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Events

Acre Under Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar

Napoleon Bonaparte in Palestine

February 1799 - May 1799

Great Britain Invades and Occupies Egypt

Elections Held for Third Ottoman Parliament; Five Representatives from Regions in Palestine

17 December 1908 - 17 January 1912

Formation of the Ottoman Party for Administrative Decentralization in Cairo

Jemal Pasha Orders the Public Hanging of Arab Nationalists from the Levant

21 August 1915 - 6 May 1916

Start of the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans

Hybrid Status for Transjordan; Prince Abdullah Becomes Its Emir

Establishment of the Arab Bank in Jerusalem

21 May 1930 - 14 July 1930

Hanging of Palestinian Militants

Establishment of the Arab National Fund

September 1932 - 8 August 1935

Arab National Fund Reestablished

Arab Office (AO) Is Opened in Washington

September 1945 - December 1947

Attempt to Reconstitute the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine

22 November 1945 - 29 May 1946

Ahmad Hilmi Abd al-Baqi Is Appointed Military Governor of Jerusalem

Establishment of All-Palestine Government in Gaza

22 September 1948 - 2 October 1948

Death of Ahmad Hilmi Abd al-Baqi; Ahmad al-Shuqairi as Palestine Delegate to the Arab League

29 June 1963 - 19 September 1963

Palestinian Delegation at the UN

18 October 1963 - 5 November 1963

1st Arab Summit Meets in Cairo, Deals with Israeli Diversion of the Jordan River

13 January 1964 - 17 January 1964

1st Palestine National Council Is Held in Jerusalem: Establishment of the PLO

28 May 1964 - 2 June 1964

Opening an Office of the PLO in Lebanon

23 October 1964 - 13 November 1964

2nd Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo

31 May 1965 - 4 June 1965

Palestinians Reorganize

11 December 1967 - 19 January 1968

Shaykh Ahmad Yasin's Islamic Center Is Established in Gaza

7 September 1973

A PLF Operation in Nahariya

First Communiqué of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

14 December 1987

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

9 December 1988

Ahmad Yasin Arrested

Israel Deports 415 Palestinians to South Lebanon

13 December 1992 - 17 December 1992

Norwegian Secret Channel, Exploratory Stage

20 January 1993 - 9 May 1993

Norwegian Secret Channel, Official Stage

20 May 1993 - 20 August 1993

Start of Israel-PLO Economic Talks in Paris

Inauguration of the Palestinian Legislative Council in Gaza

Attempted Assassination of Khalid Mishal in Amman; Ahmad Yasin Released

25 September 1997 - 1 October 1997

Setting Up Israeli-Palestinian Back Channel

1 December 1999 - 5 May 2000

The Stockholm Back Channel - 1st Session

12 May 2000 - 15 May 2000

Andrews and Bolling Rounds of Negotiation

13 June 2000 - 17 June 2000

Assassination of Ahmad As'ad in Artas

Assassination of Ahmad Marshud in Nablus

15 October 2001

Another Timid Return to Diplomacy: a Peres-Qurai' Draft?

16 December 2001 - 27 December 2001

Invasion of Ramallah: The Siege of Arafat's Compound

29 March 2002 - 1 May 2002

Assassination of Jihad Jibril in Beirut

Assassination of Ala Ahmad Sabbagh and Imad Nasharti in Jenin Refugee Camp

26 November 2002

Assassination of Jasir Hussein Ahmad Aleemi in Tulkarm

Assassination of Ahmad Rushdi Mustafa Ishteiwi in Gaza City

Assassination Attempt of Hamas Leadership, Including Ahmad Yasin, in Gaza City

6 September 2003

Ahmad Qurai' Is Appointed PM: A Nine-Week Ministerial Crisis

7 September 2003 - 12 November 2003

Palestinian Peace Gestures

1 December 2003 - 7 January 2004

Assassination of Ahmad Yasin in Gaza City

Appointment of Abd al-Aziz Rantisi Head of Hamas in Gaza

Draft SC Res. S/2004/240 Condemning Extrajudicial Executions (Shaykh Ahmad Yasin) and all Terrorist Acts Vetoed by US

Reactions to Bush's Assurances to Sharon RE Disengagement Plan

15 April 2004 - 6 May 2004

Assassination of Abd al-Aziz Rantisi in Gaza City

The Palestinian Leadership Faces an Internal Crisis and Risks Loss of Control

7 July 2004 - 27 July 2004

Attempted Assassination of Ahmad Ja'bari in Gaza City

Palestinian Presidential Elections: Mahmoud Abbas Is Elected

1 December 2004 - 15 January 2005

New Palestinian Cabinet under Ahmad Qurai'

