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Biographies

Biography
Ali al-Rimawi
1860 - 1919
Biography
Jurji Habib Hanania
1864 - 1920
Biography
Tawfiq Canaan
24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964
Biography
Abd al-Hamid Shuman
1888 - 9 September 1974
Biography
Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali
1889 - 7 July 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
Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi
1896 - 27 September 1951
Biography
Ishaq Musa al-Husseini
1904 - 17 December 1990
Biography
Abd al-Majid Shuman
1912 - 5 July 2005
Biography
Tawfiq Zayyad
7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994
Biography
Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)
10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

Events

Event
Building of the Jaffa-Jerusalem Railroad Line
1892
Event
Eight Jewish Colonies Are Established in Palestine between 1899 and 1907
1899 - 1907
Event
Limited British Advances; Stabilization of the Military Front
21 December 1917 - 21 April 1918
Event
Fighting Around Jerusalem
12 April 1948 - 23 April 1948
Event
The Knesset Amends the Municipal Corporations Ordinance to Extend Area of West Jerusalem Municipality
27 June 1967 - 29 June 1967
Event
Israeli Settlement in the Old City of Hebron
10 February 1980 - 23 March 1980
Event
Land Expropriation in Jerusalem
27 April 1995 - 3 May 1995
Event
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin Maps the Shape of the Israeli-Palestinian Permanent Solution
5 October 1995
Event
Assassination of Yahya Ayyash in Beit Lahiya
5 January 1996
Event
Israeli Retaliatory Strategy and First Signs of a "Militarized" Intifada
19 October 2000 - 7 November 2000
Event
Assassination of Hussein Ubayyat in Beit Sahur, Before a Clinton-Arafat Meeting in Washington
9 November 2000
Event
Fallout of Abu Ali Mustafa's Assassination
28 August 2001 - 10 September 2001
Event
Assassination of Rehavam Ze'evi and its Immediate Aftermath
17 October 2001 - 25 October 2001
Event
Assassination of Atef Ubayyat in Beit Sahur
18 October 2001
Event
Grave Escalation from Both Sides
9 January 2002 - 21 February 2002
Event
Israeli Army Refocuses on Gaza Strip
19 August 2002 - 7 October 2002
Event
Israel Unable to Quell Palestinian Attacks
10 October 2002 - 5 January 2003
Event
Assassination of Muhammad Ubayyat in Beit Jala
13 October 2002
Event
Draft SC Res. S/2002/1385 Demanding Israel's Compliance with 4th Geneva Convention Vetoed by US
20 December 2002
Event
Deepest Israeli Incursion in the Gaza Strip
24 January 2003 - 27 January 2003
Event
Military Confrontation Escalates Again in Gaza
15 February 2003 - 6 March 2003
Event
The US War Against Iraq; Security Developments in the West Bank and Gaza
17 March 2003 - 9 April 2003
Event
Heightened Violence Despite Diplomacy
1 May 2003 - 29 June 2003
Event
Assassination of Yasir Taha in Gaza City
12 June 2003
Event
Unilateral Cease-Fire Announcement and Gaza-First Arrangements
21 June 2003 - 2 July 2003
Event
Assassination of Iyad Hilu and Khaled al-Masri in Gaza City
20 October 2003
Event
Timing Another Israeli Escalation with Sharon's Interview on Gaza-Centered Disengagement Plan
2 February 2004 - 13 March 2004
Event
Timing Another Israeli Escalation with Sharon's Plan
15 April 2004 - 29 April 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
Settlement Activity in Spite of Road Map
2 August 2004 - 23 August 2004
Event
Assassination of Khaled Abu Silmiyya in Gaza City
19 September 2004
Event
Operation Days of Penitence
29 September 2004 - 15 October 2004
Event
Israeli Attacks Resume: Operations Orange Iron, Violet Iron
17 November 2004 - 28 December 2004
Event
Israel Launches Operation Eastern Step
8 January 2005 - 17 January 2005
Event
Assassination of Said Abdul Fattah Abu al-Jedian in Beit Lahiya
2 January 2006
Event
Assassination of Ra'id Ubayyat in Beit Sahour
3 April 2006
Event
Israel Steps up Military Actions in Gaza
29 May 2006 - 15 June 2006
Event
Israel Retaliates Against Shalit's Capture: Operation Summer Rains
28 June 2006 - 8 July 2006
Event
New Israeli Pattern of Battering Gaza
11 July 2006 - 15 August 2006
Event
Olmert's Convergence Plan Put Aside; Settlement Activity Resumes
18 August 2006 - 21 September 2006
Event
Israel's Operation Autumn Clouds Against Gaza
1 November 2006 - 12 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
Israeli Operations Against Gaza Resume
24 June 2007 - 12 July 2007
Event
Settlement Expansion in Jabal Abu Ghunaym/ Har Homa
4 December 2007
Event
Assassination of Raed Abu al-Ful in Beit Lahiya
17 January 2008
Event
Assassination of Amer Qarmout in Beit Lahiya
4 February 2008
Event
Israel Launches Operation Hot Winter in Gaza
28 February 2008 - 3 March 2008
Event
Israel Announces New Settlement Construction Plans
9 March 2008 - 2 April 2008
Event
Assassination of Ibrahim Abu Olba in Beit Lahiya
14 April 2008
Event
War on Gaza, Day 1, Start of Phase 1
27 December 2008
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, Day 14
9 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 15: Intensification of Israeli Attacks
10 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 21
16 January 2009
Event
Binyamin Netanyahu of Likud Forms Israeli Cabinet after Close Election Results
10 February 2009 - 31 March 2009
Event
Israel's Demolition and Eviction Orders Increase in East Jerusalem
2 August 2009 - 9 November 2009
Event
Israel's Ramat Shlomo Constructions' Plan During Joe Biden's Visit
8 March 2010 - 11 March 2010
Event
Israel Approves Settlement Expansion
2 March 2011 - 11 August 2011
Event
Israeli Settlement Activity Continues, Including Through Expulsion
12 December 2011 - 28 December 2011
Event
Assassination of Ahmad Abu Jalal near al-Maghazi Refugee Camp
16 November 2012
Event
Symbolic Erection of Bab al-Shams and Bab al-Karama villages in the West Bank
11 January 2013 - 20 January 2013
Event
Israel Once Again Links the Second-Stage Release of Palestinian Prisoners with Settlement Expansion
29 October 2013 - 3 November 2013
Event
Palestinians in the West Bank Protest Israeli Settlement Expansion
31 January 2014 - 7 February 2014
Event
Palestinians in West Bank Mobilize in Support of Gaza
8 July 2014 - 22 August 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War, Day 2
9 July 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War, Day 3
10 July 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War, Days 6−8
13 July 2014 - 15 July 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War: Israel Launches Ground Invasion (Phase II)
17 July 2014 - 31 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
The 2014 Gaza War, Days 16-20
23 July 2014 - 27 July 2014
Event
Settlement Construction
23 July 2015 - 17 November 2015
Event
With the Haram al-Sharif Tensions, Protests Spread to the Occupied Territories
13 September 2015 - 30 September 2015
Event
Continued Israeli Settlement Activity and Destruction of Palestinian Infrastructure
27 July 2016 - 7 December 2016
Event
Israel Races for Settlement Activities with an Eye on Trump
22 January 2017 - 1 February 2017
Event
Assassination Attempt on PA PM Hamdallah and Intel Chief Faraj in Bayt Hanun
13 March 2018 - 19 March 2018
Event
Airstrikes and Rockets in Wake of Casualties during Great March of Return Protest
26 May 2018 - 20 August 2018
Event
Israel Announces Massive Settlement Expansion after Normalization Deals
14 October 2020 - 15 December 2020

