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From our Digital Projects | Event | On this day in 1968, a Hebron hotel was the scene of the first step to establish Jewish settlements in the Hebron area after the June war. Read about the Settlement Attempt in Hebron in The Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question.
From our Digital Projects | Place | On this day 75 years ago, Zionist forces, aiming at spreading fear and provoking panic among Palestinians, attacked the village of Deir Yassin and massacred about 100 Palestinians, including women, children and old men. The village which lies on the eastern slope of a hill facing the Jewish suburbs of West Jerusalem was home to an estimated
From our Digital Projects | Biography | On 8 April 1948, Abd al-Qadir Husseini was killed in battle while leading a counter-attack to recover the village of al-Qastal. Husseini had participated in the Great Palestinian Rebellion of 1936 and was appointed commander of Palestinian guerilla forces by the Arab Higher Committee, after the adoption of the UN Partition Plan in
IPS in the Media | Sixty years have passed since establishing the Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS) in Beirut. Founded in 1963, the organization is considered one of the first to document the Palestinian struggle and the Arab-Israeli conflict. IPS has provided Arab and foreign readers, intellectuals, journalists, researchers, and university students with scholarly and
From our Digital Projects | Highlight | The Palestinian theater has gone through three stages, each marked by a distinct beginning. The first stage started in the late nineteenth century and lasted until 1948. The second one saw the rebirth of the Palestinian theater after 1967, especially during the first intifada which erupted in 1987. The establishment of the Palestinian