Lebanon Establishes the Department of Palestinian Refugee Affairs at the Ministry of Interior

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...

The representatives of the 10-member Arab states at the UN present a joint letter to the Secretary General expressing "grave concern" about "Jewish immigration into the Israeli-occupied territory of...

This dated record documents “Fatah's Organizational Structure Set in a Kuwait Meeting.”

Competing with Gamal Abdel Nasser on the Palestine question, Iraq 's head of state General Abd al-Karim Qasim proposes establishing a “Palestinian Republic” whose sovereignty would unfold first in the...

Jordan enacts an amendment to the Municipality Law of 1955, changing the name of the Jerusalem municipality from "baladiyya" to "amana" and placing it under the jurisdiction of the Prime Minister...

This dated record documents “Iraqi Government Announces Formation of a “Palestinian Liberation Regiment”.”