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Biographies

1905 - 21 May 1985

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

1929 - 2 June 2016

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

Ismail Shammout

2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006

1939 - 19 August 2014

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

Historical Texts

Proclamation of the Independence of Syria (in Arabic)

Letter from Palestinian Associations and Clubs to the Syrian Congress Presidency (in Arabic)

Statement of the Arab National Conference (in Arabic)

13 December 1931

Communiqué: Formation of the Arab Independence Party; the Party Bylaws (in Arabic)

The Palestine Arab Party: Bylaws and Internal Regulations (in Arabic)

The Palestinian Arab Reform Party: Objectives (in Arabic)

National Bloc Party: Bylaws (in Arabic)

Arab Summit Resolutions, Anshas (in Arabic)

Establishment of a Provisional Palestinian Civil Administration (in Arabic)

Palestinian National Council in Gaza Declares the Independence of Palestine (in Arabic)

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

Lebanon’s Department for Palestinian Refugee Affairs (in Arabic)

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

5 November 1963

Palestine National Council, 1st Session: List of Members (in Arabic)

28 May 1964 - 2 June 1964

Palestine National Council, 1st Session: Political Resolutions (in Arabic)

28 May 1964 - 2 June 1964

Basic Law of the Palestinian National Fund (in Arabic)

Second Arab Summit: Statement (in Arabic)

5 September 1964 - 11 September 1964

Fatah First Military Communiqué (in Arabic)

President Bourguiba's Speech on the Palestine Question (in Arabic)

Bylaws of the Executive Committee of the PLO (in Arabic)

Palestine National Council, 2nd Session: Political Resolutions (in Arabic)

31 May 1965 - 4 June 1965

Third Arab Summit: Political Statement (in Arabic)

13 September 1965 - 18 September 1965

Palestine National Council, 3rd Session: Political Resolutions (in Arabic)

20 May 1966 - 24 May 1966

Palestinian Popular Congress, Statement (in Arabic)

6 April 1972 - 10 April 1972

Palestine National Council, 11th Session: Statement (in Arabic)

12 January 1973

Sixth Arab Summit: Statement (in Arabic)

28 November 1973

Statement of the General Congress to Defend Arab Lands in Israel (in Arabic)

18 October 1975

Admission of Palestine as Full Member in Arab League (in Arabic)

9 September 1976

Statement of the PLO Executive Committee on the Palestinian-Jordanian Joint Action Agreement (in Arabic)

18 February 1985

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1988: Concluding Statement (in Arabic)

7 June 1988 - 9 June 1988

Hamas’s Memorandum on Restructuring the Palestine National Council (in Arabic)

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1990: Statement (in Arabic)

28 May 1990 - 30 May 1990

Palestine National Council, 21st Session: Political Resolutions (in Arabic)

22 April 1996 - 25 April 1996

Thirteenth Arab Summit: Final Statement (in Arabic)

27 March 2001 - 28 March 2001

Fourteenth Arab Summit: The Arab Peace Initiative

Fifteenth Arab Summit: Final Statement (in Arabic)

Sixteenth Arab Summit: Final Statement (in Arabic)

22 May 2004 - 23 May 2004

Palestinian Dialogue Conference (in Arabic)

Seventeenth Arab Summit: The Algiers Declaration (in Arabic)

22 March 2005 - 23 March 2005

List of Jobs and Professions Restricted to Lebanese Citizens (in Arabic)

14 December 2005

Nineteenth Arab Summit: Resolutions (in Arabic)

28 March 2007 - 29 March 2007

Statement of the Central Council of the Palestine Liberation Organization (in Arabic)

PLO Central Council, Statement (in Arabic)

The Palestine Announcement in Lebanon (in Arabic)

Final Statement of the Palestinian National Conference (in Arabic)

25 January 2008

Twentieth Arab Summit: The Damascus Declaration (in Arabic)

29 March 2008 - 30 March 2008

PLO Central Council, Resolutions (in Arabic)

23 November 2008 - 24 November 2008

Twenty-First Arab Summit: The Doha Declaration (in Arabic)

Fatah Sixth General Conference: Political Program (in Arabic)

Egypt's View on Ending Palestinian Division (in Arabic)

9 September 2009

Agreement on Palestinian National Conciliation (Draft) (in Arabic)

10 October 2009

Twenty-Second Arab Summit: The Sirte Declaration (in Arabic)

Provision on Palestinian Workers in Amended Lebanese Social Security Law (in Arabic)

Implementation Mechanisms of the Palestinian National Conciliation Agreement: Minutes of Palestinian Factions' Meeting (in Arabic)

