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Events

Event
European Powers Press the Ottomans on Jewish Immigration
2 March 1888 - 4 October 1888
Event
Fatah Is Founded
September 1957
Event
Deportation of Bassam Shak'a Reversed After West Bank Mayors Threaten Resignation
11 November 1979 - 5 December 1979
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SC Res. 1073: Calling for the Reversal of all Acts (Opening of Western Wall Tunnel) Aggravating the Situation
28 September 1996
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Assassination of Ismail Abu Shanab in Gaza City
21 August 2003 - 25 August 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
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UNGA Res. ES-10/14: Requesting an Advisory Opinion from the ICJ on the Legal Consequences of the Wall
8 December 2003
Event
Arafat's Sudden Illness and Death
12 October 2004 - 12 November 2004
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Lebanon Reregisters the Records of Palestinian Refugees It Had Deleted
8 July 2006
Event
Israel Breaks the Gaza Cease-Fire
4 November 2008 - 30 November 2008
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SC Res. 1850: Expressing Support for the Annapolis Negotiations and the Quartet Principles of January 2006
16 December 2008
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US Demands on Israel After the Ramat Shlomo Plan
9 March 2010 - 25 March 2010
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Battir Landscape Is Inscribed in the World Heritage List
20 June 2014
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The Knesset Passes Amendment Allowing Force-Feeding of Prisoners on Hunger Strike
29 July 2015
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To Satisfy Israel, France Backpedals on an Important Component of its Peace Initiative
9 March 2016 - 23 May 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
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Palestinian Diplomatic Activity after US Recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's Capital
6 December 2017 - 20 December 2017
Event
The US Opens its Embassy in Jerusalem; Guatemala and Paraguay (Temporarily) Follow Suit
14 May 2018 - 15 May 2018
Event
Airbnb Pressured to End Operations in the West Bank; Reverses Decision After Pressure
19 November 2018 - 9 April 2019
Event
Morocco Normalizes Relations with Israel in Exchange for US Recognition of Western Sahara as Part of Morocco
10 December 2020 - 14 December 2020

Biographies

Biography
Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari
1900 - 29 May 1980
Biography
Tawfiq Zayyad
7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994
Biography
Yasir Arafat
24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

Historical Texts

Document
Memorandum of the Arab Higher Committee: On the Peel Commission Report
23 July 1937
Document
The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945
22 September 1945
Document
Palestinian Declaration of Independence
15 November 1988
Document
Yasir Arafat’s Speech Before the Forty-Third Session of the United Nations General Assembly
13 December 1988
Document
Speech of Haydar Abd al-Shafi at the Madrid Conference
31 October 1991
Document
Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip
28 September 1995
Document
UNSC Resolution 1073
28 September 1996
Document
UNGA Resolution ES-10/3
15 July 1997
Document
UNGA Resolution ES-10/6
9 February 1999
Document
Protocol Concerning Safe Passage Between The West Bank And The Gaza Strip
5 October 1999
Document
UNGA Resolution ES-10/7
20 October 2000
Document
The Mitchell Report
30 April 2001
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 2003/980
14 October 2003
Document
UNGA Resolution ES-10/13
27 October 2003
Document
UNGA Resolution ES-10/15
2 August 2004
Document
UNSC Resolution 1850
16 December 2008
Document
Report of the Middle East Quartet
1 July 2016
Document
UNSC Resolution 2334
23 December 2016
Document
Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace
28 December 2016
Document
Middle East Peace Conference Joint Declaration
15 January 2017
Document
UNESCWA Report on Israeli Apartheid
15 March 2017
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution S/2017/1060
18 December 2017
Document
UNGA Resolution ES-10/19
21 December 2017
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 2018/516
1 June 2018
Document
UNGA Resolution ES-10/20
13 June 2018
Document
Secretary Michael R. Pompeo Press Remarks On Israeli Settlements
18 November 2019

Highlights

Highlight
Preservation of Heritage in Palestine
A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure
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The First Intifada, 1987-1993
Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom
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VII. From A Sense Of Victory To Separate Peace And Civil War
1973-1982
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XIII. With a Growingly Intractable Deadlock, Whither Palestine?
2017-
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UNRWA's Education System
A Palestinian-Shaped Undertaking
Highlight
Israel’s Gaza Redeployment, 2005
Exacerbating the Siege and Targeting the Land of the West Bank
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XI. The Al-Aqsa Intifada and the End of an Era in Palestinian Politics
2000-2006
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The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)
1957-1990
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V. Reverberations Of 1948 Palestine War And The Arab-Israeli Conflict
1950-1966
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China and the Palestine Question
From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support
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Palestinian Women in the Labor Market
A Burgeoning Workforce Curbed by Israel’s Colonialism
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The Peel Commission, 1936–1937
Sowing the Seeds of the Partition
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Palestine Liberation Organization (II)
From the Limelight to the Backstage
Highlight
Arab Labor in Mandate Palestine
The Emergence of a Working Class
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
1956 War
The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression
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Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917
Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries
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Turkey and the Palestine Question
Torn between a Pro-Western Stance, Regional Considerations and Identity