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Biographies

Hafiz al-Sa’id

Musa Kazim Husseini

1853 - 26 March 1934

1859 - 21 July 1921

Bendali Saliba al-Jawzi

Izzeddin al-Qassam

1882 - 20 November 1935

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

1905 - 21 May 1985

26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi

1909 - 11 October 1980

1917 - 12 December 2003

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003

Ahmad Ismail Yasin

June 1936 - 22 March 2004

1939 - 19 August 2014

1942 - 6 August 2019

1962 - 31 July 2024

Events

Jerusalem Area Designated as a Sanjaq

Emerging Palestinian Opposition to Zionist Settlement: al-Yahudiyya Village Against Petah Tikva Settlement

General Allenby Issues Guidelines for the Military Occupation of the Levant

23 October 1918

French Occupy Damascus and Establish State of Greater Lebanon

14 July 1920 - 31 August 1920

May Day Clashes in Jaffa

1 May 1921 - 7 May 1921

General Strike and Demonstrations in Palestine

8 October 1933 - 3 November 1933

Death of Musa Kazim Husseini

21st Zionist Congress Meets in Geneva

16 August 1939 - 25 August 1939

The British Mandate Issues the Defence (Emergency) Regulations

27 September 1945

Plan Dalet Finalized by the Haganah

Zionist Conquest of Eastern Galilee

28 April 1948 - 25 May 1948

Jordan and Israel Sign Agreement on Demilitarization of Mount Scopus Area

Israel Conducts its First Population Census

8 November 1948 - 1 February 1949

Individual Return of Tens of Thousands of Palestinian Refugees; Israel Launches "War on Infiltration"

January 1949 - December 1956

Israel Enacts the Registration of Inhabitants Ordinance

1 February 1949

Land Acquisition (Validation of Acts and Compensation) Law

With Mounting Tension In and Around Gaza, a Turning Point for Egypt and Opportunities for Israel

3 April 1955 - 27 September 1955

24th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

24 April 1956 - 7 May 1956

The Knesset Paves the Way for the Annexation of East Jerusalem

27 June 1967 - 28 June 1967

Military Order No. 59, Concerning State Property

Absentees' Property (Compensation) Law, 5733-1973

October War, 2nd Day

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

11th Arab Summit Meets in Amman

25 November 1980 - 27 November 1980

Israeli-Syrian Mounting Tension in Lebanon

28 April 1981 - 5 May 1981

Israel Invades Along the Eastern Axis

6 June 1982 - 12 June 1982

The “Creeping” Cease-fire

10 June 1982 - 26 June 1982

Battle of the Mountain

14 June 1982 - 26 June 1982

Tension in Hebron

1 July 1983 - 30 July 1983

Extraordinary Arab Summit in Casablanca

23 May 1989 - 26 May 1989

Extraordinary Arab Summit in Baghdad

28 May 1990 - 30 May 1990

Haram al-Sharif Killings

Palestinian Police Shoot on Demonstrators in Gaza

18 November 1994 - 23 November 1994

Renewed Israeli Settlement Activities and Plans in East Jerusalem

25 May 1998 - 21 June 1998

Israeli Obstacles to Wye River Implementation; First Stage Redeployment Only

30 October 1998 - 17 May 1999

Mounting Malaise in the Palestinian Territories

17 February 2000 - 18 May 2000

Mounting Anti-Israeli Mobilization

10 May 2000 - 20 May 2000

Israeli Cabinet Ambiguously Endorses Sharon's Disengagement Plan

Israeli and US Reactions to the Revived Arab Peace Initiative

29 March 2007 - 17 April 2007

Hamas Seizes Control of Gaza

10 June 2007 - 16 June 2007

Israeli Operations Against Gaza Resume

24 June 2007 - 12 July 2007

Donors' Conference in Paris Supports Abbas's PA; PEGASE to Replace TIM

17 December 2007 - 1 February 2008

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

31 August 2008 - 16 September 2008

The PLO Central Council Meets in Ramallah

23 November 2008 - 24 November 2008

Donor Conference for Gaza Reconstruction, Sharm al-Shaykh

Clinton's Disturbing Misstep on Settlements

31 October 2009 - 3 November 2009

The Deceptive Settlement Freeze

26 November 2009 - 5 January 2010

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

8 March 2010 - 11 March 2010

President Obama Meets Netanyahu and Pushes the Palestinians for Direct Talks with Israel

6 July 2010 - 23 August 2010

Israel's Temporary and Partial Settlement Freeze Is not Extended

20 September 2010 - 26 September 2010

Sensing an Insurmountable Deadlock, Abbas Sends a Letter to Netanyahu

Israel Once Again Links the Second-Stage Release of Palestinian Prisoners with Settlement Expansion

29 October 2013 - 3 November 2013

Tension Mounts Over Haram al-Sharif Following Israeli Provocations

4 February 2014 - 26 February 2014

Tension Mounts with the Kidnapping of Three Israeli Settlers in the Hebron Region