20 December 2011

The Doha Declaration on Palestinian Reconciliation (in Arabic)

6 February 2012

Twenty-Third Arab Summit: The Baghdad Declaration

Twenty-Fourth Arab Summit: The Doha Declaration (in Arabic)

26 March 2013 - 27 March 2013

Twenty-Fifth Arab Summit: Resolutions (in Arabic)

25 March 2014 - 26 March 2014

Statement Issued after a PLO-Hamas Meeting to End Division and Implement the National Reconciliation Agreement (in Arabic)

PLO Central Council, Resolutions (in Arabic)

26 April 2014 - 27 April 2014

Twenty-Sixth Arab Summit: Resolutions (in Arabic)

28 March 2015 - 29 March 2015

Statement of the PLO Executive Committee on the Report of the Quartet (in Arabic)

Twenty-Seventh Arab Summit: The Nouakchott Declaration (in Arabic)

Fatah's 7th General Conference: Final Communiqué (in Arabic)

29 November 2016 - 4 December 2016

Statement of the Preparatory Committee for the Palestine National Council (in Arabic)

11 January 2017

Closing Statement of the Popular Conference for the Palestinians Abroad (in Arabic)

25 February 2017 - 26 February 2017

Twenty-Eighth Arab Summit: The Amman Declaration (in Arabic)

Statement Issued Following the Meeting of the Palestinian National Action Factions (in Arabic)

21 November 2017 - 22 November 2017

Emergency Meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (in Arabic)

13 December 2017

PLO Central Council, 28th Session: Final Communiqué (in Arabic)

15 January 2018

Palestine National Council, 23rd Session: Final Communiqué (in Arabic)

30 April 2018 - 4 May 2018

PLO Central Council, 29th Session: Resolutions (in Arabic)

15 August 2018 - 17 August 2018

PLO Central Council, 30th Session: Communiqué (in Arabic)

28 October 2018 - 29 October 2018

Meeting of Palestinian Organizations' Secretaries-General: Final Communiqué (in Arabic)

