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The Territory Under Zahir al-Umar al-Zaydani's Control: Economic and Social Dimension

Alliance Between Zahir al-Umar al-Zaydani and Mamluk Leader Ali Bey al-Kabeer: To Conquer Palestine and Syrian Territory

November 1770 - June 1771

Palestine Under Zahir al-Umar: Locus of Intra-Mamluk Rivalry

June 1771 - June 1773

Great Britain Invades Egypt; Egypt as a British Veiled Protectorate

Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement

The Ottomans Enter World War I; the Sinai-Palestine Front

1 November 1914 - 4 February 1915

Start of the Arab Revolt Against the Ottomans

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

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 Armies Cross Palestine Borders

15 May 1948 - 10 June 1948

Operations Yoav and ha-Har in the South Put End to 2nd Truce

15 October 1948 - 4 November 1948

Israel Decides to Issue Temporary Residency Permits for Palestinians Not Included in the Census

The Knesset Adopts the Entry into Israel Law

Israel's Construction of the "National Water Carrier"

2 September 1953

Ben-Gurion Addresses the Issue of Suez

Situation on Jordanian-Israeli Lines Continues to Deteriorate; Israeli Raid on Qalqilya

4 October 1956 - 11 October 1956

Britain and France Join the War

31 October 1956

Israel's Strike Against Syria

31 January 1960 - 15 February 1960

A Lebanese Decree, Implicitly Applicable to Palestinian Refugees, Regulates Work of Foreigners

18 September 1964

June War, 4th Day

Black September Hijack Operation

Japanese Red Army at Lod Airport

Gaza Red Crescent Society Is Established

Palestinian Operations in Northern Israel

Encirclement of Beirut

11 June 1982 - 20 June 1982

Israeli Raid on Palestinian Base South of Beirut; Ahmad Jibril Is Targeted

9 December 1988

Operation Bronze and Escalation

7 March 2001 - 16 May 2001

US and Palestinian Efforts to Stop Israeli Escalation

12 September 2001 - 16 October 2001

Sharon's Letter to Bush on Disengagement Plan

James Wolfensohn Appointed to Follow Economic-Related Disengagement Matters

14 April 2005 - 20 June 2005

Disengagement: Evacuation of Troops; The Case of Gaza-Egypt Border

15 August 2005 - 12 September 2005

Disengagement: Israeli-Egyptian Protocol on Gaza-Egypt Border

1 September 2005 - 12 September 2005

Gaza: Military Confrontation Continues and Siege is Tightened

26 March 2008 - 15 May 2008

War on Gaza, Day 12

War on Gaza, Day 13

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

Hamas's Khalid Mishal Visits the Gaza Strip

8 December 2012

Trilateral Agreement for a Red Sea-Dead Sea Link

9 December 2013

The 2014 Gaza War, Day 1

The 2014 Gaza War, Day 2

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 11 and 12

18 July 2014 - 19 July 2014

28th Arab Summit Meets at the Dead Sea

Hamas New Charter

Palestinian Prisoners in Israel End Hunger Strike

Abbas Signs 22 Treaties as a Response to Trump's Move on Jerusalem

18 December 2017

Israeli PM Netanyahu Pledges to Annex Parts of the West Bank if Reelected

10 September 2019 - 6 December 2019

Leading Human Rights Groups Deem Israel an Apartheid State

12 January 2021 - 27 April 2021

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 4

Biographies

Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi

Hafiz al-Sa’id

Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali

1889 - 7 July 1973

2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

Subhi al-Khadra

1895 - 4 July 1954

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

1896 - 27 September 1951

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

Wasif Jawhariyyeh

Mustafa al-Dabbagh

1897 - 1 October 1989

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

1905 - 2 May 1941

Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih

1907 - 8 January 2001

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Constantine Zurayk

18 April 1909 - 12 August 2000

Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil

Hind al-Husseini

25 April 1916 - 13 September 1994

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

Rajeh al-Salfiti

1921 - 27 May 1990

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

Samira Abu Ghazaleh

1928 - 12 January 2017

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

Yahya al-Sinwar

19 October 1962 - 17 October 2024

Historical Texts

Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement

Sykes-Picot Agreement

Palin Commission Report

Franco-British Convention on Mandate Boundaries

23 December 1920

The Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)

Council of the League of Nations: Exclusion of Transjordan Territory from the Jewish National Home

