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From our Digital Projects | Thematic Chronology | On this day fifty years ago, the armies of Egypt and Syria launched the October War, surprising Israel and achieving impressive victories in the early days of the fighting. Arab oil as a political and economic weapon was used for the first time. Read about the October 1973 War on The Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine

From our Digital Projects | Highlight | On 28 September 2000, Likud Party leader Ariel Sharon visited Haram al-Sharif with a thousand-police escort. The provocation ignites, the following day, demonstrations in Jerusalem. The latter were repressed by the Israeli police, provoking the death of seven young Palestinians, signaling the beginning of al-Aqsa Intifada. Read about The

From our Digital Projects | Biography | On this day, 20 years ago, Edward Said passed away. Through his writings, academic activities and public engagement, he played a prominent role in spreading the Palestinian narrative in the United States and the West, and in defending the justice of his people's struggle for self-determination. Learn more about Edward Said's legacy by

From our Digital Projects | Highlight | The signing of the Oslo Accord at the White House thirty years ago, has not resulted in the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, as hoped for by the PLO leadership. Instead, it has led to the reorganization of the Israeli occupation through the expansion of the settlement activities in East Jerusalem and in the West Bank,

From our Digital Projects | Highlight | The Talbieh Refugee Camp was established in 1968 in al-Jizeh village, approximately twelve kilometers south of the Queen Alia Airport, Jordan. Residents claim that the camp adopted the name Talbieh (an affluent neighborhood in Jerusalem prior to the 1948 Nakba) because of the good living conditions it offered compared to other camps at

From our Digital Projects | Highlight | Sino–Israeli ties have grown substantially since the 1980s, and though the Chinese leadership has remained sympathetic to Palestinian interests over the years and calls for the establishment of a Palestinian state and an end to Israeli settlement construction, it has made little effort to back those words up with action. Read more about

From our Digital Projects | Thematic Chronology | This thematic chronology presents all the Zionist Congresses that were held since the establishment of the Zionist Organization on 28-31 August 1897 in Basel, until the 37th Congress which met in Jerusalem on 20-22 October 2015. Read more about World Zionist Organization Congresses in The Interactive Encyclopedia of the

From our Digital Projects | Biography | On this day in 1987, Naji al-Ali passed away. He was one of the most prominent Arab and world caricaturists, and his drawings were characterized by their biting criticism of the Palestinian and Arab situation. He was shot in London by an unknow young man more than five weeks before. Learn more about Naji al-Ali by reading his biography

From our Digital Projects | Highlight | On this day in 2005, Israeli forces completed the evacuation of Israeli settlers from the Gaza Strip, as part of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Redeployment Plan. The plan included maintaining Israel’s tight external control over Gaza from land, sea, and air. Read more about Israel's Gaza Redeployment, 2005 in The Interactive Encyclopedia

From our Digital Projects | Biography | On the occasion of Hanan Ashrawi’s assuming the chair of the Board of Trustees, Birzeit University, as of today 15 August, discover her biography in The Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question.