State in Palestine

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947

Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba

Stages of a Forced Displacement

The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression

Palestine Liberation Organization (I)

The Reemergence of the Palestinian National Movement

A Watershed in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Resolution 242, 22 November 1967

Ambiguous Parameters for a Middle East Settlement

October 1973 War

A Daring Arab Initiative Followed by Ambivalent Results

Camp David Accords, 1978-1979

Shattering the Arab Front

Lebanon War, 1982

A Setback for the PLO and for Israel's 'Grand Design'

Sabra and Shatila, 16-18 September 1982

A Massacre by Proxy

Palestinian Declaration of Independence, 15 November 1988

Historic Undertakings For the Sake of Statehood

Madrid and the Oslo Agreement, 1991-1993

Short-Lived Promises of a Negotiated Settlement

Demography and the Palestine Question (I)

Demography and the Palestine Question (II)

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

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

Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City

Palestinian Refugees in Syria

Fully Integrated, for Better and for Worse

From Relief Provider to Vector of Identity

Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine

Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement

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

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

Palestinian Visual Arts (II)

Pathfinders (1955-1965)

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)

Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)

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

The Education of Palestinians in Israel

Struggling to Break Free from a System of Marginalization

Palestinian Embroidery

A Rich and Diverse National Heritage

Israel’s Gaza Redeployment, 2005

Exacerbating the Siege and Targeting the Land of the West Bank

The Judaization of the Galilee

A Long-Lasting Strategy Faced by a Bulwark of Palestinian Tenacity

Land Day, 30 March 1976

A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel

Arab Labor in Mandate Palestine

The Emergence of a Working Class

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Nablus Soap Production

The Decline of an Ancient Heritage

Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation

The Peel Commission, 1936–1937

Sowing the Seeds of the Partition

Palestinian Women in the Labor Market

A Burgeoning Workforce Curbed by Israel’s Colonialism

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails

Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance

The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948

An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come

The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip

Thwarting Resettlement Schemes

Israel’s Policy toward Refugees in the Gaza Strip

A Site of Continual Displacement

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 Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

The Palestine Communist Party

The Palestinian Communist Movement

The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

The United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine

Negotiating Palestine after the Nakba

Palestine Police During the British Mandate

Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Balata Refugee Camp

The King-Crane Commission of 1919

Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives

I. Ottoman Rule

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

III. Late Mandate

V. Reverberations Of the Palestine War

VI. Rise of The Palestinian National Movement

VII. After 1973 War: Separate Peace and Civil War

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

X. Oslo Process: Towards Failure

XII. Gaza Strip Separated and Assaulted

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)

Before the Nakba

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)

After the Nakba

The Palestinian Flag

A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity

Steadfastness as Everyday Resistance

Palestinian Emigration (I)

Wihdat Refugee Camp

Colonization and Dispossession

Zionism's Imagined Geography

The May 2021 Gaza War

Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes

Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp

Palestine and International Justice

The Long and Tortuous Quest for Accountability

Talbieh Refugee Camp

Israel’s Apartheid Regime

Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

UNRWA's Education System

A Palestinian-Shaped Undertaking

Palestinians in Peru

A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History

Spain and the Palestine Question

Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel

The Bosnians of Palestine

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

An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status

Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949

Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests

The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse

A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism

The Separation Wall

Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

Palestinians in Sweden

Engaged for Palestine beyond their Diverse Legal Statuses

Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule

Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition

The European Union and the Palestine Question

From Promising Ambitions to Crippling Divisions

Palestinians in Chile

A Large Community, Fully Chilean, Fully Engaged for Palestine

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Turkey and the Palestine Question

Torn between a Pro-Western Stance, Regional Considerations and Identity

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

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

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

The USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991

Between Ideology and Realism

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

The New South Africa and the Palestine Question

From Good Offices to Total Support

The Algerians of Palestine

The IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism

Delegitimizing Criticism of Israel

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Perpetuating Israel’s Structural Dominance

Exhibition-Making Practices, 1917-1993

Curating the National Identity

Palestinians in El Salvador

A Prosperous, yet Depoliticized Diaspora

France and the Palestine Question Before 1948

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

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

Palestinian Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

Places

al-Batani al-Gharbi

al-Batani al-Sharqi

al-Masmiyya al-Saghira

al-Ras al-Ahmar

al-Zuq al-Tahtani

Balad al-Shaykh

Khirbat Bayt Lid

Ijlil al-Qibliyya

Khirbat al-Lawz

Khirbat al-Zababida

Khirbat Umm Burj

Sarafand al-'Amar

Wa'arat al-Sarris

Wadi al-Hawarith