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Document
Looking Toward Marj Ibn Amir
n.d.
Document
Yusuf Diya-uddin Pasha al-Khalidi
1899
Document
Young Turks Revolution
July 1908
Document
The Constitutional School
1909
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Sykes-Picot Agreement
8 May 1916
Document
Jemal Pasha Reviews His Troops
1917
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British Troops with Machine Guns
1920
Document
Town of Safad, Northern Galilee
1920s
Document
Arrival in Palestine of Sir Hebert Samuel, High Commissioner
7 July 1920
Document
Third Palestinian National Congress, Haifa
14 December 1920
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Mr. and Mrs. Winston Churchill at Government House Reception
28 March 1921
Document
Sixth Palestinian National Congress, Jaffa
October 1925
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Jaffa Road during a General Strike
August 1929
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Khalil Raad's Shop
1930s
Document
Fourth Palestinian Delegation in London
April 1930
Document
Pan-Islamic Congress, 1931
16 December 1931
Document
Members of the Istiqlal (Independence) Party
1932
Document
Caricature: Balfour and the Woes His Ill-Fated Promise Brought to Palestine (Filastin Newspaper)
2 November 1932
Document
Arab Demonstrations on Oct. 13 and 27, 1933, in Jerusalem and Jaffa
October 1933
Document
Aftermath Outside of the New Gate
13 October 1933
Document
Musa Kazim Husseini's Funeral, Damascus Gate
27 March 1934
Document
Soap factory
pre-1935
Document
Palestine and Oil
1936
Document
Laying Siege to Jaffa's Old City
1936
Document
British Soldiers Enforce a Daytime Curfew on Lydda
April 1936
Document
Oath of Allegiance
April 1936
Document
Arab Higher Committee Members
25 April 1936
Document
Jaffa in Ruins
June 1936
Document
Peel Commission and Partition
11 November 1936
Document
Arab Revolt 1936 - Royal Commission
11 January 1937
Document
Arab Revolt 1936 - Arab Higher Committee
12 January 1937
Document
British Troops Regain Control of Jerusalem's Old City
October 1938
Document
Smashing the Palestinian Political Infrastructure
15 December 1938
Document
Arab Demonstration at Yatta
18 December 1938
Document
London Conference
February 1939
Document
Palestine Broadcasting Station's "Oriental Band"
1940
Document
Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry
March 1946
Document
King David Hotel
24 July 1946
Document
Hostage Taking by the Irgun
July 1947
Document
The Haganah Starts Its Offensive
15 August 1947
Document
Burning of the Rex Cinema
2 December 1947
Document
Fleeing Jaffa
1948
Document
al-Manshiyya Quarter
1948
Document
Battle for the Roads
1948
Document
Scenes of Destruction
1948
Document
Grand Serai in Ruins
4 January 1948
Document
Attack on Jewish Agency Headquarters
11 March 1948
Document
Haganah in Jerusalem
April 1948
Document
Funeral of Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini
9 April 1948
Document
Abandoning Ship
14 May 1948
Document
Acre's Fall
17 May 1948
Document
Emergency Refugee Camp, East Jordan: June 1967
June 1967
Document
Continuing Exodus: Jordan River
February 1968
Document
Mahane Yehuda Explosion
22 November 1968
Document
Old City of Jerusalem from the Church of the Savior
n.d.
Document
Palestine: A Homeland Denied
1979
Document
Death of The Shepherd Boy Fathi, Third Wave of Killing
2012
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Escape of the Youth, Sixth Wave of Killing
2012
Document
Implosion, Killing of the Women, Ninth Wave of Killing
2012

Events

Event
The Naqib al-Ashraf Rebellion in Jerusalem
1703 - 1705
Event
Acre Under Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar
1775 - 1804
Event
Napoleon Bonaparte in Palestine
February 1799 - May 1799
Event
Tax Revolt in Jerusalem
1825 - 1826
Event
Ibrahim Pasha in Palestine
October 1831 - 1834
Event
Uprising Against Egyptian Rule in Palestine
April 1834 - August 1834
Event
International Intervention against Egyptian Rule in the Levant
1839 - 1841
Event
The Tanzimat Are Issued
18 February 1856
Event
Ottoman Land Code, 7 Ramadan 1274
21 April 1858
Event
Ottoman Law of the Provinces: Administrative Reorganization in Syria and Palestine
7 November 1864
Event
Law Granting Foreigners the Right to Own Real Estate in the Ottoman Empire., 7 Safar 1284
10 June 1867
Event
Jerusalem Area Designated as a Sanjaq
July 1872
Event
Sultan Abd al-Hamid II and the Ottoman Constitution
31 August 1876 - 19 December 1876
Event
Jerusalem Representation in the First and Second Ottoman Parliaments
19 March 1877 - 14 February 1878
Event
Establishment of Petah Tikva, the First Zionist Colony in Palestine
1878 - 1882
Event
Jewish Nationalism in Eastern Europe
1881 - 1884
Event
Great Britain Invades and Occupies Egypt
1882
Event
First Wave of Jewish Immigration to Palestine
1882 - 1903
Event
Emerging Palestinian Opposition to Zionist Settlement: al-Yahudiyya Village Against Petah Tikva Settlement
29 March 1886
Event
European Powers Press the Ottomans on Jewish Immigration
2 March 1888 - 4 October 1888
Event
Building of the Jaffa-Jerusalem Railroad Line
31 March 1890 - 26 September 1892
Event
Establishment of the Jewish Colonization Association
September 1891
Event
The Ottomans and Sale of Land to Jews in Palestine
26 November 1892 - 3 April 1893
Event
Publication of The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl
February 1896
Event
Local Control of Zionist Land Purchases in the Sanjaq of Jerusalem
1897 - 1901
Event
2nd Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel
28 August 1898 - 31 August 1898
Event
Herzl Correspondence with Jerusalem Mayor
19 March 1899
Event
3rd Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel
15 August 1899 - 18 August 1899
Event
4th Zionist Congress Is Held in London
13 August 1900 - 16 August 1900
Event
Ottoman Consolidated Regulations on Jewish Residence and Land Purchase in Palestine
29 November 1900 - 28 January 1901
Event
Palestinian Peasants in Tiberias Score a Rare Success Against Zionist Land Acquisition
8 December 1900 - 11 November 1901
Event
France and the Ottoman Empire Sign the Mytilene Agreements
2 November 1901 - 10 November 1901
Event
5th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel
26 December 1901 - 30 December 1901
Event
Establishment of the Anglo-Palestine Company
7 July 1903 - 24 November 1903
Event
6th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel
23 August 1903 - 28 August 1903
Event
Theodor Herzl Dies; Replaced by David Wolffsohn
3 July 1904
Event
Completion of the Hijaz Railway
1905
Event
Emerging Palestinian Identity and Arab Nationalism
1905 - 1914
Event
7th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel
27 July 1905 - 2 August 1905
Event
Establishment of the Rawdat al-Ma'arif al-Wataniyya al-'Uthmaniyya al-Islamiyya in Jerusalem
1906
Event
Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement
1 October 1906
Event
Zionist Evasion of Ottoman Regulations
August 1907
Event
Creation of Underground Bar Giora Group
29 September 1907
Event
The Zionist Organization Opens an Office in Jaffa
December 1907
Event
Zionist-Palestinian Violence Breaks out in Jaffa
16 March 1908
Event
Establishment of the Arab-Ottoman Brotherhood Society in Istanbul
2 September 1908 - April 1909
Event
Establishment of Palestinian Newspaper al-Karmel in Haifa
December 1908
Event
Elections Held for Third Ottoman Parliament; Five Representatives from Regions in Palestine
17 December 1908 - 17 January 1912
Event
Establishment of al-Madrasa al-Dusturiyya, Jerusalem
1909
Event
Zionist Attempt to Buy 1.5 Million Dunams in the Jordan Valley
March 1909 - July 1909
Event
Palestinians Clash with Settlers of Sejera Colony
3 April 1909 - 12 April 1909
Event
Foundation of Tel Aviv
11 April 1909
Event
Foundation of the Zionist Paramilitary Group Hashomer
12 April 1909
Event
Palestinian Members of the Ottoman Parliament Express Opposition to Zionist Objectives
June 1909 - 2 November 1909
Event
Establishment of the Literary Club in Istanbul
July 1909 - March 1915
Event
Enactment of the Ottoman Associations Law
16 August 1909
Event
Establishment of Filastin Newspaper in Jaffa
January 1911
Event
Formation of the Young Arab Society in Paris
1911 - 1914
Event
First Major Debate on Zionism in Ottoman Parliament
March 1911 - May 1911
Event
Formation of the Ottoman Party for Administrative Decentralization in Cairo
December 1912
Event
A Zionist–Arab Incident in Zarnuqa
23 July 1913
Event
11th Zionist Congress Meets in Vienna
2 September 1913 - 9 September 1913
Event
Railway Lines in Palestine
1914
Event
Elections Held for Fifth Ottoman Parliament; Six Representatives from Regions in Palestine
14 May 1914
Event
World War I, the Ottomans Enter the War
1 August 1914 - February 1915
Event
Hussein-McMahon Correspondence: Prelude to the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans
14 July 1915 - 30 March 1916
Event
Jemal Pasha Orders the Public Hanging of Arab Nationalists from the Levant
21 August 1915 - 6 May 1916
Event
The Sykes-Picot Agreement Defines the British and French Spheres of Influence over the Ottoman Arab Provinces
23 November 1915 - 16 May 1916
Event
The British Prepare for the Occupation of Palestine
9 January 1917
Event
First Stage of British Palestine Campaign: Gaza Does not Fall
28 February 1917 - 19 April 1917
Event
Second Stage of British Palestine Campaign: From Bir al-Sabi' and Gaza to Jerusalem
31 October 1917 - 9 December 1917
Event
Formal Entry of General Allenby into Jerusalem
11 December 1917
Event
Limited British Advances; Stabilization of the Military Front
21 December 1917 - 21 April 1918
Event
The Fourteen Points of US President Woodrow Wilson
8 January 1918
Event
Arrival in Palestine of the Zionist Commission
April 1918
Event
Appointment of a British Chief Administrator for Palestine
16 April 1918
Event
Establishment of Muslim-Christian Societies: Towards National Representation in Palestine
8 May 1918 - December 1918
Event
Third Stage of British Palestine Campaign: Completion of the Conquest of Palestine
19 September 1918 - 25 September 1918
Event
Conquest of Damascus; Faisal Enters Liberated City
26 September 1918 - 3 October 1918
Event
The Ottomans Sign the Armistice of Mudros; Istanbul Is Occupied
30 October 1918 - 13 November 1918
Event
1st Palestinian National Congress Is Held in Jerusalem
27 January 1919 - 10 February 1919
Event
Appointment of the King-Crane Commission
20 March 1919 - 21 July 1919
Event
Treaty of Versailles; Establishment of the League of Nations
28 June 1919 - 10 January 1920
Event
The Mandate System: Article 22 of the League of Nations Covenant
10 January 1920
Event
A General Palestinian Congress Meets in Damascus
27 February 1920
Event
The General Syrian National Congress Proclaims the Independence of Syria
7 March 1920 - 8 March 1920
Event
Nabi Musa Festival: Palestinian Mobilization and Palestinian-Zionist Clashes
2 April 1920 - 9 April 1920
Event
Palin Commission of Inquiry
12 April 1920 - 1 July 1920
Event
Scheduled Second Palestinian National Congress Cannot Meet
15 May 1920
Event
Founding of the Haganah, the Jewish Paramilitary Organization
June 1920
Event
International Zionist Conference Meets in London
July 1920
Event
The Ottomans Sign the Treaty of Sèvres; The Turkish National Assembly in Ankara Rejects It
19 August 1920
Event
Churchill and Abdullah Reach Preliminary Understanding over Transjordan
2 March 1921 - 30 March 1921
Event
May Day Clashes in Jaffa
1 May 1921 - 7 May 1921
Event
Amin al-Husseini Elected Mufti of Jerusalem
8 May 1921
Event
4th Palestinian National Congress Is Held in Jerusalem
29 May 1921 - 4 June 1921
Event
Palestine Gendarmerie Is Established
1 July 1921 - 24 April 1922
Event
The Palestinian Delegation Conducts Sterile Negotiations in London
2 July 1921 - 31 July 1922
Event
Report of the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry on Jaffa Disturbances
10 August 1921
Event
12th Zionist Congress Is Held in Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary)
1 September 1921 - 14 September 1921
Event
Regulation Concerning the Supreme Moslem Sharia Council
20 December 1921 - 9 January 1922
Event
White Paper (Churchill) of 1922 Clarifies the Terms of the Balfour Declaration
3 June 1922
Event
House of Lords and House of Commons Conflicting Views on Palestine
20 June 1922 - 4 July 1922
Event
The [Palestine] Arab Executive Committee Orders the Return of its Delegation from London
7 July 1922 - 31 July 1922
Event
5th Palestinian National Congress Meets in Nablus
20 August 1922 - 1 September 1922
Event
6th Palestinian National Congress Is Held in Jaffa
16 June 1923
Event
Treaty of Lausanne Is Signed with Ataturk's Turkey
24 July 1923
Event
13th Zionist Congress Is Held in Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary)
6 August 1923 - 18 August 1923
Event
Palestinians Reject Arab Agency Scheme
12 October 1923
Event
Establishment of the Zionist Revisionist Movement
1925
Event
Establishment of the Palestine Arab Workers Society
21 March 1925 - 11 January 1930
Event
Correction of Land Registers Ordinance, No. 12
16 February 1926
Event
The Palestine Gendarmerie Is Disbanded and the Palestine Police Reorganized
1 April 1926
Event
Municipal Elections Are Held in Palestine
April 1927
Event
Powerful Earthquake in Palestine and Transjordan
11 July 1927
Event
15th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel
30 August 1927 - 11 September 1927
Event
Agreement between Great Britain and Transjordan Emirate
20 February 1928
Event
Land Settlement Ordinance No. 9
30 May 1928
Event
7th Palestinian National Congress Meets in Jerusalem
20 June 1928 - 27 June 1928
Event
Islamic Conference in Defense of al-Buraq and Muslim Holy Places in Jerusalem
1 November 1928
Event
White Paper (Amery) on Status Quo at al-Buraq / Western Wall
19 November 1928 - 27 December 1928
Event
16th Zionist Congress Is Held in Zurich
28 July 1929 - 11 August 1929
Event
General Conference of Palestine Arab Workers, Haifa
11 January 1930
Event
League of Nations Council Approves the Appointment of an International Commission on al-Buraq / Western Wall
14 January 1930 - 15 May 1930
Event
Shaw Commission Report on al-Buraq / Western Wall Disturbances
12 March 1930
Event
4th Palestinian Delegation to London
1 April 1930 - 23 May 1930
Event
John Hope Simpson Sent to Palestine to Investigate Questions of Immigration, Land Settlement and Development
2 May 1930
Event
Hanging of Palestinian Militants
17 June 1930
Event
Hope Simpson Report Is Published
22 August 1930 - 20 October 1930
Event
White Paper (Passfield) of 1930 Is Published
20 October 1930
Event
MacDonald's Reassurance to Weizmann
13 February 1931
Event
Establishment of Irgun
April 1931
Event
17th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel
30 June 1931 - 15 July 1931
Event
Lewis French and the Palestine Development Scheme
19 July 1931 - April 1932
Event
Great Britain Issues the Palestine (Defence) Order in Council, 1931
23 July 1931
Event
Pan-Islamic Congress Is Held in Jerusalem
7 December 1931 - 17 December 1931
Event
Challenging the Pan-Islamic Congress, a Conference of the Palestinian Islamic Nation Is Convened
11 December 1931
Event
Arab Youth Congress Meets in Jaffa
4 January 1932
Event
Establishment of the Istiqlal Party
2 August 1932
Event
Establishment of the Arab National Fund
September 1932 - 8 August 1935
Event
Increase in Jewish Immigration from Germany
1933 - 1935
Event
18th Zionist Congress Is Held in Prague
21 August 1933 - 3 September 1933
Event
Protection of Cultivators Ordinance, No. 37
31 August 1933
Event
General Strike and Demonstrations in Palestine
8 October 1933 - 3 November 1933
Event
Death of Musa Kazim Husseini
26 March 1934
Event
Establishment of the National Defense Party
2 December 1934
Event
Establishment of the Palestine Arab Party
27 March 1935
Event
Establishment of the Reform Party
18 June 1935
Event
19th Zionist Congress Meets in Lucerne
20 August 1935 - 4 September 1935
Event
Arms Shipment to the Haganah
October 1935
Event
Establishment of the National Bloc Party
4 October 1935
Event
Death of Shaykh Izzeddin al-Qassam in a Battle with a British Force
12 November 1935 - 21 November 1935
Event
Joint Memorandum of Palestinian Parties
25 November 1935
Event
Revival of the Legislative Council Idea
December 1935 - March 1936
Event
Outbreak of the Great Palestinian Rebellion
15 April 1936 - 30 April 1936
Event
The Arab Higher Committee is Formed
25 April 1936
Event
British Violent Repression
May 1936 - June 1936
Event
British Secure Military Reinforcements and Arm a Jewish Settlement Police
May 1936 - September 1936
Event
Memorandum of Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner
30 June 1936
Event
Great Britain Issues the Palestine Martial Law (Defence) Order in Council, 1936
30 September 1936
Event
General Strike Called Off; Consent to Appear before the Peel Commission
11 October 1936
Event
Peel Commission Investigates the Cause of the Great Palestinian Rebellion
11 November 1936 - 24 January 1937
Event
The Settlement of Tel ‘Amal Is Founded Overnight in the Baysan Region
10 December 1936
Event
Great Britain Issues the Palestine (Defence) Order in Council, 1937
18 March 1937 - 24 March 1937
Event
Palestinians Reject Peel Commission Report
23 July 1937
Event
Formation of the Arab National League (ANL) in New York
August 1937 - May 1941
Event
20th Zionist Congress Meets in Zürich
3 August 1937 - 16 August 1937
Event
Arab National Congress Convenes in Bludan
8 September 1937 - 9 September 1937
Event
British Commissioner Is Assassinated
26 September 1937
Event
Arab Higher Committee Is Banned
October 1937 - November 1937
Event
Irgun Attacks on Palestinians
11 November 1937 - 14 November 1937
Event
Charles Tegart's Means of Control
3 December 1937
Event
Appointment of the Palestine Partition (Woodhead) Commission
4 January 1938
Event
The Palestine Archeological Museum Opens Its Doors in Jerusalem
13 January 1938
Event
Irgun Attacks Against Palestinians Intensify
July 1938 - August 1938
Event
Anti-British Operation and British Retaliation in al-Bassa
6 September 1938 - 10 September 1938
Event
British Military Officers Replace Civilian Commissioners
October 1938
Event
The "International Parliamentarian Congress of Arab and Islamic Countries in Support of Palestine" Is Held in Cairo
7 October 1938 - 11 October 1938
Event
British "Divide-and-Rule" Policy
November 1938 - May 1939
Event
Partition (Woodhead) Commission Report Is Published
9 November 1938
Event
Jewish-Arab Attacks Resume
30 January 1939 - 26 February 1939
Event
Formation of a British-Arab Committee on Hussein-McMahon Correspondence at the London Round Table Conference
15 February 1939 - 16 March 1939
Event
Killing of Abd al-Rahim al-Hajj Muhammad
27 March 1939
Event
MacDonald White Paper of 1939: Limited Concessions to Palestinians
17 May 1939 - 23 May 1939
Event
The Palestine Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper
30 May 1939
Event
Wave of Irgun Attacks against Palestinians
2 June 1939 - 1 August 1939
Event
Military Recruitment in Palestine
3 September 1939
Event
Support in the United States for a Jewish Army
November 1942
Event
Arab National Fund Reestablished
August 1943
Event
Stern Gang and Irgun Start Operations Against British
January 1944 - March 1944
Event
Alexandria Protocol and the League of Arab States
7 October 1944
Event
Stern Gang Assassinates Lord Moyne in Cairo
6 November 1944
Event
Establishment of the Institute of Arab American Affairs (IAAA) in New York
25 November 1944 - 31 January 1950
Event
Establishment of Lebanese Consulate General in Palestine
30 December 1944 - 23 May 1945
Event
Roosevelt and Ibn Saud Meet
14 February 1945
Event
Pact of the League of Arab States; Annex on Palestine
22 March 1945
Event
Vice-President Harry Truman Becomes President of the US
12 April 1945
Event
End of World War II
8 May 1945 - 15 August 1945
Event
Pledge to Buy US Armament for the Haganah
July 1945
Event
Labor Victory in Great Britain
26 July 1945
Event
Arab Office (AO) Is Opened in Washington
September 1945 - December 1947
Event
The British Mandate Issues the Defence (Emergency) Regulations
27 September 1945
Event
Coordinated Zionist Anti-British Activism
1 October 1945 - 31 October 1945
Event
Bevin's Statement on Palestine; Formation of an Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry
13 November 1945
Event
Attempt to Reconstitute the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine
22 November 1945 - 29 May 1946
Event
Organized Irgun and Lehi Anti-British Attacks
24 November 1945 - 19 January 1946
Event
The US Congress Endorses the Biltmore Program
17 December 1945 - 19 December 1945
Event
Lebanon Ends Granting Import Licenses for Palestine Goods
4 January 1946
Event
Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry Publishes its Report after a Visit to Palestine
6 March 1946 - 20 April 1946
Event
League of Nations Passes on Supervision over Mandates to the UN
18 April 1946
Event
Arab League Holds its First Summit on Palestine in Anshas
28 May 1946 - 29 May 1946
Event
President Truman Supports Jewish Immigration to Palestine
6 June 1946
Event
Series of Zionist Anti-British Attacks
17 June 1946 - 22 July 1946
Event
Jewish Agency Partition Plan Secures US Endorsement
5 August 1946 - 14 August 1946
Event
Enactment of Lebanese Labor Law and Its Subsequent Impact on Palestine Refugees
23 September 1946
Event
Arab Delegations Put Forward Constitutional Proposals to the London Round Table Conference on Palestine
30 September 1946
Event
22nd Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel
9 December 1946 - 24 December 1946
Event
More Irgun Operations Against the British
29 December 1946 - 28 January 1947
Event
Deadly Zionist Anti-British Attacks
28 February 1947 - 1 March 1947
Event
UNGA 106 (S-1): Creation of a Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP)
15 May 1947
Event
Zionist Attacks Against Palestinians
21 May 1947 - 15 August 1947
Event
Stern Gang Letter Bombs Against Officials in London
5 June 1947
Event
Arab League Meeting on Palestine, in Sofar, Lebanon
16 September 1947 - 19 September 1947
Event
British to Terminate Palestine Mandate
26 September 1947
Event
Palestinians and Zionists on UNSCOP Partition Plan
29 September 1947 - 3 October 1947
Event
Arab League Meeting on Palestine in Aley, Lebanon
7 October 1947 - 15 October 1947
Event
US and USSR Endorse Partition
11 October 1947 - 13 October 1947
Event
UNGA 181 (II): Palestine Partition Plan
29 November 1947
Event
The Haganah Implements Plan Gimmel
1 December 1947
Event
Palestinian Strike Against Partition Plan and Palestinian-Zionist Clashes
2 December 1947
Event
Series of Zionist Attacks on Palestinians in the Wake of the Partition Plan
6 December 1947 - 31 December 1947
Event
Arab Liberation Army Organized
1 January 1948 - 10 January 1948
Event
Series of Zionist Attacks
2 January 1948 - 26 January 1948
Event
Palestinian Attacks
14 January 1948 - 19 February 1948
Event
Zionist Military Preparations
14 January 1948 - 20 February 1948
Event
British Break Arab Attacks
6 February 1948 - 10 February 1948
Event
Fate of Diplomatic Representations in Jerusalem
11 February 1948 - 1 May 1948
Event
Zionist Attacks
15 February 1948 - 5 March 1948
Event
Fawzi al-Qawuqji Enters Palestine
5 March 1948
Event
Second Phase of the Palestine War: Zionist Offensive
10 March 1948 - 15 May 1948
Event
Haganah Operations
11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948
Event
Palestinian Operations
11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948
Event
US Apparent Hesitancy Toward Partition
18 March 1948 - 30 March 1948
Event
SC Res. 43: Calling for an Immediate Truce in Palestine
1 April 1948
Event
Arms for the Zionist Forces
1 April 1948 - 14 May 1948
Event
Operations Nachshon and Har'el to Open Tel Aviv-Jerusalem Road
3 April 1948 - 21 April 1948
Event
The Battle for Haifa and Its Surroundings
4 April 1948 - 22 April 1948
Event
Massacre in Deir Yasin
9 April 1948 - 11 April 1948
Event
Unit of Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Attacks Kfar Darom
10 April 1948
Event
Fighting Around Jerusalem
12 April 1948 - 23 April 1948
Event
SC Res. 46: Calling upon All Parties to Cease Military Activities in Palestine
17 April 1948
Event
Trusteeship Plan for Palestine
20 April 1948
Event
Operation Hametz and the Fall of Jaffa
24 April 1948 - 13 May 1948
Event
Operation Jevussi for the Conquest of Jerusalem
26 April 1948 - 30 April 1948
Event
Lebanon Sets up a Central Committee and Regional Committees to Deal with Refugees from Palestine
26 April 1948 - 11 May 1948
Event
Zionist Conquest of Eastern Galilee
28 April 1948 - 25 May 1948
Event
Arab States (Reluctantly) Prepare for Intervention in Palestine
30 April 1948 - 12 May 1948
Event
Arab Gains in Gush Etzion
3 May 1948 - 14 May 1948
Event
Operations Makkabi and Ben-Nun in al-Latrun Area
8 May 1948 - 31 May 1948
Event
Operation Barak Toward the South
9 May 1948 - 13 May 1948
Event
Operation Ben-Ami in Western Galilee
13 May 1948 - 21 May 1948
Event
Control of Coastal Plain Haifa-Tel Aviv
13 May 1948 - 23 May 1948
Event
UNGA 186 (S-2): Appointment of a UN Mediator in Palestine
14 May 1948
Event
Operations Shfifon and Kilshon in Jerusalem
14 May 1948 - 28 May 1948
Event
Arab States Explain Reasons for Intervening in Palestine
15 May 1948
Event
Arab Armies Cross Palestine Borders
15 May 1948 - 10 June 1948
Event
Third Phase of the Palestine War: Arab-Israeli War
15 May 1948 - 6 January 1949
Event
West Bank to Be Placed under Jordanian Military Government
16 May 1948 - 24 May 1948
