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United Nations Partition Plan
This was a event that the United Nations proposed, which recommended a partition of mandatory Palestine at the end of the British Mandate. On November 29 1947 the Un general adopted the Plan and mad it a resolution. -
Jewish Forces Attack the Palestinian Village of Deir Yassin
Dayr Yassin.... would become he war's symbol for the Palestinians. The village as one of several attacked by jewish forces in April in an attempt to clear he besieged roads leading to Jerusalem. -
Israel Declares Its Independence
"At four o'clock in the afternoon on 14 May 1948, in front of the leaders of the Yishuv in the Tel Aviv art museum, David Ben-Gurion read out the Declaration of Independence. He proclaimed the establishment of the jewish state in Palestineto be called Medinat Israel the State of Israel. -
First Arab-Israeli War Begins
"The Arab-Israeli War of 1948 broke out when five Arab nations invaded territory in the former Palestinian mandate. Immediately following the announcement of the independence of the state of Israel on May 14, 1948. -
700,000 Palestinians Become Refugees
The Palestine refugee problem originated a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. When the five Arab armies invaded he state of Israel just hours after it was established . -
Israel Signs Armistice Agreements with Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria
On February 24,1949, ten days after the first Knesset as convened or its opening bitting in Jerusalem. Israel signed its first Armistice Agreement with Egypt. -
Suez Crisis / Second Arab-Israeli War Erupts
"In the early 1950s, Egypt violated the terms of the Egyptian-Israeli armistice agreement and blocked Israeli ships from passing through the Suez Canal, a major international waterway. It also began to block traffic through the Straits of Tiran, a narrow passage of water linking the Israeli port of Eilat to the Red Sea. -
UN Emergency Force (UNEF) Arrives in Egypt to Supervise the Withdrawal of Britain, France, and Israel
"The U.N. Emergency Force, which was to supervise the truce, began arriving on 4 December. Britain and France completed their withdrawal by 23 December, handing over their positions to UNEF. Though Israel agreed to withdraw on 8 November it did not actually do so until 8 March 1957 and then only after the United States committed itself to standing by Israel's right of passage through the Gulf of Aqaba. -
Israel Invades Southern Lebanon in Response to PLO Attack
On 11 March 1978, a commando attack in Israel resulted in many dead and wounded among the Israeli population; the Palestine Liberation Organization claimed responsibility for that raid. In response, Israeli forces invaded Lebanon on the night of 14/15 March, and in a few days occupied the entire southern part of the country except for the city of Tyre and its surrounding area. -
Founding of Hamas
"A nationalist-Islamist spinoff of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas was founded in 1987, during the first intifada, and later emerged at the forefront of armed resistance to Israel. Hamas, an acronym for Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya, was founded by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, a Palestinian cleric who became an activist in local branches of the Muslim Brotherhood after dedicating his early life to Islamic scholarship in Cairo. -
Hamas Carries out First Suicide Bombing Attack within Israel
On 16 April 1993, Tamam Nabulsi, a member of the Hamas organization blew his car up beside an Israeli bus parked near the settlement of Mechola, in the Jordan Valley. Two passengers were killed and five wounded. This was the first suicide attack perpetrated within the borders of Israel by a Palestinian organization. -
Palestinians in Gaza Fire 60 Rockets into Israel
Early to our time. "Palestinian militants fired more than 60 rockets from Gaza into southern Israel overnight and early Wednesday, hitting several houses and wounding three Thai workers, two critically, in an Israeli border community, according to the Israeli military. Israel carried out several airstrikes against rocket-launching squads, killing four militants, Palestinian officials said. -
Hamas Declares Willingness to Accept Interim Palestinian State alongside Israel
"The Palestinian militant group Hamas has published a new policy document - the first since its founding charter [in 1988]. It declares for the first time a willingness to accept an interim Palestinian state within pre-1967 boundaries.
