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From our Digital Projects | Event | On 1 April 1948, Zionist forces began implementing Plan Dalet that was finalized by the Haganah, under David Ben-Gurion leadership, on 10 March of that year. The plan aimed at ethnic cleansing, forcing the Palestinians to leave their lands and homes. Read about Plan Dalet in The Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question.

From our Digital Projects | Biography | His leadership received unanimous support by Palestinians, because he was rose above familial and partisan disputes. He was chosen as the chairman of the Arab Executive Committee that emerged from the Third Palestinian National Congress in December 1920, which represented the starting point for the Palestinian national movement following

From our Digital Projects | Highlight | For years, Israel has been waging a concerted campaign against UNRWA aimed at dismantling it. The campaign is currently intensifying with the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza, prompting some donor countries to suspend their funding to the agency. UNRWA plays a major role in providing humanitarian assistance to the population of the Gaza

A neighborhood rich in history resurfaces.

Understanding its modern borders and the evolution of Palestinian identity.

It’s hard to imagine a more divisive time in the history of Israelis and Palestinians. I’m writing this as Israeli tanks roll through Gazan hospitals, and

From our Digital Projects | Highlight | Following the adoption of the Palestine partition resolution in November 29, 1947, the Zionist leadership took a decision to implement an ethnic cleansing scheme. On April 4, 1948, the implementation of the plan known as Plan Dalet began. The Irgun and Stern gangs launched an attack on the village of Deir Yasin, west of Jerusalem, on the

From our Digital Projects | Highlight | The Kafr Qasim massacre was unique because it was perpetrated by Israeli border policemen within Israeli territory against Israeli citizens and far from any battlefront. The massacre has left indelible marks on the memory and consciousness of Palestinians in Israel to this day. Read about Kafr Qasim Massacre in The Interactive

From our Digital Projects | Highlight | The village of al-Dawayima, one of the largest villages in the Hebron area, was the scene of one of the worst massacres committed by Zionist forces in 1948, though it was covered up for many years. It was carried out by a battalion of the Palmach and began with an artillery bombardment of the village. The massacre followed in three

From our Digital Projects | Biography | Abd al-Wahhab Darawshah is one of the leading Arab educators in Israel. In 1988, he resigned from the Labor Party in protest against Israel's repression of Palestinian militants during the first Intifada, and founded the Arab Democratic Party, the first party in Israel whose membership was exclusively Arab. He has always been an advocate