Exchange of Letters Between Israel and UNRWA

On the fourth day of the June war, Israeli forces continued their offensive; this dated entry records developments in the 1967 occupation.

Israeli forces reach the eastern bank of the Suez Canal.

Israeli forces continue their advance in the Golan Heights and complete their conquest at nightfall, despite a message sent by USSR Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin to US President Lyndon Johnson...

In the Old City of Jerusalem, 135 dwellings of the Maghrebi Quarter are emptied of their Palestinian inhabitants (about 650) and razed to create a plaza at the foot of the Western Wall.

In implicit reference to Palestinians expelled or displaced from the West Bank and Syrians displaced from the Golan, the council calls upon the Government of Israel "to ensure the safety, welfare...

In an important foreign policy address held four days after Israel's conquest of the remaining parts of Mandate Palestine, the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights, President Johnson delineates...

In its emergency session, the General Assembly adopts a resolution on humanitarian assistance, whereby it welcomes Security Council Resolution 237 and extends the mandate of UNRWA "on an emergency...

Replicating the land appropriation scheme adopted after the Nakba, the Israeli occupying authorities classify as "abandoned" or "absentee" any property “whose legal owner […] left the area [i.e.

The Higher Islamic Council (al-Hay'a al-Islamiya al-ulya) is formed in Jerusalem under the leadership of Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih.

This military order, complemented a few months later by additional provisions, defines State property as any land belonging to a "hostile State" or any arbitration body connected to it.