Volunteer medical workers establish Medical Relief

Organizations/movement: Women’s Work Committee. Action: Women established a committee reflecting a shift toward wider grassroots participation. Result: A new organizing structure joined the women’s...

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: National Guidance Committee. Action: Khalil was elected to the committee after repeated arrests and restrictions. Result: She became its only woman member. Impact /...

Israeli authorities closed Birzeit University from 20 March to 4 April 1979. This record documents restrictions affecting Palestinian students and university organising; it does not claim that the...

Organizations/movement: West Bank municipal leadership. Action: Bomb attacks targeted Palestinian mayors and severely injured Shaka and Khalaf. Result: The attacks threatened local nationalist...

Organizations/movement: Birzeit University; Israeli military authorities. Action: Israeli authorities closed the university. Result: A major Palestinian educational institution faced interruption...

Organizations/movement: al-Karmel magazine. Action: Darwish founded a cultural magazine in Beirut. Result: A new literary forum entered Palestinian intellectual life. Impact / interpretation:...