Bomb attacks target elected West Bank mayors

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...

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: 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:...

Organizations/movement: Palestinian Communist Party. Action: Communists brought West Bank, Gaza and diaspora networks into a Palestinian party. Result: The party’s re-establishment was publicly...

Israeli authorities closed Birzeit University from 16 February to 16 April 1982. Repeated closures impeded Palestinian higher education and political organisation.

Organizations/movement: PLO; Lebanese allies; Israeli army. Action: PLO forces and allies confronted the Israeli invasion, followed by the siege of Beirut. Result: The war inflicted widespread...