24 February 2005

Assassination of Shadi Suhail Muhanna and Muhammad Ahmad Kandeel in Jabaliya Refugee Camp

27 October 2005

Israeli Raid on Jericho Jail

14 March 2006 - 18 March 2006

Assassination of Ahmad Awad and Ramzi Shuhaybir in Gaza City

8 November 2006

Formation of the Palestinian Unity Government

15 March 2007 - 17 March 2007

Palestinian and Israeli Teams to Prepare Annapolis International Conference

20 September 2007 - 25 November 2007

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status: Bad Start

12 December 2007 - 27 December 2007

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status Intensify

4 February 2008 - 24 February 2008

Assassination of Muhammad Shihada, Ahmad Balbul, Imad Kamel, and Issa Marzouk in Bethlehem

Hamas-Fatah Talks in Yemen

18 March 2008 - 28 March 2008

The PLO Considers Internationalization as an Alternative to Negotiations

16 October 2010

Assassination of Ahmad Shaykh Khalil, Muhammad Ashur, Bassem Abu al-Ata, Hassan al-Khadari, and Abd al-Karim Shatat in Rafah

29 October 2011

Assassination of Eid Oukal in Rafah

Assassination of Ahmad Ja'bari in Gaza City

14 November 2012

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza

14 November 2012 - 22 November 2012

Assassination of Ahmad Abu Jalal near al-Maghazi Refugee Camp

16 November 2012

Assassination of Ahmad al-Nahal in al-Shati Refugee Camp

18 November 2012

Fatah Seventh General Conference Renews Its Governing Bodies

4 December 2016

Amendment No. 46 of Basic Law: The Knesset Gives Additional Reasons for Disqualifying Arab Candidates

Cracks in Arab Unity on Palestine

9 September 2020 - 22 September 2020

Biographies

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

1880 - 16 June 1946

Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar

Izzeddin al-Qassam

1882 - 20 November 1935

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

1882 - 29 June 1963

Isaaf al-Nashashibi

1885 - 22 January 1948

1885 - 19 December 1953

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani

1888 - 20 January 1954

Abd al-Hamid Shuman

1888 - 9 September 1974

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

George Antonius

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

1893 - 27 April 1940

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

1896 - 27 September 1951

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Anbara Salam Khalidi

4 August 1897 - 1986

Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari

1900 - 29 May 1980

1902 - 27 August 1984

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

1905 - 2 May 1941

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih

1907 - 8 January 2001

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi

1909 - 11 October 1980

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

Qudsia Khourshid

5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil

1917 - 12 December 2003

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

Bassam Shak’a

1930 - 22 July 2019

Anis Abdullah Sayigh

3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009

13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

Ahmad Ismail Yasin

June 1936 - 22 March 2004

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

Abd al-Aziz Rantisi

1947 - 17 April 2004

4 January 1951 - 26 October 1995

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

1962 - 31 July 2024

Historical Media

Jemal Pasha Reviews His Troops

Members of the Istiqlal (Independence) Party

Arab Higher Committee Members

Smashing the Palestinian Political Infrastructure

15 December 1938

Arab League Warnings

Historical Texts

Message of the General Syrian Congress To the King-Crane Commission

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

Speech of Ahmad al-Shuqairi, Head of the Palestine Delegation, before the UN Special Political Committee (in Arabic)

5 November 1963

Ninth Arab Summit: Final Statement

2 November 1978 - 5 November 1978

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

Prime Minister Elect Ismail Haniyeh Presents New Government’s Program To the Palestinian Legislative Council

Agreement Between Fatah and Hamas to End Palestinian Division

12 October 2017

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

28 February 2019

Highlights

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party

VII. From A Sense Of Victory To Separate Peace And Civil War

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

XI. The Al-Aqsa Intifada and the End of an Era in Palestinian Politics

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

V. Reverberations Of 1948 Palestine War And The Arab-Israeli Conflict

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

Battle of al-Karama, 21 March 1968

A Triggering Moment For the Palestinian Resistance

Palestine Liberation Organization (I)

The Reemergence of the Palestinian National Movement

Palestine Liberation Organization (II)

From the Limelight to the Backstage

Madrid and the Oslo Agreement, 1991-1993

Short-Lived Promises of a Negotiated Settlement

The Palestinian Communist Movement

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

Nablus Soap Production

The Decline of an Ancient Heritage

Jaramana Refugee Camp

The Bosnians of Palestine

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (II)

X. The Oslo Process And The Establishment Of The Palestinian Authority

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

A Watershed in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp

Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza

2012