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Jaffa Uprising: A popular uprising broke out in Jaffa and lasted for 15 days. 50 Jews were killed and 150 others were injured. On the other hand, 50 Arabs were killed and 47 others injured.
‘Israel’ and the Palestinian Liberation Organization sign in Cairo an agreement about the execution of authority transition to the National Authority in Gaza Strip and Jericho.
A chasing patrol of Fatah military cells carries out Al Dabweia operation starting from the mountain hideouts in Hebron. A commandos group attacks a gathering of Zionist army troops in the middle of Hebron.
European Parliament ratifies the right of the Palestinian people to decide its destiny which includes its right to establish its state.
Martyr Iman Mohamad Hejjo: A four-month old baby girl was martyred while she was in her mother’s lap as a result to the Israeli bombardment of Khan Younes. Her mother was severely wounded. Washington had condemned the Israeli incursion and described the death of the little infant as a ‘horrible tragedy’.
A Palestinian group hijacks a Belgian Sabina Airliner in Al Ledd Airport.
Sixty international monitors (observers) are deployed in Hebron to separate the Palestinian and the Jewish settlers.
Disagreement burst in public when the Command of Fatah Movement took a number of regulative, military and financial decisions to reorganize the situations inside the Movement and in Lebanon. The opposing wing considered these measures as negligence to all the rehabilitation demands and issued a press release demanding that such decisions be cancelled. Syrian Thunderbolt, Popular Struggle Front, and Popular Front – General Command – supported this attitude. The governments of Syria and Libya supported the separatists. Despite the sincere attempts from within the organization and Fatah Movement to settle down the dispute, the conflict and disagreement evolved into comprehensive armed clashes in Lebanon and Tripoli. The Syrian army supported the separatists and the Palestinian organizations aiding them. A number of countries tried to end up that bloody dispute which wasted several hundreds of Lebanese and Palestinian civilians, but without any results. Immediately after these clashes in north Lebanon, Palestinian Revolutionary Forces went out of Tripoli under an international French protection.
Resolution No.: 273 (III) issued by the United Nations General Assembly approves of “Israel’s” membership to the United Nations after pointing out Resolutions 181 (Division) and 194 (Refugees).
Representatives of the Arab countries (Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan) and the zionist entity sign to Lozano Protocol.
Voice of Palestine is launched (under Voice of Al Assifa, Voice Fatah, Voice of the Palestinian Revolution) from Cairo.
In a museum hall in Tel Aviv, Ben-Gurion reads a speech and declares the foundation of the ‘State of Israel’ one prior to the end of the British mandate on Palestine.
Betonya Massacre: zionist occupation troops assassin five officers of the National Security Forces in an unanticipated raid on a checkpoint south of the town. Simultaneously, warplanes and marine frigates carry out continuous attacks on 13 other positions for the Palestinian National Security Forces in Gaza Strip.
Arab troops enter Palestine.
United States recognizes the zionist State.
Britain and France sign to Sykes-Picot Agreement which allocated the Arab orient between both of them. This agreement remained confidential until after the Red Revolution in Russia in 1917.
The British government issues the Third White Book about the Palestinian issue and by which Palestine was divided into three territories (Arabic, Jewish and International).
USSR recognizes the Jewish State.
Three commandos operations and warplanes bombing: In the same day when a Palestinian martyrdom bomber from Hamas blasts himself in a mall in Nathania, killing six and injuring 96, Al Aqsa Martyrs Battalions of Fatah Movement carries out another operation near Aboud that kills a high-ranking officer from the settlers and injures two, one severely wounded, and a third operation in Rafah where a tank is destroyed. Immediately, F-16 fighters bomb Nablus, Ramallah, Toulkarem, and Gaza, killing 12 and wounding tens.
Zionist settlers try to set fire inside a Church of the Body of Christ in Jerusalem. Two days later, Christ’s statue was stolen from the Italians’ Monastery in Jerusalem.
After meeting with the Palestinian leaderships, Prince Faysal Ben El Hussein denies signing a letter addressed to one of the Zionist leaders in USA saying that he will exert his best efforts “and whatever we can do to help the Jews establish their national homeland.”
