The Women’s Work Committee emerges in Ramallah

Palestinians in Israel organised strikes and protests against land expropriation; six Palestinian citizens were killed by Israeli security forces. Land Day became an annual focus of collective...

Organizations/movement: Palestine National Front; municipal electoral lists. Action: Nationalist lists campaigned in municipal council elections. Result: PLO-supporting lists won, giving local leaders...

Organizations/movement: Palestine National Council; PLO. Action: The political declaration stressed military, political and popular forms of struggle and activity inside occupied territory. Result:...

Organizations/movement: West Bank and Gaza municipalities; PLO. Action: Municipal representatives sent a message to the United States and Soviet Union affirming the PLO programme. Result: Local...

UN General Assembly Resolution 32/40 B requested the annual observance of 29 November as the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, beginning in 1978.

About thirty women gathered at a Ramallah library to organise community-based political and social work, a landmark in the development of women’s action committees.

Organizations/movement: National Guidance Committee. Action: Mayors and nationalist figures organized in response to the Camp David framework. Result: A coordinating body opposed arrangements that...

The United Nations began its annual 29 November observance promoting awareness of Palestinian rights, following the 1977 General Assembly mandate.

Organizations/movement: Al-Haq (Law in the Service of Man). Action: Palestinian lawyers founded a human rights organization and studied the legal structures of occupation. Result: Legal research...

Organizations/movement: Palestinian Medical Relief Society. Action: Doctors and health professionals organized to supplement inadequate health services. Result: A Palestinian volunteer health...