Event
The USSR Recognizes the State of Israel on a de jure Basis
17 May 1948
Event
Ahmad Hilmi Abd al-Baqi Is Appointed Military Governor of Jerusalem
16 June 1948
Event
Count Bernadotte's Palestine Plan
28 June 1948
Event
Responses to Bernadotte's Plan
2 July 1948 - 5 July 1948
Event
End of First Truce: Israeli Operations An-Far, Dani and Qedem
8 July 1948 - 17 July 1948
Event
End of First Truce: Israeli Operation Dekel
8 July 1948 - 18 July 1948
Event
The Arab League and the Establishment of a Provisional Palestinian Civil Administration
10 July 1948
Event
Ethnic Cleansing During the Second Truce
24 July 1948 - 15 October 1948
Event
Bernadotte's New Plan
16 September 1948
Event
Israel's Area of Jurisdiction and Powers Ordinance
16 September 1948
Event
UN Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte Is Assassinated by Lehi in Jerusalem
17 September 1948
Event
Establishment of All-Palestine Government in Gaza
22 September 1948 - 2 October 1948
Event
Israel's Provisional Council Enacts Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance
23 September 1948
Event
Pro-Jordanian Amman Conference
1 October 1948
Event
Arab Responses to Formation of the All-Palestine Government
5 October 1948 - 14 October 1948
Event
Operations Yoav and ha-Har in the South Put End to 2nd Truce
15 October 1948 - 4 November 1948
Event
Israel Establishes Military Government in Palestinian Areas
21 October 1948
Event
A Massacre in al-Dawayima
29 October 1948
Event
Israel Conducts its First Population Census
8 November 1948 - 1 February 1949
Event
UNGA 212 (III): Establishment of a Special Fund for Palestine refugees
19 November 1948
Event
Pro-Jordanian Jericho Conference
1 December 1948 - 28 December 1948
Event
UNGA 194 (III): Establishment of a Conciliation Commission for Palestine (UNCCP)
11 December 1948
Event
Israel's Application for UN Membership Fails to Obtain Security Council Approval
17 December 1948
Event
Operation Horev Against Egyptian Forces
22 December 1948 - 6 January 1949
Event
France Recognizes Israel on a de facto Basis
24 January 1949
Event
Elections in Israel
25 January 1949 - 14 February 1949
Event
Great Britain Recognizes Israel on a de facto Basis
30 January 1949
Event
Arab Sacrifice Brigade Formed and Dissolved
1 March 1949 - 30 November 1950
Event
SC Res. 69: Recommending Admission of Israel to UN Membership
4 March 1949
Event
General Refugee Congress Meets in Ramallah
17 March 1949
Event
Palestinians Testify Before the UNCCP
24 March 1949
Event
Jordan-Israel Armistice Agreement
3 April 1949
Event
Israel Enacts the Emergency Regulations (Security Zones)
24 April 1949 - 27 July 1949
Event
UNCCP Convenes the Lausanne Conference
27 April 1949 - 12 September 1949
Event
The UNGA Ad Hoc Political Committee, Dealing with Israel's Admission Application, Requests Clarifications
4 May 1949 - 9 May 1949
Event
UNGA 273 (III): Admitting Israel to Membership in the UN
11 May 1949
Event
UNGA 302 (IV): Establishment of Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA)
8 December 1949
Event
UNGA 303 (IV): To Place Jerusalem under a Permanent International Regime
9 December 1949
Event
Qadri Tuqan Publishes Ba'd al-Nakba (After the Nakba) in Beirut
January 1950
Event
Israel's Measures to Make Jerusalem Its Capital
23 January 1950 - 13 July 1953
Event
Absentee Property Law, 5710-1950
14 March 1950
Event
Special International Regime for Jerusalem
4 April 1950
Event
Expulsion from Hebron Area
3 May 1950
Event
Tripartite Declaration
25 May 1950
Event
Development Authority (Transfer of Property) Law, 5710-1950
9 August 1950
Event
UNGA 393 (V): Economic Reintegration of Refugees in the Middle East
2 December 1950
Event
UNGA 394 (V): UNCCP to Establish Office on Compensation to Refugees
14 December 1950
Event
Palestinian Memorandum to UNCCP, Beirut
27 January 1951
Event
UNRWA Signs Agreement with Jordan as Refugee Host Country
14 March 1951 - 20 August 1951
Event
Palestinian Memorandum to UNCCP, Ramallah
July 1951
Event
Assassination of King Abdullah
20 July 1951 - 11 August 1952
Event
23rd Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem
14 August 1951 - 30 August 1951
Event
UNGA 512 (VI): UNCCP to Continue its Efforts
26 January 1952
Event
The Knesset Enacts the Nationality Law
1 April 1952
Event
The Egyptian Revolution of 1952
23 July 1952
Event
Israeli Operation in Jordan
28 January 1953
Event
Egypt-UNRWA Agreement on Plans for Refugee Resettlement Projects
30 June 1953
Event
Israel's Foreign Ministry Moves to Jerusalem
10 July 1953 - 12 July 1953
Event
The Knesset Adopts the Law of State Education
12 August 1953
Event
Anti-Israeli Demonstrations in Jordan
21 October 1953
Event
SC Res. 101: Censuring Israel for Its Retaliatory Action in Qibya in Violation of the Israel-Jordan Armistice
24 November 1953
Event
Arab League and Jordan River Waters
15 February 1954
Event
Israeli Operation Against Jordan
28 March 1954
Event
The US and Jordan River Waters
25 June 1954 - 6 July 1954
Event
Israel and the Lavon Affair
July 1954 - 17 February 1955
Event
Covenant between Zionist Organization and Israel
26 July 1954
Event
Egypt Detains Israeli Freighter
28 September 1954
Event
Exchange of Notes between Lebanon and UNRWA
26 November 1954
Event
Israel Carries out an Intelligence Operation in Syria and the First Airline Hijacking in the History of the Conflict
8 December 1954 - 14 December 1954
Event
Baghdad Pact
24 February 1955
Event
Arab Information Center (AIC) Is Opened in New York
15 June 1955
Event
Palestine Arab Refugee Office (PARO) Is Opened in New York
25 June 1955 - 15 January 1962
Event
Egyptian-Czech Arms Deal
27 September 1955
Event
Egypt and Syria Sign a Mutual Defense Pact
20 October 1955
Event
Israeli Raid on Syria Followed by Egyptian-Israeli Confrontation Near al-Auja
23 October 1955 - 3 November 1955
Event
Israeli Attack on Syria (Operation Olive Leaves)
10 December 1955 - 11 December 1955
Event
24th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem
24 April 1956 - 7 May 1956
Event
Egypt Blocks Greek Freighter
25 May 1956
Event
France and Israel Sign Arms Deal and Prepare for War
22 June 1956 - 29 July 1956
Event
US Withdraws Aswan Funding
19 July 1956
Event
Nationalization of the Suez Canal
26 July 1956
Event
London Conference on Suez
16 August 1956 - 23 August 1956
Event
Egyptian-Israeli Armed Incidents
17 August 1956 - 11 September 1956
Event
Ben-Gurion Addresses the Issue of Suez
26 August 1956
Event
Escalation Across Jordanian-Israeli Lines
10 September 1956 - 26 September 1956
Event
Kafr Qasim Massacre
29 October 1956
Event
Israel Invades Egypt
29 October 1956
Event
The 1956 War - The Tripartite Aggression
29 October 1956 - 12 March 1957
Event
Britain and France Join the War
31 October 1956
Event
Israel Occupies Gaza
1 November 1956 - 7 March 1957
Event
UNGA 997 (ES-I): Calling for an Immediate Cease-Fire (the Suez Crisis)
2 November 1956
Event
Soviet Union Threatens Intervention
5 November 1956
Event
British and French Troops Invade Canal Zone
5 November 1956
Event
UNGA 998 (ES-I): Creating the UN Emergency Force (UNEF)
5 November 1956
Event
Israel Addresses the Future of Sinai
7 November 1956 - 8 November 1956
Event
Israel Addresses the Future of Gaza
10 November 1956 - 3 February 1957
Event
The United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) Deploys in Sinai
12 November 1956 - 12 March 1957
Event
Palestinians in Israel Stage a General Strike to Protest the Kafr Qasim Massacre
6 January 1957
Event
GA Resolutions 1123, 1124, 1125 (XI)
19 January 1957 - 3 February 1957
Event
Israel Refuses Full Withdrawal
3 February 1957
Event
Pressures and Assurances to Israel on Gulf of Aqaba and Gaza
20 February 1957 - 1 March 1957
Event
Israel Withdraws from Gaza and Sinai
7 March 1957 - 12 March 1957
Event
Fatah Is Founded
September 1957
Event
The Knesset adopts the Basic Law: The Knesset
12 February 1958
Event
Basic Law for the Gaza Strip
25 February 1958 - 15 March 1958
Event
The Arab League and Palestinian Entity
4 March 1959
Event
Lebanon Establishes the Department of Palestinian Refugee Affairs at the Ministry of Interior
31 March 1959
Event
Iraq and a "Palestinian Republic"
15 December 1959
Event
Status of Jordanian Jerusalem Municipality Enhanced Symbolically
16 December 1959
Event
Mahmoud Darwish Publishes First Book of Poetry, 'Asafeer bila Ajniha (Wingless Birds)
1960
Event
Lebanon Establishes a Higher Commission for Palestine Affairs
26 April 1960
Event
Basic Law: Israel Lands
19 July 1960
Event
Israel Land Administration Law, 5720-1960
25 July 1960
Event
25th Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem
27 December 1960 - 11 January 1961
Event
GA Resolution 1604 (XV)
21 April 1961
Event
Palestine Arab Delegation (PAD) Office Is Opened in New York
26 June 1961 - 26 June 2001
Event
Appointment of Special Representative of the UNCCP
24 August 1961
Event
Palestinians in Israel Demonstrate
21 September 1961
Event
Ghassan Kanafani Publishes First Novel, Rijal fi-l-shams (Men in the Sun), in Beirut
1962
Event
The Constitutional Statute for the Gaza Strip
5 March 1962
Event
Israeli and Arab Responses to Joseph Johnson's Proposals
5 October 1962 - 17 October 1962
Event
Death of Ahmad Hilmi Abd al-Baqi; Ahmad al-Shuqairi as Palestine Delegate to the Arab League
29 June 1963 - 19 September 1963
Event
Draft Security Council Resolution S/5407
3 September 1963
Event
Fatah Opens Its First Office in Algeria
23 September 1963
Event
Palestinian Delegation at the UN
18 October 1963 - 5 November 1963
Event
Yasir Arafat and Khalil al-Wazir Confer with Premier Chou-En-Lai in China
17 March 1964
Event
1st Palestine National Council Is Held in Jerusalem: Establishment of the PLO
28 May 1964 - 2 June 1964
Event
2nd Arab Summit Meets in Alexandria; Welcomes Establishment of PLO
5 September 1964 - 11 September 1964
Event
A Lebanese Decree, Implicitly Applicable to Palestinian Refugees, Regulates Work of Foreigners
18 September 1964
Event
Opening an Office of the PLO in Lebanon
23 October 1964 - 13 November 1964
Event
The PLO Opens its First Information Office in New York
22 January 1965 - 29 October 1974
Event
President Bourguiba and 1947 Partition Plan
27 February 1965 - 11 March 1965
Event
Israel Carries out an Operation in Jordan in Response to Fatah Raids
27 May 1965
Event
2nd Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo
31 May 1965 - 4 June 1965
Event
The General Union of Palestinian Women Is Formed in Jerusalem
15 July 1965
Event
The Council of the Arab League Adopts the Casablanca Protocol on the Treatment of Palestinians in the Arab States
11 September 1965
Event
3rd Palestine National Council Is Held in Gaza
20 May 1966 - 24 May 1966
Event
Israeli Air Force Carries out a Raid in Syria in Response to Fatah Operations
14 July 1966
Event
Reservations of Lebanon, Kuwait and Libya to the Casablanca Protocol on the Treatment of Palestinians in Arab States
3 August 1966
Event
Naturalization in Lebanon and the Casablanca Protocol on the Treatment of Palestinians in Arab States
3 August 1966
Event
Draft Security Council Resolution S/7575/Rev.1
4 November 1966
Event
Israeli-Jordanian Battle at al-Samu' after a Fatah Operation
11 November 1966 - 13 November 1966
Event
Demonstrations in Jordan
20 November 1966 - 25 November 1966
Event
Security Council Resolution S/RES/228
25 November 1966
Event
Israeli-Syrian Aerial Battle
7 April 1967 - 21 April 1967
Event
Reports on Israeli Plans Against Syria
12 May 1967 - 14 May 1967
Event
Egypt Reacts to Israeli Threats Against Syria
15 May 1967 - 22 May 1967
Event
Israel Prepares for War with US Consent
2 June 1967 - 4 June 1967
Event
June War, 1st Day
5 June 1967
Event
June War
5 June 1967 - 10 June 1967
Event
June War, 2nd Day
6 June 1967
Event
June War, 3rd Day
7 June 1967
Event
June War, 5th Day
9 June 1967
Event
June War, 6th Day
10 June 1967
Event
Israel Razes Maghribi Quarter in Jerusalem Old City and Expels its Inhabitants
11 June 1967
Event
Emergency Special Session of the UN General Assembly
13 June 1967 - 21 July 1967
Event
Security Council Resolution S/RES/237
14 June 1967
Event
Exchange of Letters Between Israel and UNRWA
14 June 1967
Event
US President Lyndon B. Johnson and Principles for Peace in the Middle East
19 June 1967
Event
The Knesset Amends the Municipal Corporations Ordinance to Extend Area of West Jerusalem Municipality
27 June 1967 - 29 June 1967
Event
General Assembly Resolutions 2253 and 2254 (ES-V)
4 July 1967 - 14 July 1967
Event
Military Order No. 58, Concerning Abandoned Property (Private Property)
23 July 1967
Event
Formation of a Higher Islamic Council in Jerusalem 
24 July 1967
Event
Small Fraction of 1967 War Refugees to Return to the West Bank
14 August 1967 - 19 October 1967
Event
Israeli Military Order Regarding Prohibition of Incitement and Hostile Propaganda Actions (West Bank) No. 101
27 August 1967
Event
Fatah Guerrilla Resistance in the West Bank
28 August 1967
Event
4th Arab Summit Convenes in Khartoum
29 August 1967 - 1 September 1967
Event
Israel Conducts a Census of Palestinians in East-Jerusalem
27 September 1967
Event
Security Council Resolution S/RES/242
22 November 1967
Event
Palestinians Reorganize
11 December 1967 - 19 January 1968
Event
First Communiqué of Fatah to the World Press in English and Arabic
January 1968
Event
Israeli Military Confrontation with Jordan and Palestinian Guerrillas
14 February 1968 - 15 February 1968
Event
Battle of al-Karama, a Turning Point in Palestinian and Pro-Palestinian Mobilization
21 March 1968
Event
Yasir Arafat Assumes Prominence within Fatah
14 April 1968
Event
Israel Land Requisition in Old City of Jerusalem
18 April 1968
Event
SC Res. 252: Considering all Israeli Measures to Change Jerusalem's Legal Status as Invalid
21 May 1968
Event
Israeli-Jordanian Clashes
4 June 1968
Event
27th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem
9 June 1968 - 19 June 1968
Event
4th Palestine National Council in Cairo Adopts a Revised National Charter
10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968
Event
Civil Aviation in the Conflict
23 July 1968 - 29 August 1969
Event
Explosion in Mahane Yehuda in West Jerusalem
22 November 1968 - 28 November 1968
Event
UNGA 2443 (XXIII): Establishing Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting Human Rights in Occupied Territories
19 December 1968
Event
UNGA 2452 (XXIII): Calling upon Israel for Return of Inhabitants to Territories Occupied in 1967
19 December 1968
Event
Hunger Strike of Palestinian Women in Jerusalem
26 January 1969 - 28 January 1969
Event
Fatah Reaffirms its Political Objective
28 January 1969
Event
5th Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo
1 February 1969 - 4 February 1969
Event
Egypt's War of Attrition
8 March 1969 - 7 August 1970
Event
Military Order No. 321 Concerning Land Law (Acquisition for Public Purposes)
28 March 1969
Event
Israel Strengthens its Control over East Jerusalem
27 April 1969 - 26 June 1969
Event
Deportation from West Bank
9 June 1969 - 6 October 1969
Event
SC Res. 267: Calling once more upon Israel to Rescind all Measures which May Change the Status of Jerusalem
3 July 1969
Event
6th Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo
1 September 1969 - 9 September 1969
Event
PLO-Lebanon Cairo Agreement Regulates Palestinian Civil and Military Presence in the Country
3 November 1969
Event
Rogers Plan
9 December 1969
Event
UNGA 2535 (XXIV): Reiterating Past Resolutions on UNRWA; Affirming Inalienable Rights of People of Palestine
10 December 1969
Event
5th Arab Summit Meets in Rabat and Ends in Failure
21 December 1969 - 23 December 1969
Event
Palestinian-Israeli Clashes in South Lebanon and Jordan Valley
22 May 1970 - 29 May 1970
Event
7th Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo
30 May 1970 - 4 June 1970
Event
Rogers Plan II
19 June 1970 - 7 August 1970
Event
Assassination Attempt of Wadi Haddad in Beirut
10 July 1970
Event
Sharon's Pacification of Gaza
August 1970 - December 1971
Event
1st Extraordinary Session of the Palestine National Council Is Held in Amman
27 August 1970 - 28 August 1970
Event
PFLP Hijack Operations
6 September 1970 - 12 September 1970
Event
Black September in Jordan
15 September 1970 - 25 September 1970
Event
Emergency Arab Summit Meets in Cairo to Force a Palestinian-Jordanian Agreement
21 September 1970 - 28 September 1970
Event
UNGA 2628 (XXV): Urging Speedy Implementation of SC Res. 242 (1967)
4 November 1970
Event
UNGA 2649 (XXV): Condemning Denial of Right to Self-Determination to Peoples of South Africa and Palestine
30 November 1970
Event
UNGA 2672 (XXV): People of Palestine Entitled to Equal Rights and Self-determination; Calling upon Israel for Return of Displaced in 1967
8 December 1970
Event
President Sadat Suggests Partial Israeli Withdrawal from Suez Canal
4 February 1971
Event
The US and Palestinian Rights
25 February 1971
Event
8th Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo
28 February 1971 - 5 March 1971
Event
9th Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo
7 July 1971 - 13 July 1971
Event
SC Res. 298: Deploring Israel’s Failure to Respect Previous Resolutions on its Measures Affecting Status of Jerusalem
25 September 1971
Event
28th Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem
18 January 1972 - 28 January 1972
Event
Israeli Military Operation in South Lebanon
25 February 1972 - 28 February 1972
Event
King Hussein Proposes a "United Arab Kingdom"
15 March 1972
Event
Municipal Elections Are Held in the West Bank
28 March 1972 - 2 May 1972
Event
10th (Extraordinary) Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo
6 April 1972 - 12 April 1972
Event
Black September Hijack Operation
8 May 1972
Event
Japanese Red Army at Lod Airport
30 May 1972
Event
SC Res. 316: Condemning the Repeated Attacks of Israeli Forces on Lebanon
26 June 1972
Event
Assassination of Ghassan Kanafani in Beirut
8 July 1972
Event
Attempted Assassination of Anis Sayigh in Beirut
19 July 1972
Event
Attempted Assassination of Bassam Abu Sharif in Beirut
25 July 1972
Event
Gaza Red Crescent Society Is Established
September 1972
Event
Black September in Munich Olympic Games
5 September 1972 - 6 September 1972
Event
Violent Israeli Retaliation in South Lebanon
16 September 1972 - 17 September 1972
Event
Black September Hijack Operation
29 October 1972 - 30 October 1972
Event
Mahmoud al-Hamshari Is Assassinated in Paris
8 December 1972 - 9 January 1973
Event
Israeli Travel Documents for Palestinians in West Bank
10 December 1972
Event
11th Palestine National Council Meets in Cairo
6 January 1973 - 12 January 1973
Event
Libyan Civilian Aircraft Is Shot Down Over the Sinai
21 February 1973
Event
Black September Operation in Khartoum
1 March 1973 - 4 March 1973
Event
Muhammad al-Aswad Is Killed in Gaza
9 March 1973
Event
Israeli Operation in Beirut Against Palestinian Leaders
10 April 1973
Event
Assassination of Zaid Muqsi in Athens
11 April 1973
Event
Absentees' Property (Compensation) Law, 5733-1973
27 June 1973
Event
Mohammad Boudia Assassinated in Paris
28 June 1973
Event
Ahmed Bouchiki Assassinated in Lillehammer
21 July 1973
Event
Shaykh Ahmad Yasin's Islamic Center Is Established in Gaza
7 September 1973
Event
October War, 1st Day
6 October 1973
Event
October War
6 October 1973 - 27 October 1973
Event
October War, 2nd Day
7 October 1973
Event
October War, 3rd Day
8 October 1973
Event
October War, 4th Day
9 October 1973
Event
October War, From the 6th to 10th Day
11 October 1973 - 14 October 1973
Event
American Airlift
14 October 1973 - 14 November 1973
Event
Israeli Army Crosses the Suez Canal Westwards
15 October 1973 - 22 October 1973
Event
Arab Oil, a Weapon in the Battle
17 October 1973 - 21 October 1973
Event
American-Soviet Agreement on a Cease-fire
21 October 1973
Event
SC Res. 338: Calling for Cease-fire and Deciding to Start Immediately Negotiations for Just Durable and Peace
22 October 1973
Event
Israeli Advance Continues and an International Nuclear Crisis Looms
23 October 1973 - 27 October 1973
Event
Kilometer 101 Talks
11 November 1973
Event
6th Arab Summit Is Held in Algiers
26 November 1973 - 28 November 1973
Event
Opening of an Arab-Israeli Peace Conference in Geneva
21 December 1973
Event
Sinai I Agreement
18 January 1974 - 3 March 1974
Event
Arab Oil Embargo Is Lifted
8 March 1974
Event
Palestinian Operations in Northern Israel
11 April 1974
Event
Israel and Syria Sign a Disengagement Agreement
31 May 1974
Event
12th Palestine National Council, Cairo: A New Political Program
1 June 1974 - 8 June 1974
Event
Palestine Question Is Placed on the Agenda of the UN General Assembly
21 September 1974
Event
Palestinian Rejection Front
10 October 1974
Event
7th Arab Summit Meeting in Rabat; PLO Recognized as Sole Representative of Palestinian People
28 October 1974
Event
Arafat Addresses the UN General Assembly
13 November 1974
Event
UNGA 3236 (XXIX): Recognizing Palestinian Inalienable Rights and Palestinian People as Principal Party for Establishing Peace
22 November 1974
Event
Palestinian Operations from South Lebanon
5 March 1975 - 20 November 1975
Event
Negotiations for Sinai II Fail
7 March 1975 - 22 March 1975
Event
Start of Civil War in Lebanon
13 April 1975 - 2 September 1982
Event
Sinai II Agreement Reached
20 August 1975 - 4 September 1975
Event
Assassination Attempt of PLO Senior Leadership in Beirut
1 October 1975
Event
PLO Observer at the Food and Agriculture Organization
8 November 1975
Event
UNGA 3379 (XXX): Determining that Zionism is a Form of Racism and Racial Discrimination
10 November 1975
Event
UNGA 3375 (XXX): Calling for Inviting PLO to any UN Efforts on the Middle East on Equal Footing with Other Parties
10 November 1975
Event
UNGA 3376 (XXX): Establishing a Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People
10 November 1975
Event
Statement S/11889 by SC President on Inviting the PLO to the Debate on ME Problem
30 November 1975
Event
SC Res. 381: Renewing UNDOF Mandate and Deciding to Hold a Future Debate on ME Problem
30 November 1975
Event
Draft SC Res S/11898 to Condemn Israeli Attacks against Lebanon, Vetoed by US
8 December 1975
Event
Palestinians in Israel Mobilize Against Confiscation
1 January 1976 - 6 March 1976
Event
The PLO Invited again to Security Council's Debate
12 January 1976
Event
Draft SC Res. S/11940 to Affirm Palestinian Rights, Vetoed by US
26 January 1976
Event
The Koenig Memorandum on Israeli Policy toward the Palestinians in Israel
1 March 1976 - April 1976
Event
Draft SC Res. S/12022 to Deplore Israeli Policies that Could Change Jerusalem Status, Vetoed by US
25 March 1976
Event
Palestinian "Land Day"
30 March 1976
Event
Syrian Forces Enter Lebanon
31 May 1976
Event
Evacuation of US Nationals from Beirut with PLO Assistance
16 June 1976 - 20 June 1976
Event
Plane Hijacked to Entebbe
27 June 1976 - 4 July 1976
Event
Draft SC Res. S/12119 to Affirm Palestinian Rights, as Requested by GA, Vetoed by US
29 June 1976
Event
Fall of Tal al-Za'atar
12 August 1976
Event
PLO Becomes a Full Member of the Arab League
9 September 1976
Event
Six-Party Arab Summit in Riyadh on Palestinian-Syrian Ceasefire in Lebanon
16 October 1976 - 18 October 1976
Event
8th Arab Summit Meets in Cairo
25 October 1976 - 26 October 1976
Event
13th Palestine National Council Meets in Cairo
12 March 1977 - 22 March 1977
Event
President Carter for a Palestinian Homeland
16 March 1977 - 26 May 1977
Event
Likud's Victory in Israeli Elections
17 May 1977
Event
Municipalities in the West Bank and Gaza Affirm the PLO Program in a Message to the US and USSR
8 August 1977
Event
Israel's Conditions for Geneva Conference
25 September 1977
Event
Joint US-Soviet Statement on Geneva Conference
1 October 1977
Event
US Steps Back from the US-Soviet Statement on the Geneva Conference
5 October 1977
Event
Sadat's Visit to Jerusalem
19 November 1977 - 21 November 1977
Event
Arab States Take Position Against Sadat's Visit to Jerusalem
5 December 1977
Event
Palestinian Institutions in the Occupied Territories Express their Dissatisfaction with Sadat's Visit to Jerusalem
8 December 1977
Event
Israel's Autonomy Plan for the West Bank and Gaza Strip
28 December 1977
Event
29th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem
20 February 1978 - 1 March 1978
Event
Fatah Commando Operation and Israel's "Litani Operation"
11 March 1978 - 18 March 1978
Event
SC Res. 425: Calling upon Israel to Withdraw its Forces from Lebanon, and Establishing UNIFIL
19 March 1978
Event
Wadi Haddad Dies in Berlin, East Germany
28 March 1978
Event
Camp David Summit; Camp David Accords
5 September 1978 - 17 September 1978
Event
Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Reject the Camp David Autonomy Plan
16 October 1978 - 4 November 1978
Event
9th Arab Summit Meets in Baghdad and Condemns the Camp David Accords
5 November 1978
Event
14th Palestine National Council Is Held in Damascus
15 January 1979 - 22 January 1979
Event
SC Res. 446: Establishing a Commission to Examine the Situation Relating to Settlements in the Occupied Territories
22 March 1979
Event
Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty Is Signed in Washington, DC
26 March 1979
Event
Arab Sanctions Against Egypt
27 March 1979 - 31 March 1979
Event
A PLF Operation in Nahariya
22 April 1979
Event
1st Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Beersheba
25 May 1979
Event
3rd Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Herzliya
25 June 1979 - 26 June 1979
Event
4th Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Alexandria
5 July 1979 - 6 July 1979
Event
5th Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Haifa