Zionist warplanes bomb a security forces complex in Jenin and Toulkarem, including the Headquarters of Forces 17 and the Political Orientation & Intelligence.
The 3rd Palestinian National Council Conference convenes in Gaza. 466 members to the council attended the said conference. In this session, all Palestinian organizations were demanded to be unified within the frame of the PLO.
“Israel” sets 1145 detainees free in return for releasing three Zionist soldiers captured by the Popular Front – General Command.
The Swedish Cont Folk Bernadott, who shall be later assassinated by the Zionist gangs, is chosen as an International Mediator Commissioner for Palestine.
Napoleon concludes his campaign after he fails to conquer the Palestinian City of Acco.
Michell’s Report: The report of the Former American Senator George Mitchell, President of the Investigation Committee of Violence Causes between the Palestinians and the Israelis – established after Sharam El Sheikh Summit convened on 10/2000, was officially released. In the said report Mitchell demanded Palestinians and zionists bring violence in Palestine to an end, freeze the colonization activities and uplift the besiege of the Palestinian territories (The report was presented to the American President on 30.04.2001 and handed over to the Palestinian party on 4 May 2001).
Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the Palestinian Authority, that there is no intention to eliminate ‘Israel’ by force, and that the goal on the long run remains to establish a democratic country where Moslems, Christians and Jews can live peacefully.
The 2nd Urgent Arab League Summit is starts its activities in Casablanca in the presence of President Hosni Moubarak. It is the first time that Egypt participates in a summit conference since signing to the Treaty of Camp David in 1979.
“Israel” withdraws from South Lebanon after more than 20 years of occupation when “Israel” invaded Lebanon in 1978 when it established the security belt and put it under the control of South Lebanon’s Army (Commanded by Saad Haddad and then Antoine Lahd). The leaders of this army collapsed and it troops flee to Israel.
American Republican Party decides to open immigration of Jews to Palestine.
Summit of Arab Kings and Presidents convenes in Anshas, Egypt to discuss the Palestinian issue. They decided to adhere to the independent Arabic Palestine and to form a committee that represents Palestine. The summit was supplemented with a meeting for the Council of the League in Blodan, Syria in June 1949.
Pursuant to a decision of the Palestinian National Council to establish a military body that handles armed struggle to retrieve Palestine, units of this army were formed in Egypt, Syria and Iraq. The units of this army were under the Combat Command of the armies of the said countries. An additional battalion was formed for the Palestinian Liberation Army in Jordan in 1971. Another addition was introduced to this army when the “Popular Liberation Forces” was formed in February 1968 to carry out commandos activities.
The 1st Palestinian National Council was convened in Jerusalem. 420 Palestinian members from all countries around the world and diasporas were invited to the conference which ratified the Palestinian National Charter and the bylaws of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. Also, a 15-member executive committee was elected and presided by Brother Ahmad El Shoukairi, President of the Palestinian National Council, too.
King Hussein arrives in Cairo. Few hours later, a joint defense agreement between Egypt and Jordan was declared. The agreement shall be effective as soon as Israel attack any of the two countries.
Sheikh Hassan Salameh, one of the leaders of the Sacred Jihad, who was assigned to defend Jaffa, was martyred in the battle of Ras El Ain which was retrieved from the Jews.
Faysal El Housseini, the Palestinian leader, dies in Kuwait. El Housseini was a member in the Central Committee of Fatah, the person in charge of Jerusalem’s file and the director of Orient House in Jerusalem.
Troops Separation Treaty on the Syrian front was signed in Geneva, Switzerland. The treaty included a ceasefire, withdrawal of the zionist forces from Al Kounaitra and other locations, forming a disarmed zone where forces of the United Nations shall stay to supervise the execution.
The 2nd Palestinian National Council Conference convenes in Cairo in the presence of Egyptian President Jamal Abdul Nasser. Among the most important decisions taken in the conference was to begin carrying out the project of the Palestinian Liberation Army. |
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