Historical Texts

Document
Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner
30 June 1936
Document
Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report
9 November 1938
Document
UNGA Partition Plan
29 November 1947
Document
Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement
24 February 1949
Document
Report Submitted by the Arab Refugee Congress of Ramallah on al-Dawayima Massacre
14 June 1949
Document
Tenth Arab Summit: Final Statement
20 November 1979 - 22 November 1979
Document
Kahan Commission of Inquiry Report into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut
7 February 1983
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 19780
14 April 1988
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 20945/Rev.1
6 November 1989
Document
Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area
4 May 1994
Document
Yitzhak Rabin’s Address to Knesset after Israeli-Palestinian Agreement
5 October 1995
Document
Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron
17 January 1997
Document
The “Moratinos Non-Paper” on the Outcome of the Taba Talks (21-27 January 2001)
27 January 2001
Document
The Mitchell Report
30 April 2001
Document
Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council
15 May 2002
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution S/2002/1385
20 December 2002
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 2006/878
10 November 2006
Document
UNGA Resolution ES-10/16
30 November 2006
Document
Letter Dated 4 May 2009 from the Secretary-General Addressed to the President of the Security Council
4 May 2009
Document
Report of the Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (Goldstone Report)
25 September 2009
Document
Report of the UNHِQ Board of Inquiry Into Incidents Affecting UNRWA Schools during the 2014 Gaza War
27 April 2015
Document
Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict
24 June 2015
Document
Law for the Regularization of Settlement in Judea and Samaria, 5777-2017
6 February 2017
Document
Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry: On the Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
28 February 2019
Document
Database of All Business Enterprises Involved in Israeli Settlement Activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
12 February 2020

Highlights

Highlight
Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine
Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement
Highlight
The Palestinian Short Story
Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor
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Palestinian Theater
The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art
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Preservation of Heritage in Palestine
A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure
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Palestinian Music
Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry
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Present Absentees in Israel
Exiled in Their Own Homeland
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Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails
Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance
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Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa
Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field
Highlight
The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948
An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come
Highlight
XI. The Al-Aqsa Intifada and the End of an Era in Palestinian Politics
2000-2006
Highlight
The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip
Thwarting Resettlement Schemes
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Palestinian Emigration (I)
1850s-1967
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Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule
Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition
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Palestinian Embroidery
A Rich and Diverse National Heritage
Highlight
The Peel Commission, 1936–1937
Sowing the Seeds of the Partition
Highlight
Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
A Vulnerable Yet Vibrant Community
Highlight
Battle of al-Karama, 21 March 1968
A Triggering Moment For the Palestinian Resistance
Highlight
The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse
A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism
Highlight
The Palestinians in Chile
A Large Community, Fully Chilean, Fully Engaged for Palestine
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Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp
West Bank
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Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp
Syria
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Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp
Syria
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Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp
Lebanon
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The Palestinians in Peru
A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History
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The 2014 Gaza War
An Asymetric Draw
Highlight
The May 2021 Gaza War
Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes
Highlight
Dheisheh Refugee Camp
West Bank
Highlight
Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp
Syria
Highlight
Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
The War on Gaza, 2008–2009
Israel’s Strategic Quandary
Highlight
Mar Elias Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Wihdat Refugee Camp
Jordan
Highlight
Shatila Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Beddawi Refugee Camp
Lebanon

Places

Place
al-Jalama
Place
al-Jaladiyya
Place
al-Jalama