5 August 1979 - 6 August 1979
Event
A Probable Israeli Nuclear Test Explosion in the Ocean near South Africa
22 September 1979
Event
6th Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Alexandria
26 September 1979 - 27 September 1979
Event
Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Are Held in London
25 October 1979 - 26 October 1979
Event
Deportation of Bassam Shak'a Reversed After West Bank Mayors Threaten Resignation
11 November 1979 - 5 December 1979
Event
10th Arab Summit Meets in Tunis
20 November 1979 - 22 November 1979
Event
Assassination of Ibrahim Abdul Aziz Brigheeth and Samir Toukan in Cyprus
15 December 1979
Event
Palestinian Autonomy Is Discussed at the Sadat-Begin Summit in Aswan
7 January 1980 - 10 January 1980
Event
Israeli Model for Palestinian Self-Governing Authority
17 January 1980
Event
Egyptian Model for Palestinian Self-Governing Authority
28 January 1980
Event
Israeli Settlement in the Old City of Hebron
10 February 1980 - 23 March 1980
Event
Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Scheveningen
27 February 1980 - 29 February 1980
Event
SC Res. 465: Calling on Israel to Dismantle Settlements and Cease Constructing, Planning New Ones
1 March 1980
Event
President Carter's Disavowal of US Vote for SC Res. 465
3 March 1980
Event
Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Alexandria
27 March 1980
Event
Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Herzliya
1 May 1980 - 7 May 1980
Event
Palestinian Operation Against Settlers in Hebron
2 May 1980 - 3 May 1980
Event
Egypt Decides to Suspend Talks with Israel on Palestinian Autonomy
10 May 1980
Event
Assassination Attempts Against West Bank Mayors
2 June 1980 - 3 June 1980
Event
Venice Declaration
13 June 1980
Event
Egypt's Response to Israel's Basic Law on Jerusalem
2 August 1980
Event
Foreign Embassies Leave Jerusalem
20 August 1980 - September 1980
Event
Birzeit University Is Closed
14 November 1980
Event
11th Arab Summit Meets in Amman
25 November 1980 - 27 November 1980
Event
Israeli-Syrian Mounting Tension in Lebanon
28 April 1981 - 5 May 1981
Event
Severe Israeli-Palestinian Clashes in Lebanon
10 July 1981 - 20 July 1981
Event
Philip Habib's Mediation for Cease-fire in South Lebanon
24 July 1981
Event
Fahd Plan Is Announced
7 August 1981
Event
Palestinian Writers in Occupied Territories Affirm Commitment to Palestine Cause
18 August 1981
Event
Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Cairo
23 September 1981 - 24 September 1981
Event
Majid Abu Sharar Is Assassinated in Rome
9 October 1981
Event
Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Cairo
11 November 1981 - 12 November 1981
Event
12th Arab Summit Meets in Fez and Adjourns
25 November 1981
Event
Draft SC Res. S/14832/Rev.1 to Consider Israeli Golan Measures an Act of Agression, Vetoed by US
20 January 1982
Event
Israel's Proposal for the Palestinian Self-Governing Authority
31 January 1982
Event
UNGA Res. ES/9-1: Adopts Content of Vetoed Draft SC Res. on Israeli Golan Measures
5 February 1982
Event
Popular Resistance and Israeli Measures in West Bank
16 February 1982 - 30 March 1982
Event
Draft SC Res. S/14943 to Denounce Dismissal of Palestinian Mayors, Vetoed by US
2 April 1982
Event
Shooting Spree at the Haram al-Sharif
11 April 1982 - 15 April 1982
Event
Draft SC Res. S/14985 to Condemn Shooting of Worshippers at Haram al-Sharif, Vetoed by US
20 April 1982
Event
South Lebanon Cease-fire Is Broken
21 April 1982 - 9 May 1982
Event
Last Stage of Israeli Withdrawal from the Sinai
25 April 1982
Event
Sharon Goes to Washington to Get Green Light on Lebanon War
25 May 1982
Event
Assassination Attempt of Israeli Ambassador in London
3 June 1982
Event
Israeli Aerial Bombardment and Palestinian Artillery Across the Lebanon-Israel Border
4 June 1982 - 5 June 1982
Event
Israel Invades Along the Central Axis
6 June 1982 - 11 June 1982
Event
Israel Invades Along the Eastern Axis
6 June 1982 - 12 June 1982
Event
Israeli Invasion Along the Western Axis
6 June 1982 - 14 June 1982
Event
Israeli Invasion of Lebanon
6 June 1982 - 29 September 1982
Event
Draft SC Res. S/15185 to Demand again Full and Unconditional Israeli Withdrawal, Vetoed by US
8 June 1982
Event
The “Creeping” Cease-fire
10 June 1982 - 26 June 1982
Event
Encirclement of Beirut
11 June 1982 - 20 June 1982
Event
Battle of the Mountain
14 June 1982 - 26 June 1982
Event
Israel and the US Demand PLO Withdrawal from Beirut and Lebanon
15 June 1982 - 27 June 1982
Event
Several Israeli Attempts to Assassinate Yasir Arafat During Invasion of Lebanon
15 June 1982 - 30 August 1982
Event
PLO Debates Withdrawal
16 June 1982 - 2 July 1982
Event
Draft SC Res. S/15255/Rev.2 on a (French) Plan for Military Disengagement in Beirut, Vetoed by US
26 June 1982
Event
Israeli Military Pressure on West Beirut
27 June 1982 - 11 July 1982
Event
The PLO 11-Point Document
8 July 1982
Event
Israeli Army Attempts to Conquer Beirut
21 July 1982 - 12 August 1982
Event
PLO Accepts Habib’s Plan
29 July 1982 - 31 July 1982
Event
Agreement on Withdrawal of Palestinian Forces from Beirut Reached and Implemented
20 August 1982 - 2 September 1982
Event
Reagan's "Talking Points" to Begin on Palestinian Issue
31 August 1982
Event
Reagan's Plan on the Palestinian Issue
1 September 1982
Event
Israel Rejects the Reagan Plan
2 September 1982
Event
The 12th Arab Summit Meeting in Fez Adopts the "Fez Initiative"
6 September 1982 - 9 September 1982
Event
Assassination of Bashir Gemayel and Israeli Occupation of Beirut
14 September 1982 - 16 September 1982
Event
Sabra and Shatila Massacres
16 September 1982 - 18 September 1982
Event
PLO and Jordan Agree on Idea of Palestinian-Jordanian Confederation
9 October 1982 - 10 November 1982
Event
30th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem
7 December 1982 - 16 December 1982
Event
Israeli-Lebanese Negotiations
28 December 1982
Event
Kahan Report on the Sabra-Shatila Massacres
7 February 1983 - 10 February 1983
Event
16th Palestine National Council Is Held in Algiers
14 February 1983 - 22 February 1983
Event
Failed Attempt of Palestinian-Jordanian Coordination
31 March 1983 - 8 April 1983
Event
Israel-Lebanon 17 May Agreement
17 May 1983 - 14 June 1983
Event
Scission within Fatah
18 May 1983 - 15 September 1983
Event
Reactions to Fatah Scission in Occupied Territories
26 June 1983 - 9 November 1983
Event
Tension in Hebron
1 July 1983 - 30 July 1983
Event
Draft SC Res. S/15895 to Condemn Attacks Against Palestinian Civilians in Hebron, Vetoed by US
2 August 1983
Event
PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Tunis
3 August 1983 - 7 August 1983
Event
Ma'moun Meraish Is Assassinated in Athens
20 August 1983
Event
Yasir Arafat in Tripoli, Lebanon, and then Cairo
16 September 1983 - 22 December 1983
Event
Israeli Measures Against Palestinian Universities
2 November 1983 - 30 July 1984
Event
UNGA 38/58: Calling for the Convening of an International Peace Conference on the Middle East
13 December 1983
Event
Jordanian Parliament Revived
9 January 1984 - 18 January 1984
Event
Palestinians in the Occupied Territories Oppose Reactivating the Jordanian Parliament
23 January 1984
Event
Palestinian-Jordanian Coordination for Peace Talks
26 February 1984 - 1 March 1984
Event
S-G Report (A/39/130-S/16409), Pursuant to UNGA Res. 38/58 on ME Peace Conference
13 March 1984
Event
Palestinian Internal Polarization
27 March 1984 - 20 May 1984
Event
Palestinians Hijack an Israeli Bus Toward Gaza
12 April 1984
Event
Operation of Israeli Occupation Forces Against Ayn al-Hilwa
16 May 1984 - 18 May 1984
Event
Fatah-Democratic Alliance Precarious Reconciliation
27 June 1984 - 2 September 1984
Event
Tal Rumayda Settlement in Hebron
8 August 1984
Event
Attempted Assassination of Zaki Hillo in Madrid
16 August 1984
Event
Demolitions in the Jordan Valley
1 November 1984 - 11 November 1984
Event
17th Palestine National Council Is Held in Amman
22 November 1984 - 29 November 1984
Event
Palestinian-Jordanian Joint Action Agreement
11 February 1985 - 22 February 1985
Event
Israeli Army Withdraws from Saida Region
16 February 1985
Event
PLO Executive on Palestinian-Jordanian Joint Action Agreement
18 February 1985
Event
Attempts to Form a Jordanian-Palestinian Delegation to Meet the US
1 March 1985 - 1 September 1985
Event
Palestinian National Salvation Front Is Formed in Damascus
25 March 1985
Event
The PLO, the US, and Resolution 242
15 May 1985
Event
Extraordinary Arab Summit Meets in Casablanca
7 August 1985 - 9 August 1985
Event
Draft SC Res. S/17459 to Call upon Israel to Stop its Repressive Measures, Vetoed by US
13 September 1985
Event
Israeli Planes Attack PLO Headquarters in Tunis; Arafat Narrowly Escapes
25 September 1985 - 1 October 1985
Event
Arafat's "Cairo Declaration" on Terrorism
7 November 1985
Event
US-Palestinian Meeting in Jerusalem
4 December 1985
Event
Breakdown of Jordanian-Palestinian Coordination
25 January 1986 - 1 April 1986
Event
Draft SC Res. S/17769 to Deplore Provocative Acts in the Haram al-Sharif, Vetoed by US
30 January 1986
Event
Assassination of Zafir al-Masri
2 March 1986 - 3 March 1986
Event
Khaled Nazzal Assassinated in Athens
9 June 1986
Event
Two Palestinian Newspapers Banned in Jerusalem
30 June 1986
Event
US-Palestinian Meeting in Jerusalem
29 July 1986
Event
Fatah-DFLP-PCP Reconciliation: The Prague Declaration
6 September 1986
Event
Munther Abu Ghazaleh Assassinated in Athens
21 October 1986
Event
Deportation of Muhammad Dahlan
13 December 1986 - 26 January 1987
Event
Palestinian Hunger Strike in Israeli Prisons
25 March 1987 - 13 April 1987
Event
Hussein-Peres London Secret Agreement
11 April 1987
Event
Detention of Faisal al-Husseini
12 April 1987 - 13 September 1987
Event
18th Palestine National Council Is Held in Algiers: Restoration of Unity
20 April 1987 - 25 April 1987
Event
Deportation of Marwan Barghouti and Khalil Achour
14 May 1987
Event
Islamic Jihad Operations in Gaza
18 May 1987 - 30 November 1987
Event
The US Orders the Closure of the Palestine Information Office (PIO) in Washington
15 September 1987 - 5 August 1988
Event
1st Visit of US Secretary George Shultz to the Region
17 October 1987 - 18 October 1987
Event
Closure of Bethlehem University
28 October 1987
Event
Extraordinary Arab Summit Meets in Amman
8 November 1987 - 11 November 1987
Event
Palestinian Hang-Glider Operation
25 November 1987
Event
31st Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem
6 December 1987 - 10 December 1987
Event
Start of the Intifada in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank
9 December 1987
Event
First Communiqué of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)
14 December 1987
Event
UNGA 42/210: Affirms PLO UN Mission Covered by Headquarters Agreement with Host Country
17 December 1987
Event
Solidarity of Israel's Palestinians with the Intifada
21 December 1987
Event
SC Res. 605: Deploring Israeli Violent Repression of Palestinian Intifada
22 December 1987
Event
Non-Armed Intifada
3 January 1988 - 13 February 1988
Event
Unified National Leadership of the Uprising
8 January 1988
Event
The Palestinians' 14 Demands
14 January 1988
Event
Israel's Policy of "Beating"
19 January 1988 - 27 January 1988
Event
Resumption of Diplomatic Activity
30 January 1988 - 10 February 1988
Event
Draft Security Council Resolutions S/19466, S/19780, S/20463, S/20677, and S/20945/Rev.1
1 February 1988 - 7 November 1989
Event
2nd Visit of US Secretary George Shultz to the Region; Statement to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza
25 February 1988 - 26 February 1988
Event
US Secretary of State Shultz Negotiations Plan
4 March 1988
Event
ICJ on US Treaty Obligations and the US Position on the PLO Office in New York
9 March 1988 - 11 March 1988
Event
The Intifada and the Israeli Response in Another Stage in the Confrontation
11 March 1988 - 29 March 1988
Event
UNGA 42/230: Requesting Arbitration with Host Country Concerning Application of Headquarters Agreement (on PLO Mission)
23 March 1988
Event
A Palestine Affairs Center, under the Auspices of the Arab League, Is Opened in Washington
1 April 1988 - 28 April 1994
Event
3rd Visit of US Secretary of State Shultz to the Region
3 April 1988 - 8 April 1988
Event
Assassination of Khalil al-Wazir in Tunis
16 April 1988
Event
Extraordinary Arab Summit in Algiers
7 June 1988 - 9 June 1988
Event
Another Round of Releasing and Detaining Faisal al-Husseini
9 June 1988 - 29 January 1989
Event
Jordan Severs Ties with the West Bank
28 July 1988 - 4 August 1988
Event
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) Issues Its Charter
18 August 1988
Event
Elections in Israel
1 November 1988
Event
19th Palestine National Council Meets in Algiers and Proclaims the Palestinian State
12 November 1988 - 15 November 1988
Event
The Intifada First Year Balance Sheet
9 December 1988
Event
Israeli Raid on Palestinian Base South of Beirut; Ahmad Jibril Is Targeted
9 December 1988
Event
Arafat addresses the UN General Assembly in Geneva
13 December 1988 - 14 December 1988
Event
Start of US-PLO Dialogue
14 December 1988
Event
UNGA 43/177: The PLO to Be Designated as Palestine in the UN System; Territorial Scope
15 December 1988
Event
US-PLO Official Meeting Takes Place in Carthage, Tunisia
22 March 1989
Event
Israel Proposes Elections in the West Bank and Gaza
30 March 1989
Event
PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Tunis
31 March 1989 - 2 April 1989
Event
Yasir Arafat Makes First Official Visit to Paris
2 May 1989 - 4 May 1989
Event
Resurgence of Intifada, Worsening of Repression
3 May 1989 - 16 May 1989
Event
The PLO Executive Committee Rejects Israel's Peace Initiative
15 May 1989
Event
Ahmad Yasin Arrested
19 May 1989
Event
Extraordinary Arab Summit in Casablanca
23 May 1989 - 26 May 1989
Event
Egypt Proposes a Ten-Point Plan for Palestinian Elections
1 July 1989 - 30 September 1989
Event
US-PLO Official Meeting in Tunis
14 August 1989
Event
SC Res. 641: Deploring the Continuing Deportation by Israel of Palestinian Civilians
30 August 1989
Event
Mass Emigration of Soviet Jews to Israel Is Triggered
1 October 1989 - 14 January 1990
Event
The Baker Five-Point Plan
10 October 1989
Event
Responses to the Baker Five-Point Plan
16 October 1989 - 18 December 1989
Event
Draft UNGA A/44/L.50 to Construe Designation Palestine as the State of Palestine Withdrawn Due to US Threat against UN
6 December 1989
Event
US Voices Dissatisfaction with Israel
23 February 1990 - 3 March 1990
Event
Israel's National Unity Government Collapses
13 March 1990 - 11 June 1990
Event
Extraordinary Arab Summit in Baghdad
28 May 1990 - 30 May 1990
Event
Draft SC S/21326 to Dispatch a SC Commission to Palestinian Territory to Recommend Ways of Protecting Civilians Vetoed by US
31 May 1990
Event
Dial 1-202-456-1414
13 June 1990
Event
The US Administration Suspends Dialogue with the PLO
20 June 1990
Event
Palestinian Response to the Invasion of Kuwait
3 August 1990 - 17 January 1991
Event
Extraordinary Arab Summit in Cairo
9 August 1990 - 10 August 1990
Event
A New Constitutional Law Rejects Palestinians' Resettlement in Lebanon
21 September 1990
Event
Haram al-Sharif Killings
8 October 1990
Event
SC Res. 672: Condemns Israel's Acts of Violence and Requests the SG to Submit Report on Mission Sent to Region
12 October 1990
Event
Statement S/22027 by SC President on Palestinian Legitimate Political Rights and International Conference
20 December 1990
Event
SC Res. 681: Deploring Israel's Decision to Resume Deportations of Palestinian Civilians
20 December 1990
Event
Assassination of Salah Khalaf (Abu Iyad) and Hayel Abdel Hamid (Abu al-Hol)
14 January 1991
Event
The Gulf War
17 January 1991 - 28 February 1991
Event
President Bush Outlines US Goals Following the Gulf War
6 March 1991
Event
Secretary Baker First Stage Diplomacy
9 March 1991 - 22 May 1991
Event
Israel Deports Four Palestinians from Gaza to South Lebanon
18 May 1991
Event
SC Res 694: Deploring Israel's Deportation of Palestinian Civilians
24 May 1991
Event
President Bush's Letters to M.E. Leaders on Proposed Peace Conference
1 June 1991 - 14 July 1991
Event
Secretary Baker Second Stage Diplomacy
21 July 1991 - 13 October 1991
Event
Intifada Statistics
30 July 1991
Event
US-Soviet Joint Statement on the Middle East, Moscow
31 July 1991
Event
20th Palestine National Council Is Held in Algiers
23 September 1991 - 28 September 1991
Event
US Letters of Assurances to Parties to Upcoming Peace Conference
15 October 1991 - 18 October 1991
Event
PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Tunis
17 October 1991
Event
US-Soviet Invitation to the Madrid Peace Conference
18 October 1991
Event
The Madrid Peace Conference
30 October 1991 - 2 November 1991
Event
Israel Announces Deportation of Palestinians
2 January 1992
Event
SC Res. 726: Condemning Israel's Decision to Resume Deportation of Palestinian Civilians
6 January 1992
Event
3rd Negotiation Round, Washington
13 January 1992 - 16 January 1992
Event
Conference on Multilateral Peace Talks, Moscow
28 January 1992 - 29 January 1992
Event
4th Negotiation Round, Washington
24 February 1992 - 4 March 1992
Event
Arafat Survives a Plane Crash in Libya
7 April 1992 - 8 April 1992
Event
Multilateral Talks
11 May 1992 - 13 May 1992
Event
Assassination of Atef Bseiso in Paris
8 June 1992
Event
Elections in Israel
23 June 1992
Event
32nd Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem
26 July 1992 - 30 July 1992
Event
6th Negotiation Round, 1st Stage, Washington
24 August 1992 - 3 September 1992
Event
6th Negotiation Round, 2nd Stage, Washington
14 September 1992 - 24 September 1992
Event
A Coalition of 10 Palestinian Organizations Opposed to Negotiations Is Formed in Damascus
16 September 1992
Event
Multilateral Talks
29 October 1992 - 12 November 1992
Event
8th Negotiation Round, Washington
7 December 1992 - 16 December 1992
Event
Israel Deports 415 Palestinians to South Lebanon
13 December 1992 - 17 December 1992
Event
SC Res. 799: Condemning Israel's Deportation of Hundreds of Palestinian Civilians
18 December 1992
Event
Bilateral Negotiation Round Delayed
11 January 1993
Event
Norwegian Secret Channel, Exploratory Stage
20 January 1993 - 9 May 1993
Event
Palestinians Agree to Return to Washington Negotiations
20 April 1993
Event
9th Negotiation Round, Washington
27 April 1993 - 13 May 1993
Event
Norwegian Secret Channel, Official Stage
20 May 1993 - 20 August 1993
Event
10th Negotiation Round, Washington
15 June 1993 - 1 July 1993
Event
Palestinian-Israeli Declaration of Principles Initialed and Approved
20 August 1993 - 30 August 1993
Event
The Coalition of 10 Palestinian Organizations Reject the Palestinian-Israeli Accord, Damascus
2 September 1993
Event
Mutual Recognition Between Israel and the PLO
9 September 1993 - 10 September 1993
Event
Palestinian-Israeli Declaration of Principles Signed in Washington
13 September 1993
Event
PLO Central Council Meeting in Tunis Prepares the Implementation of the DOP
10 October 1993 - 12 October 1993
Event
Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres's Reassurances on Palestinian Institutions in Jerusalem
11 October 1993
Event
Start of Gaza-Jericho Negotiations, Taba
13 October 1993 - 8 December 1993
Event
Start of Israel-PLO Economic Talks in Paris
November 1993
Event
Multilevel Gaza-Jericho Negotiations
12 December 1993 - 23 February 1994
Event
Hebron Massacre
25 February 1994 - 18 March 1994
Event
SC Res. 904: Condemning the Massacre of Palestinian Worshippers in al-Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron
18 March 1994
Event
Talks on Security for Palestinians in Hebron
20 March 1994 - 30 March 1994
Event
Final Chapter of Gaza-Jericho Negotiations
31 March 1994 - 1 May 1994
Event
Wave of Hamas and Islamic Jihad Attacks
6 April 1994 - 30 April 1994
Event
Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area Is Signed in Cairo
4 May 1994
Event
The Mirage of the 5-Year Countdown to Palestinian Statehood
4 May 1994 - 3 May 1999
Event
Arafat's Decree N° 1: Pre-1967 Laws in West Bank and Gaza Are still in Force
20 May 1994
Event
Status of Orient House in Jerusalem
29 May 1994 - 7 June 1994
Event
US State Department Allows the PLO to Open Foreign Mission in Washington
22 June 1994
Event
Arafat Arrives in Gaza and Jericho
1 July 1994 - 5 July 1994
Event
Early Empowerment Accord Is Signed
29 August 1994
Event
Israeli-Jordanian Peace Treaty Signed near Aqaba
26 October 1994
Event
Palestinian Police Shoot on Demonstrators in Gaza
18 November 1994 - 23 November 1994
Event
Rabin, Peres, and Arafat Are Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
9 December 1994
Event
Settlement Activity Around Jerusalem
19 January 1995 - 1 February 1995
Event
Anti-Israeli Attacks and Inter-Palestinian Tension
2 April 1995 - 19 April 1995
Event
Land Expropriation in Jerusalem
27 April 1995 - 3 May 1995
Event
Draft SC S/1995/394 to Condemn Israeli Land Expropriation in Jerusalem Vetoed by the US
17 May 1995
Event
Land Expropriation in Jerusalem Suspended
18 May 1995 - 22 May 1995
Event
The Tragedy of the Palestinians in Libya
9 August 1995 - 13 January 1999
Event
Israeli Restrictions on the Palestinian Authority in Jerusalem
17 August 1995 - 31 August 1995
Event
Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (Oslo II)
28 September 1995
Event
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin Maps the Shape of the Israeli-Palestinian Permanent Solution
5 October 1995
Event
Assassination of Fathi Shiqaqi, Islamic Jihad Leader, in Malta
26 October 1995
Event
The Beilin-Abu Mazen Document
31 October 1995
Event
Israeli Army Redeploys from Areas in the West Bank
November 1995 - December 1995
Event
Palestinian Presidential and Legislative Elections
20 January 1996
Event
Suicide Bombings in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem
25 February 1996 - 4 March 1996
Event
Start of the Countdown for the Three-Phase Further Redeployment in the West Bank
7 March 1996
Event
Inauguration of the Palestinian Legislative Council in Gaza
7 March 1996
Event
Redeployment from Hebron Delayed
28 March 1996
Event
Israel Launches Operation Grapes of Wrath Against Lebanon
11 April 1996 - 26 April 1996
Event
21st Palestine National Council Is Held in Gaza
22 April 1996 - 24 April 1996
Event
Likud's Benjamin Netanyahu Is Elected Prime Minister
29 May 1996 - 18 June 1996
Event
Extraordinary Arab Summit in Cairo
21 June 1996 - 23 June 1996
Event
First Netanyahu-Arafat Meeting
4 September 1996
Event
Tunnel Opened by Israel in Old City, Jerusalem; Palestinian-Israeli Clashes
24 September 1996 - 28 September 1996
Event
SC Res. 1073: Calling for the Reversal of all Acts (Opening of Western Wall Tunnel) Aggravating the Situation
28 September 1996
Event
Clinton - Netanyahu - Arafat - Hussein Meeting in Washington
1 October 1996 - 2 October 1996
Event
Protocol on Redeployment in Hebron Signed
6 October 1996 - 16 January 1997
Event
Ambiguous and Weakened Assurances on Further Redeployment
16 January 1997
Event
Har Homa/Jabal Abu Ghunaym Settlement to Be Constructed
26 February 1997
Event
Draft SC Res. S/1997/199 to Call on Israel to Refrain from Settlement Activities (Jabal Abu Ghunaym) Vetoed by US
7 March 1997
Event
First Phase of Further Redeployment Not Implemented
9 March 1997 - 12 March 1997
Event
Palestinian-Israeli Talks Deadlocked
10 March 1997 - 30 July 1997
Event
Draft SC Res. S/1997/241 to Demand that Israel Cease Construction of Jabal Abu Ghunaym Settlement Vetoed by US
21 March 1997
Event
UNGA ES-10/2: Condemning Israel's Construction of Jabal Abu Ghunaym Settlement
25 April 1997
Event
Suicide Bombings in West Jerusalem: Israeli Reactions and Palestinian Measures
30 July 1997 - 25 September 1997
Event
Israeli Settlement Activities Amid Attempts to Resume Talks
10 September 1997 - 6 November 1997
Event
Israel's Position on Further Redeployment and on Palestinian Obligations
23 November 1997 - 14 January 1998
Event
US Position on Further Redeployment and Palestinian Obligations
5 December 1997 - 3 September 1998
Event
French-Palestinian Agreement on Status of French Institutions Under Palestinian Authority
12 December 1997 - 18 December 1997
Event
Assassination of Mohi al-Din Sharif in Ramallah
29 March 1998
Event
Commemoration of the Nakba 50th Anniversary
14 May 1998 - 15 May 1998
Event
Renewed Israeli Settlement Activities and Plans in East Jerusalem
25 May 1998 - 21 June 1998
Event
UNGA Res. 52/250: Granting Palestine Additional Rights and Privileges at the GA
7 July 1998
Event
Statement S/PRST/1998/21 by SC President against Israel Broadening Boundaries of Jerusalem
13 July 1998
Event
Further Redeployment Talks Intensify
3 September 1998 - 28 September 1998
Event
Assassination of Adel Awadallah and Imad Awadallah in Khirbat al-Taybeh
11 September 1998
Event
Wye River Plantation Meeting; Memorandum Signed
15 October 1998 - 23 October 1998
Event
Several Palestinian Organizations Publicly Oppose Wye Memorandum
26 October 1998
Event
Feverish Settlement Activities After Wye Memorandum
26 October 1998 - 15 November 1998
Event
Israeli Obstacles to Wye River Implementation; First Stage Redeployment Only
30 October 1998 - 17 May 1999
Event
Inauguration of LVGR, the Gaza International Airport
20 November 1998 - 24 November 1998
Event
PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Gaza
10 December 1998
Event
President Clinton's Visit to Gaza
14 December 1998
Event
Palestinian Popular Congress to Confirm Nullification Articles of National Charter, Gaza
14 December 1998
Event
To Declare a Palestinian State at the End of the Transitional Period?