12 June 2014 - 30 June 2014

Tension and Hostilities Mount Across Gaza

14 June 2014 - 2 July 2014

UNHRC Res. A/HRC/RES/S-21/1: Condemning Israel's Assault on Gaza, Dispatching Commission of Inquiry

Heightened Tension at Haram al-Sharif

30 September 2014 - 22 December 2014

Israel Freezes Transfer of Tax Revenues to the Palestinian Authority

1 January 2015 - 21 April 2015

UNHRC Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict

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

22 October 2015 - 24 October 2015

UNESCWA and the Report on Israeli Apartheid

Palestinian Popular Response to Israel's Measures over the Haram al-Sharif

16 July 2017 - 23 July 2017

Knesset Passes Law to Deduct Funds from the PA Tax Revenue

2 July 2018 - 3 July 2018

Israel Deducts Funds from the PA’s Tax Revenue

17 February 2019 - 2 May 2019

The PA and Israel Agree that the PA Can Collect Fuel Taxes

PA Starts Receiving Part of Tax Revenue from Israel Despite Deduction

3 October 2019 - 29 December 2019

The May 2021 Gaza War

10 May 2021 - 21 May 2021

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 5

Israel Continues to Assert Dominance over the Haram al-Sharif Compound

18 July 2021 - 8 October 2021

Historical Media

Young Turks Revolution

Welcoming Guerrillas

Old City of Jerusalem from the Church of the Savior

Historical Texts

Palin Commission Report

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

The Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)

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

Passfield White Paper

20 October 1930

The Murison Commission Report

Proposed New Constitution for Palestine

22 December 1935 - 23 December 1935

Peel Commission Report

Memorandum of the Arab Higher Committee: On the Peel Commission Report

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report

9 November 1938

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

Jordan-Israel Agreement: For the Demilitarization of Mount Scopus Area

UNGA Resolution 212 (III)

19 November 1948

Jordan-Israel General Armistice Agreement

UNGA Resolution 302 (IV)

8 December 1949

Absentees' Property Law, 5710-1950

UNGA Resolution 393 (V)

2 December 1950

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

UNGA Resolution 513 (VI)

26 January 1952

UNRWA-Egypt Agreement on Economic and Engineering Surveys

Exchange of Notes Between Lebanon and UNRWA

26 November 1954

Amended Basic Law of the Palestine Liberation Organization

Speech by Jordan’S King Hussein, Proposing a United Arab Kingdom in the Event of a Peaceful Settlement

Palestine National Council, 11th Session: Political Program

12 December 1973

Separation of Forces Agreement Between Israel and Egypt

18 January 1974

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

The Koenig Memorandum

Israeli Model for the Self-Governing Authority

16 January 1980

Egyptian Model for Palestinian Full Autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

28 January 1980

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

Eleventh Arab Summit: Final Communiqué

25 November 1980 - 27 November 1980

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

7 February 1983

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Palestinian Declaration of Independence

15 November 1988

Palestine National Council (19th Session) Political Communiqué

15 November 1988

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

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area

Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip

28 September 1995

Wye River Memorandum

23 October 1998

Basic Agreement Between the Holy See and the Palestine Liberation Organization

15 February 2000

President Bill Clinton Proposals for a Final Settlement

23 December 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 Mitchell Report

The Quartet (UN, EU, Russia, US) Communiqué on the Situation in the Occupied Territories

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

UNGA Resolution ES-10/15

Palestinian Parties and Factions Code of Conduct during the Legislative Electoral Process

17 October 2005

Letter Dated 4 May 2009 from the Secretary-General Addressed to the President of the Security Council

Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s Address at al-Quds University: Statehood in Two Years

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

25 September 2009

HRC Resolution S-21/1

Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict

Council of the European Union: Conclusions on the Middle East Peace Process

18 January 2016

Report of the Middle East Quartet

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

UNESCWA Report on Israeli Apartheid

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

6 December 2017

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

28 February 2019

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

Highlights

Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City

Israel’s Appropriation of Palestinian Property

Cooking Up Laws for the Sake of Land Grab

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

III. Late Mandate

World Zionist Organization

Setting the Stage for a Jewish State in Palestine

Israel’s Gaza Redeployment, 2005

Exacerbating the Siege and Targeting the Land of the West Bank

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

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

Palestinian Emigration (I)

Israel’s Apartheid Regime

Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians

Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule

Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition

France and the Palestine Question before 1948

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

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Arab Labor in Mandate Palestine

The Emergence of a Working Class

Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949

Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

Palestinian Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

Israel's Nation-State Law, 2018

Enshrining Discrimination

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

Sabra and Shatila, 16-18 September 1982

A Massacre by Proxy

VI. The Rise Of The Palestinian Movement In The Wake Of The 1967 Arab Defeat

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)

Before the Nakba

Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Palestine and International Justice

The Long and Tortuous Quest for Accountability

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Stages of a Forced Displacement

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

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

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

IX. The First Intifada And The Beginning Of Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations

The Second Intifada, 2000-2005

Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations

The Algerians of Palestine

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Perpetuating Israel’s Structural Dominance

The IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism

Delegitimizing Criticism of Israel

Periods

XI. Second Intifada and the Post-Arafat Era