Glossary

The Islamic Resistance Movement, also known by its Arabic acronym of Hamas, defines itself as a “Palestinian nationalist” and “Islamic” liberation...

During the Nakba, over 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from what was Mandatory Palestine in order to create the state of Israel. Around 150,000...

The Second Intifada, also known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada, lasted from 28th September 2000 to 8th February 2005. This second mass resistance movement...

The Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) is a term that refers to the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. These territories...

The First Intifada was a Palestinian mass resistance movement that lasted from 9th December 1987 until 13th September 1993. After four Palestinian...

In July 2000, then-US President Bill Clinton arranged a summit meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority (PA)...

The Camp David Accords, comprised of two agreements dealing in turn with Egyptian-Israeli peace and the question of Palestinian self-rule, were...

The Oslo Accords are a series of agreements between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO)1 signed in the 1990s as a result of...

Also known as ‘al-Nakba’ (Arabic for ‘the Catastrophe’), the 1948 War was the foundational event effecting the future of the Palestinian people....

The 1967 War, also known as the June War, Six Day War, or Third Arab-Israeli War, was fought between Israel and the surrounding states of Syria,...

The Balfour Declaration of 1917 was a public statement in which the British government announced its support for “a national home for the Jewish...

The Arab League, the regional organisation of Arab countries, established the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) in 1964 with the proclaimed...

Since the war of 1967, Israel has created illegal Jewish-only settlements within the territories it has occupied since.1 Settlements in the Gaza...

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is based in The Hague, Netherlands and works as the main judicial body of the United Nations. It was...

Gaza in many ways represents the crux of Israeli policy towards Palestinians, if a much starker manifestation of it: economic and social...

The Negev desert, or al-Naqab in Arabic, in the southern part of Israel has faced dramatic demographic shifts since Israel’s creation. Between 1948...

In the Ottoman period, Jerusalem was considered a district under the direct authority of the capital Istanbul due to its international religious...

According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Palestinian refugees are defined as...