Al-Aqsa Mosque Is Set on Fire

Israel announces the arrest of 80 Palestinians charged with "operating a terrorist underground network.".

She succeeds Levi Eshkol, who died on 26 February 1969.

Circumventing international law, according to which an occupying power is obliged to uphold the law in force in the occupied territory, Israel resolves to distort the content and objectives of the...

The measure reiterates Security Council Resolution 252 (May 1968), but it also "censures in the strongest terms all measures taken to change the status of the City of Jerusalem " and "determines that,...

The main tenets inherited from the Ottoman and the British eras are abolished along with the land categories: miri (private usufruct State land) becomes freehold property while metruke (land that is...

Following the setting of fire to the al-Aqsa Mosque, the Security Council expresses its grief "at the extensive damage caused by arson to the Holy Al Aqsa Mosque," recognizes "that any act of...

Brokered by President Gamal Abdel Nasser, an agreement regulating Lebanese-Palestinian relations is signed in Cairo by Yasir Arafat and Emile Boustani, the commander of the Lebanese army.

US Secretary of State William Rogers announces his proposals (the Rogers Plan ) for a Middle East settlement.

The measure reiterates past General Assembly resolutions relative to UNRWA but notes that "the problem of the Palestine Arab refugees has arisen from the denial of their inalienable rights" and...

This military order entitles Israel to declare vast areas of the West Bank as "nature reserves" on which severe restrictions are imposed with regards to construction and grazing.