On this day in 1948, a couple of hundred armed Zionist militias from the pre-Israeli-state Irgun and Stern gangs walked into the village of Deir Yassin, a few kilometers to the west of Jerus... Read more
Balad al-Shaykh, was an Arab village. A massacre was perpetrated on the night of December 31, 1947, to January 1, 1948. The Palmach, an arm of the Haganah, attacked the town while the reside... Read more
Holy Jihad force (Kata’eb al-Jihad al-Muqaddas) was established by Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni as the Army of the Holy War during the 1936–39 Arab revolt and during the 1948 war. It consis... Read more
The Palestinians did not carry to the Diaspora their political institutions, including parties and organizations, that existed during the British Mandate era. The years following 1948 did no... Read more
The Intifada is a Palestinian term which means uprising created from Palestinian people. It can be argued that one root cause for Palestine’s succession of revolts was the carve up of land b... Read more
In June 1917, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George summoned General Edmund Allenby to London. Lloyd offered Allenby a new command ,and promised him all resources necessary to put Britis... Read more
Thirty-three years ago, the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat declared from Algiers the independence of the State of Palestine on the 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital. “I... Read more
On 21 August, 1969, it was early on Thursday morning when the alarm was sounded. Palestinian guards in the Aqsa compound saw smoke rising from the south-east wing of the mosque and, upon clo... Read more
Al-Buraq Wall has remained an Islamic Waqf and a pure right for Muslims. None of its stones date back to King Solomon’s era as the Jews claim. The Wall has a big religious status for Muslims... Read more
Palestinian refugee camp, Tal Az-Za’tar, was a besieged Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, as more than 55,000 targeted the camp killing thousands of Palestinian and Lebanese refugee... Read more
