Tayyib Abd al-Rahim
Tayyib Abd al-Rahim (full name al-Tayyib ‘Abd al-Rahim Mahmud ‘Abd al-Halim) [Abu al-Tayyib], Secretary to the PA presidency. Formerly, held a leftist position within the...
Salah Shahada
Salah Shahada
Hamas leader and founding member. Born 24 Feb. 1954, Bayt Hanun, from a refugee family from Jaffa. Studied social science at Cairo Univirsity after having to ref...
Sa‘d Sayil
Sa‘d Sayil
Sa‘d Sayil [Abu Walid] Fatah military leader. From Nablus, joined Jordanian army, in which he became an infantry brigade commander. Left during Sep. 1970 to join Fatah,...
Salah Khalaf
Salah Khalaf
Salah Khalaf [Abu Iyad] Fatah leader and chief ideologue. Born 31 Aug 1933, Jaffa, where attended Marwaniyya school, a refugee in 1948 to Gaza, where he acquired...
Shafiq al-Hut
Shafiq al-Hut
Shafiq al-Hut Veteran PLO leader. Born 1932, Jaffa, fleeing with family in 1948 to Beirut. Obtained a BA in biology from American Univirsity of Beruit, then worked as...
Nabil Amr
Nabil Amr
PA minister of information from Apr. 2003-Oct. 2003 and former PA minister for parliamentary affairs from Aug. 1998. Born1947, from al-Dura. Trained in law at...
Marwan Kanafani
Marwan Kanafani
Marwan Kanafani PLC member for Gaza city, advisor to Arafat. Born 1938, brother of Ghassan Kanafani, and fluent in English and French Grew up as a refugee in Leba...
Muhammad Yusif al-Najjar
Muhammad Yusif al-Najjar
Muhammad Yusif al-Najjar [Abu Yusif] Founding member of Fatah. Born 1929, refugee from Yibna (al-Majdal), grew up in Rafah camp, Gaza. A member of the Muslim...
Musa Abu Marzuq
Musa Abu Marzuq
Former head of Hamas Politicalitical bureau and a key figure in Hamas. Born in Gaza 1951 to a family from Yabna (near al-Majdal). Studied engineering at Ayn Shams (Cai...
Mohammed Dahlan
Mohammed Dahlan
Member of Fatah-Revolutionary Council, former peace negotiator with Israel, former head of the Palestinian Authority’s Preventive Security Service in the Gaza Strip. PA...
Kamal ‘Udwan
Kamal ‘Udwan
Kamal ‘Udwan [Abu Hisham] founding member of Fatah. Born 1925, refugee from Barbara village, he played an active role in the Pop Resistance Front that emerged in...
Kamal Nasir
Kamal Nasir
Kamal Nasir (Kamal Butros Nasir) Palestinian poet and PLO leader. Born Gaza, 1925, tho family is from Bir Zayt. Educated at American Univirsity of Beruit, worked as...
Khalid al-Hasan
Khalid al-Hasan
Khalid al-Hasan (Khalid Muhammad al-Hasan) [Abu Sa’id] Fatah leader. Born 1928 in...
Jibril Rajub
Jibril Rajub
Yasir Arafat's National Security Advisor, with the rank of Brigadier-General; former...
Ismail Abu Shanab
Ismail Abu Shanab
Hamas leader in Gaza. Born in 1955, trained as a construction engineer at Colorado State Univirsity (from which he holds a Masters degree). Teaches engineering at...
Hani al-Hasan
Hani al-Hasan
Hani al-Hasan [Abu Tariq, Abu-l-Hasan] Fatah leader. Born 1937, Haifa, refugee in Yarmuk camp, near Damascus, where he organised an Islamist slate, Shabab al-Aqsa,...
Hasan Asfur
Hasan Asfur
Long-term negotiator in the Oslo process. Was secretary to the Palestinian negotiating team that concluded initial Oslo negotiations, he produced a draft joint declaration of...
Hanan Ashwari
Hanan Ashwari
Hanan Ashrawi was born in 1946, and grew up in the West bank town of Ramallah. From the tender age of three she was adamant to learn, particularly captivated with the written word. Her affinity for languages was inspired by her parents, both of whom were avid readers, with her father also writing on a variety of issues that Ashrawi...
Haidar Abdel Shafi
Haidar Abdel Shafi
Dr. Haidar Abdel Shafi, Physician, leading secular Palestinian nationalist leader in the Gaza Strip. Highly respected non-partisan figure, though with links to the Palestinian People's Party. Physician, head of the Red Crescent Society for the Gaza Strip, Commissioner-General of the Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizen's Rights. A founding member of the Palestinian National Initiative, launched June 2002, also a member of the Birzeit University Board of Trustees.
