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Biographies
Biography
Yasir Arafat
24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004
Biography
Faisal al-Husseini
17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001
Events
Event
Israeli Operation in Gaza
28 August 1953
Event
Israeli Operation Against Qibya
14 October 1953
Event
Sharon's Pacification of Gaza
August 1970 - December 1971
Event
Sharon Goes to Washington to Get Green Light on Lebanon War
25 May 1982
Event
Kahan Report on the Sabra-Shatila Massacres
7 February 1983 - 10 February 1983
Event
Feverish Settlement Activities After Wye Memorandum
26 October 1998 - 15 November 1998
Event
Official Colonization Activity and (Very) Partial Removal of Settler Outposts
10 October 1999 - 10 November 1999
Event
Failure of Final Status Talks at Camp David Summit
11 July 2000 - 25 July 2000
Event
Ariel Sharon at al-Haram al-Sharif
28 September 2000
Event
Start of the Second Intifada
29 September 2000 - 4 October 2000
Event
Extraordinary Arab Summit in Cairo
21 October 2000 - 22 October 2000
Event
Israeli Idea of Security Fence (Separation Wall) Begins to Take Shape
26 December 2000 - 3 January 2001
Event
Ariel Sharon Is Elected Prime Minister of Israel; Intifada Casualties Under Ehud Barak
6 February 2001
Event
Israel and the US Put Effective End to Peace Talks
7 February 2001 - 8 February 2001
Event
Intense then Moderate Resurgence of Palestinian-Israeli Clashes
8 February 2001 - 7 March 2001
Event
Operation Bronze and Escalation
7 March 2001 - 16 May 2001
Event
The Tenet Cease-Fire Plan
11 June 2001 - 20 June 2001
Event
Israel's "Efforts" to Provoke Escalation
4 July 2001 - 14 August 2001
Event
US and Palestinian Efforts to Stop Israeli Escalation
12 September 2001 - 16 October 2001
Event
President Bush Publicly Endorses the Creation of a Palestinian State
2 October 2001 - 15 October 2001
Event
Assassination of Iyad Lafy al-Akhras in Rafah
16 October 2001
Event
Another Timid Return to Diplomacy: a Peres-Qurai' Draft?
16 December 2001 - 27 December 2001
Event
An Uneven Race Between Diplomacy and Violence: Operation Colorful Journey
17 February 2002 - 26 March 2002
Event
US Response to the Israeli Invasion
4 April 2002 - 17 April 2002
Event
Israel Decides to Create Buffer Zones (Separation Wall)
14 April 2002 - 25 April 2002
Event
Israeli and International Pressures for a PA Reform
7 May 2002 - 5 June 2002
Event
Israeli Leaders Push for an American War Against Iraq
16 October 2002 - 9 February 2003
Event
The Likud Wins the Elections for the Knesset
28 January 2003
Event
With US Blessing, Ambivalent Israeli Acceptance of the "Steps Set out in the Road Map"
4 May 2003 - 25 May 2003
Event
Abbas and Sharon Meet in Jerusalem
17 May 2003 - 29 May 2003
Event
Aqaba Summit: Bush, Abdullah, Abbas, and Sharon Meet
4 June 2003
Event
Yasir Arafat in the Line of Fire
4 September 2003 - 30 September 2003
Event
Israel Adopts Plan for Second Phase of Separation Wall
1 October 2003
Event
The Geneva "Private" Initiative
12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003
Event
Sharon's Speech on Unilateral Disengagement Plan
18 December 2003
Event
Timing New Israeli Escalation with Sharon's Speech on Disengagement Plan
18 December 2003 - 31 January 2004
Event
Sharon's Interview on Gaza-Centered Disengagement Plan
12 January 2004 - 2 February 2004
Event
Timing Another Israeli Escalation with Sharon's Interview on Gaza-Centered Disengagement Plan
2 February 2004 - 13 March 2004
Event
Israel Launches Operation Continuous Story Against Palestinian Leaders
14 March 2004 - 5 April 2004
Event
Sharon's Letter to Bush on Disengagement Plan
14 April 2004
Event
Bush's Letter to Sharon on the Disengagement Plan
14 April 2004
Event
Timing Another Israeli Escalation with Sharon's Plan
15 April 2004 - 29 April 2004
Event
Reactions to Bush's Assurances to Sharon RE Disengagement Plan
15 April 2004 - 6 May 2004
Event
UNGA Res. 58/292: Affirming that Status of Palestinian Territory Remains one of Military Occupation
6 May 2004
Event
16th Arab Summit Meets in Tunis; Rejection of Israel's Disengagement Plan
