First UN International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People

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.

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...

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