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From our Digital Projects | Highlight | Michael Fischbach relates how the years 1947–1949 were among the most decisive in modern Palestinian history, and their outcome was catastrophic for the Palestinian people. Read about The Palestine War in The Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question.
From our Digital Projects | Highlight | Maher Charif describes in this essay the four stages through which three-quarters of a million Palestinians were displaced from their homeland, according to a Zionist-Israeli plan that was driven by territorial and demographic considerations. Read about the Nakba in The Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question.
From our Digital Projects | Highlight | Alex Winder explains in this essay how the UN plan gave legitimacy to the establishment of a Jewish state on more than half of Mandate Palestine at a time when Jews comprised less than a third of the population and owned less than 7 percent of the land. Read about the UN Partition Plan, 1947 in The Interactive Encyclopedia of the
From our Digital Projects | Place | On 28 April 1948, Samakh, the largest village in the Tiberias sub-disctrict, fell to Zionist forces and was depopulated. Though Arab forces succeeded in seizing it back for a while, the village was definitively conquered by Israeli forces on 21 May. Two Jewish settlements were established on the village lands in 1949, and the only remaining
From our Digital Projects | Biography | On this day 35 years ago, an Israeli military unit assassinated Khalil al-Wazir in his house in Tunis. al-Wazir was among the founders of the Fatah movement, then deputy to the General Commander of the forces of the Palestinian Revolution, and one of the architects of the first Intifada. Learn more about Khalil al-Wazir Abu Jihad by