28 December 1998 - 25 April 1999
Event
UNGA Res. ES-10/6: Recommending Holding a Conference to Enforce the 4th Geneva Convention in the OPT
9 February 1999
Event
Orient House, Jerusalem and PLO Foreign Relations
1 March 1999 - 11 May 1999
Event
European Union Declaration "Compensating" the PLO for Not Declaring a State
25 March 1999
Event
Clinton's Letter of Assurance to Arafat as a "Compensation" for Not Declaring a State
26 April 1999
Event
PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Gaza
27 April 1999 - 29 April 1999
Event
Ehud Barak Becomes Prime Minister After a Campaign Focused on Separation Between Israelis and Palestinians
17 May 1999
Event
With Barak as Prime Minister, Negotiations on Wye Implementation Resume
11 July 1999 - 3 September 1999
Event
Conference on the 4th Geneva Convention Affirms its Applicability to the OPT
15 July 1999
Event
Palestinian Authority Crackdown Against Hamas
3 August 1999 - 26 August 1999
Event
Sharm al-Shaykh Memorandum (Wye II Accord)
4 September 1999
Event
Implementation of Sharm al-Shaykh Memorandum (Wye II)
10 September 1999 - 20 March 2000
Event
Official Resumption of Final Status Talks
13 September 1999 - 6 December 1999
Event
Abu Ali Mustafa, PFLP Deputy Secretary-General Returns to Palestine
30 September 1999
Event
Official Colonization Activity and (Very) Partial Removal of Settler Outposts
10 October 1999 - 10 November 1999
Event
Setting Up Israeli-Palestinian Back Channel
1 December 1999 - 5 May 2000
Event
Revival and Failure of Syrian-Israeli Talks
7 December 1999 - 26 March 2000
Event
Failure to Reach a FAPS by 13 February 2000 Target Date
8 December 1999 - 6 February 2000
Event
Assassination of Iyad Batat in Bayt Awa
13 December 1999
Event
PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Gaza
2 February 2000 - 3 February 2000
Event
Commitments Not Implemented by Israel During the Transitional Period
9 February 2000
Event
Mounting Malaise in the Palestinian Territories
17 February 2000 - 18 May 2000
Event
FAPS Target Date Extended to 13 May: The Bolling Rounds
7 March 2000 - 20 April 2000
Event
George Habash Retires as S-G of PFLP
27 April 2000 - 28 April 2000
Event
Failure to Reach the FAPS by 13 May 2000 Target Date: Eilat Round
30 April 2000 - 8 May 2000
Event
Mounting Anti-Israeli Mobilization
10 May 2000 - 20 May 2000
Event
The Stockholm Back Channel - 1st Session
12 May 2000 - 15 May 2000
Event
The Stockholm Back Channel - 2nd Session
18 May 2000 - 22 May 2000
Event
Israeli-Palestinian (Post-Stockholm) Back Channel
1 June 2000 - 3 June 2000
Event
Syrian President Hafiz al-Asad Dies
10 June 2000 - 11 June 2000
Event
Andrews and Bolling Rounds of Negotiation
13 June 2000 - 17 June 2000
Event
PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Gaza
2 July 2000 - 3 July 2000
Event
Clinton Invites Arafat and Barak to a Summit in Camp David
3 July 2000 - 11 July 2000
Event
Failure of Final Status Talks at Camp David Summit
11 July 2000 - 25 July 2000
Event
Undermining the Talks and Preparing for their Failure: The Settlers and the Israeli Army
15 July 2000 - 8 August 2000
Event
Attempts to Revive Final Status Talks
16 August 2000 - 28 September 2000
Event
PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Gaza
9 September 2000 - 10 September 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
US Attempts at Easing Tension, but Confrontation Spikes
4 October 2000 - 12 October 2000
Event
SC Res. 1322: Deploring Provocation at Al-Haram al-Sharif and Excessive Use of Force against Palestinians
7 October 2000
Event
The Department of Palestinian Refugee Affairs in Lebanon Is Reorganized
14 October 2000
Event
Sharm al-Shaykh Summit
16 October 2000 - 18 October 2000
Event
Israeli Retaliatory Strategy and First Signs of a "Militarized" Intifada
19 October 2000 - 7 November 2000
Event
UNGA Res. ES-10/7: Expresses Concern over Israeli-Palestinian Clashes and Respect for 4th Geneva Convention
20 October 2000
Event
The Mitchell Committee of Fact-Finding on the Palestinian-Israeli Confrontation
7 November 2000 - 30 December 2000
Event
Assassination of Hussein Ubayyat in Beit Sahur, Before a Clinton-Arafat Meeting in Washington
9 November 2000
Event
Assassination of Jamal Abd al-Razeq near Rafah
22 November 2000
Event
Israeli Prime Minister Barak Resigns
9 December 2000
Event
Assassination of Anwar Mahmud Hamran in Nablus
11 December 2000
Event
Assassination of Abbas al-Iwaywi in Hebron
13 December 2000
Event
Draft Security Council Resolution S/2000/1171
18 December 2000
Event
Resumption of Peace Talks; the Clinton "Proposals"
19 December 2000 - 23 December 2000
Event
Palestinian-Israeli Clashes Abate
23 December 2000 - 6 February 2001
Event
Israeli Idea of Security Fence (Separation Wall) Begins to Take Shape
26 December 2000 - 3 January 2001
Event
Israeli and Palestinian Response to the Clinton Proposals
28 December 2000 - 3 January 2001
Event
The Taba Talks
21 January 2001 - 27 January 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
Draft SC Res. S/2001/270 Calling for Cessation of Settlement Activities and Protection of Palestinian Civilians Vetoed by US
27 March 2001
Event
13th Arab Summit Meets in Amman
27 March 2001 - 28 March 2001
Event
Assassination of Muhammad Abd al-Al in Rafah
2 April 2001
Event
Assassination of Iyad Hardan in Jenin
5 April 2001
Event
Jordanian-Egyptian Proposal for a Cease-Fire and a Resumption of Talks
16 April 2001 - 27 April 2001
Event
Lebanese MPs challenge the Constitutionality of Equating Immovable Property Acquisition by Palestinian Refugees with their Resettlement
19 April 2001
Event
The Mitchell Report Is Issued
30 April 2001 - 15 May 2001
Event
Lebanon's Constitutional Council Upholds the Prohibition of Real Estate Acquisition by Palestinian Refugees
10 May 2001
Event
New Threshold Crossed with Suicide Bombing and Warplanes
18 May 2001 - 4 June 2001
Event
Death of Faisal al-Husseini
31 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
Israel Closes Orient House and Other Jerusalem Institutions
10 August 2001
Event
Palestinian-Israeli Confrontation Escalates
20 August 2001 - 10 September 2001
Event
Assassination of Abu Ali Mustafa in al-Bireh
27 August 2001
Event
Fallout of Abu Ali Mustafa's Assassination
28 August 2001 - 10 September 2001
Event
UN World Conference Against Racism in Durban
31 August 2001 - 8 September 2001
Event
Assassination Attempt of Raed Karmi in Tulkarm
6 September 2001
Event
The 9-11 Attacks on the US
11 September 2001
Event
US and Palestinian Efforts to Stop Israeli Escalation
12 September 2001 - 16 October 2001
Event
Losses During the 1st Year of the Second Intifada
28 September 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
Assassination of Rehavam Ze'evi and its Immediate Aftermath
17 October 2001 - 25 October 2001
Event
Timid Diplomatic Efforts
2 November 2001 - 19 November 2001
Event
With the Assassination of Abu Hanud, Israeli-Palestinian Confrontation Reaches a New Level
26 November 2001 - 15 December 2001
Event
Conference on the 4th Geneva Convention Affirms Responsibility of all Contracting Parties in Ensuring its Respect
5 December 2001
Event
Draft SC Res. S/2001/1199 Demanding Cessation of Violence and Return to Previous Positions Vetoed by the US
15 December 2001
Event
Another Timid Return to Diplomacy: a Peres-Qurai' Draft?
16 December 2001 - 27 December 2001
Event
Karine A Arms Ship Is Captured and Arafat Is Isolated
3 January 2002 - 11 February 2002
Event
Grave Escalation from Both Sides
9 January 2002 - 21 February 2002
Event
Assassination of Ayman Bihdari near Rafah
4 February 2002
Event
An Uneven Race Between Diplomacy and Violence: Operation Colorful Journey
17 February 2002 - 26 March 2002
Event
The Knesset Passes the Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants Law
4 March 2002
Event
SC Res. 1397: Affirming a Vision of Two States, Israel and Palestine, Living Side by Side
12 March 2002
Event
14th Arab Summit Meets in Beirut and Adopts Saudi Peace Initiative
27 March 2002 - 28 March 2002
Event
Massive Israeli Invasion: Operation Defensive Shield
28 March 2002 - 10 May 2002
Event
Invasion of Ramallah: The Siege of Arafat's Compound
29 March 2002 - 1 May 2002
Event
SC Res. 1402: Calling for Cease-Fire and Withdrawal of Israeli Troops from Palestinian Cities
30 March 2002
Event
Invasion of Bethlehem: The Siege of the Church of the Nativity
1 April 2002 - 10 May 2002
Event
US Response to the Israeli Invasion
4 April 2002 - 17 April 2002
Event
Birth of the Middle East "Quartet"
10 April 2002
Event
Israel Decides to Create Buffer Zones (Separation Wall)
14 April 2002 - 25 April 2002
Event
SC Res. 1405: Welcoming SG Initiative to Send Fact-Finding Team to Jenin Refugee Camp
19 April 2002
Event
Israeli and International Pressures for a PA Reform
7 May 2002 - 5 June 2002
Event
Security on the Aftermath of Operation Defensive Shield
7 May 2002 - 5 June 2002
Event
On the Road to Reform: First Palestinian Steps and Plans
15 May 2002 - 24 June 2002
Event
Triggered by a Suicide Bombing, Israel Raids West Bank Towns and Shells Arafat's Headquarters
5 June 2002 - 17 June 2002
Event
Establishment of al-Mubadara, the Palestinian National Initiative
17 June 2002
Event
34th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem
17 June 2002 - 20 June 2002
Event
Triggered by a Suicide Bombing, Israel Carries Out Operation Determined Path
18 June 2002 - 16 July 2002
Event
George W. Bush's Major Speech on US Policy for the Middle East
24 June 2002
Event
Assassination of Yasir Rizq and Ameer Kuffe in Rafah
24 June 2002
Event
The Knesset Adopts the “Criminal Procedure Law (Interrogating Suspects)"
26 June 2002 - 12 December 2016
Event
Aftermath of Salah Shehadeh's Assassination
22 July 2002 - 14 August 2002
Event
Toward a "Road Map" to Final Status?
13 August 2002 - 5 November 2002
Event
Israeli Army Refocuses on Gaza Strip
19 August 2002 - 7 October 2002
Event
Israeli Operation Matter of Time; Siege on Arafat Tightened; Protests All Over Occupied Territories
18 September 2002 - 29 September 2002
Event
SC Res. 1435: Concern over Reoccupation of Arafat's Headquarters in Ramallah and Call for Israeli Withdrawal
24 September 2002
Event
Second Attempted Assassination of Mohammed Deif in Gaza City
26 September 2002
Event
Losses on the Two-Year Anniversary of the Second Intifada
28 September 2002
Event
Israel Unable to Quell Palestinian Attacks
10 October 2002 - 5 January 2003
Event
Israeli Leaders Push for an American War Against Iraq
16 October 2002 - 9 February 2003
Event
Assassination of Mustafa Sabah in Gaza City
4 December 2002
Event
Draft SC Res. S/2002/1385 Demanding Israel's Compliance with 4th Geneva Convention Vetoed by US
20 December 2002
Event
Assassination of Shaman Subuh and Mustafa Qash near Jenin
23 December 2002
Event
Deepest Israeli Incursion in the Gaza Strip
24 January 2003 - 27 January 2003
Event
The Likud Wins the Elections for the Knesset
28 January 2003
Event
Arafat Accepts the Creation of a Prime Minister Position
9 February 2003 - 6 March 2003
Event
Military Confrontation Escalates Again in Gaza
15 February 2003 - 6 March 2003
Event
15th Arab Summit Meets in Sharm al-Shaykh
1 March 2003
Event
PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah
8 March 2003 - 9 March 2003
Event
The PLC Discusses and Approves Amendments to the Basic Law Creating the Post of Prime Minister
10 March 2003 - 18 March 2003
Event
The US War Against Iraq; Security Developments in the West Bank and Gaza
17 March 2003 - 9 April 2003
Event
Mahmoud Abbas Forms the Palestinian Government
19 March 2003 - 29 April 2003
Event
Assassination of Mahmud Zatma in Gaza City
10 April 2003
Event
US formally Presents Israel and the PA with the Road Map
30 April 2003
Event
Assassination of Yusuf Abu Hin in Gaza City
1 May 2003
Event
Heightened Violence Despite Diplomacy
1 May 2003 - 29 June 2003
Event
The PLO Approves the Road Map
3 May 2003 - 11 May 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
Assassination of Fuad Lidawi in Gaza City
13 June 2003
Event
Unilateral Cease-Fire Announcement and Gaza-First Arrangements
21 June 2003 - 2 July 2003
Event
The Cease-Fire: Toward Failure
1 July 2003 - 12 August 2003
Event
The Knesset Enacts the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law (Temporary Order) 2003 for Banning Family Unification
31 July 2003
Event
No Let Up in Confrontation
19 August 2003 - 20 August 2003
Event
Assassination of Ahmad Rushdi Mustafa Ishteiwi in Gaza City
24 August 2003
Event
Yasir Arafat in the Line of Fire
4 September 2003 - 30 September 2003
Event
Mahmoud Abbas Resigns as Prime Minister
6 September 2003
Event
Ahmad Qurai' Is Appointed PM: A Nine-Week Ministerial Crisis
7 September 2003 - 12 November 2003
Event
Draft SC Res. S/2003/891 Against any Israeli Act of Deportation and any Threat to Arafat's Safety Vetoed by US
16 September 2003
Event
UNGA Res. ES-10/12: Demands Israel to Desist from any Israeli Act of Deportation and any Threat to Arafat's Safety
19 September 2003
Event
Losses on the Three-Year Anniversary of the Second Intifada
28 September 2003
Event
Extending Retaliation to Syrian Territory; Operation Root Canal in Rafah
4 October 2003 - 30 October 2003
Event
The Geneva "Private" Initiative
12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003
Event
Draft SC Res. S/2003/980 on Illegality of Wall inside OPT Vetoed by US
14 October 2003
Event
UNGA Res. ES-10/13: Demands that Israel Stop and Reverse Construction of Wall inside OPT
21 October 2003
Event
Violence Abates to a Moderate Level
1 November 2003 - 17 December 2003
Event
Palestinian Peace Gestures
1 December 2003 - 7 January 2004
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
Assassination of Yasir Abu Aysh, Hussein Abu Aysh and Majdi Khatib in Rafah
2 February 2004
Event
Timing Another Israeli Escalation with Sharon's Interview on Gaza-Centered Disengagement Plan
2 February 2004 - 13 March 2004
Event
Assassination of Trad Jamal, Ibrahim Dayri, and Ammar Hassan near Deir al-Balah
3 March 2004
Event
Israel Launches Operation Continuous Story Against Palestinian Leaders
14 March 2004 - 5 April 2004
Event
Draft SC Res. S/2004/240 Condemning Extrajudicial Executions (Shaykh Ahmad Yasin) and all Terrorist Acts Vetoed by US
25 March 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
In Spite of Israeli Raids, Palestinian Military Resistance Remains High in Gaza
2 May 2004 - 13 May 2004
Event
UNGA Res. 58/292: Affirming that Status of Palestinian Territory Remains one of Military Occupation
6 May 2004
Event
Widening Philadelphi (Salahuddin) Route: Operation Rainbow
16 May 2004 - 24 May 2004
Event
SC Res. 1544: Condemning Israeli Killing of Civilians and Demolition of Homes in Rafah Refugee Camp
19 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
Life Sentence Against Marwan Barghouti
6 June 2004
Event
Israeli Cabinet Ambiguously Endorses Sharon's Disengagement Plan
6 June 2004
Event
Annual Zionist General Council (WZO) Meets in Jerusalem
18 June 2004
Event
Operation Full Court Press in Nablus
23 June 2004 - 19 August 2004
Event
Operation Active Shield in Gaza; Assassination of Militants in Gaza and West Bank
27 June 2004 - 5 August 2004
Event
The Palestinian Leadership Faces an Internal Crisis and Risks Loss of Control
7 July 2004 - 27 July 2004
Event
UNGA Res. ES-10/15: Demands that Israel Complies with ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Wall; Requests SG to Establish Register of Damage
20 July 2004
Event
Assassination of Ra'fat Abu Assi and Hazim Irhayim in Gaza City
22 July 2004
Event
Assassination of Amr Abu Sitta in Rafah
29 July 2004
Event
Settlement Activity in Spite of Road Map
2 August 2004 - 23 August 2004
Event
Israeli-Palestinian Military Confrontation as Routine
18 August 2004 - 27 September 2004
Event
Losses on the Four-Year Anniversary of the Second Intifada
28 September 2004
Event
Operation Days of Penitence
29 September 2004 - 15 October 2004
Event
Draft SC Res. S/2004/783 Condemning Israeli Broad Incursion in Northern Gaza Strip Vetoed by US
5 October 2004
Event
Arafat's Sudden Illness and Death
12 October 2004 - 12 November 2004
Event
Smooth and Constitutional Transition in PLO and PA Leadership
11 November 2004 - 1 December 2004
Event
Israeli Attacks Resume: Operations Orange Iron, Violet Iron
17 November 2004 - 28 December 2004
Event
Palestinian Presidential Elections: Mahmoud Abbas Is Elected
1 December 2004 - 15 January 2005
Event
Israel Launches Operation Eastern Step
8 January 2005 - 17 January 2005
Event
Palestinian Efforts to Stop Anti-Israeli Attacks: An Informal One-Month Truce
17 January 2005 - 26 January 2005
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
New Palestinian Cabinet under Ahmad Qurai'
24 February 2005
Event
London Meeting on Supporting the Palestinian Authority
1 March 2005
Event
US Day-to-Day Involvement in Palestinian-Related Security Matters and in the Disengagement Plan
10 March 2005 - 30 June 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
17th Arab Summit Meets in Algiers
22 March 2005 - 23 March 2005
Event
James Wolfensohn Appointed to Follow Economic-Related Disengagement Matters
14 April 2005 - 20 June 2005
Event
The Lebanese Minister of Labor Removes some Restrictions on the Work of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
7 June 2005 - 14 December 2005
Event
Palestinian Truce Commitment at Risk
18 June 2005 - 21 July 2005
Event
Implementation of Israel's Disengagement from Gaza
9 July 2005 - 23 November 2005
Event
Assassination of Sabir Abu Assi, Assim Abu Ras, Amjad Arafat, and Adil Haniyeh in Gaza City
15 July 2005
Event
Disengagement: Evacuation of Settlers
8 August 2005 - 22 August 2005
Event
Disengagement: Evacuation of Troops; The Case of Gaza-Egypt Border
15 August 2005 - 12 September 2005
Event
Disengagement: Israeli-Egyptian Protocol on Gaza-Egypt Border
1 September 2005 - 12 September 2005
Event
Disengagement: The Case of Gaza-Egypt Crossing in Rafah
7 September 2005 - 17 September 2005
Event
Legal Status of the Gaza Strip after the Disengagement: Foreign Territory?