3 September 2020

Events

The Battle for Haifa and Its Surroundings

4 April 1948 - 22 April 1948

Operation Hametz and the Fall of Jaffa

24 April 1948 - 13 May 1948

Zionist Conquest of Eastern Galilee

28 April 1948 - 25 May 1948

Operations Makkabi and Ben-Nun in al-Latrun Area

8 May 1948 - 31 May 1948

Operation Barak Toward the South

9 May 1948 - 13 May 1948

Operation Ben-Ami in Western Galilee

13 May 1948 - 21 May 1948

Control of Coastal Plain Haifa-Tel Aviv

13 May 1948 - 23 May 1948

Operations Shfifon and Kilshon in Jerusalem

14 May 1948 - 28 May 1948

End of First Truce: Israeli Operations An-Far, Dani and Qedem

8 July 1948 - 17 July 1948

End of First Truce: Israeli Operation Dekel

8 July 1948 - 18 July 1948

Ethnic Cleansing During the Second Truce

24 July 1948 - 15 October 1948

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

15 October 1948 - 4 November 1948

Operation Hiram in the North

28 October 1948 - 31 October 1948

A Massacre in al-Dawayima

29 October 1948

Operation Horev Against Egyptian Forces

22 December 1948 - 6 January 1949

Palestinians Reorganize

11 December 1967 - 19 January 1968

Guerrilla Resistance in Gaza Strip

Civil Aviation in the Conflict

23 July 1968 - 29 August 1969

PDFLP Splits off from PFLP

22 February 1969

Palestinian-Israeli Clashes in South Lebanon and Jordan Valley

22 May 1970 - 29 May 1970

Assassination Attempt of Wadi Haddad in Beirut

Assassination Attempt of George Habash in Bsaba Village

PFLP Hijack Operations

6 September 1970 - 12 September 1970

The PFLP Announces It Has Abandoned the Tactic of Hijacking Planes

10th (Extraordinary) Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo

6 April 1972 - 12 April 1972

Japanese Red Army at Lod Airport

Assassination of Ghassan Kanafani in Beirut

Attempted Assassination of Bassam Abu Sharif in Beirut

Black September Hijack Operation

29 October 1972 - 30 October 1972

Muhammad al-Aswad Is Killed in Gaza

Basil al-Kubaisi Assassinated in Paris

Palestinian Operations in Northern Israel

Palestinian Rejection Front

10 October 1974

Palestinian Operations from South Lebanon

5 March 1975 - 20 November 1975

Plane Hijacked to Entebbe

27 June 1976 - 4 July 1976

A PLF Operation in Nahariya

Palestinian Internal Polarization

27 March 1984 - 20 May 1984

Palestinians Hijack an Israeli Bus Toward Gaza

Fatah-Democratic Alliance Precarious Reconciliation

27 June 1984 - 2 September 1984

Attempted Assassination of Zaki Hillo in Madrid

PLO Executive on Palestinian-Jordanian Joint Action Agreement

18 February 1985

Attempts to Form a Jordanian-Palestinian Delegation to Meet the US

1 March 1985 - 1 September 1985

Palestinian National Salvation Front Is Formed in Damascus

Prisoner Exchange between Israel and the PFLP-CG

Extraordinary Arab Summit Meets in Casablanca

7 August 1985 - 9 August 1985

Breakdown of Jordanian-Palestinian Coordination

25 January 1986 - 1 April 1986

Assassination of Zafir al-Masri

2 March 1986 - 3 March 1986

Khaled Nazzal Assassinated in Athens

Two Palestinian Newspapers Banned in Jerusalem

Fatah-DFLP-PCP Reconciliation: The Prague Declaration

6 September 1986

18th Palestine National Council Is Held in Algiers: Restoration of Unity

20 April 1987 - 25 April 1987

Palestinian Hang-Glider Operation

25 November 1987

Unified National Leadership of the Uprising

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

9 December 1988

Egypt Proposes a Ten-Point Plan for Palestinian Elections

1 July 1989 - 30 September 1989

Israel's National Unity Government Collapses

13 March 1990 - 11 June 1990

Israel Deports Four Palestinians from Gaza to South Lebanon

Elections in Israel

6th Negotiation Round, 1st Stage, Washington

24 August 1992 - 3 September 1992

A Coalition of 10 Palestinian Organizations Opposed to Negotiations Is Formed in Damascus

16 September 1992

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Tunis

10 October 1993 - 12 October 1993

US Position on Further Redeployment and Palestinian Obligations

5 December 1997 - 3 September 1998

Several Palestinian Organizations Publicly Oppose Wye Memorandum

26 October 1998

President Clinton's Visit to Gaza

14 December 1998

Palestinian Popular Congress to Confirm Nullification Articles of National Charter, Gaza

14 December 1998

Clinton's Letter of Assurance to Arafat as a "Compensation" for Not Declaring a State

Abu Ali Mustafa, PFLP Deputy Secretary-General Returns to Palestine

30 September 1999

Petition of the Twenty Denouncing the Palestinian Authority

27 November 1999 - 29 November 1999

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Gaza

2 February 2000 - 3 February 2000

George Habash Retires as S-G of PFLP

27 April 2000 - 28 April 2000

Start of the Second Intifada

29 September 2000 - 4 October 2000

Operation Bronze and Escalation

7 March 2001 - 16 May 2001

The Tenet Cease-Fire Plan

11 June 2001 - 20 June 2001

Palestinian-Israeli Confrontation Escalates

20 August 2001 - 10 September 2001

Assassination of Rehavam Ze'evi and its Immediate Aftermath

17 October 2001 - 25 October 2001

Timid Diplomatic Efforts

2 November 2001 - 19 November 2001

An Uneven Race Between Diplomacy and Violence: Operation Colorful Journey

17 February 2002 - 26 March 2002

SC Res. 1397: Affirming a Vision of Two States, Israel and Palestine, Living Side by Side

Massive Israeli Invasion: Operation Defensive Shield

28 March 2002 - 10 May 2002

Invasion of Ramallah: The Siege of Arafat's Compound

29 March 2002 - 1 May 2002

Security on the Aftermath of Operation Defensive Shield

7 May 2002 - 5 June 2002

Triggered by a Suicide Bombing, Israel Carries Out Operation Determined Path

18 June 2002 - 16 July 2002

Aftermath of Salah Shehadeh's Assassination

22 July 2002 - 14 August 2002

Israeli Operation Matter of Time; Siege on Arafat Tightened; Protests All Over Occupied Territories

18 September 2002 - 29 September 2002

Israel Unable to Quell Palestinian Attacks

10 October 2002 - 5 January 2003

The Likud Wins the Elections for the Knesset

28 January 2003

Extending Retaliation to Syrian Territory; Operation Root Canal in Rafah

4 October 2003 - 30 October 2003

Timing New Israeli Escalation with Sharon's Speech on Disengagement Plan

18 December 2003 - 31 January 2004

Israel Launches Operation Continuous Story Against Palestinian Leaders

14 March 2004 - 5 April 2004

Widening Philadelphi (Salahuddin) Route: Operation Rainbow

16 May 2004 - 24 May 2004

Life Sentence Against Marwan Barghouti

Operation Full Court Press in Nablus

23 June 2004 - 19 August 2004

Operation Active Shield in Gaza; Assassination of Militants in Gaza and West Bank

