UNRWA Director Issues Special Report on Situation in Gaza Strip

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 GA regrets the non-compliance of France, Great Britain and Israel to resolutions 997 (ES-I) and 1002 (ES-I) of 2 and 7 November 1956, reiterates its call and requests the Secretary-General to...

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.

The Council of Ministers of the Arab League recommends “establishing a Palestinian army in the Arab host countries” and “reorganizing Palestinians and bringing it forward as an entity...