12 September 2005 - 21 September 2005
Event
Disengagement: Celebrations in Gaza
12 September 2005 - 24 September 2005
Event
Ongoing Israeli Raids: Operation First Rain
23 September 2005 - 2 October 2005
Event
Assassination of Rawad Fathi Farahat and Nafez Abu Hussein in Gaza City
24 September 2005
Event
Losses on the Five-Year Anniversary of the Second Intifada
28 September 2005
Event
Palestinian Legislative Elections: Parties and Factions Sign a Code of Conduct
17 October 2005
Event
Israel Launches Operation Starting All Over Again
24 October 2005 - 30 October 2005
Event
Post Disengagement: Agreement on Movement and Access
15 November 2005
Event
Post Disengagement: Agreed Principles for Rafah Crossing
15 November 2005 - 23 November 2005
Event
The Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee Is Established
25 November 2005
Event
Palestinian Legislative Elections: Fatah's Confused Preparation
25 November 2005 - 28 December 2005
Event
After Ongoing Israeli Military Activities, A Surge in Violence
27 November 2005 - 15 December 2005
Event
Assassination of Mahmoud Arqan in Rafah
7 December 2005
Event
Palestinian Legislative Elections: Registered Party Slates
18 December 2005
Event
Operation Blue Skies and Continuing Escalation
22 December 2005 - 23 January 2006
Event
After a Massive Stroke, Sharon Is Replaced by Ehud Olmert as Acting PM
4 January 2006
Event
The Return of Palestinian Diplomatic Representation to Lebanon
6 January 2006 - 17 August 2011
Event
Palestinian Legislative Elections: At the Polls
25 January 2006
Event
Palestinian Legislative Elections Results: Hamas's Victory
26 January 2006 - 29 January 2006
Event
Palestinian Legislative Election Results: Initial Israeli and International Reactions
27 January 2006 - 5 February 2006
Event
Palestinian Legislative Election Results: Initial Palestinian Reactions
27 January 2006 - 4 May 2006
Event
Israeli Operations Resume
3 February 2006 - 11 February 2006
Event
Assassination of Adnan Bustan and Jihad Sawafiri in Gaza City
5 February 2006
Event
Assassination of Hassan Asfour and Rami Hannoun East of Jabaliya Refugee Camp
6 February 2006
Event
US-Israel Plan to Destabilize a Hamas-Led PA
17 February 2006 - 19 February 2006
Event
PA New Legislature and Consultations to Form a New Cabinet
18 February 2006 - 16 March 2006
Event
Pressure on Palestinians; Gaza on the Brink of a Humanitarian Crisis
1 March 2006 - 25 April 2006
Event
Olmert's Separation Plan
5 March 2006 - 9 March 2006
Event
Assassination of Munir Sukkar and Ashraf Shallouf in Gaza City
6 March 2006
Event
Israeli Raid on Jericho Jail
14 March 2006 - 18 March 2006
Event
Formation of the Hamas-Led Cabinet
19 March 2006 - 28 March 2006
Event
18th Arab Summit Meets in Khartoum
28 March 2006 - 29 March 2006
Event
Olmert's Kadima Party Wins the Knesset Elections
28 March 2006 - 4 May 2006
Event
Israel Launches Operation Southern Arrow
30 March 2006 - 14 May 2006
Event
Israel’s Campaign Against Non-ID Holders in the West Bank
1 April 2006 - 6 September 2006
Event
Abbas's Control Over PA Security Forces
5 April 2006 - 11 April 2006
Event
Hamas-Led PA Ministry of Interior Establishes the Executive Support Force in Gaza
20 April 2006 - 25 May 2006
Event
A “Temporary International Mechanism” to Channel Funds Through Abbas’s Office
9 May 2006 - 27 July 2006
Event
The Prisoners' Initiative: National Conciliation Document
10 May 2006 - 13 May 2006
Event
Haniyeh Proposes a Long-term Cease-fire and Peace
23 May 2006
Event
Israeli Operations in the West Bank
24 May 2006 - 22 June 2006
Event
Assassination of Mahmud al-Majzub in Sidon
26 May 2006
Event
Fatah-Hamas Clashes
26 May 2006 - 24 June 2006
Event
Israel Steps up Military Actions in Gaza
29 May 2006 - 15 June 2006
Event
35th Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem
19 June 2006 - 22 June 2006
Event
Hamas Operation Dispel Illusion: Capture of Gilad Shalit
25 June 2006 - 1 July 2006
Event
Palestinian Factions Agree on the National Conciliation Document
27 June 2006
Event
Israel Retaliates Against Shalit's Capture: Operation Summer Rains
28 June 2006 - 8 July 2006
Event
Major Arrest Raid Against Hamas-Affiliated PA Officials
29 June 2006 - 19 August 2006
Event
New Israeli Pattern of Battering Gaza
11 July 2006 - 15 August 2006
Event
Fourth Attempted Assassination of Mohammed Deif in Gaza City
12 July 2006
Event
Hizballah Fighters Capture Israeli Soldiers
12 July 2006
Event
July War: Israel Launches an Air War Against Hizballah
13 July 2006
Event
Draft SC Res. S/2006/508 Condemning Palestinian Abduction of Israeli Soldier and Israeli Assault on Gaza Vetoed by US
13 July 2006
Event
July War: Israel's Air War Fails to Knock out Hizballah
14 July 2006 - 16 July 2006
Event
July War: Diplomacy Paralyzed by the US
14 July 2006 - 16 July 2006
Event
Major Israeli Operation in Nablus
19 July 2006 - 21 July 2006
Event
July War: Israel Attempts to Establish a Limited Foothold in Southern Lebanon
19 July 2006 - 29 July 2006
Event
July War: Massacre in Qana; 48-Hour Partial Suspension of Air Strikes
30 July 2006 - 2 August 2006
Event
July War: Israel Attempts to Create a Special Security Zone
2 August 2006 - 10 August 2006
Event
July War: Diplomatic Efforts for a Cease-Fire
5 August 2006 - 9 August 2006
Event
SC Res. 1701: Calling for a Cessation of Hostilities to End Israel's War on Lebanon
11 August 2006
Event
July War: Israel Attempts a Ground Offensive in Southern Lebanon
11 August 2006 - 14 August 2006
Event
July War: The Cease-Fire
12 August 2006 - 14 August 2006
Event
July War: A Balance Sheet
14 August 2006
Event
July War: Israel Begins Withdrawing from Southern Lebanon
14 August 2006 - 17 August 2006
Event
Israel's Operation Summer Rains Against Gaza Continues
15 August 2006 - 9 September 2006
Event
Olmert's Convergence Plan Put Aside; Settlement Activity Resumes
18 August 2006 - 21 September 2006
Event
Intra-Palestinian Dynamics: Demonstrations and Violence
28 August 2006 - 23 October 2006
Event
Assassination of Ahmed Ashour and Ahmed Arqan in Rafah
5 September 2006
Event
Assassination of Aed al-Bashiti and Ali al-Nashar in Rafah
5 September 2006
Event
Israel's Operation Summer Rains Enters its 4th Month
1 October 2006 - 31 October 2006
Event
Attempted Assassination of Ashraf Farwana in Gaza City
12 October 2006
Event
Israel's Operation Autumn Clouds Against Gaza
1 November 2006 - 12 November 2006
Event
Palestinian Unity Talks: A Cabinet of Technocrats?
6 November 2006 - 20 November 2006
Event
Draft SC Res. S/2006/878 Condemning Israel's Attack on Beit Hanoun Vetoed by US
11 November 2006
Event
UNGA Res. ES-10/16: Calling upon Israel to Cease Operations and Withdraw from the Gaza Strip
17 November 2006
Event
Gaza Escalation Followed by a Negotiated Cease-Fire
20 November 2006 - 26 November 2006
Event
Three Dramatic Spikes in Fatah-Hamas Violence
10 December 2006 - 8 February 2007
Event
The US to Strengthen Security Forces Loyal to Abbas
14 December 2006 - 5 January 2007
Event
UNGA Res. ES-10/17: Establishing the Register of Damage Caused by the Construction of the Wall in the OPT
15 December 2006
Event
The US Revisits the Road Map
14 January 2007 - 15 January 2007
Event
Saudi Initiative for Palestinian Unity: the Mecca Accord
28 January 2007 - 8 February 2007
Event
International Responses to Palestinian Unity Efforts
2 February 2007 - 19 February 2007
Event
Israeli Operation Hot Winter in Nablus
25 February 2007 - 7 March 2007
Event
Formation of the Palestinian Unity Government
15 March 2007 - 17 March 2007
Event
19th Arab Summit Meets in Riyadh: Revival of the Arab Peace Initiative
28 March 2007 - 29 March 2007
Event
Israeli and US Reactions to the Revived Arab Peace Initiative
29 March 2007 - 17 April 2007
Event
Israel Escalates Attacks in Gaza and the West Bank
3 April 2007 - 29 May 2007
Event
Palestinians in Jaffa Protest Eviction Plans of Israel Land Administration
27 April 2007
Event
After the July War: Winograd Commission Interim Report
30 April 2007
Event
Fatah-Hamas Infighting Resumes
11 May 2007 - 20 May 2007
Event
Assassination of Fadi Abdul Qader Abu Mustafa in Khan Yunis
1 June 2007
Event
Hamas Seizes Control of Gaza
10 June 2007 - 16 June 2007
Event
Emergency Cabinet in the West Bank
14 June 2007 - 26 June 2007
Event
Assassination of Ziad Malaisha and Ibrahim Abed in Kafr Dan
20 June 2007
Event
PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah
20 June 2007 - 21 June 2007
Event
Israeli Operations Against Gaza Resume
24 June 2007 - 12 July 2007
Event
Tony Blair Appointed Quartet Special Representative
27 June 2007
Event
Fayyad's Emergency Government Becomes a de facto Regular Government
5 July 2007 - 14 July 2007
Event
Bush's Policy Speech and Call for an International Conference
16 July 2007
Event
Another PLO Central Council Meeting Within Four Weeks
18 July 2007
Event
Abbas-Olmert Meetings to Reach Understandings Before the International Conference
6 August 2007 - 10 September 2007
Event
Ongoing Military Confrontation: Israel Declares Gaza a "Hostile Territory"
16 August 2007 - 3 November 2007
Event
Palestinian and Israeli Teams to Prepare Annapolis International Conference
20 September 2007 - 25 November 2007
Event
Death of Haydar Abd al-Shafi
25 September 2007
Event
Both Authorities in West Bank and Gaza Reorganize Security Forces
2 November 2007 - 4 December 2007
Event
The Annapolis Conference Opens a New Round of Palestinian-Israeli Talks
27 November 2007
Event
Settlement Expansion in Jabal Abu Ghunaym/ Har Homa
4 December 2007
Event
Effects of the Siege of Gaza on Private Sector Production
9 December 2007 - 9 January 2008
Event
Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status: Bad Start
12 December 2007 - 27 December 2007
Event
Nablus Remains a Hot Spot
15 December 2007 - 5 January 2008
Event
The Quartet Expresses "Concern" over Jabal Abu Ghunaym/ Har Homa Expansion
17 December 2007
Event
Assassination of Majid Harazin, Jihad Dahir, Karim Dahdouh, Na'el Tafesh, Ayman al-'Aileh and Ammar Abu-al-Said in Gaza City
17 December 2007
Event
Donors' Conference in Paris Supports Abbas's PA; PEGASE to Replace TIM
17 December 2007 - 1 February 2008
Event
The PLO Presents "the Palestine Announcement in Lebanon"
7 January 2008
Event
Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status: Palestinian Side Sounded Out
7 January 2008 - 27 January 2008
Event
Bush's Statement on Palestinian Statehood, Jerusalem
10 January 2008
Event
Relentless Israeli-Palestinian Confrontation in Gaza
15 January 2008 - 22 January 2008
Event
Gaza Palestinians Break Out into Sinai
23 January 2008 - 3 February 2008
Event
Israeli Supreme Court Endorses Economic Sanction Against Gaza
30 January 2008
Event
After the July War: Winograd Commission's Report on Israel's Handling of the 2006 Lebanon War
30 January 2008
Event
Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status Intensify
4 February 2008 - 24 February 2008
Event
Assassination of Hizballah's Imad Mughniyah in Damascus
12 February 2008
Event
Israel Launches Operation Hot Winter in Gaza
28 February 2008 - 3 March 2008
Event
Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status: Israeli's Security Demands
28 February 2008 - 11 May 2008
Event
Israel Announces New Settlement Construction Plans
9 March 2008 - 2 April 2008
Event
Hamas-Fatah Talks in Yemen
18 March 2008 - 28 March 2008
Event
Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status Resume: Refugees and Territory Stumbling Blocks
24 March 2008 - 4 May 2008
Event
Gaza: Military Confrontation Continues and Siege is Tightened
26 March 2008 - 15 May 2008
Event
20th Arab Summit Meets in Damascus
29 March 2008 - 30 March 2008
Event
Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status: A Disappointing Abbas-Bush Meeting
24 April 2008
Event
Israel Refuses an Egyptian-Brokered Gaza Cease-Fire Offer
30 April 2008 - 12 May 2008
Event
Assassination of Nafiz Mansur in Rafah
1 May 2008
Event
Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status to Nowhere
27 May 2008 - 30 August 2008
Event
Hamas and Israel Agree on a Six-Month Gaza Cease-Fire; Blockade Marginally Eased
17 June 2008 - 4 November 2008
Event
To Delink the West Bank from the Gaza Cease-Fire, Israel Escalates in the West Bank
7 July 2008 - 15 July 2008
Event
Political Crisis in Israel
30 July 2008 - 10 February 2009
Event
Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status: Olmert's Political Gamble
31 August 2008 - 16 September 2008
Event
Palestinian-Israeli Clashes in Acre
8 October 2008 - 13 October 2008
Event
Israel Breaks the Gaza Cease-Fire
4 November 2008 - 30 November 2008
Event
Seal on Gaza Borders Tightened
5 November 2008 - 29 November 2008
Event
The PLO Central Council Meets in Ramallah
23 November 2008 - 24 November 2008
Event
Gaza Cease-Fire Falls Apart
14 December 2008 - 21 December 2008
Event
SC Res. 1850: Expressing Support for the Annapolis Negotiations and the Quartet Principles of January 2006
16 December 2008
Event
Prelude to Israel's War on Gaza
21 December 2008 - 26 December 2008
Event
War on Gaza, Day 1, Start of Phase 1
27 December 2008
Event
The War on Gaza (2008-09): Operation Cast Lead/ Battle of al-Furqan
27 December 2008 - 18 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 2
28 December 2008
Event
War on Gaza, Day 3
29 December 2008
Event
War on Gaza, Day 4
30 December 2008
Event
War on Gaza, Day 5
31 December 2008
Event
War on Gaza, Day 6
1 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 7
2 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 8: End of Phase 1; Balance Sheet
3 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 9: Start of Phase 2
4 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza: Calls for Active Diplomacy
4 January 2009 - 5 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 10; Gaza Strip Segmented into 3 Operational Zones
5 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 11: Dramatic Surge in Palestinian Civilian Casualties
6 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 12
7 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 13
8 January 2009
Event
SC Res. 1860: Calling for a Gaza Ceasefire and Arrangements to Prevent Arms Trafficking
8 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 14
9 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 15: Intensification of Israeli Attacks
10 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 16
11 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 17
12 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 18
13 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 19: Hamas Cease-Fire Offer
14 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 20
15 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza: US-Israel MOU on Arms Smuggling into Gaza
16 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 21
16 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 22
17 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza: Israel Announces a Unilateral Cease-Fire
17 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza: Parallel Israeli and Hamas Cease-Fires; Balance Sheet
18 January 2009
Event
Israel Completes Its Withdrawal from Gaza
20 January 2009 - 21 January 2009
Event
President Obama Prepares Active Engagement in the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process
22 January 2009 - 4 March 2009
Event
UNGA Res. ES-10/18: Supporting an Immediate Gaza Ceasefire According to Security Council Resolution 1860
23 January 2009
Event
Gaza Tenuous Cease-Fire
27 January 2009 - 12 February 2009
Event
Binyamin Netanyahu of Likud Forms Israeli Cabinet after Close Election Results
10 February 2009 - 31 March 2009
Event
Talks to Consolidate Cease-Fire and Exchange Prisoners End in Failure
13 February 2009 - 18 February 2009
Event
Palestinian National Unity Talks Resume in Cairo
25 February 2009 - 18 May 2009
Event
Donor Conference for Gaza Reconstruction, Sharm al-Shaykh
2 March 2009
Event
Western Powers Adopt a Program of Action Against Weapons Smuggling into Gaza
13 March 2009
Event
The New Netanyahu Government Prepares its Position on the Palestinian Issue
31 March 2009 - 5 May 2009
Event
The UN Human Rights Council Forms a Fact-Finding Mission on the War on Gaza (the Goldstone Mission)
3 April 2009
Event
The Obama Administration Prepares its Peace Initiative with the Arab Side
21 April 2009 - 28 May 2009
Event
War on Gaza: Report of the UN Headquarters Board of Inquiry into Incidents Related to UN Premises
4 May 2009
Event
The Obama Administration Prepares its Peace Initiative with the Israeli Side: The Settlements Issue
18 May 2009 - 1 June 2009
Event
Obama's Speech at Cairo University on the United States and the Muslim World
4 June 2009
Event
Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University on Peace and Security for Israel
14 June 2009
Event
Fayyad's Speech at Al-Quds University on Setting the Goal for Statehood in Two Years
22 June 2009
Event
US-Israel Disagreement Over the Settlements Freeze
26 June 2009 - 28 July 2009
Event
Hamas's Heavy-Handed Control of a Salafi Group in Gaza
22 July 2009 - 15 August 2009
Event
Israel's Demolition and Eviction Orders Increase in East Jerusalem
2 August 2009 - 9 November 2009
Event
Israel Land Administration Law
3 August 2009
Event
Fatah Sixth General Conference Is Held in Bethlehem
4 August 2009 - 8 August 2009
Event
Fatah Sixth General Conference Renews Its Governing Bodies
8 August 2009 - 11 August 2009
Event
US Resolve on Settlement Freeze Peters Out
19 August 2009 - 22 September 2009
Event
Salam Fayyad's Government Issues “Ending the Occupation, Establishing the State” Plan
25 August 2009 - 24 September 2009
Event
Palestine National Council Special Meeting Is Held in Ramallah
26 August 2009 - 27 August 2009
Event
Egypt's Efforts for Palestinian Reconciliation Fail Once More
9 September 2009 - 25 October 2009
Event
Goldstone Report on the War on Gaza
15 September 2009 - 25 September 2009
Event
Cross-Border Violence, Gaza
20 September 2009 - 3 October 2009
Event
The Goldstone Report and Palestinian Erratic Decision-Making
29 September 2009 - 16 October 2009
Event
Israel-Hamas Token Preliminary Prisoner Deal
2 October 2009 - 3 October 2009
Event
Clinton's Disturbing Misstep on Settlements
31 October 2009 - 3 November 2009
Event
UNGA Res. 64/10: Endorsing the Goldstone Report and Calling Upon both Sides to Investigate the Violations Reported in it
5 November 2009
Event
Palestinian Legislative and Presidential Elections Postponed
12 November 2009
Event
Israel Approves a Major Settlement Plan in Gilo, East Jerusalem
17 November 2009
Event
Israel's Temporary and Partial Settlement Freeze
25 November 2009
Event
The Deceptive Settlement Freeze
26 November 2009 - 5 January 2010
Event
PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah
15 December 2009 - 16 December 2009
Event
The US Tries to Launch Israeli-Palestinian Talks Through Letters of Guarantee
16 December 2009 - 4 January 2010
Event
Meaningful Reduction in Rockets Fired from Gaza Since the End of the War Against Gaza
31 December 2009
Event
The US Tries to Launch Israeli-Palestinian “Proximity” Talks
7 January 2010 - 8 February 2010
Event
Establishment of Palestinian National Dignity Fund
12 January 2010 - 18 May 2010
Event
Assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhuh in Dubai
20 January 2010 - 31 January 2010
Event
Israel Declares Two West Bank Shrines as Part of Its National Heritage Sites
21 February 2010 - 25 February 2010
Event
The Arab League and the PLO Endorse Israeli-Palestinian Proximity Talks
3 March 2010 - 7 March 2010
Event
Israel's Ramat Shlomo Constructions' Plan During Joe Biden's Visit
8 March 2010 - 11 March 2010
Event
US Demands on Israel After the Ramat Shlomo Plan
9 March 2010 - 25 March 2010
Event
Gaza Cross-Border Situation Deteriorates
11 March 2010 - 1 April 2010
Event
The US Shies Away from Its Strong Demands on Israel
19 March 2010 - 30 April 2010
Event
22nd Arab Summit Meets in Sirte
27 March 2010
Event
With the Arab League Blessing, Israeli-Palestinian Proximity Talks Are Launched
22 April 2010 - 20 May 2010
Event
The Mavi Marmara Incident
30 May 2010 - 5 June 2010
Event
International Reactions to the Mavi Marmara Incident
31 May 2010 - 3 June 2010
Event
Statement S/PRST/2010/9 by SC President on the Mavi Marmara Incident
1 June 2010
Event
Egypt Announces a Restricted Opening of its Border with Gaza after the Mavi Marmara Incident
2 June 2010
Event
The United Nations Human Rights Council Establishes a Fact-Finding Mission on the Mavi Marmara Incident
2 June 2010 - 27 September 2010
Event
Israel Announces Easing of Gaza Blockade
8 June 2010 - 5 July 2010
Event
Israel Forms (Turkel) Commission to Examine the Mavi Marmara Incident
14 June 2010
Event
Israel Resumes Provocative Settlement Measures in East Jerusalem
21 June 2010 - 30 June 2010
Event
President Obama Meets Netanyahu and Pushes the Palestinians for Direct Talks with Israel
6 July 2010 - 23 August 2010
Event
The UN Secretary-General Establishes a Panel of Inquiry on the Mavi Marmara Incident (Palmer Commission)
2 August 2010
Event
An Amendment to the Lebanese Social Security Law Grants Palestinian Refugees Right to End-of-Service and Occupational Emergency Compensations
24 August 2010
Event
An Amendment to the Lebanese Labor Law Exempts Palestinian Refugees from some Conditions Imposed on Foreign Workers
24 August 2010
Event
Direct Israeli-Palestinian Talks, Mediated by George Mitchell, Formally Relaunched in Washington
1 September 2010 - 2 September 2010
Event
Direct Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations Held in Sharm al-Shaykh and Jerusalem
14 September 2010 - 15 September 2010
Event
Israel's Temporary and Partial Settlement Freeze Is not Extended
20 September 2010 - 26 September 2010
Event
Escalation in Israel's Settlement Activity
26 September 2010 - 8 November 2010
Event
US Makes Incredible Offer to Israel in Exchange for a Two-Month Partial Settlement Freeze
29 September 2010 - 12 December 2010
Event
Abbas, Backed by the Arab League, Halts Palestinian-Israeli Direct Talks
30 September 2010 - 15 December 2010
Event
The PLO Considers Internationalization as an Alternative to Negotiations
16 October 2010
Event
The Palestinian State: Recognition and Upgrade Drive, Mostly in Latin and Central America and Europe
1 December 2010 - 19 January 2012
Event
Pro-Democracy Revolts and Demonstrations in Several Arab Countries
17 December 2010 - 11 February 2011
Event
Fatah Dispute with Muhammad Dahlan
28 December 2010 - 12 June 2011
Event
Al Jazeera Satellite TV and the Guardian Release the Palestine Papers
23 January 2011
Event
Impact of the Democracy Drive in the Arab World on Palestinian Popular Politics
2 February 2011 - 15 March 2011
Event
Draft SC Res. S/2011/24 Reaffirming that Israeli Settlements in OPT Are Illegal Vetoed by US
18 February 2011
Event
Israel Approves Settlement Expansion
2 March 2011 - 11 August 2011
Event
The Knesset Passes the Citizenship Law (Amendment No. 10) Conditioning Citizenship on Loyalty
28 March 2011
Event
Assassination of Muhammad Abu Mu‘ammar in Rafah
30 March 2011
Event
Abbas and Mishal Sign in Cairo a Record of Understandings Related to the 2009 National Conciliation Draft Agreement
4 May 2011 - 17 May 2011
Event
On Nakba Day, Palestinians Head Up Toward Cease-Fire Lines with Israel
15 May 2011 - 5 June 2011
Event
Abbas Confirms Palestinian UN Bid for Statehood
16 May 2011
Event
US President Barack Obama Gives a Major Speech on the Middle East
19 May 2011 - 22 May 2011
Event
Diplomatic Efforts to Avert Palestinian Statehood Bid at the UN
2 June 2011 - 11 July 2011
Event
Palestinian Reconciliation Accord Put on Hold
14 June 2011 - 7 August 2011
Event
Assassination of Kamal al-Nairab and Imad Hamad in Rafah
18 August 2011
Event
Assassination of Ismail al-Asmar in Rafah
23 August 2011
Event
Despite US, European, and Arab Pressure, Abbas Submits a Request for Full UN Membership
12 September 2011 - 23 September 2011
Event
State of Palestine: Application for Admission to Membership in the United Nations
23 September 2011
Event
The Quartet Proposes a Vague Timetable for the Resumption of Negotiations
23 September 2011 - 14 December 2011
Event
Israel Settlement Activity Taken up Again in Earnest
27 September 2011 - 1 November 2011
Event
Fate of the Palestinian UN Admission Request
28 September 2011 - 8 November 2011
Event
The State of Palestine Becomes Full Member of the UNESCO
5 October 2011 - 31 October 2011
Event
A Prisoner Swap Deal Between Hamas and Israel
11 October 2011
Event
Assassination of Ahmad Shaykh Khalil, Muhammad Ashur, Bassem Abu al-Ata, Hassan al-Khadari, and Abd al-Karim Shatat in Rafah
29 October 2011
Event
After Palestine's UNESCO Admission, Israel Suspends Transfer of Taxes to the PA
1 November 2011 - 30 November 2011
Event
Assassination of Issam al-Batsh in Gaza City
8 December 2011
Event
Israeli Settlement Activity Continues, Including Through Expulsion
12 December 2011 - 28 December 2011
Event
Four Islamic Jihad Members, Administrative Detainees in Israeli Prisons, Go on Hunger Strike
17 December 2011 - 1 April 2012
Event
Palestinian Reconciliation Meetings in Cairo
20 December 2011 - 22 December 2011
Event
US Legislation against Palestinian Full UN Membership
23 December 2011
Event
Assassination of Abdullah al-Talbani in Jabaliya
27 December 2011
Event
Israeli-Palestinian “Exploratory Talks” in Amman
3 January 2012 - 25 January 2012
Event
In Contrast with Islamic Jihad, Hamas Leadership Leaves Syria
17 January 2012 - 12 March 2012
Event
Abbas and Mishal Sign the Doha Declaration and Then Agree on its Suspension
5 February 2012 - 23 February 2012
Event
Assassination of Zuhair al-Qaissi and Mahmoud Hanani in Gaza City
9 March 2012
Event
A Serious Round of Israeli-Palestinian Violence in Gaza
9 March 2012 - 13 March 2012
Event
23rd Arab Summit Meets in Baghdad
29 March 2012
Event
Sensing an Insurmountable Deadlock, Abbas Sends a Letter to Netanyahu
17 April 2012
Event
Palestinian Mass Hunger Strike in Israeli Prisons
17 April 2012 - 14 May 2012
Event
Israeli Government "Legalizes" Three Jewish Settlement Outposts
22 April 2012 - 24 April 2012
Event
Fayyad's Cabinet Reshuffle
16 May 2012
Event
Fatah and Hamas Sign an Agreement on an Implementation Timetable in Cairo
20 May 2012
Event
Israel’s Settlement Activity
6 June 2012 - 13 August 2012
Event
Assassination of Eid Oukal in Rafah
5 August 2012
Event
Assassination of Anis Abu al-Anin in Rafah
19 September 2012
Event
Abbas Announces Intent to Apply for Observer State Status in Speech at UN General Assembly
27 September 2012
Event
Assassination of Abdallah Makawi in Rafah
7 October 2012
Event
Assassination of Ashraf Sabah and Hisham al-Saidani in Jabaliya Refugee Camp
13 October 2012
Event
Dangerous Surge of Israeli-Palestinian Violence in and across Gaza
14 October 2012 - 13 November 2012
Event
Local Elections in the West Bank
20 October 2012 - 22 December 2012
Event
Visit of Qatar’s Emir Shaykh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani to Gaza
23 October 2012
Event
Reelection of President Barack Obama
6 November 2012
Event
Settlement Consolidation in the West Bank, Including Jerusalem
6 November 2012 - 12 November 2012
Event
Israel's 2012 Assault on the Gaza Strip, Day 1
14 November 2012
Event
Assassination of Ahmad Ja'bari in Gaza City
14 November 2012
Event
Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza
14 November 2012 - 22 November 2012
Event
Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza, Day 2
15 November 2012
Event
Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza, Day 3
16 November 2012
Event
Palestinians in the West Bank Protest Israel's Assault on Gaza
16 November 2012 - 21 November 2012
Event
Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza, Day 4
17 November 2012
Event
Assassination of Ousamah al-Qadi in Rafah
17 November 2012
Event
Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza, Day 5
18 November 2012
Event
Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza, Day 6
19 November 2012
Event
Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza, Day 7
20 November 2012
Event
Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza, Day 8
21 November 2012
Event
Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza: Cease-Fire Evening Announcement
21 November 2012
Event
Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza: A Balance Sheet
22 November 2012
Event
UNGA Res. 67/19: According Palestine Non-Member Observer State Status in the UN
29 November 2012
Event
Surge in Settlement Expansion
30 November 2012 - 10 February 2013
Event
Hamas's Khalid Mishal Visits the Gaza Strip
8 December 2012
Event
Symbolic Erection of Bab al-Shams and Bab al-Karama villages in the West Bank
11 January 2013 - 20 January 2013
Event
Palestinians' Hunger Strikes in Israeli Prisons
19 February 2013 - 22 April 2013
Event
John Kerry Conducts Shuttle Diplomacy for Resumption of Negotiations
4 March 2013 - 8 May 2013
Event
24th Arab Summit Meets in Doha
26 March 2013 - 27 March 2013
Event
Jordanian-Palestinian Agreement on Holy Sites in Jerusalem
31 March 2013
Event
Khalid Mishal Reelected Head of Hamas
1 April 2013 - 2 April 2013
Event
Arab League Delegation in Washington Discusses the Arab Peace Initiative
29 April 2013
Event
Assassination of Haytham al-Mis-hal near Rafah
30 April 2013
Event
Kerry's Shuttle Diplomacy for the Resumption of Talks Intensifies and Apparently Succeeds
23 May 2013 - 19 July 2013
Event
Rami Hamdallah Forms New Palestinian Government
2 June 2013 - 6 June 2013
Event
Mohamed Morsi, President of Egypt, Is Ousted by the Military
3 July 2013
Event
Terms of Talk Resumption as Sponsored by Kerry
