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Biographies

Qudsia Khourshid

5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

Bassam Shak’a

1930 - 22 July 2019

Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

Faisal al-Husseini

17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001

Historical Texts

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

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

The Hope Simpson Report

The Murison Commission Report

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

The Grady-Morrison Plan

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

Lyndon B. Johnson: Statement on Principles for Peace in the Middle East

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset

20 November 1977

Palestine National Council, 14th Session: National Unity Programme

15 January 1979 - 22 January 1979

The Golan Heights Law

14 December 1981

UNSC Resolution 497

17 December 1981

Draft of UNSC Resolution 14832/Rev.1

19 January 1982

UNGA Resolution ES-9/1

5 February 1982

Draft of UNSC Resolution 14943

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

7 February 1983

UNGA Resolution 38/58

13 December 1983

Palestine National Council, 18th Session: Final Statement

20 April 1987 - 25 April 1987

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1987: Resolutions

8 November 1987 - 11 November 1987

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

7 June 1988 - 9 June 1988

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1989: Resolution on the Palestine Question

23 May 1989 - 26 May 1989

U.S. Letter of Assurances to Israel

18 October 1991

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

28 September 1995

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1996: Resolution on the Palestine Question

21 June 1996 - 23 June 1996

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 2000: Communiqué

21 October 2000 - 22 October 2000

Fourteenth Arab Summit: The Arab Peace Initiative

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

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

25 September 2009

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

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

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

28 February 2019

President Donald Trump: Proclamation on Recognizing the Golan Heights as Part of the State of Israel

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

12 February 2020

Events

Arab Armies Cross Palestine Borders

15 May 1948 - 10 June 1948

5 June 1967 - 10 June 1967

June War, 5th Day

June War, 6th Day

Security Council Resolution S/RES/237

US President Lyndon B. Johnson and Principles for Peace in the Middle East

October War, 1st Day

6 October 1973 - 27 October 1973

October War, 2nd Day

October War, 3rd Day

October War, 4th Day

October War, From the 6th to 10th Day

11 October 1973 - 14 October 1973

Attrition in the Golan

12 March 1974 - 15 April 1974

Israel and Syria Sign a Disengagement Agreement

Palestinian Operations from South Lebanon

5 March 1975 - 20 November 1975

Israeli Knesset Votes to Apply Israeli Law in the Golan Heights

14 December 1981

SC Res. 497: Considering Null and Void Israel’s Decision to Impose its Laws in the Occupied Golan

17 December 1981

Draft SC Res. S/14832/Rev.1 to Consider Israeli Golan Measures an Act of Agression, Vetoed by US

20 January 1982

UNGA Res. ES/9-1: Adopts Content of Vetoed Draft SC Res. on Israeli Golan Measures

5 February 1982

Strike in the Golan Heights Against Annexation

12 February 1982 - 11 May 1982

Likud's Benjamin Netanyahu Is Elected Prime Minister

29 May 1996 - 18 June 1996

14th Arab Summit Meets in Beirut and Adopts Saudi Peace Initiative

27 March 2002 - 28 March 2002

Heightened Violence Despite Diplomacy

1 May 2003 - 29 June 2003

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

15 May 2011 - 5 June 2011

The Israeli Knesset Adopts a Basic Law on Referendum

Heightened Tension at Haram al-Sharif

30 September 2014 - 22 December 2014

EU Guidelines on Goods from the Occupied Territories

11 November 2015

As Israel Backtracks on Its Measures Concerning the Haram al-Sharif, Palestinian Pressure Continues and Succeeds

24 July 2017 - 4 August 2017

The US Recognizes the Golan Heights as Part of Israel

21 March 2019 - 25 March 2019

US Erases the 4-June Line

28 October 2020 - 19 November 2020

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology

1966 - 1967

Highlights

A Watershed in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

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

Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine

Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement

Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966

Governing the Lives of a Confined Population

The Education of Palestinians in Israel

Struggling to Break Free from a System of Marginalization

Palestinian Women in the Labor Market

A Burgeoning Workforce Curbed by Israel’s Colonialism

Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails

Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance

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

The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps

Perpetuating the Temporary

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP

The War on Gaza, 2008–2009

Israel’s Strategic Quandary

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

VII. After 1973 War: Separate Peace and Civil War

The Palestinian Flag

A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity

Colonization and Dispossession

Zionism's Imagined Geography

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Sbeineh Refugee Camp

Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp

Israel’s Apartheid Regime

Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians

Jabal al-Hussein Refugee Camp

UNRWA's Education System

A Palestinian-Shaped Undertaking

Spain and the Palestine Question

Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

Shatila Refugee Camp

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

An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status

Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp

The Separation Wall

Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians

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

Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Baqa‘a Refugee Camp

Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

Dera‘a Refugee Camp

The Algerians of Palestine

France and the Palestine Question Before 1948

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

Palestinian Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

October 1973 War

A Daring Arab Initiative Followed by Ambivalent Results

VI. Rise of The Palestinian National Movement

Periods

VI. Rise of the Palestinian National Movement

Places

al-Batani al-Gharbi

al-Batani al-Sharqi

al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa

al-Ghubayya al-Tahta

al-Masmiyya al-Kabira

al-Masmiyya al-Saghira

al-Naghnaghiyya

al-Ras al-Ahmar

al-Sawafir al-Gharbiyya

al-Sawafir al-Shamaliyya

al-Sawafir al-Sharqiyya

al-Shawka al-Tahta

al-Shaykh Muwannis

Khirbat al-Wa'ra al-Sawda'

al-Zahiriyya al-Tahta

al-Zuq al-Fawqani

al-Zuq al-Tahtani

'Arab al-Bawati

'Arab al-Nufay'at

'Arab al-Samniyya

'Arab al-Shamalina

'Arab al-Zubayd

Balad al-Shaykh

Khirbat Bayt Lid

Bayt Umm al-Mays

Bayyarat Hannun

Daliyat al-Rawha'

Dayr Abu Salama

Ghabat Kafr Sur

Ghuwayr Abu Shusha

Ijlil al-Qibliyya

'Iraq al-Manshiyya

al-Jammasin al-Gharbi

al-Jammasin al-Sharqi

Khirbat 'Iribbin

Khirbat al-'Umur

Khirbat al-Burj

Khirbat al-Buwayra

Khirbat al-Damun

Khirbat al-Jawfa

Khirbat al-Kasayir

Khirbat al-Lawz

Khirbat al-Manara

Khirbat al-Muntar

Khirbat al-Sarkas

Khirbat al-Shuna

Khirbat al-Tannur

Khirbat al-Taqa

Khirbat al-Zababida

Khirbat al-Zawiya

Khirbat Bayt Far

Khirbat Ism Allah

Khirbat Qumbaza

Khirbat Umm Burj

Khirbat Umm Sabuna

Khiyam al-Walid

Kirad al-Baqqara

Kirad al-Ghannama

Mansurat al-Khayt

Sarafand al-Kharab

Sarafand al-'Amar

Wa'arat al-Sarris

Wadi al-Hawarith