16 September 1922

Agreement between Great Britain and Transjordan Emirate

20 February 1928

Peel Commission Report

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

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead Commission) Report

9 November 1938

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Treaty of Alliance between Great Britain and Transjordan, 1946

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

UNSCOP Majority Proposal: Partition Plan

3 September 1947

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

Text of Plan Dalet (Plan D): General Section

Treaty of Alliance between Great Britain and Transjordan, 1948

UNGA Resolution 186 (S-2)

Israel: Law and Administration Ordinance

Progress Report of the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte)

16 September 1948

UNGA Resolution 212 (III)

19 November 1948

Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement

24 February 1949

Lebanon-Israel General Armistice Agreement

Jordan-Israel General Armistice Agreement

Syria–Israel General Armistice Agreement

UNGA Resolution 302 (IV)

8 December 1949

UNGA Resolution 393 (V)

2 December 1950

UNSC Resolution 95

1 September 1951

Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA

15 December 1956

UNGA Resolution 2252 (ES-V)

Fatah: The Palestine National Liberation Movement, Press Release

Palestine National Council, 6th Session: Political Statement

6 September 1969

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

Separation of Forces Agreement Between Israel and Egypt

18 January 1974

Separation of Forces Agreement Between Israel and Syria

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

UNGA Resolution 3237 (XXIX)

22 November 1974

Framework for Peace in the Middle East (Camp David Accords)

17 September 1978

Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt

Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement

11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981

Plan for the Departure from Lebanon of the PLO Leadership, Offices, and Combatants in Beirut

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

7 February 1983

Draft of UNSC Resolution 19466

29 January 1988

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Yasir Arafat’s Speech Before the Forty-Third Session of the United Nations General Assembly

13 December 1988

UNSC Resolution 681

20 December 1990

Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (Oslo I Accord)

13 September 1993

Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area

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

28 September 1995

The Beilin – Abu Mazen Document

31 October 1995

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

UNGA Resolution ES-10/6

9 February 1999

Sharm el Sheikh Memorandum

4 September 1999

Palestinian Response to President Clinton Proposals

Letter of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon

UNSC Resolution 1405

Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement Plan: Key Principles

Memorandum of Understanding between Israel and the United States Regarding Prevention of the Supply of Arms and Related Materiel to Terrorist Groups

16 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

Understanding Regarding Ceasefire in Gaza Strip

21 November 2012

HRC Resolution S-21/1

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

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

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

Bezalel Smotrich: Israel's Decisive Plan

7 September 2017

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

28 February 2019

B’Tselem: A Regime of Jewish Supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid

12 January 2021

Framework for Cooperation between UNRWA and the USA, 2021-2022

Amnesty Report on Israeli Apartheid

1 February 2022

Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry to HRC

Historical Media

Caricature: Balfour and the Woes His Ill-Fated Promise Brought to Palestine (Filastin Newspaper)

2 November 1932

Palestine: A Homeland Denied

Highlights

Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917

Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947

Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba

A Watershed in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Battle of al-Karama, 21 March 1968

A Triggering Moment For the Palestinian Resistance

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

Palestinian Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

Present Absentees in Israel

Exiled in Their Own Homeland

Palestinian Embroidery

A Rich and Diverse National Heritage

Israel’s Gaza Redeployment, 2005

Exacerbating the Siege and Targeting the Land of the West Bank

Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948

A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP

The Palestine 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

The War on Gaza, 2008–2009

Israel’s Strategic Quandary

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Balata Refugee Camp

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)

After the Nakba

The Palestinian Flag

A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity

The Second Intifada, 2000-2005

Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Sbeineh Refugee Camp

Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp

Talbieh Refugee Camp

Marka (Hittin) 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 Bosnians of Palestine

Beddawi Refugee Camp

The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse

A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism

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

Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Ein el Tal (Handarat) Refugee Camp

Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

The United Kingdom and the Palestine Question Before 1917

Ideological and Colonialist Path to Conquest

Japan and the Palestine Question

A Policy still Subordinate to the US

Zarqa Refugee Camp

The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948

An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come

The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression

V. Reverberations Of the Palestine War

Israel’s Apartheid Regime

Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

Aida Refugee Camp

The May 2021 Gaza War

Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Places

al-Ras al-Ahmar

Ijlil al-Qibliyya

Khirbat al-Manara