28 July 2013
Event
Israel Links the First-Stage Release of Palestinian Prisoners with Settlement Expansion
8 August 2013 - 25 August 2013
Event
Aim of Talks Is No Longer a Comprehensive Agreement but a Framework Agreement
14 November 2013 - 31 January 2014
Event
Palestinians in the West Bank Protest Israeli Settlement Expansion
31 January 2014 - 7 February 2014
Event
Kerry Draws Up a Working Draft Framework for Negotiations
17 February 2014
Event
Abbas Meeting with Kerry in Paris Ends in Total Failure
19 February 2014 - 21 February 2014
Event
The Israeli Knesset Adopts a Basic Law on Referendum
12 March 2014
Event
Heavy Fire Exchange Across the Gaza Strip
12 March 2014 - 13 March 2014
Event
Settlement Plans Continue and Weigh Heavily on Negotiations
13 March 2014 - 20 March 2014
Event
Kerry Prepares Another Working Draft Framework for Negotiations
15 March 2014
Event
Abbas's Meeting With Obama in Washington Tests US Credibility
16 March 2014
Event
Stakes Related to Whether Israel Will Release, as Agreed, the 4th Group of Palestinian Prisoners
17 March 2014 - 29 March 2014
Event
25th Arab Summit Meets in Kuwait
25 March 2014 - 26 March 2014
Event
Settlement Announcement in the Midst of a Crisis Regarding the Negotiations
1 April 2014
Event
Despite the Negotiation Crisis, Palestinian and Israeli Representatives Pursue Talks in Jerusalem
3 April 2014 - 22 April 2014
Event
A Joint Lebanese-Palestinian Civil Document Is Launched
16 April 2014
Event
Abbas Sets Three Conditions for Extension of Negotiations
22 April 2014
Event
A PLO-Hamas Agreement (the Shati' Agreement) to Form a Conciliation Cabinet
23 April 2014
Event
Israel Announces the Suspension of Negotiations with the Palestinians
24 April 2014
Event
PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah
26 April 2014 - 27 April 2014
Event
Settlement Balance Sheet with Breakdown of the Kerry Negotiation Round
29 April 2014
Event
Israeli and International Reactions to Announcement of Palestinian Unity Government
2 June 2014 - 3 June 2014
Event
Israel Uses the Palestinian Cabinet Formation as a Pretext to Launch a New Wave of Settlement Plans
5 June 2014
Event
Tension and Hostilities Mount Across Gaza
14 June 2014 - 2 July 2014
Event
Battir Landscape Is Inscribed in the World Heritage List
20 June 2014
Event
Dangerous Escalation on the Gaza Front
3 July 2014 - 7 July 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War
7 July 2014 - 26 August 2014
Event
Palestinians in West Bank Mobilize in Support of Gaza
8 July 2014 - 22 August 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War, Day 3
10 July 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War, Days 4 and 5
11 July 2014 - 12 July 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War, Days 6−8
13 July 2014 - 15 July 2014
Event
Egypt's Noncoordinated Cease-Fire Initiative Fails
14 July 2014 - 16 July 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War, Days 9 and 10
16 July 2014 - 17 July 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War, Days 11 and 12
18 July 2014 - 19 July 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War, Days 13-15: Dramatic Surge in the Fighting; al-Shuja‘iyya Destruction
20 July 2014 - 22 July 2014
Event
UNHRC Res. A/HRC/RES/S-21/1: Condemning Israel's Assault on Gaza, Dispatching Commission of Inquiry
23 July 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War, Days 16-20
23 July 2014 - 27 July 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War, Days 21-24
28 July 2014 - 31 July 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War: The Intermittent Cease-Fires (Phase III)
31 July 2014 - 26 August 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War, Day 25: Breakdown of 72-Hour Cease-Fire Due to Activation of the Hannibal Directive
1 August 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War, Days 26-28: Fighting Continues
2 August 2014 - 4 August 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War, Days 29-31: A 72-Hour Cease-Fire
5 August 2014 - 7 August 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War: Cease-Fire Talks in Cairo
11 August 2014 - 18 August 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War, Day 43
19 August 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War: Days 44-50
20 August 2014 - 26 August 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War: Toward an Open-Ended Cease-Fire
23 August 2014 - 26 August 2014
Event
A Lebanese Government Readiness to Facilitate Licensing of Palestinian Associations
26 August 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War: A Balance Sheet
26 August 2014
Event
Renewal of Settlement Activity
31 August 2014 - 24 December 2014
Event
The Case of Hamas-Appointed Civil Servants in Gaza
11 September 2014 - 18 December 2014
Event
No Effective Resumption of Gaza Postwar Talks in Cairo
23 September 2014
Event
The PLO Strives for a Security Council Resolution Specifying a Timetable for Ending the Occupation
26 September 2014 - 28 November 2014
Event
Heightened Tension at Haram al-Sharif
30 September 2014 - 22 December 2014
Event
International Donor Conference for Gaza Reconstruction
12 October 2014
Event
Steps, Mostly Parliamentary, Toward European Recognition of Palestinian State
13 October 2014 - 22 December 2015
Event
French Efforts in Favor of a Draft UNSC Resolution on Palestinian-Israeli Peace
2 December 2014 - 17 December 2014
Event
Early Elections Announced in Israel
3 December 2014
Event
Ziad Abu Ain Dies After Being Struck by Israeli Soldiers During a Peaceful Demonstration
10 December 2014 - 11 December 2014
Event
Palestinian Leadership Debates End of Security Coordination with Israel
10 December 2014 - 14 December 2014
Event
Conference on the 4th Geneva Convention Addresses the 2014 Gaza War
17 December 2014
Event
Draft SC Res. S/2014/916 Containing Palestinian Principles for a Negotiated Solution Rejected by SC
30 December 2014
Event
President Abbas Signs Acceptance of the ICC Jurisdiction and Accession to the ICC Rome Statute
31 December 2014 - 7 January 2015
Event
Israel Freezes Transfer of Tax Revenues to the Palestinian Authority
1 January 2015 - 21 April 2015
Event
France and Arab League Consider Resuscitating Securty Council Initiative
15 January 2015 - 29 June 2015
Event
Arab Parties in Israel Form a Joint List For the Knesset Elections
22 January 2015
Event
Hamas's Military Wing Outlawed in Egypt
31 January 2015 - 28 February 2015
Event
Palestinian Militants Build and Rebuild “Gate of Jerusalem” Tent Camp in Abu Dis
3 February 2015 - 27 March 2015
Event
Palestinians in the West Bank Boycott Israeli Dairy and Processed Food Products
9 February 2015 - 2 March 2015
Event
A "Reconstruction Hudna" in Gaza?
2 March 2015 - 14 April 2015
Event
PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah
4 March 2015 - 5 March 2015
Event
Israeli Elections: Likud's Victory and Strengthening of Arab Representation
17 March 2015 - 19 March 2015
Event
26th Arab Summit Meets in Sharm al-Shaykh
28 March 2015 - 29 March 2015
Event
Israel Detains Khalida Jarrar, then Releases Her, then Detains Her again
2 April 2015 - 19 January 2025
Event
The 2014 Gaza War: Report of the UN Headquarters Board of Inquiry into Incidents Affecting UNRWA Schools
27 April 2015
Event
Tony Blair Resigns as Quartet Representative; Quartet Office Redefined
27 May 2015 - 11 June 2015
Event
UNHRC Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict
24 June 2015
Event
Palestine Submits Files to ICC, and Israel Decides to Interact with It
25 June 2015 - 30 October 2015
Event
Comprehensive Agreement between the Holy See and the State of Palestine
26 June 2015 - 2 January 2016
Event
Settlement Construction
23 July 2015 - 17 November 2015
Event
Settlers Set Fire to Two Palestinian Family Homes in Duma, West Bank
31 July 2015 - 9 August 2015
Event
Tension Escalates at Haram al-Sharif
2 August 2015 - 28 September 2015
Event
With the Haram al-Sharif Tensions, Protests Spread to the Occupied Territories
13 September 2015 - 30 September 2015
Event
Abbas Outlines Six Potential Legal Steps in Speech at the UNGA
30 September 2015
Event
A Day of Escalation in the West Bank
1 October 2015
Event
A Third Intifada or a Temporary Outburst?
2 October 2015 - 31 January 2016
Event
Israel's Policy Toward the Palestinian Outburst
4 October 2015 - 13 October 2015
Event
Palestinians in Israel Express their Concern and Solidarity with the Palestinian Outburst
5 October 2015 - 28 November 2015
Event
Netanyahu Reaffirms Status Quo at Haram al-Sharif; Cameras at Haram al-Sharif?
22 October 2015 - 24 October 2015
Event
No Cameras at Haram al-Sharif
25 October 2015 - 26 October 2015
Event
EU Guidelines on Goods from the Occupied Territories
11 November 2015
Event
Israel Outlaws the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement
16 November 2015 - 28 November 2015
Event
Muhammad al-Qeeq Stages a 94-day Hunger Strike and Compels His Jailers to Release Him
21 November 2015 - 21 May 2016
Event
Three-Month Balance Sheet of the Palestinian Outburst
31 December 2015
Event
Smaller-Scale Palestinian-Israeli Violence and Israeli Repression Continue
1 January 2016 - 30 June 2016
Event
The EU and the Middle East Peace Process
18 January 2016
Event
France Plans to Resume its Peace Initiative
29 January 2016 - 16 February 2016
Event
Sanctions Against 3 Palestinian Knesset Members
4 February 2016 - 8 February 2016
Event
Palestinian Teachers Go on Strike in the West Bank
7 February 2016 - 12 March 2016
Event
Three Rounds of Hamas-Fatah Talks in Doha Come to Naught
7 February 2016 - 18 June 2016
Event
The US, Egypt, Jordan and Israel Hold a Secret Summit Meeting in Aqaba
21 February 2016
Event
To Satisfy Israel, France Backpedals on an Important Component of its Peace Initiative
9 March 2016 - 23 May 2016
Event
Israel Pursues its Confiscation of Palestinian Land in the West Bank
10 March 2016 - 21 April 2016
Event
Palestinians Thwart the Setting Up of Cameras at Haram al-Sharif
18 March 2016 - 18 April 2016
Event
The UN Human Rights Council Decides to Establish a Database of Firms Contributing to Israeli Settlement Activities
24 March 2016
Event
Five-Day Violence Along the Gaza Strip Border
3 May 2016 - 7 May 2016
Event
France Hosts a Ministerial Meeting as First Stage of its Peace Initiative
3 June 2016
Event
In Retaliation to Palestinian Attacks, Yatta and Hebron Towns Are Collectively Targeted
8 June 2016 - 11 August 2016
Event
The Knesset Adopts the "Anti-Terror" (Counter-Terrorism) Law
15 June 2016
Event
Attempts at Holding Palestinian Municipal Elections
21 June 2016 - 31 January 2017
Event
Provocative Israeli Decision Related to Haram al-Sharif
26 June 2016 - 5 July 2016
Event
The PLO Executive Committee Decides to Boycott the Quartet
3 July 2016 - 10 July 2016
Event
The Knesset adopts the NGO “Funding Transparency” Law
11 July 2016
Event
Continued Violation of the Status Quo at Haram al-Sharif
12 July 2016
Event
Amendment No. 44 of Basic Law: The Knesset Allows Dismissal of Members
19 July 2016
Event
27th Arab Summit Meets in Nouakchott
25 July 2016
Event
Continued Israeli Settlement Activity and Destruction of Palestinian Infrastructure
27 July 2016 - 7 December 2016
Event
A Doubtful Israel-Palestinian Postal Service Memorandum of Understanding
4 September 2016 - 15 August 2018
Event
Abbas Launches Diplomatic Activity at the UN to Get a Security Council Resolution on Israeli Settlements
22 September 2016 - 22 December 2016
Event
The Convening of Fatah's 7th General Conference Is Announced in Effort to Consolidate Abbas's Leadership
1 November 2016
Event
President-Elect Trump for the "Ultimate Deal" Between Israel and the Palestinians
11 November 2016
Event
Fatah Seventh General Conference Is Held in Ramallah
29 November 2016 - 4 December 2016
Event
Fatah Seventh General Conference Renews Its Governing Bodies
4 December 2016
Event
Assassination of Muhammad Zuwari in Sfax
15 December 2016
Event
SC Res. 2334: Condemning Israel's Settlement Activities without Enforcement Mechanism
23 December 2016
Event
Kerry's "Farewell" Speech on Palestinian-Israeli Peace
28 December 2016
Event
Palestinian Reconciliation Meetings Renewed in Doha, Beirut and Moscow, with No Results
5 January 2017 - 17 January 2017
Event
Palestinian Attacks Against Soldiers and Settlers
8 January 2017 - 26 September 2017
Event
Israeli-Palestinian Joint Water Committee Reactivated
15 January 2017
Event
Paris Conference for Peace in the Middle East
15 January 2017 - 16 January 2017
Event
Israel Races for Settlement Activities with an Eye on Trump
22 January 2017 - 1 February 2017
Event
The Israeli Knesset Passes a Law Regularizing Settlements Retroactively
6 February 2017
Event
Trump's Ambiguous Statement on Palestinian-Israeli Issues after his First Meeting as President with Netanyahu
15 February 2017
Event
Palestinians and International Partners Fight Against Israel’s Planned Demolition of Khan al-Ahmar
15 February 2017 - 21 October 2018
Event
Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad Meets in Istanbul
25 February 2017 - 26 February 2017
Event
Israel's State Comptroller Publishes Report on Gaza 2014 War
28 February 2017
Event
Israel’s Knesset Passes Amendment No. 28 to Entry into Israel Law
6 March 2017
Event
Palestinians Protest Israel's Killing of Basel al-Araj and Palestinian-Israeli Security Coordination
6 March 2017 - 28 March 2017
Event
First Phone Contact Between Trump and Abbas
10 March 2017 - 12 March 2017
Event
Amendment No. 46 of Basic Law: The Knesset Gives Additional Reasons for Disqualifying Arab Candidates
14 March 2017
Event
UNESCWA and the Report on Israeli Apartheid
15 March 2017
Event
Israel Names the Palestine National Fund a Terrorist Organization for Assisting Prisoners' Families
16 March 2017
Event
Hamas Forms a Committee to Administer Gaza Strip
16 March 2017
Event
UN SG Antonio Guterres Distances Himself from ESCWA Report; Executive Secretary Rima Khalaf Resigns
16 March 2017 - 17 March 2017
Event
US-Israel Preliminary Talks on Settlements
19 March 2017 - 23 March 2017
Event
28th Arab Summit Meets at the Dead Sea
29 March 2017
Event
The Knesset Adopts Amendment No. 116 to the Planning and Building Law (Kaminitz Law)
5 April 2017
Event
Palestinians Start Hunger Strike in Israeli Prisons
17 April 2017 - 26 May 2017
Event
Gaza and the Electricity Issue
27 April 2017 - 1 August 2017
Event
Hamas New Charter
1 May 2017
Event
PLO President Mahmoud Abbas Meets with US President Donald Trump at the White House
3 May 2017
Event
Ismail Haniyeh Elected Head of Hamas Political Bureau
6 May 2017
Event
Municipal Elections in the West Bank
13 May 2017
Event
President Trump's Visit to Israel
22 May 2017 - 23 May 2017
Event
President Trump's Visit to Bethlehem
23 May 2017
Event
Palestinian Prisoners in Israel End Hunger Strike
27 May 2017
Event
Trump Signs the 6-Month Waiver Delaying the Application of the Jerusalem Embassy Act
1 June 2017
Event
Old Cities of Jerusalem and Hebron Inscribed as World Heritage in Danger
4 July 2017 - 7 July 2017
Event
White House Statement on Israeli Settlement Activity
5 July 2017
Event
Israel Closes Off the Haram al-Sharif Following a Palestinian Operation in the Old City of Jerusalem
14 July 2017 - 15 July 2017
Event
Palestinian Official Response to Israel's Measures over the Haram al-Sharif
14 July 2017 - 21 July 2017
Event
Palestinian Popular Response to Israel's Measures over the Haram al-Sharif
16 July 2017 - 23 July 2017
Event
A Unified Lebanese Vision on Issues of Palestinian Refugees Living in Lebanon
20 July 2017
Event
Two Jordanians Killed at Israeli Embassy in Amman
23 July 2017 - 24 July 2017
Event
As Israel Backtracks on Its Measures Concerning the Haram al-Sharif, Palestinian Pressure Continues and Succeeds
24 July 2017 - 4 August 2017
Event
Trump's Aides Seem Ready to Embark on Devising a Peace Plan
24 August 2017
Event
The Internal Palestinian Reconciliation Process Is Relaunched with Some Credibility This Time
26 August 2017 - 10 October 2017
Event
Fatah and Hamas Sign in Cairo an Agreement to End Palestinian Division
12 October 2017
Event
100-Year Anniversary of the Balfour Declaration
1 November 2017 - 2 November 2017
Event
Despite a Good Start, the Egypt-Sponsored Fatah-Hamas Agreement Finally Fails
1 November 2017 - 10 December 2017
Event
The Fate of the PLO Diplomatic Office in Washington
17 November 2017
Event
President Trump Announces the Official US Recognition of Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel
6 December 2017
Event
Palestinian Diplomatic Activity after US Recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's Capital
6 December 2017 - 20 December 2017
Event
Popular Protests Against US Recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's Capital
7 December 2017 - 31 December 2017
Event
Emergency Meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation on Jerusalem
13 December 2017
Event
Draft SC Res. S/2017/1060 to Oppose Establishment of Diplomatic Missions in Jerusalem Vetoed by US
18 December 2017
Event
Abbas Signs 22 Treaties as a Response to Trump's Move on Jerusalem
18 December 2017
Event
UNGA Res. ES-10/19 Opposes Establishment of Diplomatic Missions in Jerusalem
21 December 2017
Event
Israeli Moves Against the BDS Movement
29 December 2017 - 7 January 2018
Event
With Trump as President, Huge Settlement Growth in 2017
31 December 2017
Event
The Knesset Passes an Amendment to Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capital of Israel
2 January 2018
Event
The Arab League Jerusalem Committee Meets to Discuss Trump's Jerusalem Announcement
6 January 2018
Event
Assassination Attempt on Muhammad Hamdan in Sidon
14 January 2018 - 29 January 2018
Event
PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah
14 January 2018 - 6 February 2018
Event
Trump Administration Defunds the UNRWA
16 January 2018 - 25 January 2018
Event
Amendment by the Knesset of Its Code of Ethics to Allow Restricting Palestinian Members' Travel Abroad
22 January 2018 - 13 March 2018
Event
US President Trump Declares Jerusalem “Off the Table”
25 January 2018
Event
President Mahmoud Abbas Presents Palestinian Peace Plan to Security Council
20 February 2018
Event
Church of the Holy Sepulchre Temporarily Closes in Protest
25 February 2018 - 28 February 2018
Event
The Knesset Passes Legislation that Allows to Revoke Permanent Residency from East Jerusalemites
7 March 2018
Event
International Community Alleviates Some of the UNRWA's Financial Crisis
15 March 2018
Event
Taylor Force Act Signed into Law
23 March 2018
Event
International Response to Israeli Attacks on Great March of Return Protesters
30 March 2018 - 14 May 2018
Event
29th Arab Summit Meets in Dhahran
15 April 2018
Event
Palestinian Professor of Engineering Fadi al-Batsh Assassinated in Kuala Lumpur
21 April 2018
Event
The US Opens its Embassy in Jerusalem; Guatemala and Paraguay (Temporarily) Follow Suit
14 May 2018 - 15 May 2018
Event
UN Human Rights Council Establishes Commission into Israel’s Attacks on the Great March of Return Protesters
18 May 2018
Event
PA Asks the ICC to Investigate Israeli Settlement Policies
22 May 2018
Event
Airstrikes and Rockets in Wake of Casualties during Great March of Return Protest
26 May 2018 - 20 August 2018
Event
Draft SC Res. S/2018/516 Calling for the Protection of Palestinian Civilians Vetoed by the US
1 June 2018
Event
UNGA Res. ES-10/20 Calls for the Protection of the Palestinian Civilian Population
13 June 2018
Event
Trump Peace Negotiating Team to Travel to Middle East
15 June 2018 - 24 June 2018
Event
Colombia Recognizes the State of Palestine
3 August 2018
Event
Talks for a Long-Term Gaza Cease-Fire
7 August 2018 - 10 November 2018
Event
Long-Term Cease-Fire Linked to Palestinian Reconciliation
7 August 2018 - 31 December 2018
Event
PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah
15 August 2018 - 17 August 2018
Event
Qatar's Assistance to Gaza
9 October 2018 - 8 November 2018
Event
UNGA Res. 73/5 Accords Privileges to Palestine as Chair of Group of 77 for 2019
16 October 2018
Event
Israel Continues to Attack Great March of Return Protesters
17 October 2018 - 1 November 2018
Event
The US Replaces its Consulate General in Jerusalem by a Palestinian Affairs Unit within its New Embassy
18 October 2018
Event
PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah
28 October 2018 - 30 October 2018
Event
Botched Undercover Israeli Operation in Gaza Sparks Exchange of Fire
11 November 2018 - 13 November 2018
Event
PA President Abbas Signs Accession Papers for 11 International Organizations
15 November 2018
Event
UNRWA Says International Community Almost Covers Budget Deficit
19 November 2018
Event
Airbnb Pressured to End Operations in the West Bank; Reverses Decision After Pressure
19 November 2018 - 9 April 2019
Event
The UNGA Votes Down a US-Proposed Draft Resolution Condemning Hamas
6 December 2018
Event
UNGA Res. 73/89: Reaffirming Support for the Two-State Solution of Israel and Palestine
6 December 2018
Event
The Palestinian Constitutional Court Considers the Legislative Council to Be Dissolved
12 December 2018 - 22 December 2018
Event
Australia Recognizes West Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel
15 December 2018
Event
PM Hamdallah Rejects any US Assistance Related to ATCA
26 December 2018 - 1 February 2019
Event
Settlement Construction in 2018 Remains High
31 December 2018
Event
Conditions Worsen for Palestinian Prisoners
2 January 2019 - 12 May 2019
Event
PA-Hamas Disagreements Lead to Temporary Closure of Rafah Crossing
7 January 2019 - 3 February 2019
Event
Opening of the “Apartheid Road”
10 January 2019
Event
Israel Begins Public Normalization Push
20 January 2019
Event
Israel Unilaterally Ends the Temporary International Presence in Hebron
28 January 2019 - 6 February 2019
Event
Hamdallah Resigns, Is Replaced by Mohammad Shtayyeh
29 January 2019 - 13 April 2019
Event
Warsaw Conference
13 February 2019 - 14 February 2019
Event
Russian Effort on Reconciliation Fails and Hamas-Fatah Relations Further Deteriorate
13 February 2019 - 17 February 2019
Event
The Waqf Reopens Bab al-Rahma at the Haram al-Sharif Compound
14 February 2019 - 17 March 2019
Event
UNHRC Report on Israeli Attacks on Great March of Return Protesters
28 February 2019
Event
The US Consulate General in Jerusalem Is Merged in US Embassy in the City
4 March 2019
Event
The US Recognizes the Golan Heights as Part of Israel
21 March 2019 - 25 March 2019
Event
Israeli Violence Ahead of One-Year Anniversary of Great March of Return; Egyptian Restraint Efforts
22 March 2019 - 29 March 2019
Event
Great March of Return Anniversary and Land Day
29 March 2019 - 30 March 2019
Event
30th Arab Summit Meets in Tunis
31 March 2019
Event
Israeli Supreme Court Approves Demolition of East Jerusalem Neighborhood
16 April 2019 - 17 April 2019
Event
Assassination of Hamed al-Khoudary in Gaza City
5 May 2019
Event
Extraordinary Arab Summit in Mecca
30 May 2019
Event
Israeli Harassment and Mass Arrests in Issawiyya
1 June 2019 - 1 September 2019
Event
Israeli Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Settler Organization’s Claim to Three Buildings in the Old City of Jerusalem
10 June 2019
Event
US ‘Peace to Prosperity’ Plan and Conference
22 June 2019 - 26 June 2019
Event
US Officials Partake in Inauguration of Large-Scale Settler Project in East Jerusalem
30 June 2019
Event
Israel Prevents Palestine Cup Final
3 July 2019 - 25 September 2019
Event
Israeli Court Finds PA Liable for Attacks During Second Intifada
8 July 2019
Event
Mass Demolitions in Sur Bahir
22 July 2019
Event
US Blocks UNSC Statement Condemning Sur Bahir Demolitions
24 July 2019
Event
UNRWA Financial Situation Worsened after Misconduct Allegations
29 July 2019 - 13 December 2019
Event
Israeli Government Allows Jewish Visitors to Tour the Haram al-Sharif Compound on Eid al-Adha
11 August 2019 - 18 August 2019
Event
Israel Prevents US Congresswomen from Visiting the West Bank and Israel
15 August 2019 - 16 August 2019
Event
Israeli Supreme Court Greenlights Withholding Palestinian Corpses
9 September 2019
Event
Israeli PM Netanyahu Pledges to Annex Parts of the West Bank if Reelected
10 September 2019 - 6 December 2019
Event
Israeli Forces Raid Addameer and General Union of Service Sector Workers Offices in Ramallah
19 September 2019
Event
The Israel Electric Corporation Cuts Power in the West Bank
22 September 2019 - 29 December 2019
Event
PA President Mahmoud Abbas Tells UNGA that He Plans General Elections
26 September 2019 - 10 December 2019
Event
Palestinian Court Orders to Block Access to Dozens of Websites
17 October 2019
Event
EU court Rules that Israeli Settlement Products May not be Labeled “Made in Israel”
12 November 2019
Event
Assassination of Baha Abu al-Ata in Gaza City
12 November 2019
Event
Assassination Attempt of Akram al-Ajouri in Damascus
12 November 2019
Event
Gaza-Israel Exchange of Fire after Assassination of Baha Abu al-Ata
12 November 2019 - 15 November 2019
Event
Israel Announces Plans to Double Settler Population in Hebron
1 December 2019
Event
US Congress Amends ATCA to Resume Funding for PA Security Forces
20 December 2019
Event
ICC Chief Prosecutor Finds Israel Is Committing War Crimes; Enquires on Scope of Territorial Jurisdiction
20 December 2019 - 28 January 2020
Event
Great March of Return Organizers Suspend Weekly Protests
26 December 2019 - 27 December 2019
Event
Surge in the Number of Settlers Touring Haram al-Sharif in 2019
31 December 2019
Event
Israeli Settlement Construction Continues Unbated in Third Year of Trump Administration
31 December 2019
Event
Israeli Caretaker Government and Opposition Escalate Settlement Advancement and Annexation Discourse
6 January 2020 - 25 February 2020
Event
Jerusalem Court Ruling Threatens 700 Palestinians With Eviction
19 January 2020 - 26 January 2020
Event
US Peace Plan – Palestinian and International Reactions
28 January 2020 - 11 February 2020
Event
US Peace Plan – Israeli Reaction
29 January 2020 - 9 February 2020
Event
UN Releases List of Businesses Connected to Israeli Settlements
12 February 2020
Event
Formation of the Munich Group
15 February 2020 - 24 September 2020
Event
COVID-19 Hits Palestine
5 March 2020 - 31 December 2020
Event
Israel Uses COVID-19 Against Palestinians
21 March 2020 - 22 September 2020
Event
International and Palestinian Responses to Israel’s Annexation Plans
18 May 2020 - 23 June 2020
Event
Trump Administration Places Sanctions on International Criminal Court and Its Personnel
11 June 2020 - 2 September 2020
Event
EU Anti-Palestinian Clause
12 June 2020
Event
Sudan to Normalize Ties with Israel in Exchange for US Incentives
25 August 2020 - 23 September 2021
Event
After Threats of Annexation, Normalization Reignites Palestinian Reconciliation Talks
3 September 2020 - 24 September 2020
Event
Israel Announces Massive Settlement Expansion after Normalization Deals
14 October 2020 - 15 December 2020
Event
US Erases the 4-June Line
28 October 2020 - 19 November 2020
Event
Repeated Demolition of Khirbet Humsa
3 November 2020 - 27 October 2021
Event
PA Resumes Coordination with Israel, Receives Some Withheld Funds
17 November 2020 - 2 December 2020
Event
Hanan Ashrawi Resigns from PLO Executive Committee
9 December 2020
Event
Morocco Normalizes Relations with Israel in Exchange for US Recognition of Western Sahara as Part of Morocco
10 December 2020 - 14 December 2020
Event
Israel Launches COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign but Excludes Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza
19 December 2020 - 22 December 2020
Event
Murder Rate Among Palestinian Citizens of Israel Remains High Amid Israeli Police Inaction
21 December 2020
Event
The Knesset Is Dissolved Again; New Elections Set for 23 March 2021
23 December 2020
Event
COVID-19 Continues to Severely Impact Daily Life in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
1 January 2021 - 31 December 2021
Event
Meetings of the Munich Group and the Middle East Quartet
11 January 2021 - 18 November 2021
Event
Palestinian COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign Begins as the Occupation Hinders an Effective Rollout
2 February 2021 - 20 June 2021
Event
ICC Rules that it has Jurisdiction in Occupied Palestinian Territories; Investigation Announced
5 February 2021 - 2 April 2021
Event
US Announces Resumption of UNRWA Funding and Forces UNRWA to Make Severe Policy Changes
7 April 2021 - 23 September 2021
Event
Israeli-Imposed Restrictions and Violence at the Haram al-Sharif Compound
13 April 2021 - 10 May 2021
Event
Towards a Unity Intifada
23 April 2021 - 10 May 2021
Event
The May 2021 Gaza War
10 May 2021 - 21 May 2021
Event
Palestinians in Israel at the Heart of the Unified Intifada
10 May 2021 - 3 June 2021
Event
May 2021 Gaza War, Day 3
12 May 2021
Event
May 2021 Gaza War, Day 4
13 May 2021
Event
May 2021 Gaza War, Day 5
14 May 2021
Event
May 2021 Gaza War, Day 7
16 May 2021
Event
May 2021 Gaza War, Day 8
17 May 2021
Event
The General Strike of the Unity Intifada
18 May 2021
Event
May 2021 Gaza War, Day 9
18 May 2021
Event
May 2021 Gaza War, Day 10
19 May 2021
Event
May 2021 Gaza War, Day 11
20 May 2021
Event
May 2021 Gaza War, Day 12
21 May 2021
Event
May 2021 Gaza War: A Balance Sheet
21 May 2021
Event
UN Human Rights Council Establishes an Ongoing Commission of Inquiry on Palestine
27 May 2021 - 22 July 2021
Event
Bennett-Lapid Government Takes Office in Israel
13 June 2021
Event
Death of Nizar Banat after Arrest by PA Forces
24 June 2021 - 21 June 2022
Event
Israel Continues to Assert Dominance over the Haram al-Sharif Compound
18 July 2021 - 8 October 2021
Event