22 May 2004 - 23 May 2004
Event
An Egyptian Security Plan for the PA
24 May 2004 - 6 July 2004
Event
Israeli Cabinet Ambiguously Endorses Sharon's Disengagement Plan
6 June 2004
Event
Settlement Activity in Spite of Road Map
2 August 2004 - 23 August 2004
Event
Abbas-Sharon Summit in Sharm al-Shaykh
8 February 2005
Event
Resumption of Israeli-Palestinian Security Coordination
15 February 2005 - 30 April 2005
Event
Palestinian Dialogue Conference Held in Cairo
15 March 2005 - 17 March 2005
Event
Major Construction Plan in Ma'ale Adumim
21 March 2005 - 6 April 2005
Event
Implementation of Israel's Disengagement from Gaza
9 July 2005 - 23 November 2005
Event
Disengagement: Evacuation of Troops; The Case of Gaza-Egypt Border
15 August 2005 - 12 September 2005
Event
After a Massive Stroke, Sharon Is Replaced by Ehud Olmert as Acting PM
4 January 2006
Event
Olmert's Separation Plan
5 March 2006 - 9 March 2006
Event
Olmert's Convergence Plan Put Aside; Settlement Activity Resumes
18 August 2006 - 21 September 2006
Event
Palestinian and Israeli Teams to Prepare Annapolis International Conference
20 September 2007 - 25 November 2007
Event
Israel Announces New Settlement Construction Plans
9 March 2008 - 2 April 2008
Event
Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status: Olmert's Political Gamble
31 August 2008 - 16 September 2008
Event
Escalation in Israel's Settlement Activity
26 September 2010 - 8 November 2010
Event
Israel Approves Settlement Expansion
2 March 2011 - 11 August 2011
Event
For the Third Time, Israel Links the Release of Palestinian Prisoners with Settlement Expansion
6 January 2014 - 22 January 2014
Event
Settlement Plans Continue and Weigh Heavily on Negotiations
13 March 2014 - 20 March 2014
Event
Israel Uses the Palestinian Cabinet Formation as a Pretext to Launch a New Wave of Settlement Plans
5 June 2014
Event
Tension Escalates at Haram al-Sharif
2 August 2015 - 28 September 2015
Event
US Erases the 4-June Line
28 October 2020 - 19 November 2020
Highlights
Highlight
Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine
Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement
Highlight
Israel’s Policy toward Refugees in the Gaza Strip
A Site of Continual Displacement
Highlight
Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip Since 1967
Incubators of Resistance
Highlight
VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival
1982-1987
Highlight
The October 2000 Events in Israel
The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst
Highlight
Israel’s Gaza Redeployment, 2005
Exacerbating the Siege and Targeting the Land of the West Bank
Highlight
XI. The Al-Aqsa Intifada and the End of an Era in Palestinian Politics
2000-2006
Highlight
The Second Intifada, 2000-2005
Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations
Highlight
The Separation Wall
Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians
Highlight
Lebanon War, 1982
A Setback for the PLO and for Israel's 'Grand Design'
Highlight
1956 War
The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression
Highlight
Israel's Nation-State Law, 2018
Enshrining Discrimination
Highlight
The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas
1987–present
Highlight
Sabra and Shatila, 16-18 September 1982
A Massacre by Proxy
Thematic Chronologies
Thematic Chronology
Israel’s Gaza Redeployment, 2005
2003 - 2006
Historical Texts
Document
Kahan Commission of Inquiry Report into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut
7 February 1983
Document
The Mitchell Report
30 April 2001
Document
Letter of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
12 March 2002
Document
Israel and the Road Map
23 May 2003 - 25 May 2003
Document
President Bush's letter to Prime Minister Sharon
14 April 2004
Document
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement Plan: Key Principles
14 April 2004
Document
Database of All Business Enterprises Involved in Israeli Settlement Activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
12 February 2020
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