UNGA Res. 1120 (XI): Calling Again for Withdrawal of French, British and Israeli Troops

After the UN Security Council was unable to resolve the "Suez crisis", due to the use by the United Kingdom and France of their veto power, the General Assembly invokes the "Uniting for Peace"...

The GA emergency session creates theUN Emergency Force (UNEF) to secure and supervise the cessation of hostilities in accordance with Resolution 997.

British paratroopers, supported by troops airlifted by helicopter, land at al-Gamil airfield, while 500 French paratroopers land at al-Raswa.

Soviet premier Nikolai Bulganin threatens to intervene in support of Egypt, accusing Israel of supporting European colonialism and chastising French prime minister Guy Mollet, a socialist, for his...

The GA emergency session once again calls upon Israel to withdraw immediately all its forces behind the armistice lines and upon Great Britain and France to withdraw immediately all their forces...

The Director of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East sends the UN General Assembly a special report on the emergency actions taken by UNRWA as a result of Israel's...

Palestinians in Israel stage a general strike in Nazareth, Acre, Haifa, Ramla, and many villages including Rama, Arraba, Sakhnin, Sulam, Shafa Amr, al-Taybeh, al-Tira, Tamra, Kafr Yasif, and Umm...

Israel declined a full withdrawal from territory occupied during the 1956 war without guarantees concerning navigation through the Strait of Tiran.

The law creates the constitutional-legal regime of the Knesset and defines the location of its seat (Jerusalem), the number of its members (120), their term of office (four years), the electoral...

The 1958 coup d'état in Iraq, led by General Abd al-Karim Qasim, spells the end of the pro-British Hashemite monarchy that was established in 1921 under the British mandate.