27 June 2004 - 5 August 2004

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

7 July 2004 - 27 July 2004

Operation Days of Penitence

29 September 2004 - 15 October 2004

Israeli Attacks Resume: Operations Orange Iron, Violet Iron

17 November 2004 - 28 December 2004

Israel Launches Operation Eastern Step

8 January 2005 - 17 January 2005

Ongoing Israeli Raids: Operation First Rain

23 September 2005 - 2 October 2005

Palestinian Legislative Elections: Parties and Factions Sign a Code of Conduct

17 October 2005

Israel Launches Operation Starting All Over Again

24 October 2005 - 30 October 2005

Fourth Round of Municipal Elections

15 December 2005

Palestinian Legislative Elections: Registered Party Slates

18 December 2005

Operation Blue Skies and Continuing Escalation

22 December 2005 - 23 January 2006

Palestinian Legislative Elections Results: Hamas's Victory

26 January 2006 - 29 January 2006

Israeli Operations Resume

3 February 2006 - 11 February 2006

Israeli Raid on Jericho Jail

14 March 2006 - 18 March 2006

Israel Launches Operation Southern Arrow

30 March 2006 - 14 May 2006

The Prisoners' Initiative: National Conciliation Document

10 May 2006 - 13 May 2006

Israel Steps up Military Actions in Gaza

29 May 2006 - 15 June 2006

Hamas Operation Dispel Illusion: Capture of Gilad Shalit

25 June 2006 - 1 July 2006

Israel Retaliates Against Shalit's Capture: Operation Summer Rains

28 June 2006 - 8 July 2006

July War: Massacre in Qana; 48-Hour Partial Suspension of Air Strikes

30 July 2006 - 2 August 2006

Israel's Operation Summer Rains Enters its 4th Month

1 October 2006 - 31 October 2006

Israel's Operation Autumn Clouds Against Gaza

1 November 2006 - 12 November 2006

Israeli Operation Hot Winter in Nablus

25 February 2007 - 7 March 2007

Ongoing Military Confrontation: Israel Declares Gaza a "Hostile Territory"

16 August 2007 - 3 November 2007

Relentless Israeli-Palestinian Confrontation in Gaza

15 January 2008 - 22 January 2008

A Palestinian National Congress Is Held in Damascus

23 January 2008 - 25 January 2008

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status (Almost) Suspended

The War on Gaza (2008-09): Operation Cast Lead/ Battle of al-Furqan

27 December 2008 - 18 January 2009

Binyamin Netanyahu of Likud Forms Israeli Cabinet after Close Election Results

10 February 2009 - 31 March 2009

Palestinian National Unity Talks Resume in Cairo

25 February 2009 - 18 May 2009

Palestine National Council Special Meeting Is Held in Ramallah

26 August 2009 - 27 August 2009

Israel-Hamas Token Preliminary Prisoner Deal

2 October 2009 - 3 October 2009

Assassination of Zuhair al-Qaissi and Mahmoud Hanani in Gaza City

Israel's 2012 Assault on the Gaza Strip, Day 1

14 November 2012

Tension and Hostilities Mount Across Gaza

14 June 2014 - 2 July 2014

The Palestinian Unity Government Still Does not Administer Gaza

11 January 2015 - 19 April 2015

Israel Detains Khalida Jarrar, then Releases Her, then Detains Her again

2 April 2015 - 31 October 2019

A Third Intifada or a Temporary Outburst?

2 October 2015 - 31 January 2016

Palestinian Reconciliation Meetings Renewed in Doha, Beirut and Moscow, with No Results

5 January 2017 - 17 January 2017

Municipal Elections in the West Bank

23rd Palestine National Council Convenes in Ramallah

30 April 2018 - 3 May 2018

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah

15 August 2018 - 17 August 2018

Highlights

Preservation of Heritage in Palestine

A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure

Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails

Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

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

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

IX. The First Intifada And The Beginning Of Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

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

The May 2021 Gaza War

Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

The Second Intifada, 2000-2005

Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

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 (II)

From the Limelight to the Backstage

The Palestinian National Initiative Movement - Al-Mubadara

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)

After the Nakba

Madrid and the Oslo Agreement, 1991-1993

Short-Lived Promises of a Negotiated Settlement

The Palestinian Communist Movement

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Palestinian Refugees in Syria

Fully Integrated, for Better and for Worse

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse

A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism

VI. The Rise Of The Palestinian Movement In The Wake Of The 1967 Arab Defeat

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966

Governing the Lives of a Confined Population

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (II)