Israel Is Readmitted as an Observer Country to the African Union, Later Suspended
22 July 2021 - 20 February 2023
Event
Meetings Resume between PA and Israeli Ministers
29 August 2021 - 28 December 2021
Event
Israel Designates Palestinian Rights Organizations as Terrorist Organizations
22 October 2021 - 17 November 2021
Event
Bennett-Lapid Government Accelerates Colonization in its First Six Months
31 December 2021

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Biography
Hafiz al-Said
1843 - 1916
Biography
Sa'id al-Karmi
1852 - 1935
Biography
Musa Kazim Husseini
1853 - 26 March 1934
Biography
Nakhla Zurayq
1859 - 21 July 1921
Biography
Ali al-Rimawi
1860 - 1919
Biography
As‘ad al-Shuqairi
1860 - February 1940
Biography
Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi
1864 - 6 August 1913
Biography
Jurji Habib Hanania
1864 - 1920
Biography
Najib Nassar
1865 - 3 March 1948
Biography
Said al-Shawwa
1868 - October 1930
Biography
Bendali Saliba al-Jawzi
1871 - 1942
Biography
Freih Abu Middein
1871 - 1955
Biography
Khalil Baidas
1875 - 9 February 1949
Biography
Isa al-Isa
1878 - 29 June 1950
Biography
Khalil al-Sakakini
23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953
Biography
Abdallah Mukhlis
27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947
Biography
Omar al-Bitar
1880 - 16 June 1946
Biography
Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar
1880 - 1949
Biography
Izzeddin al-Qassam
1882 - 20 November 1935
Biography
Alfred Roch
1882 - 22 April 1942
Biography
Boulos Shehadeh
1882 - 1 August 1943
Biography
Raghib al-Nashashibi
1882 - 1951
Biography
Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi
1882 - 1958
Biography
Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi
1882 - 29 June 1963
Biography
Tawfiq Canaan
24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964
Biography
Isaaf al-Nashashibi
1885 - 22 January 1948
Biography
Adil Jabir
1885 - 19 December 1953
Biography
May Ziadeh
11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941
Biography
Khalil Abdallah Totah
20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955
Biography
Mu‘in al-Madi
1887 - 1957
Biography
Muhammad Izzat Darwaza
21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984
Biography
Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani
1888 - 20 January 1954
Biography
Abd al-Hamid Shuman
1888 - 9 September 1974
Biography
Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim
1889 - 1953
Biography
Rafiq al-Tamimi
1889 - 1957
Biography
Awni Abd al-Hadi
1889 - 15 March 1970
Biography
Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali
1889 - 7 July 1973
Biography
George Antonius
1891 - 1942
Biography
Aref al-Aref
1892 - 1973
Biography
Jamal al-Husseini
1892 - 5 July 1982
Biography
Kulthum Odeh
2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965
Biography
Karimeh Abbud
1893 - 27 April 1940
Biography
Issa al-Sifri
1894 - 19 March 1949
Biography
Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti
1894 - 22 June 1965
Biography
Izzat Tannous
27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993
Biography
Subhi al-Khadra
1895 - 4 July 1954
Biography
Muhammad Amin al-Husseini
1895 - 4 July 1974
Biography
Musa Nasir
4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971
Biography
Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi
1896 - 27 September 1951
Biography
Muhammad Ali al-Taher
1896 - 22 August 1974
Biography
Wasif Jawhariyyeh
1897 - 1973
Biography
Mustafa al-Dabbagh
1897 - 1 October 1989
Biography
Musa Alami
8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984
Biography
Anbara Salam Khalidi
4 August 1897 - 1986
Biography
Matiel Mogannam
15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992
Biography
Sadhij Nassar
1900 - 1970
Biography
Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari
1900 - 29 May 1980
Biography
Fuad Saba
1902 - 27 August 1984
Biography
Zulaykha al-Shihabi
1903 - 13 May 1992
Biography
Ishaq Musa al-Husseini
1904 - 17 December 1990
Biography
Ibrahim Tuqan
1905 - 2 May 1941
Biography
Asma Tubi
1905 - 1983
Biography
Ihsan al-Nimr
1905 - 21 May 1985
Biography
Najati Sidqi
15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979
Biography
Sophie Halaby
26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997
Biography
Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih
1907 - 8 January 2001
Biography
Nicola Ziadeh
1907 - 27 July 2006
Biography
Badr Lama
23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947
Biography
Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini
1908 - 8 April 1948
Biography
Ahmad al-Shuqairi
1908 - 25 February 1980
Biography
Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani
1909 - 1977
Biography
Abd al-Karim al-Karmi
1909 - 11 October 1980
Biography
Qadri Tuqan
1910 - 26 February 1971
Biography
Sami Taha Hamran
1911 - 11 September 1947
Biography
Abd al-Majid Shuman
1912 - 5 July 2005
Biography
Qudsia Khourshid
5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009
Biography
Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud
1913 - 13 July 1948
Biography
Anwar Nuseibeh
1913 - 1986
Biography
Fouad Nassar
28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976
Biography
Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil
1915 - 2007
Biography
Hind al-Husseini
25 April 1916 - 13 September 1994
Biography
Fadwa Tuqan
1917 - 12 December 2003
Biography
Emile Touma
16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985
Biography
Haydar Abd al-Shafi
10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007
Biography
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994
Biography
Ihsan Abbas
2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003
Biography
Emile Habibi
29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996
Biography
Siba Fahoum
1923 - 12 May 2004
Biography
Fatima al-Budeiri
1923 - June 2009
Biography
Yusra al-Barbari
15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009
Biography
Samiha Khalil
20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999
Biography
Salma Khadra Jayyusi
16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023
Biography
George Habash
1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008
Biography
Muin Bseiso
1926 - 23 January 1984
Biography
Hisham Sharabi
1927 - 13 January 2005
Biography
Samira Azzam
13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967
Biography
Issam Abd al-Hadi
1928 - 8 August 2013
Biography
Samira Abu Ghazaleh
1928 - 12 January 2017
Biography
Antoine Zahlan
1928 - 1 September 2020
Biography
Hanna Abu Hanna
16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022
Biography
Ibrahim Dakkak
1929 - 2 June 2016
Biography
Ibrahim Abu-Lughod
15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001
Biography
Tawfiq Zayyad
7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994
Biography
Yasir Arafat
24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004
Biography
Gabi Baramki
3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012
Biography
Bassam Shak’a
1930 - 22 July 2019
Biography
Ismail Shammout
2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006
Biography
Bashir Barghouti
1931 - 9 September 2000
Biography
Anis Abdullah Sayigh
3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009
Biography
Shafiq al-Hout
13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009
Biography
Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)
10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988
Biography
Nayef Hawatmeh
November 1935
Biography
Edward W. Said
1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003
Biography
Ezzedine Kalak
1936 - 3 August 1978
Biography
Naji al-Ali
1936 - 29 August 1987
Biography
Ghassan Kanafani
9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972
Biography
Ahmad Ismail Yasin
June 1936 - 22 March 2004
Biography
Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout
1937
Biography
Youssef Sami al-Youssef
1938 - 2 May 2013
Biography
Samih al-Qasim
1939 - 19 August 2014
Biography
Faisal al-Husseini
17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001
Biography
May Sayegh
1941 - 5 February 2023
Biography
Mahmoud Darwish
13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008
Biography
Kamal Boullata
1942 - 6 August 2019
Biography
Abd al-Wahhab Darawshah
12 October 1943
Biography
Leila Khaled
9 April 1944
Biography
Hanan Ashrawi
8 October 1946
Biography
Abd al-Aziz Rantisi
1947 - 17 April 2004
Biography
Fathi Shiqaqi
4 January 1951 - 26 October 1995
Biography
François Abou Salem
16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011
Biography
Dalal al-Mughrabi
29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978
Biography
Ismail Haniyeh
1962 - 31 July 2024
Biography
Khalida Jarrar
9 February 1963
Biography
Tawfiq Ibrahim
- 1966

Historical Texts

Document
Basel (Zionist) Program
30 August 1897
Document
Letter from Theodore Herzl to Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi
19 March 1899
Document
Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement
1 October 1906
Document
Letter from Sir Henry McMahon to Sharif Hussein
25 October 1915
Document
Sykes-Picot Agreement
16 May 1916
Document
Proclamation of Martial Law in Jerusalem
11 December 1917
Document
1st Palestinian National Congress: Report to Paris Peace Conference (in Arabic)
February 1919
Document
Message of the General Syrian Congress To the King-Crane Commission
3 July 1919
Document
Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission
28 August 1919
Document
The Covenant of the League of Nations: Article 22
10 January 1920
Document
Proclamation of the Independence of Syria
7 March 1920
Document
San Remo Conference Resolutions: Syria, Mesopotamia [Iraq], Palestine Mandates
25 April 1920
Document
Palin Commission Report
1 July 1920
Document
Report by the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry into the May 1921 Jaffa Riots
10 August 1921
Document
The Supreme Islamic Shari'a Council Order
20 December 1921
Document
Churchill White Paper
3 June 1922
Document
League of Nations - Mandate for Palestine
24 July 1922
Document
The Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)
10 August 1922
Document
Palestine Legislative Council Election Order, 1922
10 August 1922
Document
Council of the League of Nations: Article 25 of the Palestine Mandate: Approving the Memorandum by the British Representative
16 September 1922
Document
Amery Memorandum on The Western Wall in Jerusalem
19 November 1928
Document
Report of the Shaw Commission on the al-Buraq / Western Wall Disturbances of August, 1929
12 March 1930
Document
Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development (The Hope-Simpson Report)
22 August 1930
Document
Passfield White Paper
20 October 1930
Document
Report “to Determine the Rights and Claims of Moslems and Jews in Connection with the Western or Wailing Wall at Jerusalem”
1 December 1930
Document
MacDonald's Letter to Weizmann
13 February 1931
Document
Palestine (Western or Wailing Wall) Order in Council, 1931
19 May 1931
Document
Statement of the Arab National Conference
13 December 1931
Document
Charter of the Arab Youth Congress
4 January 1932
Document
Communiqué: Formation of the Arab Independence Party; the Party Bylaws (in Arabic)
2 August 1932
Document
The Murison Commission Report
4 January 1934
Document
The Palestine Arab Party: Bylaws and Internal Regulations (in Arabic)
24 April 1935
Document
National Bloc Party: Bylaws
4 October 1935
Document
Proposed New Constitution for Palestine
22 December 1935 - 23 December 1935
Document
Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner
30 June 1936
Document
Peel Commission Report
July 1937
Document
Memorandum of the Arab Higher Committee: On the Peel Commission Report
23 July 1937
Document
Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report
9 November 1938
Document
British Government Statement on the Partition (Woodhead) Commission's Report
11 November 1938
Document
London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence
16 March 1939
Document
MacDonald White Paper
17 May 1939
Document
Reply of Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper
30 May 1939
Document
Land Transfers Regulations, 1940
20 February 1940
Document
Biltmore Conference Declaration
11 May 1942
Document
The Alexandria Protocol on Forming the League of Arab States
7 October 1944
Document
Memorandum of Conversation between King Abdulaziz Saud and President Roosevelt
14 February 1945
Document
Pact of the League of Arab States
22 March 1945
Document
The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945
22 September 1945
Document
Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry
20 April 1946
Document
Arab Constitutional Proposals at London Roundtable Conference
30 September 1946
Document
UNGA Resolution 106 (S-1)
15 May 1947
Document
UNGA Partition Plan
29 November 1947
Document
UNSC Resolution 46
17 April 1948
Document
UNSC Resolution 48
23 April 1948
Document
UNGA Resolution 186 (S-2)
14 May 1948
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Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel
14 May 1948
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Statement by the Governments of the Arab League States on their Military Intervention in Palestine
15 May 1948
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Statement by the States, Members of the Arab League, on the Entry of Their Armies in Palestine
15 May 1948
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Israel: Law and Administration Ordinance
19 May 1948
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UNSC Resolution 49
22 May 1948
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UNSC Resolution 50
29 May 1948
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Abandoned Areas Ordinance
24 June 1948
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Suggestions Presented by the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte) to the Two Parties
28 June 1948
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UNSC Resolution 54
15 July 1948
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Progress Report of the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte)
16 September 1948
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Israel: Area of Jurisdiction and Powers Ordinance No. 29 of 1948
16 September 1948
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Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance No. 33, 5708-1948
23 September 1948
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Provisional Bylaws of All-Palestine Government (in Arabic)
1 October 1948
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Palestinian National Council: Proclamation of the Independence of Palestine
1 October 1948
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8 November 1948
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UNSC Resolution 62
16 November 1948
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UNGA Resolution 212 (III)
19 November 1948
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UNGA Resolution 194 (III)
11 December 1948
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The US Recognizes Israel on a de jure Basis
31 January 1949
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Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement
24 February 1949
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UNSC Resolution 69
4 March 1949
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Lebanon-Israel General Armistice Agreement
23 March 1949
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Jordan-Israel General Armistice Agreement
3 April 1949
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Ad Hoc Political Committee Resolution on Israel’s Application for UN Membership
4 May 1949
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UNGA Resolution 273 (III)
11 May 1949
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Report Submitted by the Arab Refugee Congress of Ramallah on al-Dawayima Massacre
14 June 1949
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Syria–Israel General Armistice Agreement
20 July 1949
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United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Fourth Progress Report
22 September 1949
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UNGA Resolution 302 (IV)
8 December 1949
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Absentees' Property Law, 5710-1950
14 March 1950
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Declaration of Jordan’s National Assembly, On the Unity between the Eastern and Western Banks of Jordan
24 April 1950
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Israel Law of Return and its Amendments
5 July 1950
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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
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UNGA Resolution 393 (V)
2 December 1950
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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
14 March 1951
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UNSC Resolution 95
1 September 1951
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UNGA Resolution 512 (VI)
26 January 1952
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UNGA Resolution 513 (VI)
26 January 1952
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UNRWA-Egypt Agreement on Economic and Engineering Surveys
30 June 1953
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UNSC Resolution 101
24 November 1953
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Prevention of Infiltration (Offences and Jurisdiction) Law 1954 (5714)
16 August 1954
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Exchange of Notes Between Lebanon and UNRWA
26 November 1954
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UNSC Resolution 106
29 March 1955
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UNSC Resolution 111
19 January 1956
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UNGA Resolution 997 (ES-I)
2 November 1956
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UNGA Resolution 998 (ES-I)
4 November 1956
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UNGA Resolution 1002 (ES-I)
7 November 1956
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Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA
15 December 1956
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UNGA Resolution 1123 (XI)
19 January 1957
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UNGA Resolution 1124 (XI)
2 February 1957
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UNGA Resolution 1125 (XI)
2 February 1957
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Law Promulgating the Basic Law for the Area under the Supervision of the Egyptian Forces in Palestine No. 255 of 1955 (in Arabic)
25 February 1958
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Lebanon’s Department for Palestinian Refugee Affairs (in Arabic)
31 March 1959
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UNGA Resolution 1604 (XV)
21 April 1961
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Proclamation of the Constitutional Statute of Gaza, 1962
5 March 1962
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UNSC Resolution 171
9 April 1962
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Draft of UNSC Resolution 5407
29 August 1963
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Speech of Ahmad al-Shuqairi, Head of the Palestine Delegation, before the UN Special Political Committee (in Arabic)
5 November 1963
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First Arab Summit: Statement
13 January 1964 - 17 January 1964
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Palestine National Council, 1st Session: List of Members (in Arabic)
28 May 1964 - 2 June 1964
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Palestine National Council, 1st Session: Political Resolutions (in Arabic)
28 May 1964 - 2 June 1964
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Palestine National (qawmi) Charter
28 May 1964
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Basic Law of the PLO
2 June 1964
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Fatah First Military Communiqué
1 January 1965
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Bylaws of the Executive Committee of the PLO (in Arabic)
11 March 1965
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Palestine National Council, 3rd Session: Political Resolutions (in Arabic)
20 May 1966 - 24 May 1966
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Draft of UNSC Resolution 7575/Rev.1
3 November 1966
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UNSC Resolution 228
25 November 1966
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UNSC Resolution 237
14 June 1967
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Exchange of Letters Between Israel and UNRWA
14 June 1967
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Lyndon B. Johnson: Statement on Principles for Peace in the Middle East
19 June 1967
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UNGA Resolution 2252 (ES-V)
4 July 1967
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UNGA Resolution 2253 (ES-V)
4 July 1967
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UNGA Resolution 2254 (ES-V)
14 July 1967
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Fourth Arab Summit: Resolutions
1 September 1967
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UNSC Resolution 242
22 November 1967
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Fatah: The Palestine National Liberation Movement, Press Release
1 January 1968
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UNSC Resolution 252
21 May 1968
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Palestine National Council, 4th Session: Political Resolutions
10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968
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Palestine National (watani) Charter
10 July 1968
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Amended Basic Law of the Palestine Liberation Organization
17 July 1968
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UNGA Resolution 2443 (XXIII)
19 December 1968
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UNGA Resolution 2452 (XXIII)
19 December 1968
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Palestine National Council, 5th Session: Political Statement
4 February 1969
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UNSC Resolution 267
3 July 1969
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Palestine National Council, 6th Session: Political Statement
6 September 1969
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UNSC Resolution 271
15 September 1969
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Cairo Agreement between the Lebanese Authorities and the Palestinian Guerrilla Organizations
3 November 1969
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Rogers Plan
9 December 1969
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UNGA Resolution 2535 (XXIV)
10 December 1969
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Palestine National Council, 7th Session: Final Statement
30 May 1970 - 4 June 1970
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Palestine National Council, 7th Session: Resolutions
4 June 1970
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Rogers Plan II
19 June 1970
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Palestinian National Council, Emergency Session: Resolutions
28 August 1970
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Emergency Arab Summit, 1970: Statement (in Arabic)
21 September 1970 - 28 September 1970
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UNGA Resolution 2628 (XXV)
4 November 1970
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UNGA Resolution 2649 (XXV)
30 November 1970
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UNGA Resolution 2672 (XXV)
8 December 1970
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Palestine National Council, 8th Session: Interim Political Program of the Palestine Revolution
5 March 1971
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Palestine National Council, 9th Session: Final Statement
13 July 1971
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UNSC Resolution 298
25 September 1971
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UNGA Resolution 2792 (XXVI)
6 December 1971
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UNSC Resolution 313
28 February 1972
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Speech by Jordan’S King Hussein, Proposing a United Arab Kingdom in the Event of a Peaceful Settlement
15 March 1972
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Palestine National Council, 10th Session (Extraordinary): Political program
10 April 1972
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UNSC Resolution 316
26 June 1972
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Palestine National Council, 11th Session: Statement (in Arabic)
12 January 1973
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Programme of the Palestine National Front in the Occupied Territory
15 August 1973
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UNSC Resolution 338
22 October 1973
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Sixth Arab Summit: Confidential Decisions
28 November 1973
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Sixth Arab Summit: Policy Statement
28 November 1973
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Sixth Arab Summit: Statement (in Arabic)
28 November 1973
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Palestine National Council, 11th Session: Political Program
12 December 1973
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Separation of Forces Agreement Between Israel and Egypt
18 January 1974
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Separation of Forces Agreement Between Israel and Syria
31 May 1974
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PLO Interim Program (Ten-Point Program)
8 June 1974
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Seventh Arab Summit: The Palestine Resolution
29 October 1974
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13 November 1974
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UNGA Resolution 3236 (XXIX)
22 November 1974
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UNGA Resolution 3237 (XXIX)
22 November 1974
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Memorandum of Agreement between the U.S. and Israel Regarding the Reconvening of the Geneva Conference
1 September 1975
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UNGA Resolution 3376 (XXX)
10 November 1975
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UNGA Resolution 3379 (XXX)
10 November 1975
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UNGA Resolution 3375 (XXX)
10 November 1975
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UNSC Resolution 381
30 November 1975
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Draft of UNSC Resolution 11898
5 December 1975
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Draft of UNSC Resolution 11940
23 January 1976
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The Koenig Memorandum
1 March 1976
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Draft of UNSC Resolution 12022
24 March 1976
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Draft of UNSC Resolution 12119
29 June 1976
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Admission of Palestine as Full Member in Arab League (in Arabic)
9 September 1976
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Eighth Arab Summit: Statement
25 October 1976 - 26 October 1976
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Palestine National Council, 13th Session: Political Declaration
12 March 1977 - 22 March 1977
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Joint US-USSR Communiqué on Reconvening the Geneva Conference on the Middle East
1 October 1977
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Israel-U.S. Working Paper on the Resumption of the Geneva Peace Conference
5 October 1977
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20 November 1977
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PLO Central Council, Statement on Sadat's Visit to Israel
30 November 1977
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Statement by Palestinian Institutions in the Occupied Territories on Sadat’s Visit to Israel
8 December 1977
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Begin's Autonomy Plan
28 December 1977
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UNSC Resolution 425
19 March 1978
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Framework for Peace in the Middle East (Camp David Accords)
17 September 1978
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Ninth Arab Summit: Final Statement
2 November 1978 - 5 November 1978
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Palestine National Council, 14th Session: National Unity Programme
15 January 1979 - 22 January 1979
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UNSC Resolution 446
22 March 1979
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Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt
26 March 1979
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Joint Letter from President Sadat and Prime Minister Begin to President Carter Concerning Negotiations on Self-Governing Authority in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
