Major Events in Palestine and Jerus

The Palestine War and the Nakba (1948) The period between 1947 and 1949 was the most decisive period in modern Palestinian history, and it had a profound and deeply negative impact on the Palestinian people and their future. When Britain referred the Palestine question to the United Nations in April 1947, the balance of power on the ground had shifted in favor of the Zionist movement and at the expense of the Palestinians—a shift to which Britain itself had contributed. Benef

Palestinian resistance fighter Abd al-Rahim Muhammad, 1936 Armed resistance began intermittently in rural areas and, over time, became more organized and increasingly connected to the cities. The Iraq Petroleum Company pipeline would become an early and recurring target of the rebels. villagers welcoming mounted guerrilla fighters during the Great Palestinian Rebellion in the summer of 1936.

Sheikh Izz al-Din al-Qassam Sheikh Izz al-Din al-Qassam joined the uprising against the French occupation of the Syrian coast between 1919 and 1920, fighting valiantly in the mountains surrounding Saladin’s Castle above Latakia. The French recognized the threat he posed and sentenced him to death. Al-Qassam fled with his family and some of his fellow activists to Haifa in late 1920. There, he worked as a teacher at Al-Burj Secondary School, established by the Islamic Society,

The British Campaign in Palestine and the Balfour Declaration March 1917 – September 1918 Britain launched its “Palestine Campaign” against the Ottoman Empire in March 1917. The Balfour Declaration was issued by Arthur James Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary, on November 2, 1917, in a letter addressed to Baron Lionel Walter de Rothschild, in which he pledged British support for the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine. The declaration marke

French and British Spheres of Influence and Control in the Levant and Iraq Following the Sykes–Picot Agreement Contrary to the substance of the correspondence between Sharif Hussein and McMahon concerning the establishment of an Arab state, the signing of the secret Sykes–Picot Agreement on May 16, 1916, resulted in the division of the Arab territories of the Ottoman Empire, including the Levant, between Britain and France. As the mandatory powers over the territories of the

June 10, 1916 Sharif Hussein declared Arab independence from Ottoman rule, marking the beginning of the Great Arab Revolt, based on his correspondence with McMahon. A number of soldiers from the army of Sharif Hussein bin Ali raising the flag of the Great Arab Revolt.