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Events

Edification and Restoration Works of Sultan Suleiman in Jerusalem

Establishment of Petah Tikva, the First Zionist Colony in Palestine

Jewish Nationalism in Eastern Europe

Formal Entry of General Allenby into Jerusalem

11 December 1917

18th Zionist Congress Is Held in Prague

21 August 1933 - 3 September 1933

Saudi Arabia Opens a Consulate-General in Jerusalem

5 April 1941 - 29 April 1941

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

Popular Resistance and Israeli Measures in West Bank

16 February 1982 - 30 March 1982

Renewed Israeli Settlement Activities and Plans in East Jerusalem

25 May 1998 - 21 June 1998

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

11 January 2013 - 20 January 2013

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

3 February 2015 - 27 March 2015

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

13 April 2021 - 10 May 2021

Israeli Attempts to Evict Palestinian Families from Properties Owned by the Greek Orthodox Church in East Jerusalem

26 March 2022 - 8 June 2022

Violent Repression of Palestinians in East Jerusalem During Month of Ramadan

3 April 2022 - 29 April 2022

Historical Texts

Ottoman Firman on Christian Holy Places in Jerusalem and Bethlehem

8 February 1852

Proclamation of Martial Law in Jerusalem

11 December 1917

Palin Commission Report

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

The Murison Commission Report

Biltmore Conference Declaration

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

UNSCOP Majority Proposal: Partition Plan

3 September 1947

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

Israel: Law and Administration Ordinance

Palestine National Council, 18th Session: Final Statement

20 April 1987 - 25 April 1987

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Palestine National Council (19th Session) Political Communiqué

15 November 1988

Palestinian West Bank – Gaza Delegation: 2nd Memorandum to US Secretary James Baker

Yitzhak Rabin’s Address to Knesset after Israeli-Palestinian Agreement

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

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

Report of the UNHِQ Board of Inquiry Into Incidents Affecting UNRWA Schools during the 2014 Gaza War

Amnesty Report on Israeli Apartheid

1 February 2022

Biographies

1859 - 21 July 1921

1860 - 13 April 1930

Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

Jurji Habib Hanania

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

George Antonius

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

1905 - 2 May 1941

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

Rajeh al-Salfiti

1921 - 27 May 1990

1925 - 10 April 1973

Anis Abdullah Sayigh

3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009

1942 - 6 August 2019

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

Historical Media

British Troops with Machine Guns

Jaffa Road during a General Strike

Khalil Raad's Shop

Aftermath Outside of the New Gate

13 October 1933

Musa Kazim Husseini's Funeral, Damascus Gate

British Troops Regain Control of Jerusalem's Old City

Zionist Terrorism

29 December 1947

Scenes of Destruction

Highlights

Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City

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

Preservation of Heritage in Palestine

A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

The Palestine Communist Party

Colonization and Dispossession

Zionism's Imagined Geography

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

France and the Palestine Question Before 1948

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

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

An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status

The Separation Wall

Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

The United Kingdom and the Palestine Question Before 1917

Ideological and Colonialist Path to Conquest

The United States and the Palestine Question Before 1944

From Heavenly Jerusalem to Earthly Jerusalem

Jerash Refugee Camp (Gaza Camp)

Aida Refugee Camp

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Places

Balad al-Shaykh