26 March 1979
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Tenth Arab Summit: Final Statement
20 November 1979 - 22 November 1979
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Israeli Model for the Self-Governing Authority
16 January 1980
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Egyptian Model for Palestinian Full Autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
28 January 1980
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UNSC Resolution 465
1 March 1980
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The Regional Committee of the Heads of Arab Local Authorities in Israel Statement On the Assassination Attempts Against West Bank Mayors
3 June 1980
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The Venice Declaration
13 June 1980
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Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capital of Israel
30 July 1980
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3 August 1980
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UNSC Resolution 478
20 August 1980
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Eleventh Arab Summit: Final Communiqué
25 November 1980 - 27 November 1980
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Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement
11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981
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Crown Prince Fahd Peace Plan
7 August 1981
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Statement of First National Festival of Palestinian Literature in the Occupied Land
18 August 1981
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UNSC Resolution 497
17 December 1981
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Draft of UNSC Resolution 14832/Rev.1
19 January 1982
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Israel's Proposals for the Self-Governing Authority in the West Bank and Gaza
31 January 1982
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UNGA Resolution ES-9/1
5 February 1982
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1 April 1982
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20 April 1982
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UNSC Resolution 508
5 June 1982
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UNSC Resolution 509
6 June 1982
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8 June 1982
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25 June 1982
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Plan for the Departure from Lebanon of the PLO Leadership, Offices, and Combatants in Beirut
20 August 1982
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31 August 1982
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1 September 1982
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2 September 1982
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Twelfth Arab Summit: the Fez Initiative
9 September 1982
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7 February 1983
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14 February 1983 - 22 February 1983
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1 August 1983
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UNGA Resolution 38/58
13 December 1983
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Secretary-General Report A/39/130 - S/16409
13 March 1984
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22 November 1984 - 29 November 1984
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Palestinian-Jordanian Joint Action Agreement
11 February 1985
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31 July 1985
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7 August 1985 - 9 August 1985
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12 September 1985
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7 November 1985
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29 January 1986
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20 April 1987 - 25 April 1987
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UNGA Resolution 42/210
17 December 1987
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UNSC Resolution 605
22 December 1987
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UNSC Resolution 607
5 January 1988
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UNSC Resolution 608
14 January 1988
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29 January 1988
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26 February 1988
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UNGA Resolution 42/229
2 March 1988
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4 March 1988
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UNGA Resolution 42/230
23 March 1988
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14 April 1988
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7 June 1988 - 9 June 1988
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31 July 1988
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18 August 1988
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15 November 1988
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15 November 1988
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UNGA Resolution 43/160
9 December 1988
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13 December 1988
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14 December 1988
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15 December 1988
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17 February 1989
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14 May 1989
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23 May 1989 - 26 May 1989
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8 June 1989
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30 August 1989
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10 October 1989
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5 November 1989
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6 November 1989
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29 November 1989
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1 December 1989
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7 April 1990
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28 May 1990 - 30 May 1990
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31 May 1990
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UNSC Resolution 672
12 October 1990
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UNSC Resolution 673
24 October 1990
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UNSC Resolution 681
20 December 1990
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Note by the S.C. President: On the International Conference for Peace in the Middle East
20 December 1990
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President George Bush Address to Joint Session of Congress on the Middle East
6 March 1991
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12 March 1991
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UNSC Resolution 694
24 May 1991
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1 June 1991
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28 September 1991
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18 October 1991
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18 October 1991
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18 October 1991
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31 October 1991
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UNSC Resolution 726
6 January 1992
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Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty
17 March 1992
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18 December 1992
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13 September 1993
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11 October 1993
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30 December 1993
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18 March 1994
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29 April 1994
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4 May 1994
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26 December 1994
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28 September 1995
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28 September 1996
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17 January 1997
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25 April 1997
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15 July 1997
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13 July 1998
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5 October 1999
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UNSC Resolution 1322
7 October 2000
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UNGA Resolution ES-10/7
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1 July 2016
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Statement of the PLO Executive Committee on the Report of the Quartet (in Arabic)
3 July 2016
Document
Twenty-Seventh Arab Summit: The Nouakchott Declaration (in Arabic)
25 July 2016
Document
Fatah's 7th General Conference: Final Communiqué (in Arabic)
29 November 2016 - 4 December 2016
Document
UNSC Resolution 2334
23 December 2016
Document
Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace
28 December 2016
Document
Statement of the Preparatory Committee for the Palestine National Council (in Arabic)
11 January 2017
Document
Middle East Peace Conference Joint Declaration
15 January 2017
Document
Law for the Regularization of Settlement in Judea and Samaria, 5777-2017
6 February 2017
Document
UNESCWA Report on Israeli Apartheid
15 March 2017
Document
Twenty-Eighth Arab Summit: The Amman Declaration (in Arabic)
29 March 2017
Document
Marwan Barghouti’s Op-Ed in The New York Times: Why We Are on Hunger Strike in Israel’s Prisons
17 April 2017
Document
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas): Document of General Principles and Policies
1 May 2017
Document
China’s Four-Point Proposal on Promoting the Settlement of the Palestinian Issue
18 July 2017
Document
Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee: Lebanese Working Group on Palestinian Refugee Affairs: A Unified Lebanese Vision For the Palestinian Refugees Affairs In Lebanon
20 July 2017
Document
Agreement Between Fatah and Hamas to End Palestinian Division
12 October 2017
Document
Mahmoud Abbas’s Op-Ed in The Guardian: Britain Must Atone for the Balfour Declaration – and 100 years of Suffering
1 November 2017
Document
Statement Issued Following the Meeting of the Palestinian National Action Factions (in Arabic)
21 November 2017 - 22 November 2017
Document
Statement by President Donald Trump On Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel
6 December 2017
Document
Emergency Meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (in Arabic)
13 December 2017
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution S/2017/1060
18 December 2017
Document
UNGA Resolution ES-10/19
21 December 2017
Document
PLO Central Council, 28th Session: Final Communiqué (in Arabic)
15 January 2018
Document
Twenty-Ninth Arab Summit (The Jerusalem Summit): Dhahran Declaration
15 April 2018
Document
Palestine National Council, 23rd Session: Final Communiqué (in Arabic)
30 April 2018 - 4 May 2018
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 2018/516
1 June 2018
Document
UNGA Resolution ES-10/20
13 June 2018
Document
Basic Law: Israel - the Nation-State of the Jewish People
19 July 2018
Document
PLO Central Council, 29th Session: Resolutions (in Arabic)
15 August 2018 - 17 August 2018
Document
UNGA Resolution 73/5
16 October 2018
Document
PLO Central Council, 30th Session: Communiqué (in Arabic)
28 October 2018 - 29 October 2018
Document
UNGA Resolution 73/89
6 December 2018
Document
Palestinian Prime Minister's Letter to Secretary of State on No Longer Accepting US Assistance
26 December 2018
Document
Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry: On the Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
28 February 2019
Document
President Donald Trump: Proclamation on Recognizing the Golan Heights as Part of the State of Israel
25 March 2019
Document
30th Arab Summit: Tunis Declaration
31 March 2019
Document
Secretary Michael R. Pompeo Press Remarks On Israeli Settlements
18 November 2019
Document
Statement of ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda On Opening an Investigation into War Crimes in Palestine
20 December 2019
Document
Database of All Business Enterprises Involved in Israeli Settlement Activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
12 February 2020
Document
Joint Statement of the United States, the State of Israel, and the United Arab Emirates
13 August 2020
Document
Meeting of Palestinian Organizations' Secretaries-General: Final Communiqué (in Arabic)
3 September 2020
Document
Abraham Accords Peace Agreement: Treaty of Peace, Diplomatic Relations and Full Normalization Between the United Arab Emirates and the State of Israel
15 September 2020
Document
Joint Statement of the Foreign Ministers of France, Germany, Egypt and Jordan (The Munich Group)
11 January 2021
Document
B’Tselem: A Regime of Jewish Supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid
12 January 2021
Document
HRC Res. S-30/1: Establishing an Ongoing Commission of Inquiry on Palestine
27 May 2021

Charts

Document
Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”, 1932, 1951 and 2015
1932 - 2015

Periods

Period
III. Late Mandate
Period
XI. Second Intifada and the Post-Arafat Era
Period
VII. After 1973 War: Separate Peace and Civil War
Period
VI. Rise of the Palestinian National Movement
Period
VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology
The UN and Palestine: Security Council Vetoed Draft Resolutions
1963 - present
Thematic Chronology
Israeli Assassination Campaign Within Palestine Borders (I)
1996 - 2004
Thematic Chronology
1956 War
1955 - 1957
Thematic Chronology
Arab Summits and Palestine
1946 - present
Thematic Chronology
The UN and Palestine: General Assembly Resolutions
1947 - present
Thematic Chronology
Israel’s Gaza Redeployment, 2005
2003 - 2006
Thematic Chronology
Mitchell-Mediated Negotiations and the Settlement Threat
2009 - 2010
Thematic Chronology
Palestinian National Congresses
1918 - 1934
Thematic Chronology
Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza
2012
Thematic Chronology
The May 2021 Gaza War
2021
Thematic Chronology
June 1967 War
1966 - 1967

Highlights

Highlight
Palestinians in Jordan, 1948-1967
The Making of the “Jordanians of Palestinian Origin”
Highlight
Jerusalem
Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City
Highlight
Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine
Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement
Highlight
The Palestinian Novel
Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography
Highlight
The Palestinian Short Story
Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor
Highlight
Palestinian Photographers before 1948
Documenting Life in a Time of Change
Highlight
Preservation of Heritage in Palestine
A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure
Highlight
Palestinian Citizenship in Israel
An Unwanted Minority Asserts Its Narrative and Identity
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (III)
Explorers (1965-1995)
Highlight
Present Absentees in Israel
Exiled in Their Own Homeland
Highlight
Israel’s Appropriation of Palestinian Property
Cooking Up Laws for the Sake of Land Grab
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
The Palestine Communist Party
1919–1948
Highlight
The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party
1948-present
Highlight
Palestinian Informal Justice
Thriving in the Shadow of Colonialism
Highlight
Palestine Police During the British Mandate
Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals
Highlight
Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa
Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field
Highlight
VII. From A Sense Of Victory To Separate Peace And Civil War
1973-1982
Highlight
VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival
1982-1987
Highlight
XIII. With a Growingly Intractable Deadlock, Whither Palestine?
2017-
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Palestinian Cinema
From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression
Highlight
Sumud
Steadfastness as Everyday Resistance
Highlight
Colonization and Dispossession
Zionism's Imagined Geography
Highlight
III. Late Mandate
1936-1947
Highlight
UNRWA's Education System
A Palestinian-Shaped Undertaking
Highlight
Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948
A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba
Highlight
The October 2000 Events in Israel
The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst
Highlight
World Zionist Organization
Setting the Stage for a Jewish State in Palestine
Highlight
Israel’s Gaza Redeployment, 2005
Exacerbating the Siege and Targeting the Land of the West Bank
Highlight
Demography and the Palestine Question (I)
1850s-1948
Highlight
IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba
1947-1950
Highlight
UNRWA
From Relief Provider to Vector of Identity
Highlight
The Education of Palestinians in Israel
Struggling to Break Free from a System of Marginalization
Highlight
XI. The Al-Aqsa Intifada and the End of an Era in Palestinian Politics
2000-2006
Highlight
The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)
1957-1990
Highlight
V. Reverberations Of 1948 Palestine War And The Arab-Israeli Conflict
1950-1966
Highlight
October 1973 War
A Daring Arab Initiative Followed by Ambivalent Results
Highlight
Camp David Accords, 1978-1979
Shattering the Arab Front
Highlight
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP
1969-present
Highlight
Palestinian Emigration (I)
1850s-1967
Highlight
The Separation Wall
Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians
Highlight
Israel’s Apartheid Regime
Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians
Highlight
Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule
Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition
Highlight
Palestinian Women in the Labor Market
A Burgeoning Workforce Curbed by Israel’s Colonialism
Highlight
Israel’s Basic Law on Human Dignity and Liberty, 1992
Jewish Identity at the Expense of Citizen Equality
Highlight
Palestinian Embroidery
A Rich and Diverse National Heritage
Highlight
Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1967
The Political and Social Remodeling of a Cramped Palestinian Space
Highlight
France and the Palestine Question before 1948
Competition with the British, North African Considerations, Lukewarm Support for Zionism
Highlight
The Judaization of the Galilee
A Long-Lasting Strategy Faced by a Bulwark of Palestinian Tenacity
Highlight
The Peel Commission, 1936–1937
Sowing the Seeds of the Partition
Highlight
The 1946 Anglo-American Committee
Humanitarianism Over Justice
Highlight
Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
A Vulnerable Yet Vibrant Community
Highlight
Palestinian Emigration (II)
1967-present
Highlight
Lebanon War, 1982
A Setback for the PLO and for Israel's 'Grand Design'
Highlight
Battle of al-Karama, 21 March 1968
A Triggering Moment For the Palestinian Resistance
Highlight
Kafr Qasim, 29 October 1956
Israel’s Army Massacres Its Own Peaceful Citizens
Highlight
Land Day, 30 March 1976
A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel
Highlight
The Palestine Exploration Fund
Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming
Highlight
Palestine Liberation Organization (II)
From the Limelight to the Backstage
Highlight
The Palestinian National Initiative Movement - Al-Mubadara
2002-present
Highlight
The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)
After the Nakba
Highlight
The Palestinian Communist Movement
1948-present
Highlight
Arab Labor in Mandate Palestine
The Emergence of a Working Class
Highlight
Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Palestinian Refugees in Syria
Fully Integrated, for Better and for Worse
Highlight
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP
1967-present
Highlight
The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse
A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism
Highlight
Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949
Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests
Highlight
Nablus Soap Production
The Decline of an Ancient Heritage
Highlight
The United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine
Negotiating Palestine after the Nakba
Highlight
The Israeli Military
The Myth of “the Most Moral Army in the World”
Highlight
The Palestinians in Chile
A Large Community, Fully Chilean, Fully Engaged for Palestine
Highlight
Palestinians in Jordan Since 1967
A Never-Ending Normalization
Highlight
Jabal al-Hussein Refugee Camp
Jordan
Highlight
Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp
West Bank
Highlight
Jaramana Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
II. British Occupation and Early Mandate
1917-1936
Highlight
I. Ottoman Rule
1516-1917
Highlight
The King-Crane Commission of 1919
Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives
Highlight
The Palestinian Flag
A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity
Highlight
1956 War
The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression
Highlight
Meanings of the Nakba
Transformations through Time and Place
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (I)
Beginners (1795-1955)
Highlight
Ein el Tal (Handarat) Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917
Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries
Highlight
Palestinian Youth in Conflict
A Childhood Denied
Highlight
Demography and the Palestine Question (II)
1948-2048
Highlight
Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti) Refugee Camp
Jordan
Highlight
The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (II)
1990-present
Highlight
Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939
A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (II)
Pathfinders (1955-1965)
Highlight
Israel's Nation-State Law, 2018
Enshrining Discrimination
Highlight
The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine
1980–present
Highlight
The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas
1987–present
Highlight
Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917
Promising Palestine Away
Highlight
Resolution 242, 22 November 1967
Ambiguous Parameters for a Middle East Settlement
Highlight
Palestine-Lebanon Border
A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens
Highlight
Marka Refugee Camp
Jordan
Highlight
Sabra and Shatila, 16-18 September 1982
A Massacre by Proxy
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)
Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)
Highlight
The Palestinians in Peru
A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History
Highlight
June 1967 War
A Watershed in the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Highlight
Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966
Governing the Lives of a Confined Population
Highlight
The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps
Perpetuating the Temporary
Highlight
VI. The Rise Of The Palestinian Movement In The Wake Of The 1967 Arab Defeat
1966-1973
Highlight
China and the Palestine Question
From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support
Highlight
The European Union and the Palestine Question
From Promising Ambitions to Crippling Divisions
Highlight
The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)
Before the Nakba
Highlight
Balata Refugee Camp
West Bank
Highlight
Baqa‘a Refugee Camp
Jordan
Highlight
Dheisheh Refugee Camp
West Bank
Highlight
Fawwar Refugee Camp
West Bank
Highlight
Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp
Syria
Highlight
Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Sbeineh Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem
The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation
Highlight
Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine
A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact
Highlight
Talbieh Refugee Camp
Jordan
Highlight
Rashidiyya Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Shatila Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Italy and the Palestine Question
From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility
Highlight
Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947
Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba
Highlight
Urban Palestine
Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations
Highlight
Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”
Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History
Highlight
Mexico and the Palestine Question
Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor
Highlight
Turkey and the Palestine Question
Torn between a Pro-Western Stance, Regional Considerations and Identity
Highlight
The War on Gaza, 2008–2009
Israel’s Strategic Quandary
Highlight
Yarmouk Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Wihdat Refugee Camp
Jordan
Highlight
Palestine and International Justice
The Long and Tortuous Quest for Accountability
Highlight
Spain and the Palestine Question
Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel
Highlight
Palestinians in Germany
From Melancholia to Anger
Highlight
The Village of al-Araqib
Rebuilding Home for the Hundredth Time and Beyond
Highlight
The USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991
Between Ideology and Realism
Highlight
Public Contracts during the Mandate
Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals
Highlight
Beddawi Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank
Determined to Stay High on the National Agenda
Highlight
The Palestinian Poster
Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols
Highlight
Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity
1948-1993
Highlight
Palestinian Declaration of Independence, 15 November 1988
Historic Undertakings For the Sake of Statehood
Highlight
The May 2021 Gaza War
Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes
Highlight
The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip
Thwarting Resettlement Schemes
Highlight
The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948
An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come
Highlight
The Nakba
Stages of a Forced Displacement
Highlight
Lydda, 9-13 July 1948
A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March
Highlight
Dera‘a Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
The 2014 Gaza War
An Asymetric Draw
Highlight
XII. A Palestinian Authority Divided, Israeli Assaults on Gaza, and Peace Process Setbacks
2006-2017
Highlight
Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails
Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance
Highlight
The Bosnians of Palestine
1881-present
Highlight
The New South Africa and the Palestine Question
From Good Offices to Total Support
Highlight
The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question
Solidarity of the Colonized
Highlight
Palestine-Egypt Border
A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans
Highlight
The Palestinians in Sweden
Engaged for Palestine beyond their Diverse Legal Statuses
Highlight
Palestinian Music
Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry
Highlight
The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948
The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station
Highlight
Palestinian Theater
The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art
Highlight
Madrid and the Oslo Agreement, 1991-1993
Short-Lived Promises of a Negotiated Settlement
Highlight
The First Intifada, 1987-1993
Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom
Highlight
IX. The First Intifada And The Beginning Of Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations
1987-1993
Highlight
X. The Oslo Process And The Establishment Of The Palestinian Authority
1993-2000
Highlight
The Second Intifada, 2000-2005
Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations
Highlight
Palestinian Labor in Israel
A Fluctuating Market Subject to Israel’s Interests
Highlight
The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, 14 May 1948
An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status
Highlight
Palestine Liberation Organization (I)
The Reemergence of the Palestinian National Movement
Highlight
Mar Elias Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948
A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps
Highlight
The Algerians of Palestine
1830-1948
Highlight
Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations
Perpetuating Israel’s Structural Dominance
Highlight
Palestinian Music in Exile
Traditions and Resistance

Places

Place
al-Ashrafiyya
Place
al-Kafrayn
Place
al-Safiriyya
Place
al-Sarafand
Place
al-Sawafir al-Gharbiyya
Place
al-Sawafir al-Shamaliyya
Place
'Arab al-Safa
Place
Dayr Rafat
Place
Ghabat Kafr Sur
Place
Kafr 'Ana
Place
Kafr 'Inan
Place
Kafr Bir'im
Place
Kafr Saba
Place
Kafr Sabt
Place
Kafra
Place
Khirbat Zalafa
Place
Saffuriyya
Place
Safsaf
Place
Sarafand al-Kharab
Place
Sarafand al-'Amar
Place
Tall al-Safi
Place
Kafr Lam
Place
Bayt 'Affa
Place
al-Sawafir al-Sharqiyya
Place
Nitaf
Place
Sataf