Born in Gaza in 1919. One of six children of Sheikh Muheiddin Abdul Shafi, head of the Higher Islamic...
Lebanon invasion
Lebanon invasion , 1982
From 1978 the presence of Palestinian guerrillas in Lebanon led to Arab raids on Israel and Israeli retaliatory incursions.
On 6 June 1982 Israel launched a full-scale invasion. By 14 June Beirut was encircled, Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Syrian forces were evacuated mainly to Syria 21-31 Aug.
In Feb 1985 there was a unilateral Israeli withdrawal from the country without any gain or losses incurred. Israel maintains an occupied area called as a 'security zone' in South Lebanon and supports the South Lebanese Army Militia of Lahad, both were occupying...
October War
October War , 6-24 Oct 1973
In 1973 Egypt joined Syria in a war on Israel to regain the territories lost in 1967. The two Arab states struck unexpectedly on October 6, which fell on Yom Kippur , Israel's holiest fast day .
After crossing the swise channel the Arab forces gain a lot of advanced positions in Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights and manage to defeat the Israeli forces for more then three weeks.
Israeli forces with a massive U.S. economic and military assistance managed to stop the arab forces after a three-week struggle and defeat with the cost of many casualties,and...
War of Attrition
War of Attrition 1968 - 1970
The War of Attrition (Al-Istinsaf) was a limited war fought between Egypt and Israel from 1968 to 1970. It was initiated by Egypt as a way to recapture the Sinai from Israel, which had controlled it since the Six-Day War. The war ended with a ceasefire signed between the countries in 1970 with frontiers at the same place as when the war started.
The war began in June 1968 with sparse Egyptian artillery bombardment of the Israeli front line on the east bank of the canal. More artillery bombardments in the following months killed some Israeli soldiers. IDF's retaliation...
Six-Days war
Six-Days war 5-10 June 1967
After the Suez-Sinai war Arab nationalism increased dramatically, as did demands for revenge led by Egypt's president Nasser. The formation of a united Arab military command that massed troops along the borders, together with Egypt's closing of the Straits of Tiran and Nasser's insistence in 1967 that the UNEF leave Egypt, led Israel to attack Egypt, Jordan, and Syria simultaneously on June 5 of that year. The war ended six days later with an Israeli victory. Israel's French-equipped air force wiped out the air power of its antagonists and was the chief...
Suez campaign
Suez campaign , 29 Oct - 4 Nov 1956
During the 1950s there was considerable tension between Israel and Egypt, which, under President Nasser, had become a leader in the Arab world. His nationalization of the Suez Canal 1956 provided an opportunity for Israel with Britain and France, to attack Egypt and occupy a part of Palestine that Egypt had controlled since 1949, the Gaza Strip , from which Israel was forced by UN and US pressure to withdraw 1957 .
Great Britain and France ostensibly joined the attack because of their dispute with Egypt's president Gamal Abdel Nasser, who had just nationalized...
First Arab-Israeli War
First Arab-Israeli War , 15 May 1948
Arab opposition to an Israeli state began after the Balfour Declaration 1917, which supported the idea of a Jewish national homeland. In the 1920s there were anti-Zionist riots in Palestine, after the British mandate government allowed thousands of Jews to immigrate to Palestine from all over the world.
In 1936 an Arab revolt led to a British royal commission that recommended partition (approved by United Nations 1947), but rejected by the Arabs.
When it became clear that the British intended to leave by May 15, leaders of the Yishuv decided (as they claim)...
The state of Palestine
The state of Palestine
Declaration of the State of Palestine
A declaration of a "State of Palestine" was approved on November 15, 1988, by the Palestinian National Council, the legislative body of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). The proclaimed "State of Palestine" is not an independent state, as it has never had sovereignty over any territory. Moreover, the declaration was ignored, and eventually rejected, by the State of Israel. Israel controls the territories since 1967 Six-Day War when it captured them from Egypt and Jordan.Currently, the Palestinian National...
AL aqsa tour 3
AL aqsa tour 3
Site 31 - Al-Bosari Water Fountain
Build Year : 839 Higri
Build by : Sultan Bersbay
Site 32 - Dome of Al-Ash...
AL aqsa tour 2
AL aqsa tour 2
Site 16 - Cotton Merchant Gate
Build Year: 733 Higri
Build by: Sultan Al-Nasser Mohammed Bin Qalaw...
AL aqsa tour 1
AL aqsa tour
Site 01 - AL-Aqsa Mosque
Build Year : 19 HigriBuild by : Khalefa Omar Bin Al-KatabReparation
year : 90 - 96 HigriRepaired by : Khalefa Abdul Malik Bin Marwan
Site 02 - Dome of the Rock Mos...
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