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Event
1947
Zionist Attacks Against Palestinians

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Jaffa Road during a General Strike

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Peel Commission and Partition

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1939
Killing of Abd al-Rahim al-Hajj Muhammad

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2005 - present
Hamas-Fatah Reconciliation Attempts

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1949
UNGA 302 (IV): Establishment of Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA)

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2004
Draft SC Res. S/2004/783 Condemning Israeli Broad Incursion in Northern Gaza Strip Vetoed by US

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1948
Bernadotte's New Plan

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Biography
Khalil al-Sakakini

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Biography
Salma Khadra Jayyusi

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1948
The USSR Recognizes the State of Israel on a de jure Basis

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1948
Count Bernadotte's Palestine Plan

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Biography
Nicola Ziadeh

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Event
1956
UNRWA Director Issues Special Report on Situation in Gaza Strip

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Event
1936 to 1937
Peel Commission Investigates the Cause of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

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Event
1948
SC Res. 49: Calling for a Cease-fire and Maintenance of the Truce in Jerusalem

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1988
19th Palestine National Council Meets in Algiers and Proclaims the Palestinian State

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Laying Siege to Jaffa's Old City

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Fifth Palestinian National Congress, Nablus

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Period
1516 to 1917
I. Ottoman Rule

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1987
UNGA 42/210: Affirms PLO UN Mission Covered by Headquarters Agreement with Host Country

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1974
Sinai I Agreement

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Biography
Ahmad al-Shuqairi

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Biography
Kamal Boullata

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Revolutionizing hunger

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1948
Fall of Tiberias

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2006
UNGA Res. ES-10/17: Establishing the Register of Damage Caused by the Construction of the Wall in the OPT

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1957
Israel Withdraws from Gaza and Sinai

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1948
UN Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte Is Assassinated by Lehi in Jerusalem

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1936
British Violent Repression

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1909
Establishment of al-Madrasa al-Dusturiyya, Jerusalem

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1906
Establishment of the Rawdat al-Ma'arif al-Wataniyya al-'Uthmaniyya al-Islamiyya in Jerusalem

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1948
Operation Hametz and the Fall of Jaffa

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1949
UNGA 273 (III): Admitting Israel to Membership in the UN

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Policy/Program
The Palestinian Communist Movement

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The Constitutional School

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1936
Appointment of the Peel Commission

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2002
SC Res. 1405: Welcoming SG Initiative to Send Fact-Finding Team to Jenin Refugee Camp

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Thematic Chronology
2003 - 2006
Israel’s Gaza Redeployment, 2005

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Event
1963
Draft Security Council Resolution S/5407

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Thematic Chronology
1919 - 1946
British and International Commissions of Inquiry in Mandate Palestine

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Fawwar Camp

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1946
Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry Publishes its Report after a Visit to Palestine

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Period
1982 to 1987
VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

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Event
1967
Security Council Resolution S/RES/242

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Institutional
UNRWA

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Event
2009
War on Gaza: Calls for Active Diplomacy

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Biography
Fadwa Tuqan

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Peel Commission Proposes Partition Map

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2002
SC Res. 1397: Affirming a Vision of Two States, Israel and Palestine, Living Side by Side

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1956
GA Resolution 1002 (ES-I)

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Biography
Mustafa al-Dabbagh

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1936
The Arab Higher Committee is Formed

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1948
Establishment of All-Palestine Government in Gaza

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Oath of Allegiance

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1909
Foundation of the Zionist Paramilitary Group Hashomer

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Biography
Ibrahim Dakkak

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1937
Peel Commission Issues its Report

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Event
1956
GA Resolutions 997 (ES-I) and 998 (ES-I): UNGA Emergency Session

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How a people funded their revolution

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Biography
Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani

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Ihsan Abbas

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Period
2000 to 2006
XI. The Al-Aqsa Intifada and the End of an Era in Palestinian Politics

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