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Biographies

Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

1878 - 29 June 1950

1880 - 16 June 1946

1882 - 22 April 1942

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

1894 - 19 March 1949

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

1902 - 27 August 1984

Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih

1907 - 8 January 2001

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

1928 - 1 September 2020

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

Historical Media

Sykes-Picot Agreement

Peel Commission and Partition

11 November 1936

Arab Revolt 1936 - Royal Commission

11 January 1937

Arab Revolt 1936 - Arab Higher Committee

12 January 1937

Death of The Shepherd Boy Fathi, Third Wave of Killing

Events

Palestine Gendarmerie Is Established

1 July 1921 - 24 April 1922

Outbreak of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

15 April 1936 - 30 April 1936

Appointment of the Peel Commission

Memorandum of Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

General Strike Called Off; Consent to Appear before the Peel Commission

11 October 1936

Peel Commission Investigates the Cause of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

11 November 1936 - 24 January 1937

Palestinians Reject Peel Commission Report

20th Zionist Congress Meets in Zürich

3 August 1937 - 16 August 1937

Arab National Congress Convenes in Bludan

8 September 1937 - 9 September 1937

Appointment of the Palestine Partition (Woodhead) Commission

Anti-British Operation and British Retaliation in al-Bassa

6 September 1938 - 10 September 1938

Partition (Woodhead) Commission Report Is Published

9 November 1938

Wave of Irgun Attacks against Palestinians

2 June 1939 - 1 August 1939

Stern Gang and Irgun Start Operations Against British

January 1944 - March 1944

Coordinated Zionist Anti-British Activism

1 October 1945 - 31 October 1945

Series of Zionist Anti-British Attacks

17 June 1946 - 22 July 1946

Jewish Agency Partition Plan Secures US Endorsement

5 August 1946 - 14 August 1946

Series of Zionist Attacks on Palestinians in the Wake of the Partition Plan

6 December 1947 - 31 December 1947

Arab League Rejects Partition Plan

8 December 1947 - 16 December 1947

Zionist Military Preparations

14 January 1948 - 20 February 1948

Haganah Operations

11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948

Operations Nachshon and Har'el to Open Tel Aviv-Jerusalem Road

3 April 1948 - 21 April 1948

Operation Hametz and the Fall of Jaffa

24 April 1948 - 13 May 1948

Jordanian Parliamentary Elections; Formal Unification of the Two Banks

11 April 1950 - 24 April 1950

Hamas Operation Dispel Illusion: Capture of Gilad Shalit

25 June 2006 - 1 July 2006

With the Haram al-Sharif Tensions, Protests Spread to the Occupied Territories

13 September 2015 - 30 September 2015

Five-Day Violence Along the Gaza Strip Border

3 May 2016 - 7 May 2016

Historical Texts

The Murison Commission Report

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

Peel Commission Report

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

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report

9 November 1938

British Government Statement on the Partition (Woodhead) Commission's Report

11 November 1938

MacDonald White Paper

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

Jordan-Israel General Armistice Agreement

Declaration of Jordan’s National Assembly, On the Unity between the Eastern and Western Banks of Jordan

Agreement between the Government of the Kingdom of Egypt And the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East

12 September 1950

Palestine National Council, 10th Session (Extraordinary): Political program

Palestine National Council, 11th Session: Political Program

12 December 1973

Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt

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

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

13 December 1988

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

The Mitchell Report

Fourteenth Arab Summit: The Arab Peace Initiative

Jordanian-Palestinian Agreement on Holy Sites in Jerusalem

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

28 February 2019

Highlights

The Palestine Communist Party

Palestine Police During the British Mandate

Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

III. Late Mandate

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

Baqa‘a Refugee Camp

Talbieh Refugee Camp

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948

An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come

Stages of a Forced Displacement

The Bosnians of Palestine

The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question

Solidarity of the Colonized

The Second Intifada, 2000-2005

Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations

Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948

A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps

The Algerians of Palestine