Birzeit University closed for two months

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:...

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...

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...

Beit Atfal Assumoud, a Palestinian community organisation in Lebanon, was established to support Palestinian children and families through education and social services.

Organizations/movement: PLO; evacuation mediators. Action: Arafat departed aboard a ship after a US-mediated evacuation agreement. Result: The leadership relocated to Tunis as forces dispersed. Impact...

Organizations/movement: Al-Haq. Action: Al-Haq established its fieldwork department and hired its first fieldworker. Result: Directly gathered information became a foundation for its human rights...

Organizations/movement: Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committee (PARC). Action: Agricultural Relief formed in response to the absence of a Palestinian agricultural extension system. Result: A...